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2010 Torch Lake Township Visitors Guide available!

June 25, 2010

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The Torch Lake Township Economic Development Partnership (otherwise known as the Business Bunch) has published a new and improved version of our Visitors Guide.  There are lots of business listings and a nice crop of Attractions, too. There is a nice big map! I don’t see how you can go wrong. The Guide is at […]

Deep-fried delights at Bubba’s Bar BQ

June 6, 2010

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There were many things to see and do at the Petoskey Stone Festival, and you can see a complete slideshow at this link, but I confess I was particularly taken with Bubba’s Bar BQ.  I decided it really needed its own post. Bubba, who hails from Wolverine, has perfected the Art of Michigan Festival Fare.  […]

Petoskey Stone Festival adds new events

May 27, 2010

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This Saturday, May 29, half of Antrim County will head over to Barnes Park to eat roasted corn and BBQ and elephant ears. We’ll browse vendor booths for handcrafted jewelry and polished Petoskeys. We’ll hunt for the Fabulous Fossil down on the beach. If it gets warm enough, we’ll even go splashing into the Bay. […]

Powered by Pie

February 19, 2010

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Earlier this week Betsy King issued an invitation to all her friends and neighbors to come by the farm market for a complimentary piece of pie.  Then Patty Hill repeated the invitation on the Orchard Talk blog.  I figured the place would be mobbed, but it would be worth it.  I have had Rose’s pie.  […]

A whiter shade of pale

January 20, 2010

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We can’t spend all our time playing on the tubing run.  We must spend some time experimenting with our cameras.  Scott Thomas has posted a new photo challenge over at Views Infinitum.  White.  I can hear Jack Bodis groaning already.  It’s enough that we have to live in it.  Do we have to look at […]

Turning gold in the drumlins

October 24, 2009

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Yesterday I gave myself a day to read.  First I finished Ted McClelland’s The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists.  It took me a good part of the week just to read the title, which I found captivating.  As a native of what McClelland calls the Freshwater Nation, I found […]