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Jingle bells, jingle bells, all around the Bay

December 3, 2011

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I thought I was going to Elk Rapids to have lunch with Louan, but life is full of surprises. When I picked her up she was wearing her sparkly pink Santa hat. Let's go to Northport! she said. I'll buy gas.

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.

Backstage at Mackinac Island

November 13, 2011

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Babs Young writes: Needless to say, there are not many tourists on Mackinac Island this time of year especially when it is pouring rain and cold. (But never fear. Our Babs was intrepid.)

Never too many of ’em. Never.

September 19, 2011

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On Friday Babs and Betty Jo and I headed over to Leland. It was an expedition, as it takes almost an hour and a half to get down our side of the Bay and back up the other side on the Leelanau Peninsula.

Excellent treats for the mind

September 13, 2011

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I don't usually wish I could be 18 again. I remember too well all the hard lessons that lay in store for me. (I just wish my body could be 18 again. That's the ticket.) The next best thing, it turns out, is to spend a day wandering around a college campus in early September.

The Bay View Experience

August 29, 2011

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Babs Young, Betty Jo Hudson and I—along with leventy-gazillion other people from the Township—made our way to Petoskey on Saturday to attend the premiere of a ballet.  Babs writes:  The picture below is of The Terrace Inn in Bay View.  It opened in 1911 and is still open year around. I loved the dining room […]

Freedom: Verse I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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