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Excellent adventures for Saturday

August 26, 2011

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OK, here are some things I should have told you sooner.  If you plan your weekends like I plan mine, it isn’t too late. There is an End-of-Summer Arts Festival over in Alden at the historic Alden Depot on Saturday (Aug. 27) from 10am-5pm.  There will be 50 artists, and it is a juried show, […]

Behind the pink screen door

July 23, 2011

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Remember the gingerbread house with its cunning pink screen door? Today you are invited to step through that door.

Orange Cone Season on US-31

July 14, 2011

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Winter is definitely over. That must mean it's, yes, Orange Cone Season in Michigan! Beginning next week (July 18 onward) you can expect intermittent lane closures between the northern edge of Elk Rapids and Campbell Road.

Bruce Woodcock’s Tonsorial Parlor

February 12, 2011

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We passed a window that caught my eye. A squirrel in a fishing hat. You don't see that every day, even in Charlevoix County.

Smallville takes a little bow

September 28, 2010

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I've been looking forward to the opening of Smallville over at Raven Hill Discovery Center. I am fond of miniature things. That is probably because I am rather small myself. Vertically anyway.

That sneaky John Richter

September 25, 2010

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I trotted out to the mailbox and came back with a present.