A park for all reasons

August 15, 2008

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If you live around here you know that Barnes Park has a great beach and beautiful campsites.  But did you know it has a network of trails that wind through the woods, past a prairie restoration, around a wetland, and through stands of oak, aspen, red pine, white pine and jack pine?  Did you know that […]

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Letters from Katherine: While Weeding

August 12, 2008

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Katherine was tending her garden when she was distracted by humming . . . This must be where the bees hang out when it’s warm. It seemed like a great place to be, inside a squash blossom on a hot afternooon. – Katherine

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A place on a lake in Michigan

August 11, 2008

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My sister Susan, a high-powered scientist who has lived in and traveled to beautiful places all over the world, told the story.  Her workout group of equally high-powered and disciplined sorts was trading stories about where they’d live if they could live anywhere.  An atelier in Paris – a beach in Fiji – a Manhattan co-op . […]

Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views, Torch Lake memories

Babs at the Charlevoix Art Fair

August 10, 2008

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Babs wended her way north over the weekend and captured the kind of summer it’s been: a sunny day roiled with clouds.  The Charlevoix Art Fair, the 50th, was held on Saturday.  The new East Park is lovely and the fountain seems to delight the kids.   Every week photographer Babs Young captures moments in northern Michigan, […]

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Ripe and ready – U-Pick/We-Pick report for Torch Lake Township

August 9, 2008

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Here’s the word from the Bargys, the Dawsons, the Kamps and the Kings about what you can pick now and in the coming week at the farms and orchards of Torch Lake Township, and about what they’re picking for you that you can scarf up at the markets. Keep in mind that Mama Nature is […]

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Posted in: Day trips in Northern Michigan, In Business in Torch Lake, Things to do in Torch Lake Township

Nose to nose . . .

August 8, 2008

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. . . with the elk!! or maybe nose to lens. This one was very curious and almost licked my camera. I’m not sure how good elk saliva is for camera lenses so I declined.  So begins a Letter from Katherine Berst, who has a new camera she’s enjoying and was one of the people […]

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Freedom: Verse I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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