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The Children’s Reading Room

May 10, 2012

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It's a great comfort to live in a place where you can sit in the Library with your head wrapped in a pale blue towel in the middle of a rainy afternoon without causing a lot of unnecessary questions.

Good things come in surprise packages

March 30, 2012

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First came a call from Betty Beeby. She had some books to donate to the Wilkinson Museum. Would I like to come over and inventory them for the museum’s collection? Well yes I would. Any opportunity to paw through Betty’s stash of Eastport Stuff is bound to lead to adventure. One of the books she […]

The lay of the land

February 14, 2012

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Recently Mrs. Uhdd said she was going to go off and look at an atlas to figure out the lay of the land Around Here. It occurred to me that I should write about the geography, just to give you a context should you be from Away.

Friday evening TLV – on fire

January 27, 2012

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Some days I just have to follow rabbit trails. There I was, reading up on wolves and catching up on email when POW!

To touch the hand that held the axe that felled the tree for the cabin

January 18, 2012

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Tuesday morning I headed down to the south end of the Township and followed the 45th Parallel out Coleman Road to a Centennial Farm.

Found objects

January 15, 2012

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It took me almost all day for the notion to penetrate, but it finally came to me. The correspondents for the Central Lake Torch and other weekly newspapers were bloggers in spirit. They would have been bloggers in fact if they'd had internet, but they were still working on rural electricity.