密歇根新闻广播 了解一度曾是邮局的密歇根州上半岛

Even in these days of email, Skype and FaceTime, we all know the purpose of a Post Office: to sort and deliver "snail¹ mail."

But Lucy Blair wanted to dig deeper. She and her wife Lina wanted to know what story the post office building tells about the community, and the people who depend on it.

The two set out to photograph each and every post office in the Upper Peninsula.

After more than four and a half years they've completed their journey, and tell the story in their new book Post Offices of the Upper Peninsula.

Blair tells us that the project was born of a desire to simply learn more about the U.P.

"So we decided² to go to every town in the U.P. and for us it felt like the most definitive³ way to do that would be to see every post office," she says.

She tells us about their journey in our conversation above.

1 snail   

n.蜗牛

参考例句：

• Snail is a small plant-eating creature with a soft body.蜗牛是一种软体草食动物。
• Time moved at a snail's pace before the holidays.放假前的时间过得很慢。

2 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

3 definitive   

adj.确切的，权威性的；最后的，决定性的

参考例句：

• This book is the definitive guide to world cuisine.这本书是世界美食的权威指南。
• No one has come up with a definitive answer as to why this should be so.至于为什么该这样，还没有人给出明确的答复。