Northern People
An ongoing, weekly series of stories focusing on the people of northern Michigan.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — After four decades of hearing stories from survivors of sexual assault, Barbara Cross summarized what she’s learned about the …
- by andrew rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — It was a freak situation from the start.
- By Laura Michels Special to the Record-Eagle
Editor’s Note: It’s approaching a year from when the pandemic initially lurched Michigan to a halt in March. At that time, we talked to two ol…
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
LEELANAU COUNTY — Chris Roxburgh has been fascinated by the rich shipping history of the county he grew up in.
- By Laura Michels Special to the Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — Two Vietnam Veterans are hoping to create a more peaceful world by showcasing Traverse City as a peaceful place.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — You probably recognize the names Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and Buzz Aldrin.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
SUTTONS BAY — Grant and Kris Hoxie wanted families and students in the Suttons Bay community to have one less worry this year.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Tom Bousamra had known about it since February.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Ned Hartwick was once just a middle school journalist.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
KALKASKA — Adam Whited will wear a ribbon on his uniform with pride.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
BELLAIRE — Taylor Sutherland doesn’t normally cook turkeys at The Corner Bistro in Bellaire.
- By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Brian O’Hara was simply looking to do something special for his uncle.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — About a year and a half ago Ann Tisdale was scouring around the internet for children’s books to read to her daughter Maya tha…
- By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The lines between home and office, classroom and living room blurred for many people in April and again in November.
- By Patti Brandt Burgess pburgess@record-eagle.com
EMPIRE — Rebecca Lessard released her last rehabilitated eagle on South Fox Island about a month ago, piling into a small chartered plane with…
- By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Even though it wasn’t the “aim,” Habitat for Humanity Grand Traverse Region came home a double winner from an annual conferenc…
- By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A community food drive was enough to get Michelle Chouinard and a team of Norte volunteers cranking.
- By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com
ALDEN — Levi Holmes received his wish one day this fall.
- By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Cliff and Lottie Wagner spent decades of service at what is now the Greilick Outdoor Recreation & Education Center.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
ALMA — It’s a small world at Abbey Killian’s Alma College.
- By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com
MAPLE CITY — Ten years later and Rae Dumke’s retirement gift is still making contributions to the world of architecture.
- By Peg Siciliano Special to the Record-Eagle
Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part look at the League of Women Voters as the group readies for the 2020 election, and the nationa…
- By Sheri Mcwhirter smcwhirther@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Girl Scouts have gone digital up north because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
KALKASKA — His coaches call Jacob Birgy “a quiet kid” but 250,000 people have read his story.
- By Sally Barber Special to the Record Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — Workers freed by the pandemic to do their job remotely can experience autumn’s glories from places near and far.
- By Sally Barber Special to the Record-Eagle
MAPLE CITY — Aging in place is more than theory to Pam Bradshaw.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Bob Core doesn’t build ships to sail them.
- By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Even though she’s already made two visits to Plymouth, Massachusetts, a third trip will have a deeper meaning for a Traverse C…
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Meghan Brown saw a man in a Rochester Kroger parking lot walking oddly.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Brooke Adamczak recently decided to donate a small fortune from her piggy bank.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — There’s a good chance you’ll find at least one barn while driving around Garfield Township.
- By Tess DeGayner WCMU Partnership
TRAVERSE CITY — Charlotte Little found the Great Lakes Humane Society near her home on a bike ride two years ago.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
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TRAVERSE CITY – It’s easy to look past a tombstone at Oakwood Cemetery as if it was no different from the rest.
- By David L. Barber Special to the Record-Eagle
NORTHPORT — Ernie Barry will be 12 years old in July. Or, if you’re a person who appreciates truth in journalism, he’ll be 77.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Janis Haine was sewing masks before they were cool.
- By Andrew Rosenthal arosenthal@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — It might take Piper Shumar three months to redeem $25 worth of cans per day.
- By Laura Michels Special to the Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — It’s a Friday morning in May.
- By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com
FRANKFORT — Two things make Cheryl Kobernik uniquely qualified for her position on a state steering committee.
- By Sally Barber Special to the Record-Eagle
FRANKFORT — Dogs, like people, can get restless under stay-at-home orders. When Hugo, a 50-pound mixed breed broke free, the getaway became a …
- By Laura Michels Special to the Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — From the beginning, it seems Helen Christopher, 79, and her adoptive mother Helen Baird, 103, were destined to be together.
- By Patti Brandt Burgess pburgess@record-eagle.com
NORTHPORT — A smallpox epidemic in 1848 was the impetus for creation of the tiny village of Northport, population 500 or so, that clings to th…
- By Stephanie Shomin sshomin@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Visitors can hear faint ticking sounds outside Joe Battaglia’s Traverse City residence. Clocks of all shapes and sizes line th…
- By Alexa Zoellner azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The day Bear Lake Christian Church closed, the Rev. Scott Hoffer and others went through with bleach and water, disinfecting a…
- By Alexa Zoellner azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The running joke at the Canfield house is that, when husband Art comes home, he never knows how many kids will be there.
- By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — There is but one physical crown.
- By Alexa Zoellner azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The second half of Jessi Wallington’s February was spent helping care for some of the best athletes in the country — Olympians…
- By Alexa Zoellner azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — If it’s a choice between sleep and robotics, high schoolers Bo Eyre and Seth Carpenter choose the latter.
- BY DAVID L. BARBER Special to the Record-Eagle
Nobody says time-honored quite like the people of the Guinness Book of World Records, who last summer recognized the Manistee Fire Department …
- By David L. Barber Special to the Record-Eagle
MANISTEE — Lorien Adamski had the cracklin’ tempo of an ember-snapping campfire, the neighing and whinnying of his resting horse — all that wa…
- By Alexa Zoellner azoellner@record-eagle.com
KALKASKA — Until a week ago, Kaylyn Moyer’s high school geometry class had 90 students.
- By Stephanie Shomin sshomin@record-eagle.com
FRANKFORT — Ellie Harold considers herself a latecomer to the world of art, but that did not stop four of her oil paintings from being selecte…
- By Sheri Mcwhirter smcwhirter@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A local youth training program in its third year received a major national award.
- By Alexa Zoellner azoellner@record-eagle.com
MAPLE CITY — When more than 30 inches of snow fell over the course of two days, Andria Metrakos knew she had to act fast.
- By Sheri Mcwhirter smcwhirter@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Matt Drost teaches science at Grand Traverse Academy in Traverse City, where he long ago found a way to connect his personal l…
- By Alexa Zoellner azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Maria Heiman knew being part of an exchange program would give her a chance to explore the history and geography of another country.
- By Patti Brandt Burgess pburgess@record-eagle.com
EMPIRE — Two years ago about 20 people became American citizens in a naturalization ceremony held at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
- By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The mission and the name are the same.
- By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Losing can be winning — and just in time for spring break.
- By Alexa Zoellner azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Christmas is a religious holiday for some, a secular one for others.
- By Stephanie Shomin sshomin@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Larry Lelito is one of 30 men who make up the Traverse City Honor Guard, a nonprofit run by volunteers.
- By Sally Barber Special to the Record-Eagle
NORTHPORT — What’s been called the rarest American muscle car recently saw the light of day after being hidden in Leelanau County for decades.
- By David L. Barber Special to the Record-Eagle
The streets of London were so filthy in the early and mid 19th century that those who could afford it paid others — mostly children — to walk …
- By Sally Barber Special to the Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — It took only a quick study of a North American map to inspire Bob Downes’ 4,500-mile cross-continent cycling adventure.
- By Carol South Special to the Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — Shaped from dance, inspired by architecture and forged in motherhood, interdisciplinary artist Jen Sperry Steinorth published …
- By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Four different notes, 24 in total.
- By Stephanie Shomin sshomin@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Many people can trace their ancestry back at least a few generations. David Smith can trace his even farther — to the 1860s.
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- By Jennifer Burns Special to the Record-Eagle
Editor’s note: This is the second installment Kathy Bussell’s story. The first focused on her re-occurring battle with breast cancer; the seco…
- By Alexa Zoellner azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Tell 51 teenagers to work together and it’s easy to assume someone’s not going to get along.
- By Stephanie Shomin sshomin@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Quilting became popular in America during the 19th century. Today, northern Michigan boasts many quilting groups like Fellowsh…
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- By Alexa Zoellner azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — For author Randall Sullivan, the story of Oak Island started in 2003 as a piece for Rolling Stone magazine.
- By Patti Brandt Burgess pburgess@record-eagle.com
CEDAR — Herb Sudemann has been taking care of his community for 16 years. Now that community is taking care of him.
- By Patti Brandt
Burgess pburgess@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Madie Begley has been in recovery for more than two years.
- By Alexa Zoellner azoellner@record-eagle.com
GRAYLING — Sandra Westover had just finished taking part in an American Cancer Society Relay For Life and felt fine.
- By Mark Urban murban@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — An historical timeline only adds events on the right side.
- By Marta Hepler Drahos mdrahos@record-eagle.com
LELAND — Jim Wysor might be as familiar with the nooks and crannies of north Lake Leelanau as anyone living.
- By Alexa Zoellner azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — One hour.
- By Alexa Zoellner azoellner@record-eagle.com
WILLIAMSBURG — Acer K wanted the win as much as his rider, Ava Stearns, did — Stearns was sure of it.
- By Alexa Zoellner azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Putting together the Traverse City Film Festival takes about 2,000 volunteers, but only two dozen or so are chosen to provide …
- By Stephanie Shomin sshomin@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Whitney Miller isn’t sure how she made the dive from a U.S. Army police officer to teaching people how to swim like a mermaid.
- By Stephanie Shomin sshomin@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Mary Vollink grew up going to three different church services every Sunday. But then her parents sat down with the kids, askin…
- By Patti Brandt Burgess pburgess@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A local man will honor his late mother this week when he hops on his stand-up paddleboard for a three-day voyage around Lake M…
- By Sheri Mcwhirter smcwhirter@record-eagle.com
SUTTONS BAY — There’s never been a better time to be in the up-and-coming wine industry in northwest Lower Michigan.
- BY ALEXA ZOELLNER azoellner@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Family. Friends. Language. Experience.
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
EMPIRE — The legend always left Katharine Crawford Robey a bit downhearted.
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Rich Powell buys a new set of shoes every 400 miles.
- BY STEPHANIE SHOMIN sshomin@record-eagle.com
BENZONIA — Ned Edwards has called Beulah home for almost 30 years now. But even before moving to the area in the 1990s, Edwards, 85, summered …
- BY PATTI BRANDT BURGESS pburgess@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — When Hannah Beard, 23, was a senior in high school she had to pick a career to go alongside her name in the yearbook.
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Elizabeth Robbins beamed with pride as her son accepted his diploma — a moment only beat moments after, when the 55-year-old, …
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Getting up and moving, in the end, helped Mark Wilson slow down.
- BY PATTI BRANDT BURGESS pburgess@record-eagle.com
BEAVER ISLAND — Spring is the perfect time for a birding festival.
- BY STEPHANIE SHOMIN sshomin@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — About 56 percent of third-graders test below proficiency in reading, according to the 2019 Kids Count in Michigan Data Book.
- BY SHERI McWHIRTER smcwhirter@record-eagle.com
KALKASKA — A trio of Kalkaska boys collected nearly $3,000 in returnable bottles and cans — that’s 30,000 — and used the money to buy a dozen …
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Alycia Pollotta learned to shoot as a U.S. Marine.
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Owen Averill can’t give them beds or a roof to keep dry.
- BY PATTI BRANDT BURGESS pburgess@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The story of Maxine and Walt Pieschke started more than 75 years ago on the east side of Detroit, where they both grew up and …
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The Matriarch towered as George and Judy Rokos unpacked moving boxes at 8768 Cedar Run Road in 1975, and she towers today.
- BY SHERI McWHIRTER smcwhirter@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — There are a few dozen spots around Traverse City with especially beautiful indoor living plants, the work of northern Michigan…
- BY PATTI BRANDT BURGESS pburgess@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Why do so many Irish surnames begin with the letter O, why are there so many redheads in Ireland, and why are the Irish so dar…
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
ELK RAPIDS — Lines of parked cars faded into the blustery night and few chairs sat unclaimed inside the Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall.
- BY MARDI LINK Special to the Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — What if there was a complex group of soldiers who altered the history of the world? What if these men came from nothing, and w…
- BY STEPHANIE SHOMIN sshomin@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — When it comes to food and families, the best recipe includes love.
- BY MARK URBAN murban@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — If the diving board is big enough, the size of everything else is irrelevant.
- BY DAVID L. BARBER Special to the Record-Eagle
LAKE ANN — Scripture and science — prayer and a microscope — became common threads in a newly-woven family quilt for a Lake Ann man.
- BY PATTI BRANDT BURGESS pburgess@record-eagle.com
INTERLOCHEN — The Village of Interlochen takes its name from the Scottish inter (between) and loch (lake), instead of from a guy named Benedic…
- BY STEPHANIE SHOMIN sshomin@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Gene Oesterling’s name has been on the waitlist at the University of Michigan Transplant Center for almost a year. But the Tra…
- BY MARK URBAN murban@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — As the executive director for Grow Benzie, Josh Stoltz has been a change maker.
- BY PATTI BRANDT BURGESS pburgess@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — When Tanya Anne Crosby was in the process of publishing her first romance novel, "Angel of Fire," it was sent back to her five times.
- BY PATTI BRANDT BURGESS pburgess@record-eagle.com
AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Amateur astrophysicist David G. Penney won't be rethinking his beliefs regarding aliens after a mysterious object in 2017 wa…
- BY SHERI MCWHIRTER smcwhirter@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Officials at the Grass River Natural Area named Phil Jarvi their 2018 volunteer of the year.
- BY STEPHANIE SHOMIN sshomin@record-eagle.com
LAKE LEELANAU — Theron Coleman is one of 2 million people nationwide who are affected by aphasia, an inability to use or difficulty understand…
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Robert Schewe sees the world in color and shapes, immaculate details and stunning architecture.
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Towering trees, teams of reindeer and glittering snowflakes turn Mike Siler’s lawn into a winter wonderland.
- BY PATTI BRANDT BURGESS pburgess@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Robert Downes' passion for all things Native American began with his father's plowed-up collection of arrowheads, spear points…
- BY PATTI BRANDT BURGESS pburgess@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Rehabilitating motherless fawns could be a thing of the past for one Bingham Township couple.
- BY PATTI BRANDT BURGESS pburgess@record-eagle.com
MANCELONA — Milo, a shy puppy who spent the first seven months of his life in a kennel, recently spent a week in the woods surrounding Starvat…
- BY SHERI MCWHIRTER smcwhirter@record-eagle.com
CENTRAL LAKE — Susan Linton traveled to the National D-Day Memorial in Virginia in order to read the wartime journal her father kept during hi…
- BY SHERI MCWHIRTER smcwhirter@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — There's a group of native plant lovers in the Grand Traverse area determined to plant their seeds in the community.
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Corissa Geer wasn’t happy.
- BY DAVID BARBER Special to the Record Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — Hushed in a labyrinth of liberty-chiseled monuments, hallowed grounds to many, Ted Roehrich stood humbly among American “royal…
- BY PATTI BRANDT BURGESS pburgess@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — What started as an experiment in experiential learning has grown into an annual event that has since its inception raised more…
- BY PATTI BRANDT BURGESS pburgess@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Is there intelligent life somewhere in the universe besides on Earth?
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Pedaling through the bumps, hills and crests comes easy to pro-cyclist Larry Warbasse.
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
KALKASKA — Mariah Russell wears a buzz cut and a wide grin.
- BY SHERI MCWHIRTER smcwhirter@record-eagle.com
CENTRAL LAKE — Incoming Central Lake sophomore Desiree Herrst had quite a summer.
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
NORTHPORT — Bianca Temple wipes yellow-smeared hands on her oversized painting tee. The teen’s beat-up sneakers squeak against blacktop as she…
- BY DAVID L. BARBER Special to the Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — Some might say Richard Nicolen is a collector of fine art. Others might say the 66-year-old Traverse City man is a collector o…
- BY STEPHANIE BRZEZINSKI sbrzezinski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — The National Cherry Festival recently released sales figures for its 2018 pins — and the winner is no surprise.
- BY PEG SICILIANO Special to the Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — Traverse City’s past is a tale of adventure, romance, generosity and greed. Those who thrill to such stories recently lost a c…
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@record-eagle.com
LAKE ANN — Kelsey Silver was born with a wooden spoon in her mouth.
- BY NOELLE RILEY Special to the Record-Eagle
OLD MISSION — When you need a helping hand from friendly neighbors, sometimes all you have to do is open a phone app.
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A grand mal seizure ended David Stendel’s restaurant career, but he’s still prompt for the opening shift at Big Boy.
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@rcord-eagle.com
OMENA — There’s a place in the world for tattoo parlors and summer sports rental businesses. Kathy Bosco just doesn’t think Omena is it.
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — It’s one thing to read transcripts of police interviews with a murder suspect. It’s another to hear the interviews in the susp…
- BY SALLY BARBER Special to the Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — Traverse City native Jessica Pociask wiled away youthful summer days poking around the Boardman River, fishing, collecting ins…
- BY STEPHANIE BRZEZINSKI sbrzezinski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Jim Novak said he learned about men’s sheds — nonprofits that provide a community space for men — from the television program …
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Even at 87, Virginia Johnson still encounters a new word every once in a while.
- BY ALLISON BATDORFF abatdorff@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Cardiac catheter nurse Benjamin Lannin works with some of Munson Medical Center's most sophisticated equipment to keep human h…
- BY STEPHANIE BRZEZINSKI sbrzezinski@record-eagle.com
KALKASKA — Riley Miracle, of Kalkaska, said she debated whether to call her eighth-grade community service project “fidget blankets” or “lap q…
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@record-eagle.com
MARILLA — Jan Thomas remembers the annual summer arrival of migrant workers to her family’s Bear Lake farm.
- BY DAVID L. BARBER Special to the Record-Eagle
WILLIAMSBURG — They sit, and talk — small talk, silly talk, serious talk.
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
LAKE LEELANAU — Michael Goodell’s world started turning the day his gaze met Mary Northcutt’s on the campus of a small, Southern California un…
- BY STEPHANIE BRZEZINSKI sbrzezinski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Susan Kuschell said she founded the nonprofit Grand Traverse Area Children’s Garden nearly 20 years ago with kids in mind.
- BY PEG SICILIANO and ALLISON BATDORFF Special to the Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — Ninety-five years ago this week area citizens were enthralled by a tale of starvation, an escape across 19 miles of breaking i…
- BY NOELLE RILEY Special to the Record-Eagle
GLEN ARBOR — Writers aiming for a book deal have roughly three or four minutes to catch a publisher’s attention with their storytelling.
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Natalie Lomske likes to write.
- BY ALLISON BATDORFF abatdorff@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Jon Klinkel throttled back when he stepped to the black, bleeping Galaga game at the Coin Slot arcade last month.
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Formula: check. Rehydrating supplies: check. Sterilite bins and climbing cages: check and check.
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Amanda Lodge is a wanderer who likes to connect with the ground she walks on — especially if it’s at high altitude.
- BY NOELLE RILEY Special to the Record-Eagle
SUTTONS BAY — Andrea Slater is known as the cat lady of Leelanau County.
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@record-eagle.com
CHARLEVOIX — Katie Carmichael thought she’d have plenty of time to plan a summer wedding after a romantic Christmas proposal from her fiance, …
- BY ALLISON BATDORFF abatdorff@record-eagle.com
ELK RAPIDS — Lindsay Hayes is used to cooking on-camera and has consequently picked up a few tricks.
- BY NOELLE RILEY Special to the Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — Eric Lemmon has 10 gold medals from the Michigan Special Olympics and is hoping to add more to his collection.
- BY STEPHANIE BRZEZINSKI sbrzezinski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Jennifer Finnegan Pool was a single mom raising two kids when she started the nonprofit organization Single MOMM in 2008.
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — “I will understand always,” Gordon Berg croons, plucking a matching harmony from the strings of his wooden acoustic guitar.
- BY BROOKE KANSIER bkansier@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — They sold the motorcycle and eventually had to retire the bicycles.
- BY DAVID L. BARBER Special to the Record-Eagle
BELLAIRE — Perhaps Scott Udell will go ice fishing in the next few days. Or snowmobiling.
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@record-eagle.com
KALKASKA — Barbara Lawrence fondly remembers the family farmhouse she left in order to finish high school and marry her sweetheart at age 16.
- BY STEPHANIE BRZEZINSKI sbrzezinski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Jedidiah Preble served as a brigadier general in the American Revolution. A minister provided towels and other supplies to Geo…
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Music thumped through a boom box as guest theater instructor Johamy Morales led students through ensemble movement exercises d…
- BY ALLISON BATDORFF abatdorff@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Warm, dry feet: If you have them, chances are you don't notice. If not, you may notice little else.
- BY ALLISON BATDORFFand DAVID L. BARBER Special to the Record-Eagle
WILLIAMSBURG — Dave Hoxsie smilingly endured one question, over and over, as families approached his enclosure, realized what was inside and a…
- BY STEPHANIE BRZEZINSKI sbrzezinski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — All it took was a sleepless night in 2014 for Traverse City resident Crystal Gober to come up with Socks of Love, a project in…
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Dan Farrier is a sucker for punishment.
- BY STEPHANIE BRZEZINSKI sbrzezinski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Doris Norton followed her parents’ footsteps when she joined the Order of the Eastern Star in 1950 in Ada, Michigan. That same…
- BY DAVID L. BARBER Special to the Record-Eagle
THOMPSONVILLE — The cowboy weathered his icy surroundings by turning a rosy cheek to the relentless punches of a tussling wind on a day when 2…
- BY ALLISON BATDORFF abatdorff@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Big discoveries can start with fragments, shards of bone and teeth. A pile of rocks. A partial skeleton of a fossilized mouse.
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Dan Farrier finished filming “Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge” before he even told his brother he’d be on show.
- BY TESSA LIGHTY tlighty@record-eagle.com
FRANKFORT — Ed Moody puts his heart into carving giant pumpkins brought home from the Frankfort Fall Festival.
- BY STEPHANIE BRZEZINSKI sbrzezinski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Peter Deneen joined the Grand Traverse Pipes and Drums in 1984, 10 years after the group formed in Traverse City. He was in ni…
- BY SALLY BARBER Special to the Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — Traverse Area District Library’s science fiction collection can’t compare to the intrigue of the universe’s dark matter.
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Amara Hagy can’t imagine a world without lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants and others on the endangered species list.
- BY ISABELLA HINOJOSA ihinojosa@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A few quick turns of a rotating canvas, some rapid hand painting, and about six minutes is all Martina Hahn, 48, needs to crea…
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Of all the trees on their antique apple farm, only one has a place of honor next to the home of Phyllis and John Kilcherman.
- BY MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS mdrahos@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Louie the barn cat greets visitors to Casalae Farms, hoping to trick them into giving him extra food rations.
- BY ALLISON BATDORFF abatdorff@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Sloths eating doughnuts — awwww, that’s double-cute for teenage sloth fan Emlin Munch.
- BY ALLISON BATDORFF abatdorff@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — A few tears fell into the suitcase where Amy Northway folded leotards into tiny rectangles, remembering each garment's role in…
- BY SALLY BARBER Special to the Record-Eagle
TRAVERSE CITY — Area native Sally Rogers was a born artist.
- BY ALLISON BATDORFF abatdorff@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — When you run a barbecue joint named "Ham-Bonz," you don't get emotionally attached to pigs.
- BY DANIELLE WOODWARD dwoodward@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Chris Convissor often grapples with "being other" — her go-to term for feeling like an outsider.
- BY ALLISON BATDORFF abatdorff@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Oh if that top loader could talk, the tales it could tell.
- BY STEPHANIE BRZEZINSKI sbrzezinski@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Soren Nielsen grew up in Traverse City, but moved to New York to pursue a career in filmmaking after graduating college.
- BY DANIELLE WOODWARD dwoodward@record-eagle.com
TRAVERSE CITY — Jim Hilton has always relied on humor to navigate life’s ups and downs.