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A Torch Lake love story for Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2008

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I met Don and Audrey Gould – Donnie and Dee Dee – in 1996, when I fell in love with my own place in the woods and found it hard to go home on Sunday afternoons. They’ve shared their stories, their coffee and cookies, and their chipmunks with me, and taught me that if you […]

Wilkinson Homestead makes ACN

February 9, 2008

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Jeff Kessler has a good story about the Wilkinson Homestead in this week’s issue of the Antrim County News.  (He did not have this photo of the WHHS quilt . . . . It’s a Torch Lake Views exclusive.)  I’d give you a link to the story, but it’s not posted on the ACN website yet.*  […]

Students and Community Elders connect during oral history project

February 2, 2008

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The following is a slightly updated version of the story that appeared in last week’s Elk Rapids News. You’ll find lots more photos from the project on the Oral History Project Photo Page.  The folks in the “class photo” are (back row) Glenn Neumann, Angelina Ledezma, Ruth Klein, Betty Beeby, project director Terry Wooten, Marjorie […]

Oral History project in Elk Rapids Schools – Day One

January 22, 2008

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A dozen students from Cherryland Middle School gathered after school on Monday to begin work on an oral history project directed by poet Terry Wooten and sponsored by the Elk Rapids Area Historical Society.  For the next week they’ll interview community elders on tape, transcribe the conversations, and learn to craft narrative poems from the material.  […]

Ourstory

January 14, 2008

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I’m a story collector.  I can’t think of a better way to spend an afternoon than to listen to somebody’s special memory, the one that says “I was there – I was connected to the big picture.”  Best of all I love to hear a new story that connects to one I already have in […]

Tales told by the light of flashbacks

January 13, 2008

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My neighbor’s been having flashbacks.  He figured his war was over 60 years ago: he fought it, he won it, it was done.  But here it comes again, in full technicolor, and this time it’s fighting him.  These dreams are not abstract or symbolic in any way.  They’re detailed, accurate replays of real experiences, and for him, it’s the same […]

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