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- Good Nature Farms
- Prudential Preferred Properties
- Michigan Network Alliance press release
- Page of pretty pictures to take your mind off the attack flies
- New York Cakes
- Dorothy Bells Gift Shop
- Providence Farm
- 2008 Torch Lake Township Visitors Guide
- New Community Services Building Dedicated
- Whimsies of the World
- Barnes Park Trail Map
- DNR Torch Lake access – NW Torch Lake Drive
- Township boat ramp on NW Torch Lake Drive
- Creswell Road rustic boat ramp on the Bay
- Chore and Maintenance Services
- Daytrip: Little Norway’s Winterfest
- Surely, Shirley will get it done
- Winning recipes from the 2009 Friske’s Cherry Recipe Contest
- Phragmites at the TBNP beach pond
- Trash and tracks at the TBNP
- Blasted bugs at the TBNP
- Garden Cafe
- Indian Summer – copyright 2009, Gerry Sell
- Buttercups and ferns and potential raspberries
- Torch Lake Storage and Mini-Warehouse
- Phragmites stories in the Elk Rapids News
- Pine Hill Classes August 2009
- Parks and Trails
- Torch Lake boat launch update: DNR Construction Crew at Eastport Landing
- Roots & Wings workshop at Pine Hill
- Manicurist Audrey Stolp
- Providence Farm newsletter, March 2010
- Hard freeze on Farrell Road
- Slideshow from the 2010 Petoskey Stone Festival
- Becky’s Beach
- Antrim Creek Natural Area
- Advent Calendar, Day 1 – An excellent treat
- First night of Chanukah – an excellent treat
- Karma’s Daffy Dozen
- White Pine Down
- “Treasures from the Holidays” opens in Elk Rapids
- Ourstory
- Wilkinson Homestead Historical Society
- Photos – Milk hauler jack-knifes on Essex Road
- ERN – A peek inside the CSB
- ERN – Milk shake!
- ERN – Hardwater sailors skim across Torch
- Time Capsule Contents
- 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
- Portraits of people
- Community issues
- ERAHS 2012 PowerPoint
- Gallery Babs
- Environmental Art Scrapbook
- Mama Nature’s Index Page
From Gerry Sell's Writing Studio and Bait Shop
In business: a view to growth
A CPA, a partner in a hair salon, a restaurant owner, farmers, real estate brokers, an internet provider, the proprietor of a self-storage facility and the owners of the local airport gathered over coffee this morning to share their perspectives on doing business in Torch Lake Township. Joining them for the informal discussion were Township […]
Posted in: In Business in Torch Lake
The Writing Studio and Bait Shop in Winter
January 26, 2008
I know snowbirds like to be reassured that it is a good idea to spend January (and February, and March) in Florida or other parts warmer. Here, depending on personal taste, is evidence that they were right to flee before the (shiver) Snow arrived – or evidence that they are missing extraordinary beauty . . […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Happy Australia Day
January 25, 2008
The nice thing about the internet is that you can connect in happy ways with people from anywhere – as we did with Australian Marcelle Pollington on, of all things, the subject of geraniums. I thought of her as I listened to oral history interviews of community elders in Elk Rapids. She would have fit right […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
Cowboy on snowshoes/Amore in flameproof booties
January 24, 2008
For the record, this ↓ is not snow – – – – – THIS ↓ is snow. . . . . . There’s a mouse in there . . . We who live here year ’round are accustomed to gleeful winter weather inquiries from snowbirds, Californians and others of that ilk. “Gettin’ any snow are ya? […]
Posted in: Adventures outdoors
Oral History project in Elk Rapids Schools – Day One
January 22, 2008
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. […]
Posted in: Torch Lake memories
Promise of spring – WHHS geranium sale
January 20, 2008
It’s ten degrees outside my front door this morning, but there’s also a promise that spring will come. The Wilkinson Homestead Historical Society 2008 Geranium Order Form arrived, just in time to supply a little hope! The order deadline is February 15 for plants that will be ready in May. Go ahead – have a little faith in the face […]
Posted in: Everything else on Torch Lake Views
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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January 26, 2008
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