http://www.record-eagle.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:00:59 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195100509.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195100509.html Imagine planning a party for hundreds of people, some of whom have been MIA for 20 years. That's the daunting task organizers of the Traverse City High School class of 1988 reunion face. Coordinating a class reunion can be tough, but planners who pull it off say getting reacquainted with old friends is worth the effort. Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:00:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195101010.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195101010.html It will be deja vu all over again for Elson Spangler when he steps on board the "Yankee Lady," a restored B-17 bomber. It's been 63 years since the longtime summer resident of Beaver Island last flew in a B-17, but it will all come back to him at noon July 18 when he takes to the air in the vintage warplane. Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:00:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195101016.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195101016.html Since 2003, artist Bill Hosner of the Petoskey/Boyne City area has set aside one day a month to travel to Children's Hospital of Detroit to spend the day drawing portraits of children who are patients at the hospital. He was inspired to start doing the portraits when he read a quote by Albert Schweitzer that read, "Do some thing, for someone, each day for which you do not get paid." Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:00:56 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195101024.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195101024.html Here's a question for summer: When the tide goes in and out, when the waves wash up in rhythm, why is it that most contemporary poetry doesn't have a regular rhythm, doesn't rhyme and often doesn't tell a story? What's the pleasure in that? I've been asked this question a lot. Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:00:55 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195101029.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195101029.html Before my wife and I settled in northern Michigan, we would visit the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore during our summer vacations. This region offers a wealth of things to see and do. We camped in the Platte River Campground and hiked many of the trails in and around the dunes area. Whether we were on Pierce Stocking Drive standing on the overlook or doing the dune climb, our eyes would always gaze out to the Manitou Islands. Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:00:54 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195101038.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195101038.html While washing dishes and humming a favorite tune, I heard a familiar, but muted, quack. From the kitchen window I saw Juliet Mallard strut confidently into the Fairy Garden, followed by five fluffy ducklings in a neat line behind her pert tail. (Visitors had inadvertently left the first gate open.) Padding over the lush Irish moss, she quack-commented on its softness, and then waddled to the Fairy Fountain. Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:00:53 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195101043.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195101043.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:00:52 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195101047.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_195101047.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:24:00 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_188102010.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_188102010.html Andra Wist has played with the Saskatoon Lions Band since before she was in high school and can hardly wait for the band's summer tour each year. The cherry on top: the group's final stop at the National Cherry Festival. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:00:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_188102020.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_188102020.html In the June 8 Northern Notes column, Eunice Groesser wrote about how overwhelmed she was by the number of concerned people who stopped to help her when she had car trouble. In response, Dr. Christopher Niem Henley wrote to say that he thinks the article tells a simple story of gratitude. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:00:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_188102026.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_188102026.html A retired Traverse City Central biology teacher has spent most of his adult life seeking trips filled with adventure and the possibility of promoting conservation efforts around the world. A safari expedition to Zimbabwe is his most recent, and possibly most dramatic, example. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:00:56 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_188102031.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_188102031.html Five interesting novels and two delightful children's books have arrived at my desk. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:00:55 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_188102035.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_188102035.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:00:54 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_188102038.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_188102038.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:00:53 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_188102043.html http://www.record-eagle.com/northernliving/local_story_188102043.html