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From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
Transition time: Don’t tell the cherry trees fall is over
This was the day that Indian Summer closed up the cottage and went to Florida. This afternoon the Cabin Fever Club carpooled over to Suttons Bay in a light drizzle to see a movie. (We’d heard that Tell No One, this weekend’s selection in the Beyond the Bay film series, was smart, suspenseful and French, and it […]
Posted in: Babs Young photos
Betty Beeby honored for contributions to Michigan history
November 9, 2008
The Historical Society of Michigan awarded its 2008 State History Award for Distinguished Volunteer Service to Eastport’s Betty Beeby, citing her work as an illustrator, muralist, author, preservationist and co-founder of the Wilkinson Homestead Historical Society. (Readers of Torch Lake Views know that’s not the half of it. Betty’s greatest contributions to Michigan history lie ahead, […]
Posted in: Torch Lake memories
Letters from Katherine: Fall on the beach
November 7, 2008
Opening email from Katherine or Babs or Katy is like opening a birthday present, except that I don’t have to get a year older. Katherine’s latest offers a choice of gifts. She writes, I’m sending you 2 versions of this because sometimes I play around with them so much I can’t decide which I like better […]
Posted in: Letters from Katherine
Post-election tidying up
November 7, 2008
This morning I took down the Torch Lake Views Endorsements widget and vacuumed up the confetti at the Writing Studio and Bait Shop. I’m filled with joy and hope for the coming Obama Presidency. We’re launched on a great adventure together. Like most adventures worth having, it will be filled with challenges. I think the American […]
Posted in: In my opinion . . .
Broadband update: free public Wi-Fi in Torch Lake Township
November 6, 2008
You have heard me whine about my inability to obtain reliable high speed internet at the heavily-wooded Writing Studio and Bait Shop. I was particularly frustrated last summer when I was trying to edit large documents for a client in Minneapolis. Downloading and uploading over my slow dialup seemed to take longer than the actual […]
Letters from Katherine: Patterns in black and white and shades of gray
November 6, 2008
Katherine, still in her Black and White period, spent some time on the beach last Tuesday, and sent this: It’s a glorius fall day for voting. Who would have thought this would be the weather on November 4th?
Posted in: 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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November 9, 2008
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