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Fall is like home. Summer is fun to visit, but it can be overwhelming. Fall includes some of the most brilliant sights and the most incredible scents. It reminds us to slow down and enjoy the beauty around us. Fall re minds us that there is grace in aging and change. Fall gives us a yearly pause to be thankful for the seasons, as they take their final bow before winter’s white curtain descends. My children are back in school, and soon they will take their school pictures. When they come in, I change them out on the main wall in our living room - another reminder of time marching on. For now, we are looking forward to raking up a big pile of leaves to jump in and picking out pumpkins to carve. May this edition of LakeStyle find you and your loved ones well. - Amanda amanda@oceanaheraldjournal.com Look for LakeStyle all across Michigan!
On the cover: Autumn colors are on display along the channel at Stony Lake in Oceana County.
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I recently stood on the 23rd floor of the Amway Grand Plaza in downtown Grand Rapids and looked out at the people, buildings, cars and lights for al most an hour. It was mesmerizing. There was so much going on all at once, which is something I don’t see very often, and I will be honest - I am thank ful for that. I am grateful for the slower pace and the natural surroundings of much of the LakeStyle area. My husband and I were in the city to see the Sistine Chapel exhibit at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum. This was our first trip to the museum, and it will certainly not be our last. Grand Rapids is fun to visit, but my husband and I both remarked that we were glad to go home.
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LakeStyle Magazine • Fall 2022 • 5 Contents Calendar of events.................................8 outdoor adventures............................11 West MI travels......................................16 HealtHy lIvIng...........................................23 senIor style..............................................29 HoMe & garden.......................................35 trendIng reCIpes.....................................41 ColuMnIsts.......................................44 & 51 drop a lIne.................................................47 BaCkroad fInds........................................54 LakeStyle Magazine A chipmunk surveys the changing landscape from a weathered tree branch. • Steve Begnoche A $5.95 value published by MEDIA HERALD-JOURNALNEWSBEACON OCEANA’S LUDINGTONWHITEHERALD-JOURNALLAKEBEACONDAILYNEWS MEDIA HERALD-JOURNAL | WHITE LAKE BEACON media logo have the three that?) Ludington Daily News 202 N Rath Ave. P.O. Box Ludington,340MI 49431 (231) 845-5181 (231) 843-4011 fax Oceana’s Herald-Journal 123 State Street PO Box 190 Hart, MI 49420 (231) 873-5602 (231) 873-4775 fax White Lake Beacon PO Box Whitehall,98 MI 49461 (231) 894-5356 (231) 894-2174 www.shorelinemedia.netfax Publisher: Ray McGrew VP/CRO: Banks Dishmon Sales: Monica Evans, Shelley Kovar, Jan Thomas, Stacie Wagner Graphics: Judy Lytle, Julie Eilers, Shanon McDowell, Robin Moline, Candy Bryant News: David Bossick – Ludington Jeff Kiessel – Ludington John Cavanagh – Hart Amanda Dodge – Hart & ©WhitehallCopyright 2022 Shoreline Media
Trumpeter swans swim along the red-gold shores that reflect in the waters of Shelley Lake. A fisherman casts off into October waters set ablaze by the sun on the trees. •
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Mother Nature delivers such beautiful and brilliant colors every fall season that even the trees, them selves, seem to be left smiling at all that unfolds in front of them. A rustic barn is even more picturesque encompassed by fall leaves. Another sure sign that summer is bowing out and fall is getting ready to take center stage is the annual migration of salmon swimming upstream to carry out their annual spawning chores.
Photo essay by Jeanne Barber and Steve Begnoche
Pumpkin spice and everything nice
LakeStyle Magazine • Fall 2022 • 7 All performances take place in the Hart Public Schools Auditorium 308 W. Johnson St., Hart. For ticket prices and complete information on the series, see our website at hartseries.org or contact Artistic Director Tom Kirk at tomkirk@hartseries.org. The Hart PerformingCommunityArtsSeriesfor2022-2023 Yellow Room Gang September 23, 7:30 pm Benny Benack III w/Lauren Henderson November 18, 7:30 pm Frisson Wind Quartet January 27, 7:30 pm Seraph Brass Quintet March 3, 7:30 pm Los MayGuitarAngelesQuartet1,7:30pm Galvin Cello Quartet October 28, 7:30 pm Tom Knifie Quartet w/Rhea Olivacce February 19, 3:00 pm Peter & Will Anderson Trio April 14, 7:30 LakeStylepm Magazine • Fall 2022 • 7
• 22 - Haunted Village at His toric White Pine Village, 2-5 p.m.
• 29-30 - Lantern LARP event hosted by MIGeekScene.
• 29 - Haunted Hospital at North Bar, starts at 7 p.m.
• 25 - Big Bear Sportsman Club Gun Show at Veterans of Foreign Wars, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• 17 - Scottville Fall Celebra tion at Downtown Scottville, 12-5 p.m.
• 10-11 - West Michigan Fun Fly at Baldwin RC Park, Sat urday at 10 a.m., Sunday at 5 p.m.
• 23-24 - Octoberfest in Downtown Ludington, pre sented by Bell’s Brewery and Ludington Bay Brewing Company.
• 29 - Run for Your Lives 5K/10K race at Legacy Pla za, 9-11 a.m.
• 17 - Harvest Moon Festival in Downtown Grant, festivi ties begin and end through out the entire day.
• 29 - Barrel Aged Brewfest at Iron Fish Distillery, 1-5 p.m.
• 30 - Sweet Tea Trio at Dog wood Center for Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m. sept neWaygo County
• 10-13 Peter and the Starcatcher play at West Shore Community College Center Stage Theater nov
•8 - Annual Halloween Bash and Chili Cookoff at D Bar D Ranch, starts at noon.
• 15-16 - REO Speedwagon at Little River Casino Resort, 8 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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• 23-25 - Mom & Me Week end at Camp Henry, event starts at 7 p.m. Friday and ends at 11 a.m. Sunday.
• 17 - Lumberjack Day & Lumberjack Breakfast at Historic White Pine Village, 10 a.m. to noon.
• 8 - Rusty Fish Bike Race at Manistee National Golf & Re sort, starts at 8 a.m. Kids are welcome to participate.
• 17 - Hops & Props on the River in Manistee, Century Boat Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and tasting event from 1-6 p.m.
• 9-18 - Luther Love & Hiking Date for Couples (Self-Guided) at Silver Creek State Forest Campground, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 28 - Boos, Brews & Brats Zombie 5K race starting at noon.
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• 17 Big Cup Golf Tournament at Manistee Golf & Country Club starting at 9 a.m.
• 22-30 - Manhattan Short Film Festival at Ludington Area Center for the Arts sept oCt oCt oCt sept sept lake County Mason County ManIstee County
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• 15 - Run for Camp 5K Trail Run & Walk at Camp Henry, 10 a.m. to noon.• 15 - River Coun try BOOO-ze Cruise through Newaygo County, noon to 6 p.m.
• 22 - Harvest Day, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Pentwater Village Green.
• 8 - Pumpkinfest in Downtown Montague, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• 30-Oct. 2 - Fall Festival at the Muskegon County Fair grounds, daily activities in clude: Flea Market, Arts & Crafts, Food Vendors, Out door Games, Costume Contest, Trick-or-Treating, Carnival Rides, Hay Rides, Pony Rides, Pumpkin Decorating, and a Haunted Attraction.
• 26 - Swan Lake ballet perfor mance at The Frauenthal Cen ter, starts at 7 p.m.
• 26 - Santa on the Green, 5 p.m., Pentwater Village Green, Pentwater.
• 22 - Beanies, Brunch and Brews: A celebration benefit ing the Harbor Hospice Foun dation at Pigeon Hill Brewing Company, noon to 3 p.m.
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• 13 - Glenn Miller Orchestra at Dogwood Center for Perform ing Arts, 7:30 p.m.
• 12- Super Saturday at Mus kegon Museum of Art, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m – free admission. Please visit each county’s chamber of commerce or visitor’s bureau for more events and information.
• 18 - Benny Benack III, 7:30 p.m., Hart Community Per forming Arts Series.
• 23 - Yellow Room Gang, 7:30 p.m., Hart Community Per forming Arts Series.
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• 28 - Galvin Cello Quartet, 7:30 p.m., Hart Community Per forming Arts Series
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• 31 - Trunk or Treat at Rice Lake Baptist Church, 6-8 p.m.
• 29 - Pentwater Spooktacu lar, noon, Pentwater Village Green.
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• 29 - Fifth Saturday free breakfast, 9-10 a.m., Shelby Congregational Church, 51 E. Third St., Shelby.
• 1 - Shelby Fall Festival, down town Shelby.
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• 1 Candle Making & Wine So cial at McGraft Park, 1-10 p.m.
• 28-29 - Dreamscape The atrical Halloween Party at Muskegon Women’s Club His torical Landmark, each night begins at 7 p.m.
• 24-25 - Pentwater Fall Fest, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.
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• 8 - Pentwater Oktoberfest; activities include classic car show, Stout Stumble 5K Walk and & Run, live music, season al beverages, yard games, food truck and more.
• 26 - Trunk-or-Treat Hosted by Muskegon 4-H and JCI Greater Muskegon, 6-7:30 p.m.
Set Sail For fall weather
By ANDY ROBERTS Boating season in Michigan is typically limited to summer months, for obvious reasons: weather and time. Any boat owners with school-age children, or with jobs that get busier during the academic year, are strapped for time, and of course you never know what fall weather will bring in the Great Lakes State.
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“You’ve got all the leaves changing up and down the coast of Michigan,” said Blake Mikula, an employee at the Manistee Municipal Marina. “That’s probably one of the most beautiful times of the year. You have the gor geous sunsets over the water. The sun sets in Manistee in the middle west. Not northwest or southwest, just dead west. You can look one way over the lake and see the leaves changing colors, and look the other way and see the sunset.”
The Hometown Life magazine reported in 2019 that the number was more like 100 per year nationally, and at the time only 49 Michiganders were reported to have ever done it, with a couple dozen more in progress.
One common sight for marina employees during the fall is adventurous boaters attempting to complete the Great Loop. Boaters have pulled into Michigan marinas - both Ludington and Manistee’s marinas reported see ing travelers doing so - over the past couple of weeks while completing the famous loop, an over 5,000-mile trip around the Atlantic seaboard that takes months or even a year to complete. It goes without saying that the pool of folks who can take the time necessary to ac complish the feat is limited; about 150 people per year complete the loop, according to DiscoverBoating.com.
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Because of weather patterns, the Lake Michigan por tion of the Loop is often completed during the sum mer or early fall months. From Lake Michigan, boaters travel down the Mississippi River into the Gulf Coast before sailing around Florida during the winter months, then heading back north up the Atlantic coast. Starting points, of course, can vary based on the boater’s resi dence, or personal preference in some cases.
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“The pleasure boaters on the lake all summer, that dies down quite a bit because they have kids going to college or to school,” Ludington’s Harbor View Marina harbormaster Jim Christensen said. However, if it’s feasible, the benefits of visiting the wa ter in the fall are easy to see - in some cases, literally so.
“We’ve had some pretty bad wind all summer,” Mi kula added. “Over Lake Michigan it’s pretty bad. If they were able to get through the storms we’ve had the last couple of weeks, I think they’d be fine in the fall. I wouldn’t see a problem until it starts dropping below 50 or 55 degrees.”
“As of right now, we’re completely full on slips for Labor Day,” Mikula said. “The next two weekends af ter that, we’re still full. We’re surprised at how busy it’s looking this year. I think a lot of people are get ting a lot more comfortable after the pandemic, and gas prices are starting to drop, and people are get ting out and going places.
“Right around this time and into early to mid-Sep tember, we have a lot of people come up. Manistee, Onekama, Frankfort, they get quite a bit of volume.” Where there is a lack of traffic, of course, that could actually be a selling point. Not everyone is the same, but boaters preferring a more quiet destina tion isn’t exactly uncommon.
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“This year’s been a windy summer overall, more than normal, for whatever you can call normal any more, but in the fall you start getting a lot of wind,” Seng’s Marina manager Larry Scherich said. “It’ll blow out of the south one day, then back from the north. People aren’t able to make it to their destina tions when they figured they would.”
attempting or having completed the Loop. The America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association (great loop.org) offers membership which includes various benefits, among them a burgee to fly on the boat. It’s traditional for those making their first loop to fly white burgees, those who have completed it to fly gold ones and those who have done it more than once to fly platinum ones. Of course, completing the loop, or just boating in general, isn’t as easy as just putting the boat in the water and cutting loose - you have to know how to handle your watercraft, and especially so in the fall, when the winds tend to be stiffer and the water less calm.“It’s not uncommon for these Loopers to come in intending to stay a day or a week and they end up taking off (early) because the wind plays a factor,” Christensen said. For those contemplating a boat trip this fall, this summer served as a warm-up for those difficul ties. Several marina employees and harbormasters pointed out that it was more windy than normal the last couple of months.
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Boat traffic obviously drops at marinas around northern Michigan after Labor Day weekend, but rest assured you’re not alone if you do venture out. And locals are no strangers to hitting the water in the fall too, maybe this year more than most.
“As far as Manistee, our hours are obviously shorter in the fall and we’re not staffed as much, but I think
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One draw of the water in the fall is the fishing. The sport is another summer staple, but hardcore anglers know salmon fishing season kicks in early in September and lasts well into October. With traf fic being light during that time, especially on week days, avid fishermen can bring in hefty catches.
“The shoulder seasons, like any tourist commu nity, the town slows down a bit, the restaurants are a bit more available, and the town is a bit more available,” Christensen said. “There’s less conges tion.”Boating can be a tight-knit community, especial ly in the small towns like Pentwater, and going out in the fall when the tourists have largely returned to their lives can be a great experience for local residents.“It’sso fun and enjoyable when we’re heading out to the channel and three to five other sailboats are going out because it’s a perfect day,” Pentwater boat owner Kathleen Hamilton said this summer. “You see five or six other boats. We had our last sail of last year in late October.”
Fishing, travel, whatever it is bringing them, ma rina workers enjoy having the chance to welcome boaters to Michigan in the fall. “We definitely have a lot more fishing boats every weekend, but during the week we have a variety of big boats,” Mikula said. “I’ll tell you what, I’ve met some of the coolest and most interesting people in my life in this job because they’re all over the country in boats. It’s pretty cool.”
for folks who like to get away from the rush, we have people that come in Monday thru Thursday and actually leave to avoid the rush,” Mikula said. “People will take advantage of good weather days in the fall. You can come in to get a slip and not wait an hour and a half for a table (at a restaurant).”
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“The salmon fishing is phenomenal right now, so both marinas are filled now with that,” Christensen said.“Pentwater is an awesome place to be able to do this activity,” said Dean Jessup, president of the Pentwater Sportfishing Association. “It’s reason able, pretty good fishing here. It’s (got) one of the better catch rate ports on this side of Lake Michi gan...It’s not a big busy (place). We try to fish mid week instead of on weekends. You might find three to five boats out there and we know who they are. If anyone’s got a problem, you know them and you’ve known them for years, so you know how to help. It’s a close-knit group.”
Pentwater, in Oceana County, is a big outpost for boats in Michigan, and it draws rave reviews for its quiet and slow-paced nature even amidst heavy summer traffic - so when the fall rolls around, it lives up to that billing even more so.
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But Ford’s short saunter through the rooms of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. has been remembered, by many his torians, as a calming influence during one of the most turbulent times in American history – Watergate.
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Born Leslie Lynch King in Omaha, Neb., in 1913, the youngster’s mother divorced and remarried Gerald R. Ford. Leslie would take his stepfather’s name. Though the museum has a changing circulation of exhibits – it recently hosted artwork of the Sistine Cha pel painted by Michelangelo – two exhibits that remain constant are its Oval Office and Cabinet Room. Both are full-size replicas – carbon copies of their originals –and present an enlightening experience of what it must have been like to work in the two most famous rooms in America, if not all the world.
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Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum has Manistee personal connection
By DAVID L. BARBER I n your West Michigan Travels, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum is one place you’ll want to put on your bucket list of places to visit.
Filled with personal and professional paraphernalia of the 38th president – Ford grew up in Grand Rapids –the museum offers insight into one the most calm and controversial leaders who ever took up residence in the WhiteNeverHouse.elected president, nor vice-president, Ford was the benefactor of the misdeeds of others who were forced to walk away from those positions – Spiro Agnew as vice-president, and Richard Nixon as president.
The Oval Office – the desk where President Ford sat –is engaging and educational. To stand at the room’s pe rimeter and look from the left to right, allows a visitor’s mind to wander, and wonder, what it might have been like for the Boy Scout, University of Michigan standout football player, World War II veteran, and select mem
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids houses a fascinating look at the 38th president’s life. • Jeanne Barber
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But had it not been for the “I’m not a crook” she nanigans orchestrated by his predecessor, Nixon, Ford likely would have simply served out his public life/political career as a Michigan Congressman. And he’d have been happy.
ber of the Kennedy assassination Warren Commis sion, to be called on to serve in what many say is the toughest and most important job in the world.
But history is what it is and at the Gerald R. Ford Museum, history celebrates the life and legacy of a true Michigan man who was born in the Corn Belt of the Midwest, as a man who became president but who never sought that lofty perch, and as a man who was unafraid to pardon his predecessor of his crimes “for the good of our country,” knowing full well that likely would torpedo his own political fu ture.So, why did he do it? Quite simply, he said, he didn’t want a trial of the disgraced and former president to overshadow more important issues of the day. A trial and continued media scrutiny, said Ford, “... could go on and on … someone must write the end to it. I have concluded that only I can do that, and if I can, I must.”
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And so, Ford ended “the long national nightmare,” and when he did, he also ended his own political well-being.Yetthefact remains that for two years, Gerald R. Ford was president. You’ll learn all about the Watergate scandal at the museum. You’ll revisit the issues of the day – the energy crisis, the emotional and controversial way Vietnamese refugees were treated, and more. You’ll step back in time to when America got all giddy over its Bicentennial. You’ll see official documents signed by Ford, cherished family pictures, official presiden tial portraits, and more. And whether you visit going in, or upon leaving, you’ll stand at the burial site of a likable person who his family and friends called, “Jerry.” The burial sites of President Ford and his wife, Elizabeth “Betty”, are located between the museum and the river, and is an emotional experience all its own.
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Born in Manistee in 1946 to Lutheran minister E.A. Hes sler and his wife, Ruth, Downton served on Ford’s personal staff for 14 years. She attended schools in Manistee with her four brothers, until her family moved away in 1959. She then attended Davenport College of Business in Grand Rapids, and eventually began work as a stenographer for theTheFBI.Manistee native said she remembered her former Oval Office boss for being methodical in the way he did things, for eating cottage cheese and ketchup every day, and for his “very strong work ethic.”
When the ship set to sea five years ago, former Manistee native Dorothy Downton told Shoreline Media “... it’s defi nitely a great honor (having the ship named after President Ford). I think (Mr. Ford) would have enjoyed it, very much.”
If anyone should know that, it should be her. Downton served as Ford’s personal secretary when he was a Michi gan Congressman, when he was vice president of the United States, and when he was president.
Admission into the museum is $15 for adults, $13 for se nior citizens and military service members, $12 for college students with ID, $9 for youth ages 6-18, free for children under the age of 5; free parking; located at 303 Pearl St. NW, Grand Rapids; telephone 616 254-0400; fordlibrary museum.gov; nearby attractions: Frederik Meijer Gardens; John Ball Zoo.
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Healthy living never tasted so good as biting into an apple. And another apple, left floating in a barrel of water, never delivered so much fun as watching a person –young or old – go bobbing for it. Apples, whatever of their variety – and there’s hun dreds of varieties – have enjoyed a legend and lore that seems to suggest they grow only in magic kingdoms, and are then snatched and shared by and for the mass es,Buteverywhere.really,isthere anything better than plucking a red, ripe apple from a limb in the autumn of the year, and crunching into its teasing, tasty treasure.
Johnny Appleseed sure knew how tasty apples are. And talk about promoting good health: one serving –or one medium-sized apple – provides about 95 calo ries, 0 grams of fat, 1 gram of protein, 25 grams of car bohydrate, 19 grams of sugar (naturally occurring), and 3 grams of fiber. Of the bountiful bushes of apple varieties there are to choose from, the most popular continue to be Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, McIntosh, Granny Smith, Jona than, Yellow Newton, Rome Beauty, Fuji, Honey Crisps and Gala. Of course, that subjective list is subject to de bate and perhaps, even a bit of ridicule. How best to consume apples is open for debate, too. Raw, right off the tree? Diced and dropped into pies? Squashed and stirred into sauces. Squeezed and stirred into cider and wine? Baked and wreathed into cake do nuts? Dipped into caramel? The list of possibilities goes on and Sweeton.and delicate, apples enjoy a broad range in flavor and texture. And though we’re used to stuffing our lunchbox with Galas and Honeycrisp, and grabbing Granny Smith and McIntosh for pies, crisps, and baked goods, there are so many types of apples to try during the fall Whilemonths.apples remain a four-season delicacy no matter how you devour them, there’s no doubt they make their way to the top of the “Gotta’ Have” lists in the autumn, during the many fall harvests and festivals. Biting into a crisp apple that’s been touched by the chill of fall is as
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good as it gets, no matter its variety.
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Of course, apples aren’t the only food source to be harvested in the late summer or early fall, and enjoyed all year long thanks to the art – and science – of can ning. Other early fall harvests include peaches, pears and grapes. And just as apples deliver outstanding nutri tional value one bite at a time, so do peaches and pears.
“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.” – Bill Meyer
Tasty? You bet. But they’re downright healthy, too. Study after study has shown apples help to lower the risks of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and stymie other health hazards.
“Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.” – Robert H. “ItSchullerisremarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.” – Henry David Tho reau“Everybody’s 12 years old in an apple orchard.” – Ra chel Ray “A bruised apple is not all bad. It still has tremendous potential.” – Seth Adam Smith
One raw medium peach has 50 calories, 0.5 grams of fat, 0 grams of cholesterol and sodium, 15 grams of car bohydrate, 13 grams of sugar, 2 grams of fiber, 1 gram of protein, while providing 6 percent of a person’s daily vitamin A needs and 15 percent of their daily vitamin C needs; while each pear delivers 21 percent daily value for fiber, 8 percent vitamin C, 4 percent potassium, and a whole host of health benefits. In fact, pears rank higher than almost any fruit when it comes to dietary fiber, with 6 grams or 21 percent daily value in just one pear. And there’s so much more daily nutrition just waiting to be shared by Mother Earth.
Lettuce, beets, green beans, onions, spinach, brussel sprouts, mustard, beets, parsnips, carrots, radishes, tur nips, cabbage, winterbor kale, broccoli, collard greens, snow peas and rutabagas are just a few of the healthy living crops that can be plucked, picked and preserved for future meals. All are grown in backyards, and across large-scale farming production fields.
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“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first of September was crisp as an apple, and as the little family bobbed across the rumbling road towards the great sooty station, the fumes of the car ex hausts and the breath of pedestrians sparkled like cob webs in the cold air.” – J.K. Rowling
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And since the beginning of time, apples have long been the subject of pundits and philosophers: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” – Everybody
“We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked, why?” – Bernard Baruch
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Corn? More and more corn fields are being cut and carved into intricate large scale mazes to challenge those who seek fun and adventure. There are things you want to carry with you when you enter a corn maze: a cell phone for when you get lost – and you will get lost – and a compass in case your cell phone dies. Corn stalks are also gathered from the field, tied to gether, and placed around homes, fences, lamp posts to celebrate the fall harvest, and Halloween season. And pumpkins? What can you say about pumpkins?
And nothing promotes healthy living more than practic ing common sense safety, even when carving a pumpkin.
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Carve your pumpkin with its top on: Hold the top of the pumpkin to stabilize it and cut with your carving instru ment’s blade pointing down. Instead of removing the top of the pumpkin to scoop out the insides, cut a hole in the bottom. If you’re using a candle inside your pumpkin, you can then place the carved pumpkin on top of the lit can dle, rather than awkwardly reaching inside the pumpkin to light the candle. Keep things clean, dry and bright: Work in a clean, dry, and well-lit area, keeping your hands and tools clean and dry, and take your time. Don’t let kids carve: Children 14 and younger should not do the actual carving. Instead, for pumpkin carving safety, have them draw the pattern with a marker and clean out the pulp and seeds with their hands or a spoon, but make sure an adult does the actual cutting.
Besides, not only do they make good side dishes and treats – pies, cookies and even the seeds, themselves, can be seasoned, roasted and eaten like popcorn – but they also make for imaginative, ghoulish Jack O’Lanterns. And yes, carving Jack O’Lanterns out of pumpkins and other gourds big and small is, in itself, a form of healthy living in that it challenges your thought process, handeye coordination, and artistic and creativity capabilities, or lack thereof. And while it’s not on the cutting edge of creating a time-honored Jack O’Lantern, you can always hand paint them, which, in the last several years, has become more and more popular for safety reasons, especially when children are involved. In regards to being safety conscious when it comes to carving Jack O’Lanterns from pumpkins, Consumer Re ports shared this advice: Use the right tools: Instead of the knives in your kitchen, use the specialty tools in a pumpkin-carving kit – read ily found online and in convenience stores and designed for pumpkin-carving safety. These tools can saw through rinds, poke holes, and scoop out innards without being razor-sharp. The instruments are also generally small, which makes them easier to control than most knives and easier to use when making intricate cuts.
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A GAME FOR THE AGES
As ageless as it may seem – its roots were planted in It aly 700 years ago about the time Ferdinand Magellan was making waves, Michelangelo was painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and a juvenile jurassic Keith Richards was rolling stones inside his first guitar – Bingo remains as young as the old folks who play it, and as old as the inner child inside each of ‘em.
The game offers a socially-satisfying opportunity for young and old alike to gather around cardtables and dining room tables, in churches and schools, in civic clubs and vet erans clubs, in service centers and senior centers, and more.
Bingo still going strong at many Lakestyle locations
Rosie, who worked at J.C.Penney in Manistee for many years, recalls their endless summer rides on that large Hon da – they would talk with each other over wireless micro phones and headphones – rides that often took them to one local Bingo hall, or another “that was just down the road.”
“My hubby and I would go everywhere to play it, some times a couple times a week. We’d play at the V.F.W. here in Manistee. We’d go to Pentwater and Scottville, and some times we’d even go down to Muskegon. We’d just get up and go.”Rosie’s husband, Ken, who retired as a city police officer after serving 30 years, passed away in 2009. More often than not, whenever he and Rosie hit the road to play Bingo – or for any other reason, for that matter – they did so on Ken’s motorcycle.“Mything, and my hubby’s thing, was to get out of the house and be around people – Bingo was good for that,” Rosie said with a youthful chuckle. “I remember how im pressed he was – and how he joked – when I turned 70 and he said, ‘look, you can still lift your leg to ride a bike.’ He was so proud of me.”
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Being on the open road like that with her husband, laugh ing, talking, and just going to sit and visit with others was something she’s always cherished. “Bingo was good for that,” said Rosie. “It was always fun –never serious – just fun.”
In regards to the latter, the game is played for free every Wednesday in the Dr. George Frederick and Beverly Jane Wagoner Community Center in Manistee, which is located in the massive former St. Mary’s of Mount Carmel Catholic Church on the city’s northside. “I used to go (play Bingo), all the time,” said 84-year-old Rosie Turk of Manistee. “I still play here. It’s a great game, always fun, and I just enjoy the people.
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Pausing, he added, “... but, I do have fun – everybody has fun.”At the Knights of Columbus Mary Queen of Peace Council #2199 hall in downtown Hart, Bingo is played on most Friday
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“Everybody knows everybody,” she said. “Everybody has a good Nancytime.”Fortin, who serves as the facility’s maintenance su pervisor and coordinates the center’s weekly Bingo games, said she and her co-workers make sure everyone goes home a winner.
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“We call it ‘Fun Bingo’ because everybody wins,” said Nan cy. “Everybody wins, everybody walks away with five prizes. We have people who show up really early, though it doesn’t start until 11 a.m. They just like to sit (and socialize).”
While prizes are mostly canned and boxed foods, the center’s weekly Bingo games take on a fresher taste once a month when Produce Bingo is played. That’s when fresh corn, cucumbers, celery, blueberries, strawberries and other freshly-picked garden items are given as prizes.
“This last Produce Bingo we had somewhere around 84 (show up),” said Nancy. “Our regular Fun Bingo we’ll have be tween 64 and 69, or so. We also do a 50/50 drawing and usually have a celebrity (number) caller.”
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And though she’s a bit frail these days and with the help of others, she still gets out of the house whenever she can, to go be surrounded by her friends at the Manistee Senior Center on Bingo Wednesdays.
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Of the Bingo halls that remain in the six-county LakeStyle area – many have disappeared like last year’s pile of leaves –few have enjoyed a history like the Danish Brotherhood Hall #51 in Ludington. As the pages of the calendar are turned, the hall – located in the 4th Ward on the city’s southside – is technically three centuries old. The Brotherhood purchased the building in the curtain-closing years of the 19th century, continued operation throughout the 20th century, and goes on today well into the 21st century. To say the Brotherhood has been passed on from generation to generation to generation is an understatement.Today,Bingois played for cash prizes on Thursday eve nings in the Brotherhood’s building, which in the 19th cen tury was a church. Cash prize Bingo typically carries with it a playing charge. “This is about an average-sized crowd,” game worker Pam Anes said as she looked out over the more than three dozen players who had gathered with tenfold the number of Bingo cards spread out in front of them. “People come out to play, but to see each other, too – to visit. We’re the last one (Bin go hall) left in the county. Kind of sad. And we’re just one of three Danish Brotherhoods left in the state, the others are in Detroit and Greenville.” Dan Jankowski, who has been calling numbers at the Brotherhood for several years, smiled – and then laughed – when he recalled how he “got roped” into becoming in volved with the weekly gathering.
“Well, I tell people that I came in here one night and ‘got roped’ into doing this,” he said with a Cheshire Cat smile, “and I haven’t been able to get out of it, ever since.”
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“We organize a spelling bee once a year and our spell ers from Hart actually went to state and won state the last two years, so we’d like to think we’re doing some good there. We do poster contests, basketball free throws and similar (things).”Onerecent study suggested the average age of a Bingo player is in his or her mid-50s, with just over 70 percent being female. The vast majority of Bingo players are of retirement age.Bingo, a game in which card-toting participants have no teammates, no coaches, and no way to bend the rules in their favor, is a game that requires little to no skill – just listen to the game’s host call out a number and then check that number off on the card. Most games these days are played with disposable, one-time-use cards on which players use markers to check off numbers that have been called. It is a game that practically everyone knows how to play, but not all know its originals and legends. For instance, the five letters and 75 numbers that make up the American version of Bingo – the Brits and others around the queen’s kingdom play with 90 numbers; crazy, huh? –have nicknames, including but not limited to: Mexican & Hart 231-873-4069
32 • Fall 2022 • LakeStyle Magazine nights, with the first Friday of the month being potluck sup per night, too. “We have Bingo roughly three times a month, sometimes four times a month,” said Deputy Grand Knight and co-Bingo chairperson Nathan Kroon. “It’s always on Friday nights. On the first night of the month we have a potluck, they’re great. Just about everybody (brings something).
“Way back in the day – in the ‘70s – I was told that we’d have over a hundred people every week. But these days it’s a bit smaller, I’d say between 20 and 30, though before CO VID it was between 40 and 50.”
Kroon said those who attend are “... the same faces, often, but we do seem to get one or two new faces every time.” He added that Bingo players do not have to be a member of the Knights of Columbus to play. “My understanding is we do not have the oldest Bingo li cense in the state, it’s nearly the oldest,” he said. “Our chapter opened in 1920 and we’ve been doing Bingo for a very long time. We had one lady and her mother come up from South Haven because they liked the variety of games that we have. We have hard card games and paper games – lots of differ ent“Wegames.have cash prizes, and at Thanksgiving we do Turkey Bingo to help raise money for Coats for Kids. Our proceeds, of course, go to charity.” The Knights of Columbus will host Bingo from 5-11:30 p.m. for the rest of this year on the following dates: Sept. 23; Oct. 7, 14 and 21; Nov. 4, 11 and 18; and Dec. 2, 9 and 16. Their 2023 schedule includes the first three Fridays of January and Feb ruary, and continues all year long. “It is a nice social gathering,” Kroon said of Bingo night in Hart. “Everyone is welcome. We’re there to have fun, and also to support charitable causes. Our primary charity is Coats for Kids, and we were able to purchase 120 to give out to kids right here in the local Hart area, mostly to migrant families, but everyone was welcome.
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So far, everyone has jokingly followed that rule as written, except one sweet, soft-talking lady who not so long ago re fused to say, “I have B.O.,” not even in a joking manner. Rather, she steadfastly yelled “Bingo.” Finally, after a bit of podding, she relented. “I have B.O.,” she said, laughing. And everyone else laughed, too.
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Meanwhile, back in the senior center in Manistee, there’s a fun and funny game they play called “B.O. Bingo.” Play ers are instructed to mark off just those numbers that have been called in the B and O columns on their Bingo cards, and, once they get those two columns filled, they must call out “I have B.O,” which generates plenty of hearty chuckles. Anyone who yells out “Bingo” is reminded that’s a no-no, and they are further reminded they must shout, “I have B.O.”
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B-1 is nicknamed Kelly’s Eye. B-15 is Young and Keen. I-18 is Coming of Age. I-30 is Dirty Gertie. N-42 is Winnie the Pooh. N-44 is Droopy Drawers. (Let’s be honest, who wants to call out Bingo to Droopy Drawers?) G-46 is Up to Tricks. G-55 is Snakes Alive. O-65 is Old Age Pension. O-66 is Clickety Click. Cards measure five squares horizontally, by five squares vertically. The middle square is without a letter and number and is considered a “free” space. By the way, a player who gets a Bingo without using the middle free square is said to have gotten it the “Hard Way.” Once the required squares are checked off – five across horizontally, five up and down vertically, five diagonally, or in accordance to whatever special game is being played and as their names suggest: Full Card, Frame, Four Corners, Outer Edge, Multiple Rows, Letter Pattern (W, Z, E, L and X), and more – the winning player calls out “Bingo.”
Sofas, beds, tables, desks, accessories and so much morecurated perfectly to work together.
There’s even a term or two for a person who calls out “Bingo,” prematurely. The first term is that player just com mitted a “Social Error,” while the second term is that person was caught “Jumping the Gun.” Legend has it that in Early America when the game was being introduced in one town, and then another, it was played with beans instead of chips. When a person placed a winning bean while at a traveling carnival near Atlanta, he yelled out “Beano,” which supposedly was the name of the game at that time. However, a New York toy salesman who was in the au dience thought the player shouted “Bingo” and thus, the game was renamed, and reborn. Or so the story goes.
Interesting tidbit, the most chips a person can place on his or her card without having a Bingo is 19, not counting the middle free space. And, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the most players to take part in one game of Bingo totalled 70,080, and was played in Bogota, Columbia, in 2006. That also might be the record for the most groans and curse words shouted out at one time, too.
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One thing is for sure in western and northern Mich igan, winterizing your home is not a one-day and get-it-done job, but is something that can take sev eral days to accomplish, if not several weeks. That said and according to various internet pub lic domain sources, simply-stated tips for winteriz ing your home, garage, garden and lawn, motorized garden vehicles, include: Lawn mower and similar engine-driven devices: Empty the gas tank; disconnect the spark plug; re move the blade, clean and sharpen it; drain the oil; clean the undercarriage; change the air filter; re place the spark plug; and stow away all combustible liquids in proper, safe containers.
‘Tis the season to batten down the hatches in the Mitten State, or at least move that sea sonal chore to the top of the To Do List. At a time when sunsets arrive earlier and earlier, and sunrises arrive later and later, and some days – too many days – seem to disappear altogether behind the sun-gone days of fall and winter, this IS the season for winterizing your home, garage, yards, bushes and more.
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but it’s time to prepare for the inevitable – winter
By DAVID L. BARBER
Summer vacation cabin: Check your furnace and make sure it’s either shut down, or placed at a low enough temperature so not to waste energy, yet
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It is a time to stretch that protective plastic over your windows, store away your cache of yard and garden tools – hoses, rakes and such – winterize lawn mowers, rototillers and other motorized essen tials that are used primarily in the spring and sum mer – everything, of course, except the muscle and stress-relieving snowblower. Yep, it’s probably even time to start thinking of bringing that trusty machine – your snowblower –out of mothballs ‘cause you just never know when Mother Nature will play an early-season joke and spread a couple inches – if not a couple feet – of snow across your driveway. So, we have that to look forward to.
Clean out all the weeds; protect your new garden beds; plant your bulbs; give your plants one last drink, and then turn the water off; put a winter jacket on your trees, shrubs, and rose bushes; dig up your tender plants.
Pool: Remove pool accessories; deep clean the pool; adjust the water chemistry; lower the water level; drain and store the equipment; add shock and algaecide; cover the pool.
There are an endless number of websites and other sources found at various businesses, librar ies, and the such, that delve into more details on how to accomplish the above winterizing sugges tions. One particular thorough reference is State Farm, which shared the following information: Winterizing – from climates that expect snow and below-freezing temps for months to regions that experience a cooling off and unpredictable precipitation – can help make sure your home is ready for the season. The comforts of a cozy, warm home in winter can help you forget about the short days and the multiple layers of clothing. These tips can help you weather the winter season: Have your furnace inspected. Since your heat ing system will probably be running constantly throughout the winter, you should have it inspect ed annually to help it run efficiently and prevent CO from entering your home. Also remember to change out your HVAC filters every month. Inspect the insulation in your attic and crawlspac es. Warm air rises and leaves the house through the roof, so you should focus on insulation in your ceilings. Insulating the crawlspaces will help keep your floors warm. Seal areas around recessed lights, the attic hatch and plumbing vents that may be allowing warm air from the living space below to enter the attic. Allow for ventilation. Proper attic ventilation, ad
keep pipes from freezing; winterize plumbing by wrapping exposed pipes; make sure your septic system is functioning; seal windows and doors from air leaks; make sure appliances are shut down and put in a secure mode; remove all objects and family heirlooms and take them with you; and, lock the door when you leave (yes, failure to do that happens more often than one might think).
Raised garden bed: Clean out your raised bed, pull out weeds, clean up dead plant material and remove sick plants; refill soil as necessary, if your soil level seems low, add some to reach your de sired level; add a protective layer; take good care for the structure and make repairs as needed; it is important to cover your raised beds to prevent both erosion and weeds and weed seeds from coming in over winter; if leaves, grass clippings or straw are not available, cover your beds with a tarp orGarden:plastic.
Use window sheet kits. If you don’t have doublepaned or storm windows pick up a plastic-film sheet kit from your local hardware store. These will only last one season, but they do help with energy efficiency and are able to halt the cold flow of win ter
If you plan to use it, schedule an inspection and service by a professional to make sure your chimney is clear of debris and that your damper opens, closes and seals tightly.
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equate attic insulation and a tight air barrier be tween the attic and the interior of the house will work together to prevent ice dams.
Insulate pipes. Pipes located in attics, crawl spaces, basements and near outer walls can be susceptible to freezing in extreme temperatures. Insulate to help prevent your pipes from freezing. When the forecast calls for unusually cold tem peratures, let water drip from hot and cold faucets overnight, keep cabinet doors open to allow warm air to circulate in places like below sinks, and if you open the cabinet doors, be sure to remove any thing inside the cabinets that may pose a safety to hazard to children, such as household cleaners. Consult your local utility company about an en ergy assessment to determine where your home is losing energy and what energy-smart investments would make sense.
Smart home apps and amenities, such as a smart thermostat, can help you integrate winter man agement of your home into your everyday routine, helping you to trim energy costs and keep your home cozy too. Winterizing can help you enjoy in door days, knowing you’ve done what you can to protect your living space through the season and aid in the overall maintenance and longevity of yourEvenhome.with the cold weather conditions, your yard still needs to be maintained as well as ensuring your home is winterized. Tool checkup. Make sure your snow shovels are free from cracks. Schedule the annual tune-up for your snow Winterizeblower.outdoor faucets. Remove all hoses or devices attached to outdoor spigots. Be sure to drain any water left behind in the pipes. Have inground sprinkler systems blown out and turn off water to the outdoor spigots. Outdoor furniture. Wash upholstery and frames. In northern climates, store both furniture and cush ions in a covered spot free from moisture. Install storm windows and doors. Storm windows and doors add a layer of protection to your home
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and help increase their energy efficiency. Clear any landscape debris and waste. Remove any debris or branches from around the HVAC unit, gas meters, away from basement windows and your dryer exhaust vent. Cut back dead or dying limbs and any branches that can touch the roof or siding. When it’s windy, branches can rub or scratch the surfaces of your home and cause damage. They also could fall during a storm or break under heavy snow and ice. Store your firewood in a dry place at least 30 feet from your home to avoid a fire hazard. Visually inspect your roof. Look for any missing or damaged shingles and consult a roof profes sional if needed. Ensure that all gutters are clean and securely attached to help prevent ice dams. Ensure that lights at doors (front, back and ga rage) are functioning. Replace any burned-out bulbs with more efficient LED options. Walk around your house to check the founda tion for small cracks or openings where mice or other pests can tunnel in. Winter is when they seek the warmth of your house, so seal up any possible entrances.Shovelthe snow from the sidewalk and drive way and then follow-up with a de-icing product to prevent slips and falls. Blackouts and snow-ins can occur during win ter months, so take a moment to prepare yourself and your family for such winter emergencies. Hav ing the following items ready will help you make it throughBattery-poweredsafely: flashlights or lanterns and ex traDrinkingbatteries.and/or bottled water.
Nonperishable food items. Keep the pantry stocked: It’s smart to keep your house stocked with groceries all winter long. Should the power go out, you’ll want to have plenty of extra water and nonperishable food that you can prepare without cooking. Extra blankets, sleeping bags and warm winter coats.Phone numbers for your utility companies.
Cell phone and portable charger. Prescription drugs and other medicine. A battery-powered radio, with extra batteries, for listening to local emergency instructions. Battery backup to protect your computer and other important electronic equipment. A first-aid kit. And you can also consider buying a generator. A permanent or portable generator can provide temporary power when and where you need it.
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4. Whisk the egg mixture into the chocolate. Add the flour and the remaining 21⁄2 ounces chocolate to the batter and, using a rubber spatula, mix well. Then mix in the walnuts.
6. Bake on the middle shelf of the oven until the marshmallows are browned and a skewer inserted into the center of the brownie sheet comes out with some batter clinging to it, about 45 minutes. Let cool completely in the pan on a wire rack, then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until cold.
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, preferably Madagascar Bourbon
1⁄3 cup walnut halves, roasted and roughly chopped
1⁄2 teaspoon kosher salt 3 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
What would the fall holiday season be without delicious foods to share with loved ones? In fact, crafting elaborate meals and baking goodies is par for the course once the weather begins to cool and decorations turn up on businesses and homes.
7. Run a table knife around the edge of the pan to loosen the sides of the brownie, and then slide the brownie, still on the paper, onto a work surface. Using a ruler to guide you and a sharp knife, cut into 16 2-inch squares. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to three weeks.
5 1⁄2 ounces 100 percent unsweetened chocolate, coarsely chopped, divided 10 tablespoons (5 ounces) unsalted butter with 82 percent butterfat, cut into 1-inch slices.
6 Tahitian Vanilla Bean Marshmallows, each 1 1⁄2 inches square, cut into quarters (see recipe on following page)
5. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Spread it evenly with a small offset spatula. Scatter the marshmallow pieces evenly over the surface and push them halfway into the batter. The tops should remain uncovered.
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2⁄3 cup (31⁄2 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour
Rocky Recchiuti Brownies Makes 16 brownies
Turn up the oven this fall for the sweet taste of brownies
2. Put 3 ounces of the chocolate and the butter in a medium stainless-steel bowl and set over a pot of simmering water. Heat, stirring occasionally, until the chocolate and butter melt and are fully combined and the mixture is smooth. Lift the bowl from the pot. Set aside.
1 1⁄3 cups granulated cane sugar
1. Preheat the oven to 325 F. Line the bottom of an 8-inch square baking pan with parchment paper and liberally coat the paper and the pan sides with flavorless vegetable oil.
3. Sift the flour and salt together into a bowl. In another bowl, combine the eggs and vanilla extract and whisk together by hand until blended. Whisk in the sugar.
Many people have tried-and-true recipes they rely on each year, but there’s always the possibility to give new tasty tidbits a try. There are so many tantalizing desserts to tickle the tongue, but this recipe for “Rocky Recchiuti Brownies” from “Chocolate Obsession” (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) by Mi chael Recchiuti and Fran Gage yields rich and chewy brownies that no one will be able to resist.
4 egg whites, at room temperature
pan 3 3⁄4
5. When the sugar syrup reaches 250 F, remove it from the heat and stir in the softened gelatin. The syrup will foam up and triple in volume. Switch the mixer to high speed and slowly pour the syrup into the beaten egg whites, aiming for the side of the bowl. The whites will almost double in volume. Reduce the speed to mediumhigh and beat until the whites (not the outside of the bowl) are lukewarm to the touch, about 114 F, about 15 minutes.6.Scrape the marshmallow mixture into the prepared pan and, using a small offset spatula, spread it evenly to the sides. Let cool completely at room temperature.
7. To cut the marshmallows, sift about 1⁄2 cup of the powdered sugar onto a work surface in a rectangle the size of a sheet pan. Sift another 2 cups powdered sugar into a large bowl. Run a thin-bladed knife around the edge of the pan to loosen the marshmallow. Invert the pan onto the sugared surface to unmold, then lift off the pan and peel off the parchment paper. Sift about 1⁄2 cup powdered sugar evenly over the top. Using a ruler to guide you and a lightly oiled sharp knife, cut the marshmallow sheet into 11⁄2-inch squares. It is easier if you use a pressing motion, rather than pull the knife. After cutting, toss the marshmallows, a few at a time, in the bowl of powdered sugar, coating them lightly.
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unflavored gelatin 3 tablespoons water 2 cups
Tahitian Vanilla Bean Marshmallows
Flavorless for the teaspoons granulated cane sugar,
About 3 cups powdered cane sugar for finishing 1. Line the bottom of an 8-by-12-inch sheet pan with parchment paper and lightly coat the paper and the pan sides with flavorless vegetable oil. Put the gelatin in a small bowl. Add the water and stir. Set aside to soften.
1 1⁄2 cups light corn syrup
vegetable oil
3. Meanwhile, put the egg whites in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whip attachment. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean into the bowl.
1 Tahitian vanilla bean, split horizontally
divided into halves
2. Combine 1 cup of the sugar with the corn syrup in a large, heavy-bottomed pot. Use an unlined copper pot if you have one. Place over medium heat and cook, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon, until the sugar melts. Then continue to cook, without stirring, until the mixture reaches 230 F on a candy thermometer. If any crystals form on the sides of the pan and the mixture heats, wash them down with a wet pastry brush.
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4. When the sugar syrup reaches 240 F, start to beat the egg whites on medium speed. When the whites form very soft peaks, add the remaining 1 cup sugar and continue beating.
About 40 marshmallows
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Finding the right spot to photograph is somewhat a personal choice: rural farm or wild woods? City street or backwoods stream?
Picking the right scene in the right lighting is far more important than what camera you are using. All things equal, the better the phone or equipment, the better the photo may be – once you get the scene, the lighting, the composition right.
It’s time to paddle a kayak through wild rice beds lis tening and looking for the waterfowl gathering within. Be careful, though. It’s also time for waterfowl hunting season. Don’t go too early in the morning as hunters could be out shooting at ducks on the wing.
Pretty as a Picture
Another important consideration: Lighting matters. It’s often the difference between a memorable photo that draws you in or a cast-off that later leaves you wondering “Why did I photograph that?”
It’s time to look for majestic whitetail bucks snorting in the cool of the morning.
The most colorful season of the year is near: Au tumn. It’s my favorite season. But I say that about each season in turn. Still, there is much about autumn to like: crisp air, cider and doughnuts, Friday night football and espe cially fall color. It’s Kodachrome season – even if we’ve gone digital in modern photography.
It’s time to take back roads to seek farm fields framed by colorful woods suitable for framing in a photograph.It’stimeto walk in the woods, sneak out to quiet streams, ponds and lakeshore and soak in the kalei doscope of color, perhaps reflecting on still water.
The right light might be in the morning or late after noon. Or, on a day with broken clouds or overcast con ditions, it might be when there is enough brightness to capture an image. The “perfect day” might be one with those broken clouds that allow light to filter through sometimes in dramatic fashion. It might be a misty day that adds brilliance to the color the leaves are showing. I used to love to shoot Kodachrome on a wet fall day. The reds were so Today’srich.digital sensors are less finicky than Koda chrome, but paying attention to exposure makes a major difference. If using a cell phone, use the lightadjusting feature on most that allows you to touch dif ferent parts of the screen to have the phone’s camera adjust the lighting to the spot touched. Try several different touches to find which one portrays what it is that caught your attention.
Even if shooting in one of the program modes on a DSLR-type traditional camera, play with the exposure compensation dial that allows you to add or subtract exposure time in increments. It may help you capture what you see – which can be different than what the camera’s brain sees. Fall frost also can make for great photos. Get up ear
It’s time for a road trip to marvel at fields of pump kins and squash ripened and ready for harvest for Hal loween and Thanksgiving soon to come.
A large panoramic view or a tight, telephoto detail.
By STEVE BEGNOCHE Columnist
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Cell phone cameras keep getting better. The new est ones feature more than one camera so a person can have a choice of making a wide angle or telephoto image. Some, have a night mode capable of capturing the night sky in ways that boggles this photographer’s mind.Never have the photographic tools available to con sumers been so savvy, easy to use and affordable.
While I don’t hunt in the traditional sense of looking to harvest game for the freezer or for mounts on the wall, I do hunt with a camera. Autumn is a wonderful time to be seek that memorable moment to capture in Herepixels.are a few hints if you’re going to shutterbug this fall either with a DSLR type camera or your phone.
No matter what you choose to use, new or old, phone camera or the latest mirrorless DSLR types it pays to remember that, as in real estate sales, loca tion, location, location matters.
ly, dress warmly and venture forth! Likewise, a late-fall snow when the trees haven’t dropped all their leaves can be magical.
Look for contrasts. Colorful maple leaves against dark tree trunks can be eye-popping.
Putting the camera or phone down and just observ ing stores scenes in your mind’s memory card that can be reviewed during the dark days of December drawing near. It also sometimes refocuses your vi sion and opens your eye to a vantage you missed looking through the camera.
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It’s as pretty as a picture.
Enjoy the moment. I try to stop at times to take in the beauty around me while photographing a scene.
Get out and enjoy the show while it lasts.
Photographing the carpet of leaves on the ground in early or late light of day or after a rain or during fog can capture a different mood than photograph ing fall color on a sunny, blue-sky day.
Autumn offers a smorgasbord of scenery that can fuel one through the gray, color-challenged days of Michigan winters that follow.
• Steve Begnoche
Tippy Dam in Manistee County is a popular fishing destination. • Steve Begnoche
Fishing when light is low such as early in the morning or the evening is best.
Drop a Line, AND KEEP IT REEL Gear up for some of the finest fall fishing this season
Tonello suggests two techniques for fall river Chinook. Casting or drop-back fishing with wob bly plugs and crankbaits such as Storm Thun derSticks, Rapala Husky Jerks, Storm Hot ’N Tots, and Flatfish -- any wobbling plug that gets in a Chinook’s face -- can be effective.
By STEVE BEGNOCHE
Andersen calls the fall salmon run some of the most exciting fishing of the year. “Groups of salmon will be moving upstream so it is changing which areas of the river currently have good numbers of fish,” Andersen said. “The PM has a good number of naturally reproducing salmon that provide a consistent fishery each
“Cold, crappy, rainy days also are good,” Tonel loLudingtonsaid. area angler Wayne Andersen of fered similar advice. “A favorite river for Chinook (king) is the Pere Marquette. When first entering the PM and other west Michigan rivers the kings will strike lures and skein fished in the deep runs and holes of the river. Popular lures are Thunder Sticks and other body baits. Spinners are also a good choice at this time of year.”
“It’s basically an agitation bite,” he explains The second method involves floating skein spawn under a bobber. Target deeper holes, deeper runs. “If you don’t see them, that’s OK,” Tonello said. “Then they won’t see you either.”
In early September, surf, pier or small boat an glers target Chinook along the Lake Michigan shore, said Mark Tonello, Michigan Department of Natural Resources regional fisheries biologist. September is the best month to target Chi nook in local rivers. Tonello and others point out. Mostly, Chinook are not yet spawning and will still bite. Once the spawn sets in as October be gins, Chinook are difficult to get to bite.
Fall to many means hunting. Fall also finds fishing at its finest on inland lakes, rivers and even along the shore of Lake Michigan.
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48 • Fall 2022 • LakeStyle Magazine year.”“With better bait populations in Lake Michi gan, survival of Chinook salmon, coho salmon, and steelhead has been really good,” Jay Wesley, MDNR Lake Michigan fishery coordinator, said. “Catches have been excellent up and down the coast this summer, and we expect to see improved fall salmon runs this fall. Manistee, White, Muskeg on, Grand, Kalamazoo, and St. Joe rivers will all be worth checking out. Salmon will take skein under a bobber as well as large spinners and crank baits casted in holes and near log jams.”
The Pere Marquette, the Manistee to Tippy Dam and The White River are good steelhead streams, TonelloSteelheadsaid. respond to flies better than salmon, so fly fishing is a popular pursuit for them.
“Steelhead fishing starts in October,” Tonello said. Lake Michigan pier and beach anglers do well stillfishing with spawn.
The Big Sable River at Ludington State Park and the Manistee River receive stocked coho in spring and returning adults tend to run earlier starting in late September, Tonello said. Streamers, spinners and spawn all can entice a coho.
“The Lower PM provides good access at Custer, Scottville and Ludington. A boat is best to fish this lower water of the PM. Anglers also fish from the river bank successfully at locations that are public property and favorable to access to the water.”
“It just depends on the day,” Tonello said.
INLAND LAKES
Spawn, spinners, and single beads under a bob ber that imitates a single egg are also effective. Steelhead can see and will take a single egg in the river, the biologist said. Different days mean different techniques. Some times large spawn bags coax a bite; sometimes small spawn bags work better.
“Don’t forget about inland lakes,” Wesley said. “Fall is my favorite time of year to hit area lakes as the colors are great and most of the summer boat traffic is over. Yellow perch tend to move into shal low areas to feed on aquatic insects.
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Tonello recommends trying the Little Manistee for coho, noting the run there begins in mid-Octo ber and carries on until about Christmas. “They bite very well,” he said. Spinners work best, though other methods can prove successful.
“In October the coho salmon will enter the river on their upstream migration,” Andersen said. “Coho can be caught by the same methods as the kings. The coho runs in the PM aren’t nearly as predict able or large in numbers. Coho when first entering the rivers are aggressive and strike lures very well.
OPEN DAILY minnows under a bobber along marl or sandy flats in 5 to 10 feet of water. Wax worms on tear drops and micro-plastic jigs also work well. If the perch are deeper, a traditional perch rig or drop shot rig with the same baits will work. Some decent lakes in the area include Green, Upper Crooked, Diamond, Gull, Gun, Lincoln, Big Whitefish, Muskegon, and Macatawa lakes.
An excellent option is the Michigan DNR oper ated weir on the Little Manistee River east of Stro nach (take Old Stronach Road and follow signs to the river) where the DNR collects eggs in fall to support the salmon stocking program. A viewing platform at the site makes it easy to see salmon, brown trout and steelhead temporarily blocked from passing. When the egg take is on, it’s a sight to see – one open to the public. Beginning in late September a hotline, 231-775-9727, ext. 6072, gives updates on when eggs will be taken and numbers of fish passing through the weir.
“Fall is some of the best inland lake fishing. As temperatures cool off, smallie (smallmouth bass) and walleye get fishing gets good. Hamlin is a re ally good walleye lake. November and December are good months to target muskies in Hamlin. Since “a lot of people who like to fish, also like to hunt, you can have a lot of really good inland fish ing and have it all to yourself,” Tonello said.
WHERE TO SEE FALL SALMON
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If you want to see a salmon, fall offers chances to do so. Dams stop migrating salmon and cause them to gather and be easily seen. Try the Big Sa ble River dam in Ludington State Park, the Tippy Dam on the Manistee River near Wellston.
“Large predatory fish like northern pike, muskel lunge, and largemouth bass are also on the feed in the fall. Michigan’s inland lake trophy fish, the muskellunge, is especially active in the fall. These big fish will take extra-large spinners, spoons, crankbaits, and plastics. You can also keep it sim ple and use large live suckers. Some areas in west Michigan to try are Muskegon, Murray, Thornapple, Austin, and Macatawa lakes or the Thornapple and GrandBrianrivers.”Mulherin, outdoor writer for the Ludington Daily News and an avid angler, has a fall favorite, too.“Ijust don’t think you can go wrong in fall casting Hamlin Lake from mid-September through midOctober,” Mulherin said. “You don’t run into many other boats and any pike or bass lure is likely to bring plenty of strikes from either species, not to mention a bonus walleye or muskie.”
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From carpet to canopy Autumn is when area woodlands become kaleidoscopes
Just over 22 miles from end to end – it’s slated to be extended in the immediate years to come – the fourseason William Field Memorial Hart-Montague Trail in Oceana County is especially inviting when leaves imi tateWithrainbows.plenty of room for passing others both com ing and going – the paved pathway is 10-foot wide and maintained – the William Field Memorial Hart-Mon tague Trail winds its way through the colorful forests, farmlands, orchards, Christmas tree farms, nature pre serves and more. Along the way, travelers will encounter a patchwork of scenic turnouts, resting places with picnic tables and restrooms, and more. The trail was rebuilt in recent years with improvements made to several bridges, railroad crossings and more, in order to meet Ameri cans With Disabilities Act mandates. Deer, rabbits, raccoons, turtles and other wildlife might pop out of the bushes unexpectedly. Birds of every feather – including eagles – soar overhead.
To the north and with over 15 miles of trails that cut their way along the shoreline, through the rolling hills, forests and dunes, the C.S. Mott Arcadia Dunes Preserve that borders northern Manistee County and southern Benzie County showcases the beauty of the area like few other locations in northern Michigan.
The preserve is also recognized as an excellent bird ing site, with even the majestic eagle oft times seen gliding over its dunes, marshlands, forests and fields. And for those who choose to travel the preserve by mountain bicycle, the adventure can deliver quite a workout.Located along the M-22 corridor, the preserve is nestled alongside the famed Arcadia Overlook – a.k.a. “Inspiration Point” – 370-feet above the Lake Michigan shoreline. Those wanting to get a birds-eye-view of big lake and surrounding area can climb the 120 steps to the top of the lookout where they can see Lake Michi gan to the west, the Sleeping Bear Dunes to the north, the Arcadia Dunes Preserve to the east, and the vil lage of Arcadia and neighboring Manistee County, to theThesouth.60mile car trip from Ludington to the C.S. Mott Arcadia Dunes Preserve – U.S. 10 east to US 31 north –is itself, painted with mile after mile of natural beauty. The trip along M-22 from Manistee to the hiking trails in the dunes preserve is particularly inspiring and photo inviting.TheC.S. Mott Preserve – Arcadia Dunes – is spread across 3,600 acres just north of the Manistee/Benzie County line and is split in half by the M-22 state high way. The preserve includes two miles of Lake Michi gan shoreline, coastal bluffs with impressive perched dunes, hardwood forests and grasslands. The adjacent working farms, totaling an additional 2,500 acres, have also been permanently protected, making Arcadia Dunes one of the largest conservation projects ever completed by a local land trust in the Midwest.
If Northern Michigan has its own Rain Forest – that magical, marvelous area where wildlife and human kind saunter the same paths – it’s in the C.S. Mott Arca dia Dunes Preserve. Autumn – whether walking one of the many trail sys tems, or freestyling your way through the carpeted for est – is the season when Mother Nature and Michelan gelo team up to paint a forest of wonder and radiance. So much color.
By DAVID L. BARBER Columnist
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In the autumn of the year, between the carpet and the canopy of the Manistee National Forest and its woodland neighbors, a colorful magic show takes center stage. And between the conflicting seasons of summer and winter, as one tree after another transitions from green to brown to bare, autumn delivers its calming, colorful show – its magic – that can make men and women, and boys and girls, look on with awe and wonder.
Of course, to truly enjoy the carpet-to-canopy won der that is autumn in western and northern Michigan, one has to get off the beaten path to experience both the spectacle and spirituality of the state’s inner paths such as the Hart-Montague Trail, where reds, oranges, yellows, purples and more are painted in the fall.
There are dozens of mapped and unmapped hiking trails in Mason, Oceana, Manistee, Benzie, Lake, Mus kegon and neighboring counties. Some wind their way along the coastline, while most zigzag through the for ests and countrysides. All offer breathtaking beauty, and workout challenges.
At the southern end of the trail in Montague is the world’s largest weathervane, while at the other end to the north in Hart is an unofficial gateway to the north and all that lies just over the horizon – the lighthous es of Ludington, the National Forests, the Mackinac Bridge, the Upper Peninsula, and more.
Now in the autumn of my life, I find joy in simply walking and driving through western and northern Michigan to get an up-close-and-personal look at this most colorful and breathtaking season. I enjoy watching my wife point her camera here and there to capture keepsakes of what we see, sans the par affin wax.
Editor’s note: David L. Barber is a retired journalist living in Manistee. He will provide occasional feature stories and columns for various Shoreline Media publi cations, including the Ludington Daily News, Oceana’s Herald-Journal, LakeStyle Magazine and PTW Maga zine. He can be reached at dlbarber1006@gmail.com.
So yes, with the autumn of the year upon us, and as we take focus between the carpet and the cano py of the Manistee National Forest and its woodland neighbors, a colorful magic show will soon take cen terInstage.thedays and weeks to come my wife and I will again turn our car north and take a drive through the painted forests. It doesn’t matter where we go, or where we end up – it’s the drive that will make it all worthwhile.
So much beauty. So many memories. Back when I was young, collecting a rainbow of au tumn leaves was as cool as collecting baseball cards, pop bottle caps and discarded license plates from otherEverystates.October I’d walk around the neighborhood and collect the biggest, brightest leaves I could find – yellow, gold, orange, red, puce, purple and col ors that defied description and explanation – and I’d carry them Sometimes,home.mom would line a sauce pan with tin foil and in which she’d melt small bricks of paraffin wax to create a sticky little sauce. I’d then carefully dip my cache of colorful leaves to create a suppos edly permanent see-through skin that would pro tect my leaves and allow me to keep my collection for as long as I wanted.
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As I’ve written before, I’ve lived in California, Flori da and Hawaii – the latter being paradise, to be sure – but for me, nothing beats living in northern Michi gan, especially during a crisp, colorful autumn when everything between the carpet and the canopy of the woodlands becomes kaleidoscopes painted by Mother Nature. It is a time when we know summer has come and gone – all four or five days of it – and we know winter is breathing down our necks – all four or five months of it. Yet autumn makes it all worthwhile.
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Many look forward to yearly color tours across the area
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By CALEB JACKSON M ichigan is certainly well known for its pleasant summers. The population swells every year as tourists pour in from all over the country. This is especially true in West Michigan, where tons of people come to experience life on the cool waters of Lake Michigan during the warm summer heat. But when the tourists pack up their lawn chairs and moor all their lake ves sels as the season comes to a close, they are giv ing up on something that the locals look forward to every year: The beautiful fall colors that paint the trees. The deep reds of the maples, the stun ningly golden yellows of the hickories, and every shade in between. The entire state is swept with a serene beauty as the tourists leave and the fall foliage bursts into full display. But of course, if you want to see the autumnal splendor of this quiet little side of Michigan, it won’t do to simply drive out here and look for yourself. Sure, the view from the highway will look quite stunning if you’ve nev er seen it before, but if you want to see the fall in its prime, you’ll need to talk to the locals. What follows is a list of the best roads, highways, and trails to view the fall colors spread throughout six different counties in West Michigan, according to the locals.
Muskegon County Down in Muskegon, Pati Webster of the Mus kegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce highly suggests a drive down the appropriately named Scenic Drive. This road runs north and south parallel to the lakeshore, and it takes you past a slew of state parks in case you want an interest ing place to stop where you can spend some lei sure and time and really soak in the magic of it all. Some of the parks you will drive by include the Muskegon State Park, the Luge Adventure Sports Park, Pioneer County Park and Campground, as well as Duck Lake State Park. Situated among the woods of the Muskegon State Park, there is also the Blockhouse, a built-to-size replica of a 1934
Many roads around the area are a brilliant site during the fall. • Steve Begnoche
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fort called Fort Dearborn, which burned down in 1962.Ifyou’re looking for a more involved tour of the fall colors, you can take part in Visit Muskegon’s Depot to Depot Fall Color Tour. This event is a self-guided tour running from October 1st to October 31st. Maps can be found at the Muskegon Union Depot or the White Lake Train Depot as well as online, and on Saturdays the Muskegon Lakeshore Chamber of Commerce will be offering refreshments. People participating in the tour will be able to snap self ies which can be submitted to a special link for a chance to win prizes. The link as well as further de tails for the event can be found under the Events tab on Visit Muskegon’s Website, visitmuskegon. com.Ifyou want to catch the fall colors either on Sce nic Drive or while participating in the Depot to De pot event, you might not want to jump the gun and go too early. The tour may run all month, but Pati Webster says the peak season for the Muskegon area is around the middle of the month.
Some of Beal’s favorite haunts when it comes to fall colors are Ridge Road and Lakeshore Drive.
According to Scott Beal, the executive director of the Silver Lake Sand Dunes-Hart Visitors Bureau, “Most of Michigan is peaking in early to mid-Octo ber. Due to being close to Lake Michigan we have a later peak, late October even early November.” Meanwhile, he says the more eastern reaches of the County still peak in early to mid-October, so there is a good window of opportunity if you want to catch fall colors in Oceana.
Heading further north of Muskegon puts us in Oceana County, and if you’re looking to come a little later in the season, Oceana may be for you.
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Ridge Road runs north from Silver Lake up to Pent water, and being a little close to the coast, you’ll get those beautiful late season colors we men tioned earlier. Meanwhile, Lakeshore Drive contin ues north out of Pentwater up into Mason County.
It’s also worth mentioning that the Silver Lake
If you’re looking for a nice uninterrupted route up to Oceana after checking out the leaves down in Muskegon County, you might want to look into the Hart-Montague Bicycle Trail. Once an old railway, this 22-mile bike trail runs through Montague, Roth bury, Shelby, Mears and Hart. It is a good way to experience the leaves out in the open air and at an appreciable pace, rather than speeding by in your car like on the highway. The fall season is also the perfect time of the year to attempt the 22-mile bike ride, since we are past the deadly heat of summer, but have yet to step into the freezing chills of winter.
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State Park’s sand dunes are still open for riding until Oct. 31, and there are some fall festivals in the sur rounding areas, such as Shelby’s Harvest Festival and Pentwater’s Oktoberfest. If you want to see a more comprehensive list of the different fall activi ties you can sink your teeth into while enjoying the colors in Oceana, visit the Visitor Bureau’s website, thinkdunes.com and look under the Dune News tab.
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The Fall Color Tour Route map can be found on the website newaygocountyexploring.com, but feel free to look around a bit while you’re there. This website is invaluable to anybody planning a get away to Newaygo County, and don’t worry, if you find too many things to check out in a day trip, the fall colors map also shows you where to find some motels and inns, so you can extend your stay. Lake County Just north of Newaygo, we find ourselves in Lake County. And why not visit the county’s namesake as you tour the fall colors? Lake County does have 156 lakes and 46 different trout streams after all. Roads like Wolf Lake Drive and South Star Lake Drive take you around Wolf Lake and Big Star Lake respec tively, and those are only two of the larger lakes in the county. There are tons of other lakes you can visit on your tour as well, via roads such as Rainbow Lake Drive, West Orchard Lake Drive, South Oxeye Avenue, and the Trail of the Lakes, all of which can be found in Baldwin alone. Bill Sturgeon, manager of the Orchard Market, a farm market based in Free Soil, located a short ways 65 S. State Street, Hart 231-873-5687 www.napaonline.com
The fine folks at the tourism council have listed seven “hot spots” along this map, which include the walking trail along Muskegon River in downtown Newaygo, the trail at Conklin Park which offers a view of the Croton Dam and the Hardy Dam Rustic trail, and a section of rolling hills along a stretch of road just south of 11 Mile Road which offers “great vistas of color.” All in all, there are 10 public parks listed on the map and two farm markets offering things like hayrides, corn mazes, and cider press ing. The map even includes a QR code that can be scanned with your cell phone and gives you all the info you could possibly need regarding the public parks along the way.
Just inland of Oceana is Newaygo County, where the Newaygo County Tourism Council has put to gether a useful map of their fall color tour route. This map starts down in Grant County and makes what is essentially a big circle, hitting places like Newaygo, Croton, Big Prairie, White Cloud, Brohman, Wood land Park, Hesperia and Fremont, before heading back down into Grant.
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The coastal map spans 26 miles, boasts 21 points of interest, and takes an estimated five hours to complete via car. This route takes you up Lakeshore Road, around Portage Lake, and then onto the M-22 highway where you continue North up to the tip of the county. Some of the points of interest include the Orchard Beach State Park, the Lake Bluff Trails, and the Glen Park Mineral Springs.
If you plan on visiting Manistee County sometime during the Fall, you’re in luck, as the Visitor’s Bureau has put together what is probably the most com prehensive fall colors tour map yet. Being another coastal county, like we saw with Oceana, Manistee really has two peak seasons for fall colors. The in land regions will peak first, and then about a week later the coastal regions will follow suit. As they state on the Visit Manistee website, “This is great for tour ists and locals alike, as they get a little more enjoy ment of our region’s spectacular fall foliage.” The visitor’s bureau has also taken the liberty of dividing their fall color tour map into two maps, a coastal one and an inland one.
If you find yourself near Lake County in the fall, make sure to pop over to the Orchard Market so you can take part in their fall festival. Every week end throughout the month of October the market offers a whole slew of fun activities. “We have u-pick pumpkins, hayrides, apple canons, corn mazes…” Sturgeon said. He was also highly anticipating this year’s crop of apples. “We’re picking some early vari eties already,” he said. “Apples are coming in strong, and we’ve got a great crop of them, so I’m looking forward to filling everybody’s needs.” The Orchard Market will be picking apples in the first and second weeks of October. You can find the Orchard Market at 8418 on US-31 in Free Soil, and you can also visit their website at orchardmarket.us.
Meanwhile, the inland tour route comes in at a whopping 95 miles, includes 27 points of interest, and is estimated to take about seven hours to com MI
60 • Fall 2022 • LakeStyle Magazine over the county line into Mason County, suggests a ride up M-22 for a fall color tour. “It’s absolutely beautiful,” Sturgeon said, “It goes all the way up to Leelanau County and there are all kinds of shops along the way and little towns people can hit. It’s a very nice trip.” He also mentioned something the locals refer to as the “Arcadia look out.” Just north of Arcadia, in Manistee County, on M-22, there is a little area where you can pull over. There are a few parking spots, a restroom, and most importantly, a small staircase that leads to an elevated platform from which you can view the fall colors. According to Sturgeon, the views are fantastic in all directions.
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62 • Fall 2022 • LakeStyle Magazine62 • Fall 2022 • LakeStyle Magazine plete. This route also begins in downtown Manistee, but instead of heading north you head south down Maple Road. From there you’ll be all over the county, making a shape vaguely reminiscent of an hour glass, before coming back into downtown Manistee on US-31. Some of the points of interest here include the Tunnel of Trees, Tippy Dam, the Kaleva Bottle Museum and Gravity Hill. Both of these maps can be found on the Visit Man istee website, visitmanistee.com, and they can also be downloaded as a PDF file. The maps also list several local restaurants and accommodations for anybody who is looking to make a longer trip out of it, and the inland tour even includes something that the coastal does not. Namely, several wineries and distilleries where one can stop to taste the local brews. Mason County For those planning a visit to the Mason County area, Visit Ludington has put together a little tour for you. They suggest starting off by taking old Pere Mar quette Highway south out of Ludington and turning down any of the side streets that catch your whimsy, with an assurance that “you’ll appreciate the beauty of this area, with the Lake Winds Energy Park loom ing over the farmland.” After that they have you tak ing South Lakeshore Drive north out past the Lud ington Pumped Storage Plant and other interesting places, such as the Historic White Pine Village and the Buttersville Peninsula. From there, they suggest you cut back to Pere Marquette Highway via Iris Road, and through a se ries of turns they take you all the way up into the remote reaches of Free Soil. “Turn east out of Lud ington and head to Custer, then take Custer Road north, Sugar Grove Road east and Reek Road north to Fountain. Turn west on Fountain Road and north again on Custer Road to Free Soil,” they said, adding that, “these country roads bypass three small lakes, and it’s a spectacular drive in the autumn.” Following this they lead you into the Hamlin Lake area, saying that “The shoreline along Lakeshore Drive is espe cially beautiful–park your car (a perfect place is Long Skinny Park) and look across at the brilliant colors of Ludington State Park.” They conclude the tour by fol lowing Lakeshore Drive south, back into Ludington. The colors in this area peak around mid to late Oc tober and of course, if you’d rather experience the fall colors by bike or foot, you could always pay a vis it to Ludington State Park. According to Visit Luding ton, there are nine trails totaling 18 miles, “and each one offers magnificent color.” They also suggest the Ludington School Forest, where there are another five miles worth of trails to be explored. 231.894.4742 • www.weesies.com MONTAGUE 3365 Fruitvale Rd • Mon.-Fri. 9-6, Sat. 9-5 HART 2343 Comfort Drive • Mon.-Fri. 9-6, Sat. 9-5 MANISTEE 3691 US 31 South • Mon.-Fri. 9-6, Sat. 9-5 SPRING LAKE Corner of M-104 and 136th • Mon.-Fri. 9-6, Sat. 9-5 Stop in for a great selection of Hardy Fall Mums and Asters Pumpkins, Gourds, Corn Stalks Straw Bales, Winter Pansies Ornamental Kale Bulbs: Tulips, Daffodils, Allium and more! Seeforweesies.comdetails NOW!SALEFALLONOpen Every Sat. Beginning Oct. 1 thru Oct. 29 10 am - 5 pm & MONTAGUE LOCATION ONLY Tues. & Wed. Evenings 4 pm - 7 pm $10.00 person (kids 2 and under free)
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