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In his review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Twice Told Tales,” Edgar Allen Poe declares that the highest form of literary expression is a rhymed poem that can be read in one sitting.
TRAVERSE CITY — When you approach Paul and Jenny Sparks’ house during the month of October, it’s hard to know where to look first.
A 15-hour journey by car from Traverse City to Wichita, Kansas took 30 years for Bill Burch.
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TRAVERSE CITY — Quilting became popular in America during the 19th century. Today, northern Michigan boasts many quilting groups like Fellowship Quilters of Traverse City.
Humanists meet Oct. 14
Our grandson loves to be read to prior to knocking off for an afternoon nap.
Deadlines, busy schedules, taking care of others, dysfunctional relationships, unrealistic expectations for ourselves and others can all bring about feelings of stress.
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They speak a foreign language. The women wear head coverings. They cluster in tight communities and refuse to assimilate—a central tenet of their faith insists they remain separate. And now they are migrating to northern Michigan in growing numbers. I am talking of course, about the Amish.
TRAVERSE CITY — For author Randall Sullivan, the story of Oak Island started in 2003 as a piece for Rolling Stone magazine.
FRANKFORT — Supporting current programs and raising awareness about community issues.
Nursing association meeting
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In the summer of 1975, then sitting United States President Gerald Ford came to Traverse City, played a round of golf at the local country club and walked down Front Street as Grand Marshall of the Cherry Festival Parade.
TRAVERSE CITY — As fall approaches, most people think of awe-inspiring color and delicious cider. But if a summer has been particularly hot and dry, fall can also bring catastrophic fire.
Railroad work begins Sept. 30
CEDAR — Herb Sudemann has been taking care of his community for 16 years. Now that community is taking care of him.
The ending of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” has attracted a great deal of attention. For those readers who have not yet seen the film but are contemplating doing so, I will not provide a spoiler.
I first met visual artist and retired art professor Melissa Jay Craig two years ago at Ragdale, an artists’ community. Melissa, 68, creates her own paper from sustainable plants, appreciating its tactile and malleable properties.
TRAVERSE CITY — Charles “Doug” Luther died in early September from leukemia — but not before leaving a lasting legacy.
Versiti Blood Center
Somebody do something, is what we say about the opioid crisis.
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Hospice seeks volunteers
NORTHPORT — Edie Heerspink thinks the Grand Traverse Lighthouse is beautiful, no matter how Michigan dresses for the seasons.
NORTHPORT — It was a day a year in the making.
The electricity went out minutes before my performance. I was in Lapeer, Michigan and White Middle School had sold more than 200 tickets. Nighttime was closing in.
Riding shotgun three years ago, Jeanne took aim and shot a bird’s-eye-view photo of two ships — one an 18th- century replica sailing vessel and the other a mammoth, modern day freighter — passing 200 feet beneath us in the Straits of Mackinac.
Road Trip is a monthly travel series by northern Michigan journalists Dave and Jeanne Barber. The series takes regional readers on easy, one-day road trips to visit Michigan museums, parks, nature sites, businesses and festivals, including many of the state's “hidden gems.”
Back in 1958 the United States Mint printed half-dollar coins with the face of Benjamin Franklin on one side and the Liberty Bell on the other. Unlike the amalgamated metal in the coins of today, the stuff of 1958 coins is solid silver.
‘6” — the sticky note countdown calendar a colleague stuck on my cabinet doesn’t lie. And yet the reality that in just six days I’ll be leaving the Record-Eagle, my second home for more than 22 years, hasn’t sunk in.
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MARSP meeting
TRAVERSE CITY — People in recovery will have a new place to socialize when Addiction Treatment Services (ATS) launches its new Recovery Community Center.
TRAVERSE CITY — Madie Begley has been in recovery for more than two years.
I have lived in Michigan for 17 years. And during that time, I have had numerous occasions to converse with other residents of this state, both native born and transplants. Those in the latter category, for the most part, moved here from other sections of the Midwest.
Oh, the back-to-school rush. Often met with bittersweet feelings. The sad farewell to summer, mixed with excitement and anticipation, sprinkled with a bit of chaos.
TRAVERSE CITY — A brewer is leading a financial class in the chapel of a church.
Everybody’s heard the report by now about the 80 animals that were evacuated from three shelters in Florida as Hurricane Dorian was bearing down.
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Archaeological group meets
GRAYLING — Sandra Westover had just finished taking part in an American Cancer Society Relay For Life and felt fine.
FIFE LAKE — What started as a first-grade social studies project on recycling efforts at Fife Lake Elementary has led to a reduction in lunchroom waste at the school.
With school cranking up again, I thought of this poem by Gregory Djanikian, his own story as a young immigrant singing quintessential American songs in his grade school choir. He knows nothing yet about this country, but he is wide open, taking in the songs and trying to attach them to his o…
‘Water! Water! Water!” those at water station Number Two on the Boardman Lake Trail shouted to the oncoming Ironman competitor.
In an earlier life, I had a restaurant for about a year.
TRAVERSE CITY — When tattoo artist Sabrina Wagner lost her friend to suicide, she wanted to help his family with funeral and other expenses.
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