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A Snowflake in August

August 23, 2010

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Snowflake drifted along in my peripheral vision, mostly as something that isn't there any more. A ghost town. There's a little sign on M-88 between Central Lake and Bellaire. I'd seen it but not really seen it, if you know what I mean. Then one day it registered. It's still there???

Civil War veterans raising what-for in the Township

August 21, 2010

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I tell you, those folks who've been occupying my every waking moment for almost a year now are spilling over into public life in the Township as well. I must be getting close to something. The question would be, what?!?

Excellent last minute plans

August 11, 2010

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I know it’s the last minute and all, but I have some suggestions for you. Eat Well for a Good Cause: Tonight, Wednesday, the Central Lake Area Historical Society will hold its monthly fund raising dinner at the Masonic Hall in Central Lake. Gary and Lois Dawson are cooking–you cannot do better than that–and Mar […]

Betty Hoover’s Sentiments

July 21, 2010

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On Monday I went over to Bud Arnold’s talk about the historic schools of Eastport and learned so much that I wouldn’t know where to begin, so I’m not going to begin until I’ve had a chance to sit down with him for an interview and scan some of the photos he used.  For one thing, the […]

Dan Lidster’s vision

June 26, 2010

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A few weeks ago Dan Lidster, who lives in Eastport and serves on the EMS ambulance crew, stood up at a Township meeting and got something off his chest. He’d been over to Lakeview Cemetery, and he thought the Veterans Memorial there was a disgrace.  It was so small no one knew it was there.  […]

Betty Beeby’s drawers

June 16, 2010

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Betty Beeby says everyone in her family is a packrat.  She found hundreds of old letters and postcards in her father’s barn and made them into a wonderful book called Breath Escaping Envelopes.  Then she donated the collection to Western Michigan University, where it is archived for researchers.    However, many odds and ends and wonderful surprises […]