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The button jar

January 2, 2010

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One of the day’s errands involved returning many overdue books to the library in Central Lake.  A bonus was discovering the current showcase exhibit: a button collection.  Buttons in jars, buttons in a box that had held lavendar soaps, buttons sewed onto patchwork angel wings . . . I was completely captivated. My mother kept […]

Appreciating Elva

January 26, 2009

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Elva Cowell has been Torch Lake Township Clerk, President of the Central Lake District Library Board, Membership Chair of the Wilkinson Homestead Historical Society . . . you get the idea. Wherever you go on this side of the County, Elva will be there before you, setting out the agendas, organizing the committees and fluffing […]