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Letters from Katherine: Flow

May 16, 2009

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There are trilliums and there are trilliums. Katherine writes: Gerry, Just sometimes color gets in the way. I mean, I love color but sometimes it’s just gottta be black and white. I think Katherine has a sort of Lauren Bacall sensibility. I can see her vamping Humphrey Bogart in lush, cinematic black and white and […]

Didjenos and bank robbers – Mondays in Eastport are full of surprises

May 14, 2009

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The Wilkinson Homestead Historical Society isn’t your average local history bunch.  For one thing, it sponsors a summer lecture series that covers an amazing amount of local ground in very entertaining ways.  Norton Bretz recruits the speakers, which probably explains the breadth of subject matter and the penchant for the piquant.  This year’s lineup: June […]

Jill McLaughlin has a ranch, Ee-I Ee-I Ohh

May 13, 2009

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And on this ranch she has a daft dog named Torch, three horses (Montgomery, Hooper and Lucy) and a miniature donkey named Sierra.  OK, the ranch is, strictly speaking, on Katy Newman’s Bayview Farm.  However, the horses and the daft dog and the miniature donkey are Jill’s, along with the vet bills and way more kibble than we […]

Ready to rumble

May 13, 2009

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Today we bring you another in our important series on Highway Safety. I was over at the Claars’ working on the Wilkinson tax return with Connie when Dick came home from the Post Office and told us some outlandish story of road workers tearing up the asphalt on US-31.  Then he explained.  They’re making rumble […]

Great and small, sweet and sad, each day brings news

May 12, 2009

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I have been thinking about Lee Colvin, whose funeral begins in a couple of hours over at Mortensen’s in Central Lake. He seemed to me above all a truly happy man, who loved his abundant family and Torch Lake, liked his neighbors, and thought life was just one interesting thing after another. I enjoyed watching […]

Dear Summer People: It’s safe to come home now

April 29, 2009

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All the ice is off Torch. All of it. I promise. Marc Anderson and the Dockworks crew have been putting in docks all over the place. See the dock in the new banner up top? No more ice. Pine Hill Nursery is open and full of flowers. Smells good, too. There are cunning little catkins […]

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