Here in Michigan where inland lakes reliably freeze over every year entire towns get created on the ice.  The biggest is Houghton&#x27;s tip up town:  <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.visithoughtonlake.com&#x2F;tipuptown.shtml" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.visithoughtonlake.com&#x2F;tipuptown.shtml</a><p>You can purchase medals from vendors on the ice commemorating that year&#x27;s event and people do collect them. In the earliest years the medals were made from wood instead of metal.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thumbs4.ebaystatic.com&#x2F;d&#x2F;l225&#x2F;m&#x2F;m96cHfGSCm1wJCbLDW6taJQ.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thumbs4.ebaystatic.com&#x2F;d&#x2F;l225&#x2F;m&#x2F;m96cHfGSCm1wJCbLDW6ta...</a>