When I lived up north it was still a good place to live fairly independent. Odd jobs could pay for electricity for your house and gas for your car. Between the steelhead, salmon and walleye runs you could fill a freezer. Deer, turkeys and geese hunting could fill another and most did exactly that. I used to take my S-10 pickup out and fill it with 5 gallon buckets of morel and beefsteak mushrooms for canning.
BTW I’m getting Oceola township mixed up with Oceola county where I lived.
Oceola Township is 30 or 40 miles NW of Detroit. I lived in Oceola county a way south of Traverse City.