historic character. Due to the move next year (as noted above) of the Meadow Brook Concours, MFS boosters can brag, as chairman Steve Sowers did at the inaugural Franklin Concours d’Elegance Car & Boat Show, ”We’ll be the only Concours in Oakland County.” The event drew 40 classic cars, some boats and hundreds of visitors to the Franklin Green on a perfect Saturday afternoon. Judged award winners were: Bruce Schofield’s hunter green 1957 Jaguar XK 140; Frank Ligon’s 1964 XKE Jaguar Series 1 OTS; Dennis and Mary Koss’s Bob Seger’s “Night Moves,” a midnight black 1962 Pontiac Catalina convertible; Bob Smith’s 1955 Ford Thunderbird; Eugene Keple’s 1994 red Viper serial #001; and Wayne Snyder’s 1959 Dodge Royal Lancer two-door hardtop. Elaine Swenson’s black 1948 Silver Wraith Rolls Royce won the People’s Choice Award. Had there been an award for Most Colorful, it would surely have gone to Vic Rivera’s 1962 Porsche, which Nick Moskatow painted to replicate Janis Joplin’s famous psychedelic painted 1965 Porsche ride.
CRUSH Northern Michigan Bill Seklar reports that the Children’s Leukemia Foundation’s CRUSH Northern Michigan Aug. 14 was a major success. More than 100 guests (at $750-per person), including Charlevoix resorters like the Richard Goldens, partook of Kathryn Kircher’s generous hospitality while savoring superb cuisine and wines in the magical Boyne Falls setting. For some, it was a prelude to CRUSH Somerset Collection-South held Saturday, Sept. 25.
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1. Main Street Franklin chair Steve Showers (center) of Lake Orion with his son Jimmy and wife Nancy (looking at Night Moves, Bob Seger’s 1961 Catalina). 2. Bengt & Elaine Swenson of Bloomfield (Rolls-Royce hood ornament in foreground). 3. People’s choice award winner Elaine Swenson’s 1948 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith. (The design of the car was created for the Maharaja of Mysore.) 4. Painter/ designer Nick Moskatow (left) of Clinton Twp. with owner Vic Rivera of Franklin, and the 1962 Porsche he painted in the manner of Janis Joplin’s famous car. 5. Tom (left) & Lorna 3 4 Tackwell of Chelsea with Kim Irwin of Plymouth and Main Street Franklin vice chair Matthias Meyer of Franklin. 6. Bronte (left), Gary and Bryon Burkart of Bloomfield. 7. John (left) and Bruce Schofield of Grosse Pointe with Main Street Franklin board chair Steve Showers of Lake Orion and vice chair Matthias Meyer of Franklin.
DIFFA’s Dining by Design The Design Industry Foundation Fighting Aids introduced Dining by Design in 1997 and it has been wildly popular in cities across the country ever since. Not surprising, given this area’s wealth of design talent, Detroit’s inaugural production of the event chaired by Ann Duke and Kelly Deines was spectacular. It attracted 550 for the Thursday night opening event - Cocktails by Design and The ArtWorks for Life auction. As guests disembarked the elevator on the 11th tttfloor of the Benson & Edith Ford Conference Center at the A. Alfred Taubman New Center campus of the College for Creative Studies, they faced one of the 22 fabulous dining installations (it was white) flanked by downtownpublications.com
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1. Richard & Shelly Golden of Bloomfield. 2. Kim Bondy of Birmingham and Art Van Elslander of Bloomfield. 3. Event host Kathryn Kircher (left) of Boyne Falls and Jaime Rae Turnbull of Clarkston
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