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LOVELY LEELANAU

I spent a few days last week with my Uncle Jack, my late mother’s oldest brother, at the tail end of a longer trip visiting family.  Jack and his late wife retired years ago to Suttons Bay, in Leelanau County, Michigan.  They had grown up sailing on Lake Huron out of Alpena.  Grand Traverse Bay [...]

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HARVEST MOON

Autumn is well nigh. The lawn and gardens are strewn with confetti – the leaves are falling.  The Harvest Moon is the first bookend of a month’s worth of shortening days and cooler nights.  Traditionally, farmers work their fields well into the night by the Harvest Moon’s light, then put up their yields.  The next [...]

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MUNISING – A FINE FOREVER

If Grand Island is the head, and Munising‘s deep water harbor is the neck, then Munising itself is a rough-hewn, semi-precious necklace on a leathery cord. From wherever you might be along its grid of tree-named streets, your eye is drawn beyond the pretty face of its anchorage to the Big Water beyond. Nestled against [...]

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