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- Providence Farm newsletter, March 2010
- Hard freeze on Farrell Road
- Slideshow from the 2010 Petoskey Stone Festival
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- Antrim Creek Natural Area
- Advent Calendar, Day 1 – An excellent treat
- First night of Chanukah – an excellent treat
- Karma’s Daffy Dozen
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- “Treasures from the Holidays” opens in Elk Rapids
- Ourstory
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- ERN – A peek inside the CSB
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- Connie and Gerry Contrive to Stay out of Jail
- Gallery – Fire trucks at IGA
- The Great Bike Trek of 2010
- Dennis Orlowski reception at Torch Lake Market
- Odi and Crystal cook for you – slideshow
- Torch Lake Township meets Mongolian cuisine
- Water Under the Bridge: Poems from the Elk Rapids Elders Project
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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Hansel and Gretel slept here
So as I meandered about the County, I kept passing these signs on US 31, just north of Torch Lake Township. Finally I had to stop and investigate. I wanted to know about the Creek House. I wanted to know what Hansel and Gretel were up to. I wanted to see the pole barn and the […]
Posted in: Up North in Michigan
There are benefits and then there are benefits
February 26, 2010
I’ve explained before about the day job and the other day job and the freelance jobs—the usual Up North patchwork. One way and another I spend a good deal of time at the Eastport Market. So does everyone else in the township. A friend who worries inordinately about me asked recently, Well, does it come […]
Posted in: Torch Lake memories
Community spirit 1910
February 25, 2010
Bill Bennett has been in touch. Back when this blog began he sent some reminiscences about his Bennett and Dawson ancestors that inspired the “Ourstory” page. Now he has sent some photos, and I thought you’d like to see them. Wiltse barn-raising, 1910 In 1910 the neighbors gathered to raise a barn at the Wiltse […]
Posted in: Antrim County history
Winter nuggets of this and that
February 24, 2010
Sometimes I store up nuggets thinking to make a profound and moving post. This is not one of those times. These are just little things I thought you might like to know about. “Learn Local” This advertising message from Ferris State University’s off-campus adjunct appeared in the Record-Eagle recently. I gnashed my teeth and grumbled […]
Posted in: Up North in Michigan
Brambles meets a possum
February 23, 2010
This has been a wonderful week for Thomasina Sawyer. Gifts of wonder poured in from Katherine, Babs and Bruce the Weatherman. I haven’t had to do any fence-painting myself in days. In this delivery, Bruce wrote: Brambles doesn’t know what to think of this ugly visitor. Aren’t they supposed to hibernate? Well, I don’t know […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors, Letters from the Weatherman
Carsten in Denmark
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Torch Lake Views 
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