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Just Plain Bully Reading American history, I learned about the Progressive era, ushered in with the election of President Teddy Roosevelt.

Our 26th president observed that the White House provided him a bully pulpit, his platform from which to speak on issues important to the American people.

Now I see a bully writ large with President Trump. This bully doubles down on every “misstep,” never apologizing, never making amends, always blaming others. It is truly epic, this man whom Conservative columnist George Will calls a “malignant buffoon.”

With Trump, the bully pulpit has morphed into a bully scaffold from which enemies are dispatched, conspiracy theories propagated, and the public gaslighted. He needs to be replaced.

Robert Bahle, Suttons Bay Double Whammy We are now facing two crises that are interwoven and accelerating: the novel coronavirus and climate change.

It is not enough to treat and/or vaccinate against the virus; we need to find the causes.

Scientists have now determined COVID19, SARS, and other viruses have zoonomic origin, i.e., they jump from animals to humans. Scientists are also warning of mutations and further pandemics if we don’t learn from this.

Many of the causes of the climate crisis are also enablers of the virus. These include massive deforestation, which forces closer interaction between humans and wild animals; extractive industries, with all their destructive roads and despoiled earth; industrial farming that depletes and poisons the soil; factory “farming” of animals, which brings a myriad of problems including overuse of chemicals like antibiotics, pollution of air and water, and — even worse — ignorance and disdain for science.

Everything is connected. If we do not realize and accept this, our choices become destructive for humans and the rest of the earth. We need to strive for the common good for our common home. Cultural historian and world-religion scholar

Thomas Berry said, “You cannot have well people on a sick planet.”

We now have a very sick planet with lots of sick people.

It will take all of us to help find the cure, and better yet, the prevention to both of our crises.

Ann Rogers, Traverse City Circumstantial Evidence Something happened to damage one of the anchor supports that were installed to stabilize Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline where it crosses under the Straits of Mackinac, but what happened a mile offshore and under 200 feet of water is a mystery. Pictures and reported details of the incident conclude that something was dragged “parallel to the pipeline” and bent the support when the two connected.

The single most likely cause of the mishap was a ROV inspection camera used by an Enbridge contractor to inspect the oil pipelines. As usual, the oil company will try to hide any evidence that implicates them, because that would contradict their conjecture of “safety” they have spent big bucks for, with full page newspaper ads. And our state lawmakers and environmental agencies will again allow Enbridge to plead proprietary secrecy and legal immunity to disclose any incident report that looks bad for them.

Meanwhile, the proposal for a tunnel presents a distraction from the fact that the clock is still ticking for the 67-year-old pipeline, and our luck may be running out.

It’s a distraction from the 640 miles of Line 5 that don’t run under the Straits and cross dozens of big rivers that flow into Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, which have also suffered many “incidents.” Plus, the tunnel is a distraction that is purported to take care of part of the risk from just one pipeline, while everyone ignores the fact that there are two other Canadian pipelines crossing the Mackinac Straits that present other risks.

Of course, when these things fail, we will learn to adapt without their oil or gas while taxpayers will pay even more for emergency repairs and environmental cleanups. Which means the rich will get even richer, as always.

David B. Petrove, Interlochen Say It Ain’t So, Joe In his July 11 Guest Opinion column, “It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over, And It’s Not Over,” Tom Gutowski argues that whites must acknowledge racism and “stop supporting politicians and pundits who seek to divide us.”

I agree. Here is my contribution to the unity effort: Do not vote for that pandering racist Joe Biden.

Biden has collaborated with segregationists and white supremacists. He championed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, incentivizing incarceration of Blacks. Biden supported Democrat Robert Byrd, a former Klansman, as the Senate leader during the 1980s. In a 1977 hearing on [busing to integrate public schools], Biden worried that non-orderly racial integration policies would cause his children to “grow up in a racial jungle.” [See editor’s note below.] Then, there is his racist

and condescending comment that “you ain’t black” if you would consider voting for Trump. And don’t forget his comments about Obama being the first clean, articulate Black man to run for president.

Biden’s racist history befits his party.

After all, Democrats are the party of the Confederacy, slavery, segregation, the KKK, Jim Crow, lynching, and now divisive identity politics. Democrats are also the party of the Black racists Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton, and home for anti-Semites and destructive Antifa fascists. Not exactly the unifying elements we seek.

What about Trump? Inarticulate and crude, to be sure, but he achieved historic low poverty rates for Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and those without high school degrees. Further, Trump signed the First Step Act, repairing the damage done by the 1994 crime law that Biden championed.

Trump approved historic funding for Black colleges.

Finally, Trump opposes abortion, the leading volitional destroyer of Black lives.

Not so the Catholic Joe Biden and the Marxists at Black Lives Matter, who side with Margaret Sanger, the racist, eugenicist founder of Planned Parenthood. There is a certain cognitive dissonance at work here.

Neal Stout, Charlevoix Note to readers: While Biden’s “racial jungle” quote isn’t inaccurate, it is taken out of context, according to The Poynter Institute’s Politifact, which states: “‘Joe Biden warned that without ‘orderly integration,’ his children would grow up in ‘racial jungle, with tensions built so high that it is going to explode at some point.’ Then-Sen. Biden was speaking in a 1977 congressional hearing on busing schoolchildren and opposed federally mandated busing. Addressing Jack Greenberg, director-counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Biden said: ‘We have a fundamental disagreement, you and I, I suspect, as to what is needed to insure that we do have orderly integration of society. I am not just talking about education but all of society.’ Biden went on to reference a ‘racial jungle’ and then said that ‘pushing busing in a way in which it goes beyond the constitutional mandates is like throwing a rock through the civil rights window. I think it has repercussions that are extensive in terms of the ultimate objective of seeing that we get integrated neighborhoods, of seeing that we eventually eliminate job discrimination, of seeing that we change housing patterns, of seeing alteration of tax structure.’”—Ed. Line 5 Fiction Facts on Line 5 matter. The Snyder tunnel is being sold as a safer alternative to the 67-year-old twin pipelines pumping 540,000 barrels per day of Canadian oil products to Sarnia, Ontario. Only 6 percent of that stays in Michigan. The Dynamic Risk Alternative Study of 2017 determined that a Line 5 closure would bump up Michigan gas retail prices by only 1–2 cents a gallon. Propane for approximately 13,000 Yooper customers is stripped out at Rapid River at a daily rate of about 1,300 barrels a day. This amount can be delivered daily to Rapid RIver by about 4–5 trucks or 1–2 railcars at a cost of 5–10 cents more per gallon at retail. Propane for Lower Continues on page 6

CONTENTS features Crime and Rescue Map.....................................7

A Novel Perspective.........................................10 The Stars are Ours.........................................13 An Amateur’s Guide to the Night Sky Now.........16 Forged in... Acrylic?...........................................18 Empire’s Shipwreck Cafe...................................25

columns & stuff

Top Ten...........................................................5 Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Opinion..............................................................8 Weird.................................................................9 Dates..............................................................20 Astro..........................................................26 Advice........................................................27 Nitelife.........................................................28 Crossword.....................................................29 Classifieds..................................................30

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top ten Another Twist for Cadillac’s Movie Theater An “out-of-state entity” outbid the Cadillac Footliters in their effort to purchase the bankrupt Cadillac 4 Theater, but the local theater troupe remains hopeful that movies will one day return to the venue.

In May, the Footliters announced plans to buy the theater to ensure not only movies could continue to play but also host live theater and music.

This month, those hopes were dashed, when a New York-based shopping mall operator made a higher bid; that company apparently plans to operate Cadillac 4 as a cinema.

“Since we announced our plan, hundreds of community residents have communicated their support for our downtown, ongoing availability of movies, and Footliters’ work to ensure this cornerstone of our community remains available to establish the next generation of community-owned and -driven arts and entertainment,” said Joseph Baumann, president of the Footliters’ board of directors.

Baumann said that the group is disappointed it missed out on the chance to create a venue for movies and local performances, but as long as the new owner plans to continue to operate the Cadillac 4 as a cinema, that’s still a better outcome than closure.

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tastemakers 9 Bean Rows’ Breakfast sammie

If you’ve ever thought to bake a batch of croissants yourself — don’t. It’s hard.

Tiring. Time=consuming. And exceedingly likely that yours won’t turn out half as light, buttery, flaky, and absolutely to die for as 9 Bean Rows’. Especially when they stuff ’em with chocolate. Or apricots. Or almonds.

Or, like this breakfast croissant shown here, with a heaping pile of fluffy eggs, fat chunks of grilled rosemary ham, and tres generous gruyére cheese. This double-handful of goodness is why we drove not one but two mornings in a row from Traverse City to 9 Bean Rows’ sunny spot northwest of Suttons Bay; it was that good. (And also why we can vouch for their chocolate, almond, and apricot croissants.) Next on our list to try: One of the plump and gooey-looking (in all the best ways) pizzas from their outdoor wood-fired pizza oven. $8. Find 9 Bean Rows’ farmstead, bakery, and café — and several well-spaced outdoor picnic tables — at 9000 E. Duck Lake Rd. (231) 271-6658, 9beanrows.com

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Oh, You Gotta See This The 60th annual Little Traverse Bay Regatta — aka the Ugotta Regatta — will set sail with its “one-design” racing on Friday, July 24, followed by a “tour-of-the-bay” course on Saturday, July 25, and windward-leeward racing on Sunday, July 26. Races happen at noon daily; pick a spot on the bay’s shore and prepare to see some super summer sailing.

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Palm Springs

The crowd-pleasing sensation out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival — where it broke the record for the biggest sale (by 69 cents, lol) — arrives on Hulu early. An uproarious, undeniably charming, and delectably candy-colored romantic comedy, Palm Springs stars Andy Samberg, Christina Miloti, and Oscar-winner J.K. Simmons in an inventive and playful story that’s kind of like Groundhog Day, but at a wedding.

It follows Samberg’s carefree wedding guest and Miloti’s reluctant Maid of Honor (she’s also the sister of the bride) as they find themselves in a wild time-loop where they are forced to relive the wedding day over and over and over again no matter what they try to escape. And in our current quarantine times, the film hits differently than when it first premiered, making it all the more enjoyable of a summer escape.

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Just days after our July 13 issue went to print with the story heralding the triumphant — albeit scaled-down and very COVID-19-cautious — plans for Farmfest 2020, “The Show Will Go On,” we learned that the 23rd annual show wouldn’t go on, after all. Festival founder and host Stacy Jo Schiller did not respond to our request for comment on the sudden cancellation, but the Farmfest website (www.farm-fest.com) now states, “Out of caution and concern for our festival-goers, we have made the difficult decision to cancel Farmfest 2020. Please have a safe and wonderful year and come see us in early August of 2021.” Although no specific dates have been announced, the outdoor music festival typically takes place the second weekend in August.

Stuff we love A Royal Flush (Especially When the House has Folded) Boyne Thunder — a 150-mile highspeed-boating poker run that raises mega money each year for Camp Quality, Challenge Mountain, and Boyne City’s Main Street program — usually draws about 120 boats, 550 competitors from around the country, and thousands of on-water and on-shore spectators to Lake Charlevoix each summer. Out of concern for everyone involved in this year’s event, organizers opted to cancel the 17th annual run, which was to be held last weekend, July 10–11. Nevertheless, the sponsors and participants “showed up” in their own way, refusing the offered refunds for their sponsorship and registration fees. As a result of that generosity, the charities will still receive more than $50,000 from the 2020 (non-)event and can likely count on lots of love from next year’s event, slated for July 9–10, no matter what shape the world is in.

Ring-a-Ding-Ding: Volunteer for a Virtual Christmas in July Maybe you’re one of those hardy folks who stands outside in the icy-wet winds of December, ringing a bell to inspire passersby to drop some cash in your red kettle. Or maybe you wish you could be, but — well, you’re more of a climate-controlled-72-degree sort of gal. Guess what? Your giving spirit and temperature needs can finally come together!

Now through July 31, you can volunteer to man a virtual red kettle on social media to raise money for Salvation Army Traverse City’s annual Christmas in July campaign. The critical funds you raise enable the organization to feed the hungry, assist with utilities, help people stay in their homes, boost area kids’ character, and enable families to break the cycle of poverty. As the Salvation Army says: Need Knows No Season. (But temperature-sensitive volunteers know this is one opportunity to help that couldn’t be easier.) Volunteer or donate at SATraverseCity.org.

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bottoms up Middlecoast’s Ginger Kölsch A new beer from Traverse City’s MiddleCoast Brewing Co. is made for summer and tastes a little like Detroit’s own Vernors.

That unmistakable flavor isn’t a mistake, but what’s blended into MiddleCoast’s Ginger Kölsch isn’t actually Michigan’s signature beverage but something very, very close to it, says lead brewer Joel Mulder: “It’s a local product that’s a barrel-aged ginger ale.”

Their Ginger Kölsch starts out as a traditional Kölsch, he said, but then it’s brewed down so that it becomes dry enough to be mixed with the potent barrel-aged ginger ale; this genius melding gives the brew its kick.

A seasonal offering intended for hot summer days, Ginger Kölsch is at what Mulder calls “session level” — a gentle 4 percent ABV — so that it doesn’t pack too much of a kick if you drink more than one. Find it at 331 E. State St. (231) 943-1606

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Peninsula customers can be purchased from other refineries at competitive prices. (see: London Economics International Study of 2018.)

But let’s deal with the claim that a tunnel is safer since the twin pipelines have apparently been subject to three anchor strikes since April 2018. Propane is stripped out of natural gas liquids, which are pumped 20 percent of the time. If the tunnel is ever built, the new Line 5 segment would be pumping these highly volatile gas liquids inside a closed space now 20–21 feet in diameter running between St. Ignace and Mackinaw City. NGLS are heavier than air, and any leak from the pipeline would first fill the lower portions of the nearly 5-mile tunnel. A spark from electrical lines for lights and ventilators or a dropped tool would set off the world’s largest pipe bomb.

How is this safer?

Michigan has no legal or moral obligation to be a permanent high-risk shortcut for getting Canadian oil to Asia via Sarnia.

Why should we take any risk to our greatest natural treasure — our Great Lakes?

Leonard Page, Cheboygan Just Imagine You fought for your country in World War II. You come home, get a job. You can afford a mortgage in a suburb. But the federal government blocks your application because you are Black. Your only options for a home are in urban areas. You are disqualified from the G.I. bill because you are Black. The Homestead Act, way back in ancient history, disallowed people of color from acquiring some of this free land. All throughout American history, people of color have been systemically disallowed to build equity.

Can you imagine being an individual with dreams and ambitions and having an entire culture stack the odds against you?

I’m an old white guy that has had every

A HEALTH EXPERIMENT opportunity afforded any human being on this earth. And I’m at best a complete underachiever. But I’m comfortable because I didn’t have cultural obstacles that stripped my rights as a human being.

People of color are considered lazy and immoral if they should become addicted to drugs. But white people that die from opiate overdoses are somehow seen as victims of job loss and legitimate despair. This foundation of American racist attitudes is so ingrained in our oppressive, slave-driven history that we actually bow on our knees to its utter, naked lies.

Bret P Albright, Traverse City

Real Help v. Promises Robert L. Woodson Sr. founded the Woodson Center in Washington, D.C., many years ago, and its purpose is to serve low-income people in high-crime and druginfested neighborhoods around the country.

The center finds grassroots leaders who can solve problems internally. Once they are found, the center helps them with access to money and training, so if it’s helping 50 people, it’s ultimately helping 500.

When Woodson was growing up in Chicago, his father bought old run-down homes, fixed them up, and sold them for a profit. He did all this without getting one penny from government.

In 1960 the government stepped in to help the Blacks and over the next 60 years passed out $13 trillion. But this money did not go to the low-income folks; they needed a program to pass out the money.

So they had a program for health, another for housing, another for food, another for transportation, etc.

They hired at least 20 or 30 people for each program to oversee this money. All the low-income people got was a promise every four years.

A.J Fasel, Traverse City

spectator

by Stephen Tuttle There is near unanimity regarding getting kids back to school. We all know it’s important on multiple levels.

don’t. We know even less about its impact on children, most of whom have been relatively isolated since schools closed.

We know in-person classrooms with on-thespot individualized instruction is most effective. We know some children, especially those left out of the digital age, will not have opened a book for six months by the time schools reopen. We know socialization is an important component of their maturation journey, and they’ve been isolated too long.

We believe the risk of children infecting each other is minimal but reopening schools will be the first time they’ve been together in numbers in one place for extended periods of time. And the first time those students will then interact with everyone else in their orbit.

We also know a regular school schedule is critical for parents heading back to work and looking for daycare openings for their younger children. We’re already reading about shortages of such openings, and uncertain or inconsistent school scheduling will create more challenges.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has prepared detailed guidelines for reopening schools. They include distancing desks/students six feet (could be changed to three feet) apart, masks, no physical contact, no gathering in locations like cafeterias or auditoriums, frequent hand-washing and more.

The question is no longer if but when. And more importantly, how.

The average classroom in the U.S. has just under 25 students. Once you start doing the

What if the reason so few children have become infected is simply because they’ve had much less exposure? It’s not as if they went bar-hopping, attended rallies, or carted coolers out to the sandbar on Torch Lake.

We’re talking about a lot of kids, nearly 51 million in 130,000 public and 35,000 private K-12 schools in the U.S. More than 70 percent of those students are in primary and middle schools. Is it even remotely safe sending them back?

President Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos have both demanded schools start their fall semesters on time, with full in-person classes and teaching. They have threatened to cut off federal funding to districts not following their dictates.

But neither Trump nor DeVos has the authority to control school reopenings; states and their school districts determine school schedules. And public schools get about 90 percent of their funding from state and local sources. Most federal money is appropriated through Congress, and cuts to schools would never get through the U.S. House.

We do know it appears children are somewhat less susceptible to COVID-19 than adults, but we don’t know why. And children are certainly not immune; about two percent of Americans who have tested positive are 18 or younger. We know they don’t seem to get as sick as adults but, again, some children do become seriously ill, and some have died. Children with ailments like asthma are more at risk.

We think that asymptomatic children — and there could be a lot of them — are less effective at transmitting the virus than adults, but we’re not certain.

The real problem here is there is too much we don’t know about how this virus works and why some of us get very sick and some

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math, the six feet of distancing quickly runs out of room, especially in lower grade classrooms. And good luck keeping 7-year-olds away from each other. It’s impossible to get every child back in the same classroom, as Trump and DeVos have insisted, and follow even the most modest CDC guidelines.

It’s why some schools are considering alternating days of in-person classes with half the normal class. Some will be starting with combinations of online and in-person classes. California’s two largest school districts announced they’ll conduct online classes only the first semester. Those trying to start early to make up for lost time have already had to back up their schedules. Arizona wanted to start July 10 and is now hoping for August 17; Atlanta was hoping for an August 10 start. Both may have to retreat further.

The desire to return to some semblance of normalcy is understandable; we’d all like things to be as they were. We know getting schools open again is vital. But there is still plenty we don’t know — maybe too much.

What if the reason so few children have become infected is simply because they’ve had much less exposure? It’s not as if they went bar-hopping, attended rallies, or carted coolers out to the sandbar on Torch Lake. We aren’t certain they won’t infect each other after long periods in close contact. And some believe they will bring it home to parents, grandparents, and other adults.

School districts will have to ignore the blathering politicians, trust the best science, and tread lightly; creating a safe space has to be their only priority for now. We’re about to conduct a health experiment with our children; we best make sure we get it right.

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FACEMASK ASSAULT SUSPECT ARRESTED A man who allegedly pulled a knife on an Acme Meijer store clerk who asked him to wear a facemask while in the store has been arrested.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the store the afternoon of July 12 after a customer brandished a four-inch folding knife at an employee; the employee had attempted to enforce the governor’s executive order requiring a facemask in public indoor spaces.

The suspect, 39-year-old Kalkaska resident Kenneth Scott Inman, left the store before deputies arrived.

The next day, after the sheriff’s office released a grainy image from surveillance footage of the suspect, deputies tracked down Inman. He faces charges of felonious assault.

POLICE: MAN DROVE DRUNK WITH CHILD A Traverse City man was jailed in Wexford County after witnesses said he passed out behind the wheel of his car while a young child sat next to him in the front seat.

Before state police arrived at 9:45pm July 14, witnesses said the man drove away, crashed his vehicle into a garbage can and street sign, and fled. When troopers arrived at the location in Hanover Township, they searched the area and located the man. He was found to have a blood alcohol level of .132 and was arrested for drunk driving and child endangerment.

The child’s mother was called the scene to take the child.

OVERDOSE VICTIM REVIVED When Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies used Narcan to revive a man who was believed to have overdosed on drugs, the man became combative and had to be subdued before he was taken to the hospital.

Deputies and Suttons Bay/Bingham Fire and Rescue responded at 8:13pm July 11 to a report of an unconscious man in Bingham Township.

When they found the 21-year-old, he was unresponsive and not breathing well.

A deputy administered two doses of Narcan, prompting the man to wake up; as he did so, he became combative with the two deputies on the scene.

After the man was brought under control, he was taken to Munson Medical Center for treatment.

They arrested 25-year-old Cadillac resident Matthew Allan Stockman on charges of home invasion and resisting arrest.

MAN FACES CHILD PORN CHARGES A man who was arrested by state police for child molestation now also faces child pornography charges.

In April, a minor female reported that she had been inappropriately touched, leading to an investigation and charges filed against 58-yearold Lake City resident Larry Max Houghton.

Houghton faces five counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.

Subsequent investigation led to more charges involving child pornography, according to the state police.

Houghton was arraigned July 9 in Missaukee County on 10 counts of aggravated possession of child sexually abusive material.

PLANE CRASH INVESTIGATED State police were called to a rural Benzie County airport to investigate a plane

crash.

No one was injured in the 8:43pm July 9 crash, which occurred, investigators determined, because a distracted pilot forgot to lower his plane’s landing gear.

The 57-year-old pilot from Swanton, Ohio, was the only person aboard the twin-engine Cessna.

The plane, which had flown in from Pellston, touched down about halfway into the runway at the Thompsonville Airport in Weldon Township and came to rest after sliding 200 to 250 yards. The plane’s underside and propellers were damaged.

Troopers passed along a report and photos to the Federal Aviation Administration to complete the investigation.

MAN FOUND INCOMPETENT FOR TRIAL A man who faced murder and attempted murder charges in Charlevoix County has been found incompetent to stand trial, and the charges have been dismissed.

POLICE: MAN TRIED TO CLIMB THROUGH WINDOW A man who tried to get into a house through a second-story window was later arrested — after showing up at Leelanau another house and behaving bizarrely.

State police responded to a call about a home invasion in progress at 6:21am July 11 in Clam Lake Township.

A man had climbed a ladder and as he entered a secondstory window at the home, benzie the homeowner confronted the suspect, causing him to go back down the ladder and flee on foot.

Soon after that, someone else called police about an erratic young man who had come to their house. Troopers arrived and determined that the suspect was the person they manistee were looking for.

Officials at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry determined that 83-year-old Paul Henry Crest, of Bay Township, has dementia and is not competent to stand trial, according to a press release from the Charlevoix County prosecutor’s office.

Police were called in March to a Bay Township home where they found one woman who had died after suffering five gunshot wounds and another who who had been shot twice and needed medical care.

After an investigation, Crest was arrested on charges of murder and assault with intent to murder.

At the request Crest’s lawyer, the court ordered that he be evaluated for competency to stand trial and criminal responsibility.

After Crest was determined to be unfit, prosecutors filed a petition for mental health treatment so that Crest could undergo courtordered hospitalization; it was denied for technical reasons.

“This is a hole in our system to be sure,” Charlevoix County Prosecutor Allen Telgenhof said in a press release. “We have a person who has committed violent offenses, but the law does not require they be in prison or in a secure mental health facility.”

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COVID-19: OUR FAILURES AND THE PATH TO CORRECTION

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Quite the opposite has occurred with the COVID-19 virus.

Pandemic statistics demonstrate that the United States — with less than 5 percent of the world’s population — has experienced close to one-quarter of all COVID-19 deaths. It is to our shame that the United States has been one of the least effective nations in protecting its citizens. Four months after the pandemic had been declared, the federal government had not yet completed implementing adequate testing. Testing remains a necessary prerequisite for identifying and tracking the contagion, as well as developing vaccines, treatments, and public policies necessary to prevent, cure, or control the disease.

How could this happen? One contributing factor is the extreme narcissism demonstrated

by Donald J. Trump.

The Mayo Clinic has published an online report that identifies the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder. Of the 20 symptoms listed, at least 18 are displayed by the president — in his Tweets, disinformation campaigns, and the firing of competent public servants for fulfilling their duties.

On the other hand, demonstrating 18 out of 20 symptoms is a strong indication of a more serious incapacitation, wherein afflicted individuals would be unable to confront problems in any context other than how those problems impact them personally. As such, an extreme narcissistic personality disorder would make it virtually impossible for an afflicted individual to have the ability to fulfill obligations defined by the president’s oath of office: to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.

In other words, to serve the collective good.

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It would seem reasonable to assume that Americans would be comparatively well protected from the reoccurrence of such a plague. Our country is home to many of the most sophisticated scientific research facilities; and in the case of one particularly deadly and disabling epidemic, which occurred in the first half of the 20th century, the United States successfully led the effort to destroy it. That epidemic ended in the 1950s, when publicly funded American universities played a pivotal role in the development of the poliomyelitis vaccine.

Although not specifically stated in the Mayo Clinic report, it seems reasonable to assume that the greater the number of symptoms displayed, the more likely it is that the narcissism will be cognitively disabling. For example, exhibiting four out of the 20 defined symptoms — e.g., lacking empathy, unable to express remorse, pathological lying, demanding absolute allegiance from others — demonstrates a level of narcissism, which although dysfunctional, may be less than disabling.

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What can be done to protect the nation when leaders either cannot or will not fulfill that duty? A good first step would be to protect our republic from inept or corrupt leaders. One step in doing that is to recognize that normative protocols — which have worked for decades — are no longer sufficient. Laws are now necessary.

An example of this is requiring financial disclosure of all presidential candidates.

Citizens have the right to access verifiable information that enables them to determine if candidates for federal elected office have financial or other interests that constitute a potential conflict of interest with the duties of the office they seek. Their submission of income tax returns has been the way this information has traditionally been made available. There have been only two presidential candidates who refused to comply with this norm.

One of those was Richard Nixon. During that era the Republican leadership gave him a choice: He could either submit the tax returns or not be their candidate. The other who refused to comply was Trump. However, in this case, the Republican Party stood mostly silent and watched. Trump not only did not submit his tax returns — and repeatably lied about his reasons for failing to do so — but also faced no consequences. He had the protection of the GOP, which controlled the Senate.

The second step in protecting our republic from corrupt leadership is the preventing of incessant lying. The pattern of lying goes well beyond Trump. This was demonstrated by the mock impeachment trial conducted in the Senate, wherein Republicans demonstrated their commitment to disregarding traditional norms pertaining to subpoenas, testimony, truth, and justice.

The First Amendment is frequently used as either an explanation or excuse for being constitutionally unable to prevent politicians, news media, and social media from promoting disinformation and propaganda. That’s just nonsense.

The First Amendment is composed of a single sentence containing 45 words. It was created by revolutionaries who, having just liberated the country from a tyrannical monarchy, were distrustful of placing too much power with the government they were creating. As such, the intent of the amendment was to prevent a government from: “. . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

In essence, the Founding Fathers’ intent was to enable the ’governed’ to take truth to power without being subjected to political or judicial retribution. The First Amendment does not provide foreign or domestic propagandists the right to corrupt public discourse any more than it allows an individual to create panic by screaming “fire” in a crowded theater.

Establishing public perjury laws will be difficult, but they are necessary. If We the People do not take the actions necessary to prevent elected officials from committing perjury without consequences, the world will likely witness the end of the American experiment in developing a democratic republic.

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Solstice Collection The Continuing Crisis The Cheyenne (Nebraska) County Commissioners vented their frustration on July 6 over an alarming threat posed by a native species in the state’s panhandle. The Scottsbluff Star-Herald reported that commissioner Philip Sanders told the gathering that prairie dogs had caused almost $3 million in damage to 2,600 acres in the county, and pleaded with representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture: “We have a group here from Lodgepole. Their whole town is being surrounded by prairie dogs, and we heed your help.” The county has contracted with the USDA to handle its animal control problems, but Sanders said the lone wildlife specialist charged with the task has been overwhelmed.

“I feel like we’ve let Lodgepole down,” Sanders said. “I don’t want to eradicate (prairie dogs). ...

I get it, but they’re out of control.”

Sign of the Times A statue of Christopher Columbus stands in Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood, but if signers of a petition get their way, it will soon be replaced by a statue of Chef Boyardee. The petition, signed by hundreds, suggests Ettore (Hector) Boiardi, known for his “food and iconic mustache,” would be a much better recipient of Cleveland’s love, Cleveland.com reported. “Boiardi and his brothers built a canned food empire from the ground up,” the petition argues, and “during World War II, this company produced canned food for American soldiers 24/7,” earning Chef Boyardee a Gold Star in 1946.

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Wynn Hall of Exeter, Nebraska, might have expected to find a few beer cans or old tires at the bottom of his farm pond when he drained it for maintenance on July 3, but he discovered something entirely different: an empty, broken ATM. “I thought, who would throw a refrigerator or a stove and put it in the pond?” Hall told KOLN. “I took a picture and zoomed in on it and thought, that looks like an ATM.” When authorities arrived, they had a good idea of the source of the machine, since one had been stolen recently, but the numbers didn’t match up. Hall said he didn’t drain the pond last year, but didn’t think the ATM had been there too long. “This is by far the strangest and I was really shocked to see it,” Hall said.

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Paragliding instructor Hasan Kaval, 29, in Izmir, Turkey, took couch-surfing to a whole new level when he rigged a red leather couch, lamp and TV to a parachute harness and launched himself from a cliff at Babadag Air Sports and Recreation Center. United Press International reported Kaval videoed himself July 2 as he sailed over Oludeniz Beach on the couch, pulling out snacks and drinks, and kicking off his shoes to put on slippers as he settled in to watch cartoons. Kaval’s rig landed safely, and he didn’t miss any of his shows.

While Americans celebrated the Fourth of July by blowing stuff up, people in Seoul, South Korea, were surprised by an unannounced high-tech aerial display of encouragement and gratitude for medical personnel treating victims of COVID-19. AFP reported that 300 unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, lit up the sky for 10 minutes over the Han River on July 4 with messages about wearing masks, washing hands and socially distancing, then shifted focus to thank frontline health care workers. It ended with a silhouette of the Korean peninsula and the message, “Cheer up, Republic of Korea.”

The event was not advertised in advance in accordance with social distancing rules.

Do It Yourself Don Peters, 44, was arrested without incident on July 4, according to Akron, Ohio, police, after forcing his way around the counter at a Subway sandwich shop and making his own sandwich. According to police, Peters was intoxicated when he entered the store demanding a meal and became belligerent, damaging some plexiglass before charging behind the counter. Cleveland.com reported officers said they found a bottle of vodka and a block of Subway cheese in Peters’ pockets; he was charged with disorderly conduct, criminal damaging and open container.

Lucky Nathalia Bruno, 24, of Newark, New Jersey, survived a harrowing mile-long ride through the storm sewer system under Passaic on July 6 after she drove into high water during a flash flood, NorthJersey.com reported. Bruno, a driver for DoorDash, escaped her car as it filled with water, but the current pulled both her and her car into the waterway that runs under the city, Passaic Fire Chief Patrick Trentacost said. Bruno rode the wave until it reached its outlet above the Passaic River, where she was “shot out” and swam to a backyard on the other side. A homeowner called 911, and Bruno was taken to a hospital where she appeared not to be seriously injured. Her Toyota Prius was later found under a street the next day.

Need for Speed Kevin Nicks, 55, of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, was up to the challenge when he was invited to a racing event for unconventional vehicles at Elvington Airfield in North Yorks on July 4. Using parts lying around his house, Nicks mounted a Honda moped engine to the back of a wheelbarrow that recorded top speeds of 36 mph. “No wheelbarrow has flown down at the speeds I was going,” Nicks boasted to the Daily Star. “It’s thrilling and absolutely bonkers to drive it.” This isn’t the first time Nicks has motorized gardening equipment. He’s also the owner of the world’s fastest shed, which can reach speeds of 100 mph. “I like being creative and thinking out of the box,” he said.

The Passing Parade Pennsylvania State Police received multiple calls on June 21 about a Mercedes-Benz driving in reverse on the Pennsylvania Turnpike during rush hour. Troopers arriving on the scene said they found Symara Cole, 27, of Silver Spring, Maryland, passed out in the car with all the doors locked, WTAJ reported. A semi driver had stopped his rig behind her to prevent others from being harmed. First responders found that Cole was under the influence of drugs; pending charges include DUI and drug possession.

Bright Ideas Chen Haigang, 50, of China’s Shanxi province, credits his good health and well-being to a fitness regimen he created and has been following for about 30 years. Instead of doing tai chi or heading to the gym, Oddity Central reported on July 9, Chen acts like a monkey, walking on all fours and dangling his arms, even climbing trees and swinging from branch to branch. “I often watched the monkeys at the zoo. I thought it looked so fun and I started imitating,” Chen said. “Since I moved to the city for work, I’ve spent my free time doing the (monkey) walking exercise. ... I never need to see a doctor.” Recently, Chen has added other animals’ movements to his routine, such as crawling like a crocodile. He said many people have asked him about his routine but are too embarrassed to do it in public.

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Vicki Shurly, director of the Peninsula Community Library, spent years building a new library for the Old Mission Peninsula.

Once it opened late last year, she planned a cruise vacation. Shurly never expected the library’s first year in it’s beautiful new space would go like this.

By Patrick Sullivan As the pandemic descended upon Northern Michigan and changed all of our lives, Vicki Shurly, director of the Peninsula Community Library, was on the frontlines at the beginning, when on Traverse City’s Old Mission Peninsual, the virus turned from abstraction to reality, and at the next sea change, when places like libraries, shuttered for months, reopened.

In the beginning, Shurly and her husband had embarked on a cruise of the South Pacific that launched from Australia, a dream vacation that turned into a frightening odyssey. More recently, Shurly was tasked with reopening a critical institution on the Old Mission Peninsula and figuring out how to run a library in these new times.

Northern Express chatted with Shurly about her travels, her thoughts on reopening, and how she turned her South Seas misadventure into a must-read daily journal published in the Old Mission Gazette newsletter. Shurly is working on a book about her experience, which she is writing alongside Gazette editor, Jane Johnson Boursaw.

Northern Express: How it was that you were out of the country earlier this year just as the pandemic began?

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Vicki Shurly: I had spent some three years on the library’s new building project [the library had been housed in the building occupied by the former, Old Mission Peninsula elementary school, and it was joyful. There was so much community support for the building. People from every walk of life helped, but it was intense. It consumed most of my life for three solid years, if you can imagine. And my husband, I don’t know when it was, probably October or November — we moved into the library September [2019] — he said, “We need to get away.” And he’s a bargain hunter and found this lovely cruise to places that we’d always wanted to see. It hit many south Polynesian islands, and we went ahead and booked it.

It was scheduled for a little over three weeks beginning in the middle of February, and we were excited to just disappear from our normal world for a little while.

Express: Just before everything started to happen.

Shurly: Yeah. There were rumors of things going on. They were pretty much contained in Asia. The [virus] was in China, and we’d heard that it had spread to Japan, but there was no threat here. We had planned to fly into Hawaii and spend a few days there. While we were in Hawaii, we were told that certain

people would be screened, given whatever country they had been to before Hawaii. In fact, the flight from Hawaii to Sydney was delayed a little to allow for the screening, but we breezed through. It was just basic questions. No one took our temperature.

Express: You spent a couple days in Australia before leaving on the cruise. Was there much indication then that things were about to get weird?

Shurly: The night before the cruise, we were in a restaurant. For the first time, it kind of hit us that maybe this [virus] was bigger than we thought. A couple at the next table mentioned that Norwegian Cruise Line was refunding the cost of the cruise by 25 percent, and certain people wouldn’t be allowed. And they changed [our] itinerary a little.

Express: When did you realize that this was something that was going to change all of our lives?

Shurly: Not until we were on the ship and well into the cruise. It was probably about halfway through the cruise. Not even halfway. We went up the Australian coast — we didn’t set out for open sea until we hit Brisbane. We were headed toward New Caledonia, and the night before there was a letter on everyone’s bed, and [it stated that] if you were a national of Spain, Italy, or Germany, New Caledonia was not going to allow you off the ship.

It kind of hit us then that this had spread, that this was something more serious. It still didn’t hit us at that point that it had affected the United States yet. And there were disappointed people.

One man from Germany tried to slide through in front of us, which was the first time we realized what that little key card they give you on the ship means — it contains information like your country of origin, and usually it just chimes pleasantly, and you leave the ship, “Have a good day, be back by five.” His sounded an alarm, and there were security officers who told him he couldn’t leave the ship. I’d never seen anything like that before, and then he did back off, but I think that was our first realization that this wasn’t something that was contained.

Express: How did you come to start sending back journal entries about what was happening to the Old Mission Gazette?

Shurly: It wasn’t until after we started being denied ports. We disembarked at New Caledonia, went on to two ports in Fiji and Vanuatu, which is a very small Polynesian island, and we were supposed to be headed toward the French Polynesian Islands — Bora Bora and several other islands. And there was a night when everyone felt that the ship had turned around, and shortly afterward the captain came on and said that we had been denied entry into all of the French Polynesian islands. And our flight home was from Tahiti. That was when it hit us that this was something serious. We might not get home in the way we thought. It just kind of hit us that this was truly something that was going to affect everyone around the globe, and how are we going to get home?

Are we going to get a flight?

already hosted us. We were, as far as anyone knew, a disease-free ship; we left before the pandemic. Anyone from Asia who had been in the affected countries was not allowed on the ship.

We got partway to Fiji, and Suva, which is their largest city, said no. They redirected to us toward Lautoka, which is a smaller city, and assured us that there were flights to Hawaii and Sydney. But we never got to port; they changed their minds.

Then we headed toward New Zealand.

New Zealand said they would take us as long as we went to a port far in the south. And we didn’t make it too far toward New Zealand before they closed their borders. And that night, I remember, that night was stressful.

There was not panic on the ship, but you could tell among the staff and the passengers that there was some worry over how long we were going to be out in the South Pacific.

Express: I bet. Did they start running out of things?

Shurly: They did. They were very good about it. Fresh things disappeared. There was still a lot of food, but it was creative.

There was a huge dish of what they call paella every night, and it was a mix of different things — rice and whatever meat they had.

Lettuce disappeared. A lot of fresh fruits and vegetables disappeared. One morning a staff member — and the staff was incredible — but they did share that they had been told they could only have one protein a day. It started to get a little scary.

Of course, we didn’t end up in New Zealand. Rumors started flying. Rumors are always frightening because you don’t know what the truth is underneath. We were told we’re headed toward the Philippines; we’re headed towards South America. There’s a map in your cabin, and you can actually see where the boat is headed. We ended up in American Samoa and Pago Pago. They did not, to my knowledge, bring food onboard there. I’m not sure. It didn’t appear that they did, but they did allow the ship to refuel.

There were police and bright lights on the ship all night, which was something I never experienced. You know, you become someone that no one wants.

Express: Yeah. Wow. But then you finally made it back home.

Shurly: We did. After we refueled in Pago Pago, a day or two later we were told Hawaii would accept us. We weren’t sure though until we ended up at port because the governor of Hawaii had promised his people that his borders were completely closed. Somewhere along the line, half of the propulsion system on our ship failed, and the governor decided that for humanitarian reasons, they had to take the ship in, and they did.

Express: That’s so lucky.

Express: So then you were on odyssey to make it back to Old Mission from the South Pacific.

Shurly: We were. We had Coast Guard escort us into the harbor. It took several days. They had required Norwegian to come up with the plans to get people off the island.

We were never allowed off the ship until we were ready to fly off. Norwegian arranged charter flights. There were 19 charter flights to major cities around the world. You had no choice; you had to go where they assigned you. And then of course, once you got off wherever you were headed, it was up to you to get home.

Shurly: We were. That’s a good way to put it. It was an odyssey. We were told at that point that Fiji would take us back; they had not had many cases, and they had

Express: And then you got back to Old Mission. What was the atmosphere like returning home compared to what it had been when you left?

Before moving to its new location at the intersection of Island View and Center roads, the Peninsula Community Library was housed inside the Old Mission Peninsula Elementary School. After Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS) announced in October 2015 that the elementary was one of three in the district that would be closed, community members rallied. Some came forward to raise money to build a new library on 5+ acres of property the independent township library owned nearby; others raised funds to purchase the school property, and in September 2018, reopened it as a charter school, under Grand Valley State University’s charter.

Shurly: It was very much a shock. We had left a busy community. It was winter, but people still get out here. Now the roads were empty. There was no one on the roads.

We weren’t sure about groceries. We actually stopped in Cadillac, at Walmart, to get groceries, because we went online and found out they were open. We just got basics. It was almost as though the world here had changed completely. People were sheltering at home.

They weren’t coming out. We truly did not know what to expect. Our son had emailed us when we landed in Los Angeles and said nothing was on the grocery store shelves. We had some food at home but didn’t know how desperate it was going to get. It was an odd feeling to know that the world had changed so drastically.

Express: So, obviously, when you came home, the library had been closed — and closed indefinitely at that point.

Shurly: The library was closed. My staff had done a great job of closing, following all of the rules and regulations. However, I’m the business person behind the library.

There were bills to pay. The board had decided to continue to pay the staff. There was payroll to run, federal and state payroll reports that still were due. So, I lived here alone for a while, and it was an eerie thing.

I’ve been in the building alone before, but that was by choice. This was by law, and it just felt almost like the world was ending, at least the world as I knew it.

Express: Were you expecting the library would be able to open as early as it did, or were you expecting a longer haul?

Shurly: I actually had no idea. As the weeks went by, I thought we might be closed the entire summer. I was truly surprised that we were allowed to reopen in June. We opened in phases. We’re an independent township library, but we operate by contract with the Traverse Area District Library, Interlochen Public Library, and Fife Lake Public Library. And we met — the directors — several times and decided that regardless of the fact that we could have just opened at that point [May], we really were not ready.

We needed to work out a plan to keep patrons and staff safe. We talked about how to do that. We talked about dates. In the first week back, we all just had staff get ready, to decide

how to offer curbside service. [The library officially reopened to patrons on June 22.] It looks quite different in the library than it did before I left. Parents and grandparents love to come here. We have a huge toy selection.

Kids will spend the day here, and that all had to go away. Upholstered furniture had to go away.

Express: In some ways, it feels right now like different people are living in different realities, and I imagine that might be even more apparent on the peninsula, where you’ve got the library open under such strict terms, and in the backdrop, you’ve got party buses that are going from winery to winery.

How do you think reopening overall has gone so far?

Shurly: I’m a little leery of places of business just throwing open their doors. I think that there are many businesses here who have taken the same precautions that we have. We are tax-based funded; they have other economic decisions to make. I’m just mad when I see people in crowds on the beach or in businesses without masks. It is a law. We’ve required it here. And I have to say, almost everyone who has come through our doors has abided by it without being told. I did have one issue, a tourist from downstate, who challenged me on whose law it was. I told him we weren’t going to go there and managed to diffuse the situation. But I don’t know what the future holds for the library. I worry a little as businesses open quickly, that we will have a resurgence, that the library, which serves a huge need out here, will possibly be closed.

Express: So, would you go on a cruise again? And if so, when do you imagine that would be?

Shurly: [laughs] We would. You know, it was something that could have happened anywhere. We could have traveled in a more traditional manner. We could have flown to Spain or Italy or London and had been stuck there. People were kind; people were understanding. We never felt in danger. I think the biggest issue for us was the despondency of not knowing when we would see our family again, or our home, or Old Mission. So, we would absolutely travel again, but not until this is all over.

This interview was edited and condensed for clarity and space.

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Stellar spots for summer sky-watching in Northern Michigan

By Ross Boissoneau It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s … Comet NEOWISE? That’s right — the comet discovered less than four months ago is now lighting up the northwest portion of the night sky. It will be visible to sky-watchers here on earth through mid-August.

So where are the best places to observe it — and the millions of stars, planets, and outer space phenomena like NEOWISE and meteor showers? Fortunately for those of us who live in this region, most anywhere.

“Northern Michigan is a great place to view the stars, really anywhere north of Mt. Pleasant,” said Jerry Dobek, a science and math instructor who also teaches astronomy courses at Northwestern Michigan College.

Of course, it’s not always easy to see them, particularly in areas with lighted signs, traffic signals, office buildings, and other sources of light pollution. “Up here it’s a pretty good sky if you get away from Traverse City,” said Bob Moler. Moler is a fixture on Interlochen Public Radio with his daily “Ephemeris” program, on which he shares sunrise, sunset, and astronomical insights.

He first became fascinated with the skies as a youngster, and he’s followed through with that fascination for some 70 years. “It was a long time ago, pre-Sputnik. I was always interested in science. My mother knew the constellations,” he said.

Fast-forward some 30 years, and the Grand Rapids native moved north. After becoming part of a Grand Rapids astronomy club, he helped establish the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society, as well as teaching an astronomy course at NMC. And in 1975, his show, “Ephemeris,” debuted on IPR. It was just seven years later that Rogers Observatory opened, one of two observatories in this area. But due to the pandemic, neither Rogers nor Lanphier Observatory in Leelanau County are welcoming visitors or hosting viewings.

All is not lost, however. Dobek has used the downtime well. “The pandemic breeds

innovation,” he said, and in this case, he’s been able to modify low-light security video cameras and mount one on the telescope at Rogers Observatory. By hooking into Wi-Fi, he’s been able to stream the images.

“I can send to an iPad and with Zoom meetings can share the screen with others,” said Dobek. To his knowledge, that has not been done in any observatory classroom elsewhere.

Still, there are options for viewing on your own.

Northern Express and Dobek recommend: THE HEADLANDS DARK SKY PARK One of only two internationally designated dark sky parks in Michigan, The Headlands outside Mackinaw City is still a prime spot to see the stars. The grounds, trails, and viewing areas are open 24 hours a day, every day. Due to the pandemic, however, the park is limiting the number of vehicles allowed inside to ensure the safety of all visitors and staff. When its 67-space parking lot is filled to capacity, additional vehicles will have to wait at the Headlands entrance. Warning: Parking outside the park’s entrance and walking in is not permitted.

Visitors are encouraged to stay up through the night and into the early morning hours for the best night-sky-viewing opportunities.

Many of the Sky Park’s planned events have been canceled, but there are still some music events scheduled at its outdoor amphitheater.

For complete details, go to MiDarkSkyPark. org or visit the Headlands Dark Sky Park Facebook page.

THE STRAITS — AND THE LAKES If you have the skills and a boat equipped to anchor on a larger inland lake (farther from house and deck lights) or the big water at night, you could have the best view of all. You can rent a boat from one of several rental services around the region, though some only offer overnight if you pay for three days.

An easier option may be a Night Sky

Cruise on the Straits of Mackinac. Shepler’s offers five more such events this summer, with narration provided by night sky expert and star lore historian Mary Stewart Adams (see page 16 for more information). They depart from and return to Mackinaw City at various times, depending on the cruise. Go to sheplersferry.com/cruise/night-sky-cruises for more information.

SLEEPING BEAR DUNES Not surprisingly, Dobek said just about anywhere at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a prime place to see the stars.

“It’s so secluded. There are a lot of wide-open spaces,” he said, from the top of the dunes to the shore along Glen Haven. He suggested parking at the Dune Climb and stretching out on a lawn chair or chaise, though he said you lose some of the horizon unless you climb the dune.

Pre-pandemic, the park rangers and members of the GTAS hosted star-watching parties. Dobek said it is such an excellent place for starwatching that there is a move afoot to have the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park join the Headlands and Dr. T.K. Lawless Park in Cass County as one of Michigan’s internationally recognized Dark Sky Parks.

SIX STELLAR STATE PARKS Though without the esteemed international designation, several state parks in the state do sport an official Dark Sky Preserve: Wilderness State Park in Emmet County; Thompson’s Harbor State Park and Rockport Recreation Area, both in Presque Isle County, on the eastern tip of the “Mitten”; Port Crescent State Park in Huron County (at the tip of the “Thumb”; Negwegon State Park in Alcona, just south of Alpena, and Lake Hudson Recreation Area, in Lenawee County, near the Ohio line. (Fun fact: Lake Hudson Recreation Area was the country’s first designated Dark Sky Preserve).

TOOLS OF THE TRADE While simply gazing at the sky can be a wondrous experience, it helps to have some magnification. Telescopes give you a close-up view of the stars, but before you buy, consider this: “If you’re looking to buy a telescope, plan on spending close to $1,000. Most telescopes that people purchase for a couple hundred dollars are very cheaply made and do not have a steady mount,” said Dobek.

Even a decent pair of binoculars greatly enhances the proceedings. Dobek said to think “aperture”: the larger, the better. “The objects in the sky are large enough to see, it’s just that they are too faint for the eye to see. What binoculars do or a telescope does is increase the amount of light that we can bring into the eye.”

He goes on to say that the pupil opening when dark-adapted is about a quarter-inch, or seven millimeters. “A good pair of binoculars begins with an aperture of about 50 millimeters, which brings in about 50 times as much light as the unaided eye, so the object would appear 50 times as bright.” Telescopes work the same, he said, but warned that those cheap ones typically end up in the back of the closet, collecting dust.

Another technological innovation is the profusion of star-viewing applications. The numerous astronomy-themed apps range from planetarium simulators to lists of object coordinates. Moler recommends Stellarium, a free app that shows exactly what you see when you look up at the stars.

As to Comet NEOWISE, a NASA space telescope known as NEOWISE first spotted the icy rock, officially called C/2020 F3, on March 27. It is the brightest comet since Comet HaleBopp visited in 1997. While visible with the naked eye, using binoculars will reveal much more detail. To find it, look to the northwest just below the Big Dipper. And be warned: If you miss it this time around, you’re pretty much out of luck. It is now heading back into space and won’t be visible again for some 6,800 years.

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AN AMATEUR’S GUIDE TO THE NIGHT SKY NOW The Ceremony of Summer Stars

GEAR TO GET YOU STARTED

Here are some of my best tips and favorite resources for finding your way around the summer sky in 2020:

 First and foremost, a really good, clean

star map, like MSU’s Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar.Just $12/year for one map each month, highlighting the best things to see each week on the calendar side, with a map of the whole night sky on the other side. Available at www.abramsplanetarium.org/SkyCalendar/

 A red filter on your flashlight, so you don’t disturb your night vision — or the views of anyone around you. Wrap red cellophane or even a red balloon over a regular white light, but test it out at home first.

This image captured by photographer Libby Henderson at Lavender Hill Farm during Adams’ “Giants of the Night Sky” program July 13.

By Mary Stewart Adams In each and every day there’s a singular moment when, all at once, we realize … the stars. This moment brings a curious and immediate sensation of time moving on and allows us to recognize how little aware we are of what is present in the world around us, until we see it with our own two eyes. Even though the stars only begin to appear in the twilight, when the blue day has faded into its darker hue, and the sunlight has waned over the western horizon, we realize at the moment of a star’s first appearance that it has been there all along, steady and certain, no matter the events of our days.

Twilight is the best time to begin any summer stargazing adventure, especially if you are just beginning to learn your way around the sky. The brighter stars will always appear first, like signposts, pointing the way to well-known asterisms like the Big Dipper and the Summer Triangle, and indicating the region where the Milky Way will appear.

This summer, the array of naked-eye planets is intriguing, with Mars approaching his lady love Venus in the morning sky, where she is like a brilliant beacon heralding each new day as the morning star in the east, while Saturn and Jupiter are making a slow and steady procession beyond the Milky Way and toward one another, for their onceevery-20-years “great conjunction.”

This auspicious meeting will happen this year at winter solstice in December, but now is the season to get the best views of these two gas giants, since each of them comes to opposition with the sun this month (Jupiter on July 14; Saturn on July 20). The opposition of a planet to the sun is like a planet’s full moon phase; it rises in the east just as the sun is setting in the west, and then will march across the field of stars throughout the night, only setting in the West at dawn, when the sun begins to rise.

It takes Jupiter 12 years to complete one orbit of the sun, and in ancient cultures, this

 A good pair of binoculars can be helpful,

gave it dominion over all things that can be experienced through the element of space.

Jupiter is very bright — and will be the brightest object in the nighttime sky all summer long (excepting the Moon, of course). You’ll know it, because it’ll be the first to appear after sunset each evening.

To find Jupiter, look low in the southeast starting around 9:30pm.

Note that each planet makes its opposition to the sun when it’s exhibiting its apparent retrograde, or backward-going motion, moving from east to west against the background of stars, rather than west to east.

During the retrograde, planets loop closer to the Earth than at other times, which can also make them appear brighter than usual. Jupiter just made its closest approach last week, on July 15.

It takes Saturn about 28 years to complete its orbit — more than twice the time it takes Jupiter. For ancient stargazers, this behavior of Saturn’s lent to it being identified with all things governed by the element of time. Saturn to the Romans was Cronus to the Greeks, who established the boundaries of the Titan world and was regarded as the lord of the universe, but only after he expelled his father, Uranus.

Saturn is not nearly as bright as Jupiter, and it appears golden in the nighttime sky. Like Jupiter, Saturn is also making its retrograde motion right now, as though time were slowed down and lending a mood of laziness to the summer season.

Saturn comes nearest Earth on July 20, rising in the southeast just after Jupiter.

The two of them have bridged the thickest region of Milky Way stars to their right, where we find the constellation Sagittarius, and are now wandering on with the mountain goat, Capricorn.

Have you ever wondered what ancient sages were doing when they established the constellations — because they certainly don’t look like the objects and creatures for which they’re named. This mystery is settled when you realize that the ancients

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believed that every human being comes from a star, and that on the descent to life in the physical world, which is governed by time and space, the spiritual beings inhabiting the starry regions bestowed the gift of form to the human body, while the rhythms of the wandering stars, our planets, gifted harmony between the inner organs of the human being.

This way of knowing the human being in relation to the stars existed well into the Middle Ages; it’s evidenced by images depicting the relationship of the signs of the zodiac to the different members of the human being, from the head (Aries) to the feet (Pisces), and the planets in relation to their respective organs (Venus rules kidney; Jupiter rules liver, etc.). There were 48 recognized constellations in the ancient Graeco-Roman world, each described according to the member of the human being to which it was aligned.

It wasn’t until the 16th century that European explorers, traveling to regions of the world unknown to them, began to see stars over lands they had never known, which in turn inspired them to start creating constellations of their own, based on the patterns they made up.

So here’s the rule of thumb: If it looks like what it’s named for, then it might be a constellation that belongs to 16th century ideas, rather than to ancient concepts regarding our relationship to the stars.

Now, even though Jupiter and Saturn are at opposition to the sun this month, they join the lineup of planets that are visible in the morning, beginning with these two low in the southwest, and following on to Mars in the southsouthwest, then brilliant Venus in the east, with Mercury joining the scene low in the east toward the end of the month.

Identify your best stargazing spot by day, avail yourself of a map for familiarizing yourself ahead of time with what you what you want to see, then gather up some stories and head to the stars.

ranging in price from $80 to, well … the sky’s the limit. I particularly like the Vixen Optics 2.1x42 SG wide-angle binoculars, available at Enerdyne in Suttons Bay.

 Though I much prefer maps to apps,

there are a few night sky apps that are really impressive. Just always be sure to plan your viewing before you’re out in the dark, so you’re not wasting too much time looking at a screen instead of looking at the sky: • Star Walk 2, and Star Walk for Kids, which uses GPS to calculate the exact position of the celestial objects from your location.

• I also like Distant Suns and Pocket Universe as apps that offer fun features.

• The International Space Station Tracker website is fun to check, especially if you want to impress friends and family with predicting its appearance beforehand: www.spotthestation.nasa.gov

 The best guide of all to what’s in the

northern hemisphere night sky is the Big Dipper, which is overhead every night and can lead you to the North Star, Polaris, while its handle also arcs to the bright star Arcturus, from where you can speed on to the star of abundance, Spica. And then there’s the back of the Lion, which is where the Dipper’s contents would spill if its cup leaked! Following the Dipper’s pointer stars to Polaris allows leads you on to Cepheus the King — and Cassiopeia, his Queen. The Dipper’s position in the horizon can reveal the time of night and even the seasons of the year, plus the sweetest collection of three double stars, which skips along beneath this region of stars, known as the three leaps of the gazelle.

 Want to learn more about the sky and its

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From left: DB Henkel’s alleged George Ault forgery, “Morning in Brooklyn.” Henkel’s alleged “Gertrude Abercrombie forgery, “Coming Home.”

Forged in acrylic?

Federal agents and local cops raided what might be a Leelanau County art forgery operation that’s bilked art galleries around the nation.

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By Craig Manning On the morning of Tuesday, July 7, the scene in the dirt-and-gravel parking lot of Faith Missionary Baptist church in rural Leelanau County looked like something out of a movie, or maybe an episode of White Collar: Dozens of FBI agents and members of northern Michigan law enforcement, donning flak jackets and armed and ready for anything, gathered to go over the details of a plan to descend on a nearby residential property. Their mission? A massive raid of a supposed art forgery operation, one that has allegedly defrauded art galleries around the country to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Talk about TV drama.

Much is still unknown about the case.

Mara Schneider, a public affairs officer for the FBI’s Detroit office, said that she did not know exactly how long the investigation had been active but told Northern Express that it had been “ongoing for a while.” Schneider also confirmed that the Leelanau County Sheriff ’s Office “provided assistance for the initial entry into the property” but noted that the investigation has otherwise been entirely the purview of the FBI. Schneider said that, to her knowledge, no arrests have been made in the case at this time.

So far, the most revealing look at the story has come from a Detroit News article published on the evening of Wednesday, July 8. That article named local artist Donald “D.B.” Henkel as the owner of the property targeted in the raid — itself located on East Hoxie Road in Cedar — as well as the primary profiteer of the supposed art forgery ring. Henkel also sold sports collectible sports memorabilia, including baseball bats that purportedly belonged to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig; it is unclear whether these items were fake, or even whether the FBI suspects them of being fake.

The Detroit News was able to report on the investigation and the resulting raid after obtaining a copy of the search warrant af-

fidavit for the raid. That warrant has since been sealed by a federal judge.

THE MAKING OF AN ART FRAUD At 60 years old, Henkel — who could not be reached for this story — has long been a member of the northern Michigan art community. In 2005, his painting, “A Still Life with Cherries,” became the commemorative print for the 2005 National Cherry Festival.

Just three years later, in 2008, another one of his paintings — this one depicting a cherry tree in the shape of the Michigan mitten — was selected as the Cherry Festival print.

The FBI alleges that Henkel began selling forged paintings in March 2016 and moved at least eight forgeries in the ensuing years.

Kat Paye, executive director for the National Cherry Festival, said throughout her tenure at least, the winning commemorative print typically has been selected by a panel of judges; she added that she couldn’t speak to how the commemorative print program worked before she joined the organization in 2012. Starting in 2019, the program pivoted to become a student-only opportunity.

Henkel’s abilities as an artist extend beyond painting posters: Numerous times over the years, he has exhibited his work at ArtPrize, the Grand Rapids art competition and festival that takes place for three weeks every other fall, awarding hundreds of thousands of dollars in in cash prizes.

Prizes are awarded in both public vote and juried categories. Following its establishment in 2009, ArtPrize proceeded as an annual event until 2018, when it switched to a biennial schedule; the 2020 event, which would have been the first since 2018, has been canceled due to COVID-19.

The official ArtPrize website lists five previous entries from Henkel, starting in 2011. His entries include not just paintings, but also sculptures, carvings, and mixedmedia pieces. Henkel’s 2012 ArtPrize entry —a 3D bronze called “Rainman,” which depicts a middle-aged man holding an umbrella — can currently be found in a fountain outside of the Mercato building at The Village at Grand Traverse Commons.

Another entry, called “Father Time,” was identified by MLive as one of the top 100 public vote finalists in 2016, out of 1,453 artist entries. The “Father Time” piece depicts an old man, carved out of mahogany, presented as a working grandfather clock.

Though not listed on the ArtPrize website, Henkel also participated in the 2010 competition, with a piece titled “Coughin/ Ashes to Ashes” — a coffin made out of 10,000 cigarette butts. After contending in six of the eight ArtPrize events between 2010 and 2017, Henkel evidently did not enter a piece into the 2018 contest.

The FBI alleges that Henkel began selling forged paintings in March 2016 and moved at least eight forgeries in the ensuing years. Those eight paintings were all

purported to be previously unknown works by famous mid-century American painters, including five pieces attributed to George Ault, two to Ralston Crawford, and one to Gertrude Abercombie. Ault and Crawford are linked to the Precisionist movement, which typically featured industrial or architectural subjects depicted in precise, geometrical forms. Abercrombie is thought of as a Surrealist, a more difficult-to-define artistic movement.

A CRIME OF SKILL Andrea Gerring, an art history professor at Traverse City’s Northwestern Michigan College, told Express that the styles of the allegedly forged paintings are indeed “very similar in style” to the original works of Ault, Crawford, and Abercrombie. She also called the styles “seemingly easy to copy” and cautioned buyers against believing in any “too good to be true” scenarios in the art world.

“There have been many successful forgers in the past and today,” Gerring said.

“Their work is in many museums and there are many good books on the subject.”

While some artistic styles or movements are easier to replicate than others, though, Gerring admitted that passing a forgery off as an original — especially when selling through a reputable auction house, which Henkel’s alleged art forgery ring did — involves more than just painting a good fake. “[Auction houses] are very careful about documentation and provenance, the history of a work from the time it left the artist’s hands. There are also technical hoops that auction houses use, like special x-ray machines and sample paint testing.”

Craig Hadley, executive director of Traverse City’s Dennos Museum Center, echoed most Henkel’s “Rainmain” sculpture was featured in Grand Rapids’ of Gerring’s statements, saying that it 2012 ArtPrize. certainly takes both significant artistic talent and meticulous attention to detail to pass off an art forgery as the genuine article.

While Hadley cautioned that he’s “not an expert” in art forgeries, he did previously teach an undergraduate college course on the subject at Chicago’s DePaul University.

“They’re clearly very talented individuals,” Hadley said of art forgers. “To be able to not just make copies [of an artist’s work], but to be able to study and really think about a particular artist’s style and body of work — and then be able to think about what that artist might have created in that style that would be plausible and could pass in the art historical record — that requires a lot of research on the part of the forger. But then you also have to fabricate the history or the track record of the art: fake documentation about who actually owned it, fake receipts, fake photographs and things that substantiate where the painting was in time, so that somebody who wants to spend $50,000 or $100,000 or $300,000 is sufficiently convinced.”

FOOLING THE EXPERTS Because authentication is such a huge piece of art world infrastructure, the process of selling a painting supposedly crafted by a master is far more than a simple transaction between the owner of the painting and the interested buyer. Indeed, the

Henkel’s “A Still Life in Cherries” was selected to be the official print of Cherry Fest 2005.

system today involves art historians, collectors, donors, galleries, auction houses, museums, and appraisers. On the one hand, Hadley said that all of these parties would want to believe that a long-lost masterpiece is genuine, simply because a work that can fetch five or six figures is a win for everyone involved. On the other hand, he explained that everyone involved in the system “has every incentive to want to do their due diligence” in authenticating a painting; buying, selling, or being otherwise fooled by a forgery is both a costly error and a blow to any reputation predicated on expertise.

Because of this risk, artwork authentication has become an extremely detailed and sophisticated process, looking at everything from brushstroke length to the type of paint and canvas used in a piece. But skilled forgers are often up to the challenge, not only nailing an artist’s specific style but also going out of their way to get the right materials for the job.

“Forgers do research on all of this,” Hadley said. “They figure out that they need to use period material, that they need to buy old canvases by painters who aren’t significant from the early 20th century. Then they’ll paint over or remove the original painting, and they’ll paint over a stretcher in a canvas that is actually from 1920. So now you have materials that are from that time period, and you’re using the same types of paints the artists would have used, but you’re creating something new.”

Based on the FBI’s investigation, Henkel and his team of alleged art forgers were pretty good at fooling the experts. In 2016, for instance, $299,000 was transferred into Henkel’s account for the sale of “Smith Silo,” one of the paintings purported to be a forgotten Ralston Crawford original. The piece sold at auction, through the reputed auction house Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago.

The flaw in the plan? While hoodwinking appraisers and authenticators might be a fun challenge for talented art frauds, the fact remains that a single mistake or stroke of hubris on the part of the forger can unravel everything. That may have been the case with the supposed Northern Mich-

igan-based art forgery ring: According to the Detroit News article, authenticators for one of the paintings, purportedly by Ault, found that the work used acrylic paint and a yellow pigment called “Hansa yellow,” neither of which were period-appropriate.

“That could be one of two things,” Hadley said. “It could be a mistake, where the forger just grabbed the wrong type of paint.

Or it could have been that they intentionally used the wrong paint, thinking: ‘Hey, I haven’t been caught yet; no one suspects anything.’ And so they use a pre-mixed acrylic because it’s a lot easier than trying to mix your own pigment or dealing with the longer dry time of an oil. That’s the advantage of working in acrylic: it’s pre-mixed, and it dries much faster, so you have a shorter work time.”

A WORLD OF FAKES Despite the meticulous nature of the art authentication process — and despite how easy it is for even a talented forger to eventually make a fatal mistake — Hadley noted that art forgery is actually a much more common phenomenon than most people realize.

In 2017, the Wall Street Journal published an investigation into the online sale of antiquities; one expert interviewed in the piece estimated that 80 percent of antiquities listed on sites like eBay were fakes. In 2018, the Terrus Museum in the French village of Elne made the unwelcome discovery that 82 of its 140 paintings were forgeries. And Thomas Hoving, once the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, has suggested that some 40 percent of all art in circulation is, in fact, fake.

“It’s such a complicated system,” Hadley said of the world of valuable art. “We’re all sort of interconnected in different ways.

Museums depend on the generosity of private donors, who in turn depend on the expertise of the appraisal industry, and on being able to go to an auction company and purchase a work in good faith. But somewhere along the line, the system is obviously imperfect. 100 percent of what’s out on the auction block, not all of it can be real, just because we know that fakes and forgeries do make their way into the system.”

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2020 CADILLAC FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS REIMAGINED!: A Virtual Tour of the Arts Near & Far. July 13-18.

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---------------------SUMMER CRAFT SHOW: 9am-4pm, Emmet County Fairgrounds, Petoskey. The Community Building will host local vendors featuring a variety items including jewelry, home goods, food & more. 231-348-5479. $3/person. Find on Facebook.

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ENCHANTING NIGHT SKY - MARY STEWART ADAMS TO OFFER AN NAA ONLINE EVENT: 7:30pm. Listen to stories on preservation & viewing of our night sky. Then go outside, view the sky & see the stories. Register online. Free. northportartsassociation. org/all-happenings/2020/4/16/call-for-artistsdark-skies-atr4s

---------------------SUMMER FUN FILMS: “E.T.”: 7:30pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. Must adhere to social distancing & wear masks. Limited to 50 people per showing. $3. thebaytheatre.com

GREASE SING-ALONG: 8pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Presented by the Great Lakes Cinema Series. Socially distanced event. 50’s inspired costumes encouraged & vintage vehicles welcome. $8.50. greatlakescfa.org/event-detail/great-lakescinema-series-presents-grease-sing-along

---------------------MOVIES BY THE BRIDGE: 10pm, Michilimackinac State Park, Mackinaw City. Featuring “A League of Their Own.” Held at dusk. Free.

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july 19

sunday

SUMMER FUN FILMS: “E.T.”: 4:30pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. Must adhere to social distancing & wear masks. Limited to 50 people per showing. $3. thebaytheatre.com

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INTERLOCHEN ONLINE “LES PRELUDES”: Young artists of Interlochen Center for the Arts’ first-ever virtual arts camp will celebrate the conclusion of Interlochen’s 93rd camp season with musical performances including Franz Liszt’s “Les Préludes,” an orchestral work that has been played on the last night of Interlochen Arts Camp since 1928. This pre-recorded event will be streamed at interlochen.org/watch at 7pm. Free. tickets.interlochen.org/events/lespr-ludes-2020/july-19-2020-700pm

---------------------FISHTOWN’S 5K GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: CHERRY RUN: (See Sat., July 18)

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july 21

tuesday

VIRTUAL COFFEE @ 10: 10am. Delita Martin works as a full-time artist in her Texas studio, Black Box Press. Martin’s goal is to create images as a visual language to tell the story of women who have often been marginalized, offering a different perspective of the lives of Black women. This event is virtual & the Zoom link will be on crookedtree.org.

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TOGETHER THRU MUSIC CONCERTS: 7pm. Featuring finger-style guitarist, looping artist & singer-songwriter Jake Allen. Free on Facebook Live. Find ‘Gaylord Area Council for the Arts’ on Facebook.

---------------------33RD ANNUAL WISH-A-MILE BICYCLE TOUR – NOW VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------ALDEN 5K/10K RUN, 2 MILE WALK GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

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ENCHANTING NIGHT SKY - MUSIC ABOUT STARS, MOON & NIGHT SKY BY DOLCE: 5:30-8:30pm. Listen to music about the night sky. Online event. Register. Free. northportartsassociation.org/all-happenings/2020/4/16/ call-for-artists-dark-skies-atr4s

---------------------FISHTOWN’S 5K GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 18)

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BEGINNING SOFT PASTEL W/ SHARON WADE: 1pm. A free online workshop presented by Gaylord Area Council for the Arts. Learn the basics of soft pastel artistry, from drawing, color blending, etc. Posted on GACA’s Facebook page or web site. Call or email for a list of materials needed for each workshop. gacaevents.weebly.com/events--exhibits.html

---------------------MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: CHERRY RUN: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------TOUR DE TART GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------VIRTUAL BEAR RIVER CRAWL: (See Sat., July 18)

DOING GOOD FROM A DISTANCE - JAZZ, JOKES, & JESUS: 7pm. Featuring The Backroom Gang recordings. Live-streamed. Free will offering recipients: Food Rescue, Salvation Army, Love Thy Neighbor, & Good Will Street Outreach. youtube.com/presbyterianchurchoftraversecity

---------------------JAZZ AT THE LIBRARY: 7pm, Charlevoix Public Library, Children’s Garden. Featuring Mike & Michelle Davis.

july 23

thursday

33RD ANNUAL WISH-A-MILE BICYCLE TOUR – NOW VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

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july 22

wednesday

EJ MOVIE IN THE PARK: Dusk, Community Park, East Jordan. Featuring “Frozen II.” Free.

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CONCERTS ON THE LAWN GOES RADIO-RETRO: “REMEMBERING PATSY CLINE,” FEATURING JUDY HARRISON & REBOOTED: 7pm. Bringing you recorded concerts from the Grand Lawn to your own lawn, couch or kitchen table through the radio airwaves on WCCW 107.5 FM. Pass the virtual bucket for any free-will donations by visiting the website during the concert at www.gtpavilions.org/donate

VIRTUAL SUMMER READING PROGRAM MAGIC SHOW: Presented by Jordan Valley District Library. Featuring Cameron Zvara.

10am. Readers must register in advance. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ tZcoduytrTovGtX_evClRzaw7uLDkrf1vEC_

FREE FOOD FOR EVERYONE: 11am-1pm, Gaylord Intermediate School, Gymnasium parking lot.

TADL VIRTUAL SUMMER READING CLUB: (See Sat., July 18)

EVENINGS AT THE GAZEBO: 6:30pm, Old City Park, Boyne City. Featuring On Tap.

TOUR DE TART GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

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33RD ANNUAL WISH-A-MILE BICYCLE TOUR – NOW VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

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AUTHOR EVENT WITH WADE ROUSE: 6pm, McLean & Eakin Booksellers, Petoskey.

Celebrate the release of Wade’s latest Viola Shipman novel, “The Heirloom Garden.”

RSVP: 231-347-1180. Free. eventbrite.com. au/e/author-event-with-wade-rouse-tickets97011161997?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY ONLINE MEETING: 6pm. To request call-in info, email northern.michigan@citizensclimatelobby.org. citizensclimatelobby.org MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: CHERRY RUN: (See Sat., July 18)

TOUR DE TART GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

to provide legal & other insights into the past, present & future of the 67-year-old oil pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac & Enbridge’s proposed oil tunnel to replace them. Free. forloveofwater.org/ get-involved/upcoming-events

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---------------------CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: 12-1pm, Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey. crookedtree.org/article/ctac-petoskey/charlotteross-lee-concerts-park-2020

---------------------GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: CHERRY RUN: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------TOUR DE TART GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------THE END OF LINE 5: 4:30pm. Join FLOW and Oil & Water Don’t Mix for this 90-minute webinar

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TO THE WATER CHALLENGE: July 24-31.

A virtual fundraising event organized by Inland Seas Education Association (ISEA). Participants will engage with water, reflect on their experience, & share on social media. schoolship. org/news-events/to-the-water-challenge

---------------------ALDEN 5K/10K RUN, 2 MILE WALK GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: 12-1pm, Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey.

The Real Ingredients will perform on the Gazebo stage. crookedtree.org/article/ctac-petoskey/ charlotte-ross-lee-concerts-park-2020

---------------------FISHTOWN’S 5K GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------GOING TO THE WATER VIDEO SERIES: Local celebrities share their love for water & how they care for it. Videos will be released each Fri. from July 10-31 on the Inland Seas Education Association YouTube channel & shared on the ISEA Facebook page, Instagram account & website. July 24 features Seth Bernard, songwriter & recording artist.

---------------------GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------ART LEELANAU VIRTUAL OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION: 5pm. Opening Night tickets: $55; includes early access to online exhibit, virtual (Zoom) wine tasting with Bel Lago, & a picnic to go with wine from Bel Lago & food from Island Thyme Catering. oldartbuilding.com

---------------------MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: CHERRY RUN: (See Sat., July 18)

TVEDTEN FINE ART’S SUMMER OPENINGS: 5-7pm, Tvedten Fine Art, Harbor Springs. Featuring art by Margo Burian. tvedtenfineart.com

---------------------TOUR DE TART GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

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EAST JORDAN MUSIC IN THE PARK: 7pm, East Jordan Memorial Park Band Shell. Enjoy blues/rock with Marsupials & Chirp.

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ALDEN 5K/10K RUN, 2 MILE WALK GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18) NWS VIRTUAL AUTHOR SERIES: BRAD THOR: 7pm. This author’s new book, “Near Dark,” comes out July 21. He will be joined by guest host Doug Stanton. Register. Free. zoom.us/webinar/ register/WN_UtrRyLmaSxey8RqedXPTJA

---------------------FISHTOWN’S 5K GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 18)

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------------------------------------------SUMMER FUN FILMS: “JURASSIC PARK”: 7:30pm, The Bay Theatre, Suttons Bay. Must adhere to social distancing & wear masks. Limited to 50 people per showing. $3. thebaytheatre.com

---------------------TADL VIRTUAL SUMMER READING CLUB: (See Sat., July 18)

july 25

saturday

VIRTUAL BEAR RIVER CRAWL: (See Sat., July 18)

EAST JORDAN GARDEN CLUB’S ANNUAL NONSTANDARD FLOWER SHOW: 12-4pm, outside, at the Friends of the Jordan River pavilion, East Jordan. This year’s theme is “Fun & Games.” Admission is free. 231-536-3282.

TADL VIRTUAL SUMMER READING CLUB: (See Sat., July 18)

33RD ANNUAL WISH-A-MILE BICYCLE TOUR – NOW VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: CHERRY RUN: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------TOUR DE TART GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

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60TH ANNUAL LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY REGATTA: July 24-26. The Ugotta Regatta begins with “one-design” racing on Fri., followed by a “tourof-the-bay” course on Sat., & windward-leeward racing on Sun. ltyc.org

---------------------33RD ANNUAL WISH-A-MILE BICYCLE TOUR – NOW VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

------------------------------------------G.R.A. 5K: 9am, Hanson Hill Recreation Area, Grayling. runsignup.com/Race/MI/Grayling/ GRA10K

---------------------60TH ANNUAL LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY REGATTA: (See Fri., July 24)

---------------------6FT APART ART: POP-UP EXHIBITION + ARTIST DEMOS #1: 11am-3pm, Glen Arbor Arts Center parking lot. Watch studio artists demonstrate how they work & create. Participating artists: Kim Bazemore, Lindy Bishop & Angela Saxon. Blues guitarist Blair Miller will also perform. Free. glenarborart.org

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ALDEN 5K/10K RUN, 2 MILE WALK GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------FISHTOWN’S 5K GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------GREAT LAKES MUSIC FESTIVAL: LAITH ALSAADI: 8pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Winning a spot in the Season 10 finale of NBC’s “The Voice,” Al-Saadi brings a mixture of funk & groove, electric blues & soul, & rock n’ roll. $35. greatlakescfa.org/event-detail/greatlakes-music-festival-laith-al-saadi

---------------------GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 18)

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MOVIES BY THE BRIDGE: 9:30pm, Michilimackinac State Park, Mackinaw City. Featuring “Wreck-It Ralph.” Free. mlive.com/ news/2020/06/watch-movies-in-a-historic-fortor-by-the-mackinac-bridge-this-summer.html

---------------------MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: CHERRY RUN: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------TO THE WATER CHALLENGE: (See Fri., July 24)

---------------------TOUR DE TART GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------VIRTUAL BEAR RIVER CRAWL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------DOWNTOWN FRANKFORT STREET SALE: 9am-4pm.

---------------------TADL VIRTUAL SUMMER READING CLUB: (See Sat., July 18) SUMMER FUN FILMS: “JURASSIC PARK”: (See Fri., July 24)

july 25

sunday

60TH ANNUAL LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY REGATTA: (See Fri., July 24)

GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: CHERRY RUN: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------TO THE WATER CHALLENGE: (See Fri., July 24)

---------------------TOUR DE TART GOES VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------VIRTUAL BEAR RIVER CRAWL: (See Sat., July 18)

---------------------VIRTUAL TRAVERSE CITY TRIATHLON 2020: traversecitytriathlon.com

---------------------TADL VIRTUAL SUMMER READING CLUB: (See Sat., July 18)

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SUNRISE YOGA FLOW!: Tuesdays, 7am. A Vinyasa Flow session on East Bay Park beach, TC. Move & restore your body through movement & breath. Bring your own mat or towel. eventbrite.com/e/sunrise-yoga-flow-east-baypark-tickets-84780854819 YOGA IN THE PARK!: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 6pm through July 29. A Vinyasa Flow session in Hull Park behind the Traverse Area District Library, TC. Relax & restore your body through movement & breath. Bring your own mat or towel. eventbrite.com/e/ yoga-in-the-park-wednesday-nights-tickets-84779161755

---------------------STORY HOUR WITH MISS DIANE: Wednesdays, 11am-noon, Bellaire Public Library. For ages 0-5. Includes a story, snack & craft. bellairelibrary.org

---------------------GRIEFSHARE AT MICHAEL’S PLACE: Wednesdays, 1pm through July 29. Michael’s Place is partnering with First Congregational Church to offer GriefShare Online Video Support. Contact Michael’s Place at goodgrief@mymichaelsplace.net with questions. mymichaelsplace.net/griefshareat-michaels-place

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FREE FOOD BAGS: The Depot, East Jordan.

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STREET MUSIQUE: Thursdays, 6:30-8:30pm.

Each Thurs. will have a theme with music & musician types that fit the themes. Social distancing will be kept in place. Presented by the Harbor Springs Chamber Foundation & Blissfest Music Organization. Held on the streets of downtown Harbor Springs.

OUTDOOR MOVIE: Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Bring a chair or blanket to watch a movie under the stars. Movies range from G to PG 13. Held at the Mountain Adventure Zone on Wednesday & Saturday nights at dusk, July 8 - Sept. 5. crystalmountain.com/ activities/outdoor-movie

GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOURS OF TC: A two-mile, two-and-a-half-hour tour held on Sundays at 2pm. Begins & ends at Perry Hannah Plaza located at 6th & Union streets. Please wear a face mask & practice current social distancing guidelines. walktchistory.com

33RD ANNUAL WISH-AMILE BICYCLE TOUR – NOW VIRTUAL: (See Sat., July 18)

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2020 WATERSHED CHALLENGE: Celebrate the clean, healthy water our region boasts by participating in the 2020 Watershed Challenge: Grand Traverse Bay Your Way. This virtual challenge encourages people to get outside & bike, swim, run, paddle, or hike.

Participants are challenged to collectively exceed the goal of 2,020 miles completed. Runs from July 25 - August 22. https://runsignup. com/2020watershedchallenge

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---------------------WINE, WATER & WHEELS!: The Inn at Black Star Farms, Suttons Bay. This Black Star Farms Outdoor Adventure Package will provide a day of biking & sightseeing through Leelanau County, & one’s choice of paddle activity on Suttons Bay. Visit Black Star Farms online for details. blackstarfarms.com/ package-specials

---------------------OUTSIDE ISN’T CANCELLED! GRAND TRAVERSE KIDS’ BIKE LIBRARY: To keep elementary-aged students pedaling by making sure they always have a bike that fits, no matter their family’s resources. See what’s avail-

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---------------------6TH ANNUAL HAIKU CONTEST: Send in your original haiki by Aug. 15. You can enter as many as you’d like. Email submissions to: landmarkbookstc@gmail.com or drop off at Landmark Books in The Village at GT Commons, TC.

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BELLAIRE FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8am-1pm, front parking lot of ASI, Bellaire.

Currently only allowing a minimum number of individuals through at a time, & there will be a manned entrance & exit. facebook.com/ BellaireFarmersMarket?fref=ts

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---------------------DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8:30am-1pm, Howard St. - between Mitchell & Michigan streets. petoskeychamber.com/downtown-petoskey-farmers-market

---------------------EAST JORDAN FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, 9am-1pm, Memorial Park.

---------------------ELK RAPIDS FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8am-noon, Rotary Park. Market guidelines: https:// www.elkrapidschamber.org/farmers-market/ ELLSWORTH FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-noon, Town Square, Ellsworth.

HARBOR SPRINGS FARMERS MARKET: Wednesdays & Saturdays, 9am-1pm, Main St., Downtown Harbor Springs. New rules this year include being more spaced out (10-foot space between vendors), from State St., all the way to the end of Zorn Park, & customers are asked to wear masks. There will also be preorders available. harborspringsfarmersmarket. org/?reqp=1&reqr= KALKASKA FARMERS MARKET: Tuesdays, 2-6pm, held near the trout fountain at Railroad Square in downtown Kalkaska.

---------------------MANCELONA FARMERS MARKET: Thursdays, 3-7pm, Howard St. & East State St., Mancelona. Currently only allowing a minimum number of individuals through at a time, & there will be a manned entrance & exit. mancelonafarmersmarket.weebly.com

---------------------OUTDOOR FARMERS MARKET AT THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC: Held on Mondays through Oct. from 2-6pm on the Piazza. Please practice social distancing & wear a mask.

---------------------SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: Online Market: Wednesday Pickup ONLY, 5-8pm, Lot B, Downtown TC, across from Clinch Park. Physical Market: Saturday ONLY, 7:30am-noon, Lot B, Downtown TC, across from Clinch Park. dda.downtowntc.com/ farmers-market

Mon March 16- $5 martinis, $5TUESDAY domestic beer JULYpitcher, 21ST $10 craft beer pitcher.

8-9:30: TC Comedy TuesCollective - 4-8pm: The Pocket 9pm-1am: Kung Fu Rodeo

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Fri March 20 - Buckets of Beer starting at $8 (2-8pm)

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---------------------CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS - NORTHPORT PHOTO EXHBIT: Northport Arts Association. Call through Aug. 20. Space is limited.

Exhibit runs Sept. 4-13. northportartsassociation.org/all-happenings/2020/5/22/northportphoto-exhibit-2020

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EXHIBIT: SUMMER SALON: Runs through Aug. 15 at Charlevoix Circle of Arts. A salonstyle exhibit showcasing regionally inspired work by local & area artists. CharlevoixCircle.org

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DOWNTOWN GAYLORD FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 8am-1pm, under the Pavilion, Downtown Gaylord. facebook.com/DowntownGaylordFarmersMarket

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ENCHANTING NIGHT SKY: Village Art Building, Northport. Each artist presents the idea of preserving the dark sky to enhance the viewing of the stars, planets & moon at night. Runs through July 22. northportartsassociation.org/ all-happenings/2020/4/16/call-for-artists-darkskies-atr4s

BELLAIRE DOWNTOWN TO DISPLAY DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ART OUTDOOR EXHIBITS: Will be displayed July 19 through late fall, 2020. bellairemichigan.com/images/DIA_ Final_Art_map.pdf

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---------------------2020 VIRTUAL MEMBERSHIP SHOW: Presented by Jordan River Arts Council. Includes all media. Runs July 26 - Oct. 3. jordanriverarts.com

---------------------FREE VIRTUAL ONLINE ART CLASSES: Kids can log into Google Classroom & join Meg Louwsma, OAC’s art instructor, for lessons on historic periods of art & artists, face to face teaching & assistance, how-to videos of several art projects & a story time segment with Kaitlin from Benzie Shores District Library.

Each class will last 1 week & will conclude with an online exhibition of student work. Classes will run weekly into mid-August. Supply kits will be available at OAC for $10 & will include all the supplies needed for classes all summer. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

---------------------CALL FOR ARTISTS: 33RD RUBBER DUCKY FESTIVAL ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR: The arts & crafts fair will be held on Aug. 15.

Handmade items only. Register. bellairechamber.org

---------------------SEQUESTERED ART EXHIBIT: Runs through Aug. 29 at GACA Art Center, Gaylord during normal business hours of 1-4pm on Thursdays & Fridays, 12-2pm on Saturdays or by appointment. This is a multi-media exhibit of artwork, creative writing & music that was created during Michigan’s “Stay Home, Stay Safe” COVID-19 time period or for GACA’s 100-Day Project. gaylordarts.org

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MICHIGAN ARTISTS GALLERY VIRTUAL SPRING SHOW 2020: “Out of the Woods: Mammals, Memories and Mud”: Featuring six

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Michigan clay artists. Runs through July. michiganartistsgallery.com/out-of-the-woods.html

---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER: - DART FOR ART GALLERY: Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Runs July 24 - Sept. 5.

Featuring original paintings, pottery, photos, jewelry & more. crookedtree.org/event/ctacpetoskey/dart-art-gallery - YOUTH ART SHOW 2020 ONLINE: Runs through Sept. 1. Featuring over 1,250 images from young artists working throughout the Charlevoix-Emmet Intermediate School District. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-online-ctacpetoskey-ctac-traverse-city/youth-art-show2020-online - TC GUILD MEMBER SALON SHOW: Crooked Tree Arts Center, TC. Runs through Aug. 28. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-traversecity/tc-guild-member-salon-show - ACCELERATE THE CURE PLEIN AIR EVENT DISPLAY: Crooked Tree Arts Center, Gallery, TC. The Alzheimer’s Association hosted Accelerate the Cure, where plein air painters captured scenes from Fountain Point Resort in Lake Leelanau. This display features the work made during the event. Runs through July 31. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-traverse-city/accelerate-cure-plein-air-event-display

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DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - 40 CHANCES: FINDING HOPE IN A HUNGRY WORLD: Runs through Aug. 16. Featuring the photography of Howard G. Buffett & 40 photographs that document the world hunger crisis as part of a global awareness campaign.

Check web site for days & hours. dennosmuseum.org/art/now-on-view/temporary-exhibits/40chances.html - ERGO SUM: A CROW A DAY: Runs through Aug. 16. On Aug. 1, 2014 artist Karen Bondarchuk set out to mark the passing time that her mother – diagnosed with dementia in 2010 – no longer could. For 365 days, she produced

a crow a day on a hand-cut, hand-gessoed panel, remembering her mother as she once was & grieving her loss. See web site for days & times. dennosmuseum.org/art/now-on-view/ temporary-exhibits/crow-a-day.html - PULPED UNDER PRESSURE: Runs through Aug. 16. With traditional hand papermaking at its core, this exhibition underscores important contemporary issues steeped in history & craft.

See web site for days & hours. dennosmuseum.org/art/now-on-view/temporary-exhibits/ pulped-under-pressure.html

---------------------GLEN ARBOR ARTS CENTER: - MEMBERS CREATE: Annual exhibition showcasing members’ talents. Runs July 24 – Aug. 27. On display: 25 works in both 2D & 3D. The online version of the exhibition is available for viewing beginning July 24. Open every day, 11am–2 pm. glenarborart.org/events/exhibitmembers-create

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- 6FT APART ART: CLOTHESLINE EXHIBIT: Glen Arbor Arts Center. Runs July 24 - Aug. 27. glenarborart.org - WORDS FOR WATER POETRY THROWDOWN CALL FOR POETS: “Who owns the water?” That question is the basis for the July 31 Words For Water open-air poetry throw-down at the Glen Arbor Arts Center.

This event is part of the GAAC’s 6ft Apart Art program, a series of outdoor pop-up events, & is offered in collaboration with FLOW [For Love Of Water]. Each writer may read up to five minutes. No pre-registration is required.

Free. glenarborart.org/events/6ft-apart-artclothesline-exhibit - ART IN A TIME OF CORONAVIRUS - A POSTCARD RESPONSE: Glen Arbor Arts Center call-for-entry. Exhibit runs Sept. 11 – Nov. 5. This an exhibition of postcards created in response to the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. Postcards will be installed in the GAAC’s Lobby Gallery, & exhibited in tandem with the

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Power Tools exhibition in the main gallery. The submission deadline is Aug. 12. glenarborart. org/artists-main/calls-for-entry - POWER TOOLS - A JURIED EXHIBITION: Seeking submissions for this exhibit through Aug. 12. The exhibit runs Sept. 11 – Nov. 5 & is built on the belief that the visual arts provide powerful tools of expression. glenarborart.org/ artists-main/calls-for-entry - MANITOU MUSIC POSTER COMPETITION: The Glen Arbor Arts Center is accepting submissions of original paintings for its 2021 Manitou Music poster competition. The deadline for online submissions is Sept. 17. Open to all current GAAC members. glenarborart.org/ mmf-poster-competition-guidlines

---------------------HIGHER ART GALLERY, TC: - RUFUS SNODDY: CONSTRUCTION PAINTINGS & OTHER SMALL WORKS: Runs through Aug. 11. higherartgallery.com - CALLING MICHIGAN PHOTOGRAPHERS: Photographers should be based in Michigan.

Subject matter is open to anything. Monochromatic or black & white only. Up to three images may be submitted & considered for inclusion.

Deadline to submit is July 20. Exhibit will run Aug. 14-30. higherartgallery.com - THE WOODLAND: A digital exhibit. You can also view the exhibit in the Higher Art Gallery, downtown TC showcase window. Featuring the artwork of Kristen Egan & Brian Sostrom, through July. higherartgalleryonline.bigcartel.com - OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: “CITIZEN’S COPING”: Artists of all mediums are invited to examine how the last four years have changed them personally (or not), & express how the actions of this administration has affected them. NEW: Examine the effects of COVID-19 as well. Deadline to apply & enter submission is: 9/5/2020. Show Opens: 10/9/2020. higherartgallery.com

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Empire’s Shipwreck Cafe Quick and delicious breakfast, lunch, and fresh-baked goods at the gateway to Sleeping Bear.

By Ross Boissoneau It’s not a wreck of a restaurant. No, not at all. In fact, the cozy cafe in Empire is downright welcoming. And so far, the sandwiches sporting the names of ships that went down in the Great Lakes have been enough to entice seafarers and landlubbers alike to the restaurant Steve and Jennifer Nowicki opened three years ago.

“We’ve survived so far,” Steve Nowicki said with a laugh. The Shipwreck Cafe is a family operation that includes the two of them, their two daughters, a nephew, and others who, if they aren’t related, become like family anyway.

A BIG IDEA, LANDED Though both Steve and Jennifer had a background in the industry — she was a veteran baker, and he had managed several restaurants — the endeavor began through one of Nowicki’s other jobs. He’s both a licensed contractor (remember that) and a charter fishing captain. He knew people like himself wanted to be able to grab a quick lunch but found the options in southern Leelanau County limited.

One day while cleaning fish after a successful charter trip, he had an epiphany.

He looked across the street at a vacant building on M-22 in Empire between the EZ Mart and Roman-Jones Engineering. “I thought that was a perfect spot for a to-go

[restaurant],” he said.

Nowicki knew the building’s owner, so he called the guy, and quicker than you can say “Anchors away,” he and his family were opening the Shipwreck Cafe.

EASY EATS The cafe’s menu is simple, and so is its foundation: breads, buns, cookies, and treats all baked fresh daily by Jennifer. Pretzel buns, salted and Italian herb sub buns, cookies — all fresh, all scrumptious, all delicious.

The sandwiches themselves nod toward quick and delicious. No frippery here, as they learned from experience. “The first week, we let people build their own, to see what they asked for,” Nowicki said.

What they anticipated was not what they got. “We were [assuming requests would be] all hoity-toity, extravagant.”

To their surprise, what was popular was pretty basic, and they’ve since followed suit: chicken salad (with the requisite dried cherries, of course) in a wrap, spicy tuna melt with Colby jack and tomato, or the always-popular BLT with avocado. Those would be Madiera, Rouse Simmons, and S.S. Noronic, respectively — each named, like all of the cafe’s sandwiches, for ships that foundered on the Great Lakes. (Note: There’s nothing sunk about the sammies for kiddos: It’s either the ham or turkey and Colby Jack cheese Tug Boat, or the grilled cheese Ships Bell.) All of the sandwiches for adults

are priced at $8, but in line with Nowicki’s conviction that the area needed some graband-go food, customers can have their pick put in a sack lunch — with chips and a drink, too — for $11.

Most popular is the Fitzgerald: Turkey, bacon, Havarti cheese, cucumber, lettuce, and herb mayo on one of those freshlybaked pretzel rolls. “People go crazy for that,” he said. “It’s 30 percent of our sales.”

Also popular, even in the midst of a heatwave, is Shipwreck’s homemade white chicken chili. “We probably went through three gallons of chili, even today,” Nowicki said, while the mercury hovered around 90 degrees. “I’m surprised. We never know what to expect.”

In addition to the chili — served daily, of course, the Shipwreck offers a soup of the day and several salads, which subscribe to the basics — Caesar, chicken Caesar, chef, garden, house, and Southwest — but up the flavor factor by using local in-season greens and homemade herb croutons with each one.

Hungry before lunch? Three humble but hearty breakfast wraps are available before 11am — The Crib, with eggs, hash browns, cheese, onions, peppers, and tomatoes; the Fog Horn, which adds to The Crib’s mix your choice of ham, bacon, or turkey; and the Lighthouse, with just egg, hash browns, and cheese, plus your choice of ham, bacon, or turkey.

No matter when you pop in, don’t forget the cookies. Nowicki said it’s Jennifer’s

Clockwise from left: Outdoor seating aplenty at Empire’s Shipwreck Cafe. Simple but sensational, The Fitzgerald is the cafe’s most popular sandwich. Family and coworkers Steve, Rebecca, Hannha, and Jennifer Nowicki.

baking that’s really the star of the show.

“With our homemade bread and buns, you can’t go wrong.”

TIGHT QUARTERS Not satisfied with the cozy confines with which they started, the family this year decided to expand the space, all the better to incorporate the cafe’s next adventure: a wood-fired oven for pizza.

As a licensed contractor, Nowicki took on the job of adding on to the building.

Whoops. These days he’s sporting a sling because he tore his bicep tendon, so the addition is temporarily on hold until he can get some friends to help.

The injured arm is also limited his effectiveness at the cafe, but not his crewmates: “The girls have really stepped up,” he said of his wife and daughters.

To ensure social distancing, the cafe only allows five people inside at a time, but there are a number of picnic tables scattered on the grounds outside. Says Nowicki: “Lowe’s had a sale.”

Find the Shipwreck Cafe, open daily 8am–6pm, at 11691 S. Lacore Road (M-22) in Empire.

(231) 835-2580, www.shipwreckcafe.com

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So what does it mean? By “heaven,� I assume Dickinson meant marvelous interventions, sacred revelations, and lucky accidents—and maybe also soulful invitations, out-of-the-blue opportunities, and supernatural breakthroughs. What do you think, Sagittarius? What can you do to make your soul ajar for phenomena like those?

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ll be extra sensitive to stimuli in the coming weeks.

Every little event will touch you more intensely than usual. Every perception will flow into you with an unusually strong potential to move you and influence you. That’s why I think you should be vigilantly self-protective. Erect a psychic shield around yourself. Make sure your boundaries are firm and clear. Affirm your unshakable commitment to deflecting vibes that aren’t of use to you and welcoming vibes that will enhance your well-being.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The creation of the

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Diane

Ackerman tells us, “So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself.�

That’s the kind of loneliness I worry you may be susceptible to right now, Taurus. You’re a bit out of touch with aspects of your psyche that are

crucial for you to include in your total sense of self. You’ve been neglecting to nurture certain soulful qualities that keep you healthy and wise. Please note: It won’t be useful to try to find those parts of you in other people; you will have to locate them in your own depths. Here’s the good news: The coming weeks will be an excellent time to do just that.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Someone ought

to do it, but why should I?� Author and activist Annie Besant identified that sentence as the motto of people who are moral cowards: those who know about an injustice but do nothing to address it. Very few of us have completely avoided that behavior. Most of us, including me, have now and then chosen to serve our need for comfort instead of standing up against corruption or unfairness. But I think it’s more important than usual that you Geminis don’t engage in such moral cowardice now. More depends on your integrity and bravery than you realize.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “How can I communicate

to wild bunnies that I am their ally?� asked a Twitter blogger named Ghost Girl. That question is a good place to start my oracle for you. In the coming weeks, I think you’ll be wise to meditate on how to enhance your relationship with all kinds of wild things: animals, people, weather, landscapes, and your own exotic thoughts and fantasies. In my opinion, you will upgrade your intelligence and well-being by increasing your access to influences that don’t necessarily play by conventional rules and that draw their energy from primal sources.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s never too late

to have a rebellious adolescence—hopefully bigger and better and smarter than any you’ve had before. And according to my analysis, now would be a favorable time to get started. Is there any stuffy authority you’d be wise to flout?

Any dumb and oppressive conventions you would benefit from breaking? Any stale old traditions you’re primed to ignore so you can create some lively new traditions? In my estimation, you will generate good fortune for yourself if you try some benevolent mischief and creative experiments.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your word of power

for the coming weeks is *ubuntu*, a Zulu term meaning “I am because we are� or “the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity.� Nobel Prize-winning theologian Archbishop Desmond Tutu writes, “A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished.� I hope that between now and August 25, Libra, you will put ubuntu at the center of everything you do. Make it an intensely practical practice.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them,� says Scorpio-born Liberian politician Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. “If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.�

I trust you’ve arrived at this realization on your own in the past few weeks. And I hope you have audaciously expanded and supercharged your dreams so that they do indeed surpass your current ability to accomplish them. If you have not yet done this daring work, please attend to it now. If you have done it, move on to the next step: making definite plans to acquire the power and resources necessary to achieve your new, improved dreams.

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: I became friends with this awesome guy who moved into my apartment complex.

I can tell that he’s into me, but he’s not my type at all. What should I say to tell him I’m not interested?

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: Telling a guy you aren’t interested before he asks you out is like coming up to a stranger in a bar and saying, “This seat taken? By the way, I find you sexually repellant.”

Rejection shouldn’t be thrown around like croutons to geese. Social psychologist Mark Leary notes that romantic rejection can lead to people feeling ashamed for being “inadequately valued” by someone they’re romantically interested in.

The shame comes out of how high social status (being extremely valued by others) evolved to be the Amex Black Card of human interaction. It comes with important benefits, such as better access to resources, including a better choice of romantic partners. However, though shame is painful, the notion that it is a “bad,” maladaptive emotion is based in assumptions that passed for science (from 1971 by clinical psychologist Helen Block Lewis) that failed to look for the possible function of shame.

Emotions are evolved motivational tools that drive us to act in ways that enhance our survival and mating opportunities and help us pass on our genes. Accordingly, cross-cultural research by evolutionary psychologist Daniel Sznycer suggests that shame is a “defensive system” that motivates us to behave in ways that keep us from being devalued or further devalued by others in our social world. In a harsh ancestral environment, this could have kept us from being thrown out of our band and starving to death and/or getting eaten by a tiger. In the current environment, where food is plentiful and tigers mainly exist in cartoon form on cereal boxes, if you can avoid making a guy feel ashamed, it’s a good idea.

A feminism- and #MeToo-driven feature (or bug) of the current environment is that men are often afraid to be direct with women they’re into: “Don’t ask for what you want; just stare at it and hope it trips, falls into your lap, and decides you’re attractive.” If this guy seems interested but remains mum, there’s no reason to humiliate him by telling him you don’t find him attractive. Avoid flirty talk and body language and situations that could slide into makeout sessions, like Netflix ’n’ chillin’ together.

BY Amy Alkon If he does ask you out or make a move, be immediately clear and direct: “I’m only interested in you as a friend.” (Ambiguous brushoffs like, “It’s not a good time” send the message, “Try again at a later date!”)

If you can act like nothing awkward has happened between you, it should minimize his humiliation and shame. Sadly, sometimes “the birds and the bees” is a category that also includes “the vegetables,” as in, “I like you as a person, but I find you sexy like a potato.”

Bleachable Moments

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: I’m a 27-year-old elementary school teacher. My boyfriend wants to film us in bed, but I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it. I can’t help but play out some nightmare scenario that we break up and he does something awful with the footage.

He’s a good guy, and I trust him, but this still seems like a reasonable fear to have. Should I just calm down and go with it, or should I tell him my fears?

— Ms. Anonymous

A

: Your willingness to appear on video doing dirty hot yoga and making wounded animal noises should be directly disproportionate to how big you are on, say, keeping your job as a first grade teacher.

No matter how careful your boyfriend swears he’ll be, the reality is that any day can be turned into Casual Privacy Elimination Friday. Consider that “Oh, no...they hacked our cloud!” gets blurted out at major health care institutions with gazillion-dollar IT security. Also, as you note, today’s “I love you” can shift to tomorrow’s “I will ruin you!” and whoops, how did your sex tape get posted to 65 different websites in under an hour?

If you’re like many women, you find it hard to say no to requests from a person you love. Women tend to have more helpings of the personality trait “agreeableness,” which manifests in being kind, generous, warm, and cooperative. Research by psychologists William Graziano and Nancy Eisenberg suggests the underlying motivation is maintaining smooth, positive relationships with others.

However, just because you’re motivated to act in a certain way doesn’t mean you should, like when the cost of being “cooperative” could be potential career ruin. Steel yourself, and explain to your boyfriend that you really want to say yes, but you just can’t risk your students answering the question, “So, what did you learn in school today?” with “Teacher Likes It Kinky.”

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ACOUSTIC TAP ROOM, TC 7/18 -- Dolce, 8 7/21 -- Open Mic Night, 7 7/25 -- Sean Miller, 8

Sunset on West Patio w/ Jeff Haas Trio & Laurie Sears, 7-9:30 MAMMOTH DISTILLING, TC 7/22 -- Eric Clemons, 7:30-10:30 7/23 -- Clint Weaner, 7:30-10:30 7/24 -- Matthew Mansfield, 8-11

BONOBO WINERY, TC 7/18 -- Sean Miller, 2-4 7/24 -- Sam + Bill, 6-8 BRENGMAN BROTHERS WINERY, TC 7/18, 7/25 -- The Duges, 4-6 CHATEAU CHANTAL, TC 7/23 -- Unplugged on the Terrace w/ The Backsliders, 5-7; Jazz at

ROVE ESTATE VINEYARD & WINERY, TC 7/24 -- Levi Britton, 6-9 TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE, TC 7/18 -- Craig Jolly, 6

THE PARLOR, TC ON THE PATIO: 7/17-18 -- Drew Hale, 6-9 7/22 -- Wink Solo, 6-9 7/23 -- Chris Smith, 6-9 UNION STREET STATION, TC 7/19,7/26 -- Karaoke, 10 7/21 -- TC Comedy Collective, 8-9:30 7/22 -- DJ Coven, 10 WEST BAY BEACH, A DELAMAR RESORT, TC PATIO: Thurs. – Sun. – Live music

Emmet & Cheboygan BOYNE VALLEY VINEYARDS, PETOSKEY ON THE PATIO, 2-6: 7/18 -- Chase & Allie 7/23 – Chris Calleja

45 NORTH VINEYARD & WINERY, LAKE LEELANAU 7/23 -- Summer Music Series w/ Billy Policastro, 3-6 BOATHOUSE VINEYARDS TASTING ROOM ON THE NARROWS, LAKE LEELANAU 7/19 -- André Villoch, 4:30-7 7/22 -- Bryan Poirer, 5:30-8 7/26 -- Larry Perkins, 4:30-7 CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN, THOMPSONVILLE LEVEL FOUR ROOFTOP BAR: 7/21 -- Chris Smith, 7-9

7/24 -- Jesse Jefferson, 7-9

7/25 -- Maggie McCabe, 6-9

LAKE ANN BREWING CO. 7/18 -- Full Cord Bluegrass, 7-10 7/21 -- New Third Coast, 6:30-9:30 7/22 -- Wink Solo, 6:30-9:30 7/23 -- Drew Hale, 6:30-9:30 7/25 -- The Whiskey Charmers, 7-10

STORMCLOUD BREWING CO., FRANKFORT PARKVIEW TAPROOM: 7/18 -- Ella Shreiner, 7-9 7/25 -- Serita's Black Rose, 7-9

ST. AMBROSE CELLARS, BEULAH 7/18 -- The Ted & Ron Show, 2:305:30; Blake Elliott, 6-9 7/22 -- Bill Frary, 6-9 7/23 -- Jeff Bihlman, 6-9 7/24 -- Dale Wicks, 6-9

THE HOMESTEAD RESORT, GLEN ARBOR WHISKERS: 7/18 -- Chris Sterr, 7-10 7/23 -- Craig Jolly, 7-10 7/25 -- Rhett & John, 7-10

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CELLAR 152, ELK RAPIDS 7/24 -- Chelsea Marsh, 5-8

5-8 7/20 -- Jessica Dominic, 5-8

7/24 -- Crosscut Kings, 7-10 7/25 -- Under the Moon, 7-10

ETHANOLOGY, ELK RAPIDS 7/18 -- Outdoor Music Series w/ The Pistil Whips, 8-11 7/25 -- Outdoor Music Series w/ Blair Miller, 8-11

MAMMOTH DISTILLING, CENTRAL LAKE 7/22 -- Clint Weaner, 7-10 7/23 -- Jessica Dominic, 7-10

TORCH LAKE CAFÉ, CENTRAL LAKE 7/19 -- Pine River Jazz Band, 7 7/22 -- Lee Malone & Sandy, 7 7/23 -- The True Falsettos, 7 7/24 -- Leanna Collins & Ivan Grielick, 8-11

STIGGS BREWERY & KITCHEN, BOYNE CITY 7/18 -- Nelson Olstrom, 7-10

CITY PARK GRILL, PETOSKEY Fri -- Annex Karaoke, 9:30

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Antrim & Charlevoix

HELLO VINO, BELLAIRE 7/18,7/22,7/24 -- Rick Woods,

7/24 -- Petoskey Steel Drum Band, 6-8 7/25 – Chris Calleja

ALPINE TAVERN & EATERY, GAYLORD 7/18 -- Mike Ridley, 7-10 7/19, 7/23 -- Zeke, 5-8 7/24 -- Nelson Olstrom, 7

BENNETHUM'S NORTHERN INN, GAYLORD 7/21 -- Nelson Olstrom, 6

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A STREAM RUNS THRU IT This artisan built home is an incredible property, privately located off a scenic country road in beautiful Leelanau County. Complete with Dodge Springs Creek greeting you along the property as you arrive home, this one of a kind 4 BR / 3.5 BA home boasts 3 levels with two separate complete living spaces. Rent out the lower level for extra income! In house workshop, pastoral setting, and custom tile work throughout! $599,000 MLS 1855025 ADJACENT TO NATIONAL PARK 3 BR / 2 BA, 1,650 square feet of finished living space in this delightful cottage just a mile outside Glen Arbor village and a 5 minute walk to Glen Haven and the beaches of Lake Michigan. Main floor master bed and shared bath, sun porch, large deck for entertaining, attached 2 car garage, and additional bonus room above the garage that will sleep 4 additional guests!

All of this in the coveted Glen Lake school district! A must see! $459,900 MLS 1858423 COMMERCIAL BUILDING - EMPIRE Located in the village of Empire, this is an ideal location for any Leelanau based business. 816 sq/ft office space in street-side portion has bath & kitchenette.

1908 sq/ft warehouse in rear offers 16’ ceilings, double 14’ overhead doors, lofted mezzanine for additional storage & 2nd bath. $230,000 MLS 1858611

117 ACRES IN LEELANAU Large acreage parcel just 15 miles west of Traverse City. Mostly wooded, perfect for a secluded home site, or hunting camp. Small pond and several clearings made for ideal hunting. With several old logging trails for hiking or skiing. $737,000 MLS 1868477

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PLEIN AIR FROM THERE ONLINE GALLERY EXHIBIT & SALE

July 27

4-5:30pm VIP ACCESS 6pm PUBLIC ACCESS

Welcome to our 8th Annual Northport Plein Air Paint Out event.

This year will be an exciting new experience as the Plein Air Artists paintings will be presented VIRTUALLY. On Saturday & Sunday, July 25 & 26, artists will be painting “Plein Air from THERE” which could be near their homes or anywhere!

VIP VIRTUAL EXHIBIT & SALE July 27, 4-5:30pm

If you purchased access before 7/19 the Access Code will be emailed before 4pm on July 27, 2020

PUBLIC ACCESS begins July 27, 6pm thru July 31, 4pm

more details at

NorthportArtsAssociation.org We THANK the sponsoring organizations, the Whitneys and David Najdowski for their support The Northport Arts Association is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization Pastel by Barbara Reich 2019 Northport Plein Air, barbarareich.com

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CLAS SIFIE DS OTHER STONE WALL CONSTRUCTION ~ classically trained: landscape stone mason natureofstone.com elliptical stone benches dswagb certified __________________________________

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MAGAZINE CARRIER WANTED!: Need a reliable carrier to deliver magazines around N. Mich. Could make $20k/year!

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only available in store Stop by to see our entire summer inventory (mask’s required)

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7 Modern Live/Work Units near Boardman Lake Very unique investment opportunity $1,100,000 MLS#1854942

133’ of beautiful Old Mission Peninsula frontage Stylishly impeccable 3 Bed/2.5 Bath $1,075,000 MLS# 1872313

40 acres on Old Mission Peninsula with build site Prime AG land, Conservation Easement in place $850,000 MLS# 1872811

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Desirable State Street neighborhood Marvelously updated Craftsman, 5 Bed/3 Bath $575,00 MLS# 1869152

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3 bed/2.5 Bath in desirable Morgan Farms Immaculate and elegant stand alone home $519,000 MLS# 1872877

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3 bed/1 bath ranch, just miles from town 2.4 acres with a small barn $225,00 MLS# 1875713

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Lovely Port of Old Mission 3 bed/2.5 bath condo $400,000 MLS#1875947

5 bed/3.5 bath, recent modern updates Beautifully wooded 1.5 acres $333,000 MLS#1876787

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Charming one-of-a-kind on Old Mission Peninsula Incredible landscaping & award-winning historic barn $500,000 MLS# 186240

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37 acres, zoned Moderate Density Residential Great development opportunity! $425,000 MLS# 1875714.

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3 bed, 1 bath, amazing location!

Recent updates, great potential rental property $200,000 MLS#1877089

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3 bed, 1 bath just miles from downtown TC 3.23 acres- lovely country setting $185,000 MLS# 1875799

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