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Whimsy and serendipity in our little big city

November 29, 2011

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It is possible that Traverse City is really a miniature big city masquerading as a small town.

A Swedish meatball

November 20, 2011

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Here it is Sunday evening and Babs is Away.  What to do, what to do . . . I know.  Let’s have leftovers!  Oh stop moaning.  I’m good with leftovers.  You won’t starve.  Casseroles were always my best thing. Here is the first mystery ingredient, procured on the road in front of the Writing Studio […]

So what IS in the Bay?

November 14, 2011

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The word is out all over town that on Thursday evening Chris Doyal is going to answer that question. (You remember Chris. He was very helpful when I got into trouble trying to figure out underwater history once before.)

The stammering historian

October 23, 2011

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I was over at the Eastport Market the other night buying treats for the Duo and BBQ ribs for my own supper when I ran into a neighbor. We talked about dogs and the economy and raising children. She told me two really good stories about secret siblings lost and found in her family tree. I told her a story about one of the grandchildren of one of my Civil War veterans. We scanned the shelves of rental DVDs, hoping to find something almost as interesting as real life.

Inside the tumbler

September 22, 2011

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Do you know about rock tumblers?  They’re drums that turn and turn, patiently polishing rocks in a slurry of water and grit.  Put in some Petoskey stones and the right combination of water and grit, start it running, and go about your business.  Eventually you open it up, rinse off the contents, and admire your […]

Greensky Hill

September 18, 2011

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Some Ottawa/Odawa and Chippewa/Ojibwe and Métis families have been Around Here for quite a long time by anybody's standards, tending orchards on the ridges before the Jesuits arrived, mining chert along the bay 2,000 years ago and putting food by in the storage pits on Skegemog Point 10,000 years ago. Then there's newcomer Peter Greensky.