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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Ice goes out – spaceships come in – just another day on the Bay
People who are not here but either (A) wish they were or (B) want to have confirmed for them that Florida is a better place to be in April, ask for updates on the ice on Torch Lake and the Bay. Miss Sadie, the Cowboy and I had a lovely walk on the beach early […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
More stories than I can read in a lifetime
April 1, 2009
I believe I may have mentioned my affection for the Carnegie Library in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and for the library perched on an enchanted island in Elk Rapids. Thanks to libraries, I feel rich. I know I will never run out of stories. Today we’re going to visit the Central Lake District Library, where you may […]
Posted in: Day trips in Northern Michigan
Good morning from Babs
March 31, 2009
Here’s the lovely sunrise Babs sent you on Monday night. I meant for you to have it on Tuesday morning. We all know what good use the Satanic Road Commission makes of our good intentions now, don’t we. So we were having breakfast at Sonny’s this morning and there was a good deal of speculation […]
Posted in: Babs Young photos
From Antrim County to County Cork, County Kerry and County Clare, with love
March 30, 2009
Photographer D. James Galbraith lived in the northern reaches of Antrim County, Michigan, and in a lot of other places, too. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his work documenting the intimate life of a small town in Livingston County, Michigan (Hartland: Change in the Heart of America). Galbraith loved to travel in Ireland, […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Making the best of Mud Season
March 30, 2009
Not one to be discouraged by a little dismal weather, Katherine has been out and about examining the shoreline of Torch Lake. She writes: This is the ice on the shore along Torch that melted and started to reform and it looked like dancing people or hands waving and gesturing, or fanciful animals, or muppets, […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors, Letters from Katherine
Books in Northport
- Color is a developing story. So is my bookshop.
- October's Quiet Entrance
- Are you looking for color?
- "Locals' Summer" Comes 'Round Again
- Here Now and Looking Ahead
- Trees, Dogs, Books, Musings
- As August Slip-Slides Away
- Past Mid-Summer to Mid-August
- Recent Past in Village and at Home, In the Midst, and Coming Events
- Books, Dog, Tree Guy, Me, and More
Carsten in Denmark
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April 2, 2009
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