Flowers for Two Rivers, WI

Picture a birthday order landing on a porch a block off Neshotah Beach on a July afternoon — that's a normal delivery day in Two Rivers. This is a Lake Michigan fishing town, the place that claims the ice cream sundae and still keeps the trawlers and shanties of the Rogers Street fishing village, where the East and West Twin rivers braid together and empty into the harbor. The town runs on the water: the beach at Neshotah, the lighthouse and dunes up at Point Beach State Forest, the coho charters working out of the river mouth. Delivery here mixes the steady, year-round town — the Washington Street storefronts, the neighborhoods on both riverbanks, the care homes and Aurora clinics — with a summer swell of cottage and campground addresses up the shore that empties out once the lake turns cold in the fall.

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