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letters Shame on You, Republicans While we see our Republican legislative leaders expressing shock over this kidnapping plot here in Michigan, they have been busily trying to co-opt our elected governor since she was inaugurated. They passed a slew of lameduck bills to remove various powers, which they were perfectly happy with so long as a Republican was governor.

They have promoted all manner of divisive and obstructionist legislation, including support for Second Amendment [supporters].

This came back to bite these Republicans when they noticed armed Proud Boys and Boogaloo Bois in the spectator’s gallery during one of their sponsored protests sessions in April.

Our COVID-19 infection rates started high — mostly because we are an international transportation hub. Gov. Whitmer invoked pandemic shutdown controls, which worked.

Were these controls perfectly applied? Of course not. Adjustments have been and are continuing to be made while we keep the pandemic at bay here in Michigan.

Michigan’s gerrymandered Republican legislature is completely dysfunctional. They have been aided and abetted by the DeVos family. Republican policy has defunded our state. We all suffer from this.

John Gerty, Williamsburg Shame on You, Democrats I’m an Independent voter that weighs the merits of the candidates before selecting the one who best serves my beliefs. I then go to the polls and quietly vote for my choices.

As I drive down my street daily, I note that about three-quarters of the people have no political signs, and the remainder seem equally divided between the Trump and Biden camps.

What I’ve also noted is that nothing has changed with the Biden or Democratic signs since they were installed. This is definitely NOT the case with the Trump and Republican signage.

They are often removed (only to be replaced the following day) or destroyed, with the tatters littering the lawns. Lately, there has also been damage done to the lawns, landscaping, and even houses of those displaying such signs.

Where is this hate coming from? Why would any reasonable person believe that the destruction of private property, trespassing, and vandalism is acceptable over political beliefs? Is this what the Democratic party has become? A bunch of thugs trying to not only push the country into Socialism but bent on destroying anyone and anything that doesn’t support their beliefs? What has happened to common human decency?

Shirley Perry, Traverse City Left in the Dark After over 40 years of struggling in the building trades, I think I know a con when I see one. In the early 1990s, I was at an electrical inspectors’ continuing education meeting in Grand Rapids, when an urgent call to action came in. The Michigan Home Builders Association was trying to sneak in an attachment to a bill coming before the Michigan Legislature that would allow home builders to wire houses themselves, without licenses.

So, let me do a favor for any young people out there who are thinking of trying to make a career out of a building trade: Run, don’t walk away from that nonsense!

It will never be a career, only a parttime, rotten, seasonal job with no security, hot/cold and filthy working conditions, and many health hazards, longer and longer hours, months on the road, and a constant fresh

supply of apprentices to replace you once you know what you are doing and get your license — all so that contractors and contractor syndicates can keep profits up by keeping hourly wages low, good benefits a dream, and dumping you ASAP when times get tough or your body starts wearing out.

Dennis Hofer, Lake Ann Crisis Time for the Earth We are living in crisis times. California is burning after years of drought, hurricanes are ravaging the South in great numbers, oceans are warming, the Great Plains (our “breadbasket”), have been ravaged by storms, and still, the fossil fuel industry and our leadership in Washington doesn’t care to take any responsibility. The United States is only 4 percent of the world’s population, but we produce 25 percent of the CO2 pollution.

James Hansen warned us over 30 years ago.

The International Panel on Climate Change, composed of scientists from all over the world, has warned us repeatedly that unless action is taken to stabilize and reverse this, we will see more unpredictable weather, more severe storms, many more food deserts, major drought, and huge migrations of displaced peoples.

Fresh water and food are not optional. Every day brings us closer to the point of no return. It is predicted by scientists that we only have about 10 years to make a difference in reducing the warming and pollution. Reducing your personal use of fossil fuels is good, but it is not enough.

We have seen young people trying to lead us.

Now it is up to us to elect leaders who believe in science, and who will actively engage in all that is needed to protect the only earth we have.

Ann Rogers, Traverse City Dana Deserves 1st Women’s March TC is proud to endorse Dana Ferguson for the 1st Congressional District election. Dana is dedicated to making Northern Michigan and our Upper Peninsula stronger, more progressive, and a healthier place to live and breathe. He has a clear vision for our future and will be dedicated to working for and with us to see that plan becomes a reality.

Dana has a good heart and genuine respect for the people he will represent. He cares deeply about women’s rights, social justice rights, economic equality, and environmental protection.

His love of our great state is heartfelt, and his honesty and integrity is undeniable.

He has visited every county in our district at least three times to meet the people and learn what concerns we have. He will fight hard for us! Unlike Jack Bergman, who is totally out of touch with his constituents, Dana listens, hears, and responds to our concerns. It’s time for a representative who will be dedicated to our district. It’s time for a native Michigander to be the true voice for Northern Michigan.

Monica Evans, Cathy Fenlon, Sara Potter, and Peg Fry of Women’s March TC, Traverse City Hope 2020 Renewed hope for America hinges on restoring our government to a government “of, by and for” the people. This will only occur when we voters elect competent representatives and leaders with the integrity and commitment to serve the nation and people — not themselves or their party. America’s current state of disarray and authoritarianism will continue if we do not change.

Our representatives must be committed to serving faithfully under the rule of law, following their oaths of office. To do so and avoid more

uncaring and oppressive governance, we need to elect Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Gary Peters, Dana Ferguson, and Dan O’Neil. In their respective elected positions at federal and state levels, they will help provide the best chance of accomplishing a return to proficient government. They will prevent our Social Security and the Affordable Care Act from being terminated. They will help ensure national security and law and order, safeguard our precious environment, promote quality education in our public schools, listen to and respond truthfully to our concerns, show up to debate issues, hold town-hall meetings, and work for us — not party or big money.

America’s hope for the future relies on our successors, our youth, who will lead the government they inherit from us. If we entrust them with restored governance and renewed faith in America here and abroad, they will be better able to protect and defend our democracy and way of life. When voting, think of our youth leading the way to a better future!

Bill Steeves Jr., Traverse City Local Voting Assurance Google Maps show me that Washington, D.C. is over 750 miles from the Traverse City region. Recently from that far-off land, there has been a parade of pundits spewing warnings about mail-in/absentee ballots.

I have worked election polls for 15 years. I thought it might be helpful and a comfort for me to offer a local perspective on this process.

Your friends and neighbors who work and administer our elections are sworn, pledged, and promised to care for the counting and integrity of your ballots. Because of that, there is a democratic purity at our polls that rises above partisanship.

For me, it is refreshing to work for our country, regardless of party. We are doing our jobs as Americans, not republicans or democrats.

Hopefully, this philosophy instills confidence in our voters. The pride we have in our jobs makes us bristle a little when we hear national leaders question our processes. The charges are unfounded, confounding, and dumbfounding.

They don’t know us, but you do.

Our county and township clerks are our captains. They are sticklers for details as they govern a system of checks and balances, committed, knowledgeable trainers, and responsible supervisors. Those of us who work the front lines get our election ethics and accuracy from them. We are charged with making numbers match exactly. There are multiple levels of accountability for ballot security. On top of that, we make every effort to provide a voting process that is pleasant and professional. Your confidence and trust are the fuel that propels us through long hours.

How well do you know your local election teams? When it comes to a voting plan, are you doing long-distance clickin’ or local listenin’?

Talk to your clerks or your election workers.

Worried about voting absentee? Get your ballots in early, or for ideal confidence, bring them right to your township office. Remember: There is a dangerous pandemic afloat, so create an appropriate strategy. If you decide to vote in person, be ready, be patient, and bask in an atmosphere that is the height of democracy, facilitated by workers you know. We will be sure your votes are counted. Let us celebrate our democracy locally, safely and securely, together.

Jeffray N. Kessler, Elmwood Township Simple As the [novel] coronavirus goes up!

The stock market goes down!

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CONTENTS features The Queen of Underground Country Returns...7

One for the Ages..........................................10 Polish Art Center.................................................12 Voter Suppression in Bigham Township.........13

columns & stuff Top Ten.......................................................5

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle...............................6 Opinion.........................................................8 Weird............................................................9 Film.............................................................18 Dates........................................................14 Advice.....................................................19 Crossword..................................................20 Astrology.....................................................20 Nitelife.....................................................21 Classifieds...............................................22

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top ten ALTERNATE WHEELWAY ROUTE WANTED

Emmet County, Resort Township, and the City of Petoskey have agreed to fund a study to explore possible detours for a section of the Little Traverse Wheelway that has been closed due to erosion.

A section of the Wheelway, located just west of Petoskey, collapsed amid high-water levels, forcing walkers and cyclists to use the US-31 shoulder as an alternate, potentially dangerous route.

Brent Bolin, executive director of the Top of Michigan Trails Council, said officials initially thought they could simply close that section of the path between Charlevoix and Petoskey, but it turned out that too many people skirted around barriers and used the trail anyway.

Bolin said that while the detour is expected to be temporary, it likely will be in use for years before the Wheelway itself is reconstructed.

“The slope that failed is going to need to be fixed to protect homes, businesses, and the road,” Bolin said. “But here’s the thing: It’s a big project, so even if we started today, it would take a couple of years.”

Now that the three local governments have agreed to fund the $9,750 study, an alternate route could be in place by next spring — if everything goes as planned and the Michigan Department of Transportation signs off on it.

ramsdell theatre After an April cancellation, Manistee-area artist Mary Wahr finally gets her due. The Ramsdell is presenting a retrospective exhibit of her bold, colorful work, which often reveals a convergence of math and art, until Nov. 13.

Make a reservation for in-person viewing or look and purchase online at www.RamsdellTheatre.org/art-exhibits

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“Eat A Peach,” inspired by the titular Allman Brothers album, tells the story of how an isolated kid with anger issues became one of the most influential people of the 21st Century. An accidental epicurean, Chang’s approach to authorship mirrors that of his career: Honesty is just easier. As such, his memoir covers everything from mental health stigma to staple Korean cuisine. A Michelin-worthy read, “Eat a Peach” will leave readers both full and fulfilled.

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We know what you’re thinking: “A pickle pizza? Ew.” Well, stop that; we suspect even people who don’t like pickles will like this pizza. It’s that good. Officially known as the Boar’s Head Dill Pickle Pizza, this stone-baked creation — available at Fresh Coast Market — spreads extralarge but thinly sliced Boar’s Head dill pickles and a dotting of Boar’s Head ham atop what feels like the creamiest cream cheese and gooiest mozzarella to ever have met your mouth. More milky than straight-up salty, the garlic-dappled cheeses here make the ideal mate for the pickles, which mellow during their time in the oven and bear not the vinegary bite you’re expecting but rather, a piquant zing we adore. Finally, the crust. Pillow-soft, slightly sweet, and every single time we’ve ordered (which has been … a lot), perfectly toasted; never burnt or undercooked.

(We don’t recommend changing a thing unless your diet absolutely requires, but gluten-free and cauliflower crust options are available too.) $12 for the 10-inch; $17 for the 14-inch. Find Fresh Coast Market at 7270 N. Long Lake Rd. in Traverse City. (231) 922-7712.

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GETTING OUT THE VOTE IN BENZIE

In a year with so much at stake in the election locally and nationally, a grassroots movement in Benzie County is working to get recent high school graduates to vote.

Aubrey Ann Parker said she realized that over the past seven years, she’s coached soccer to at least 100 young adults who are now of voting age. She said she texts almost all of them every election, but only around 15 of them have ever voted.

“What I’ve learned about young people over the past seven years is that they are more likely to do something if they feel prepared; stepping outside of a comfort zone is scary for anyone, and it’s especially daunting at this point in their development,” she said. She also said she learned that young adults are much more receptive to suggestions from people their own age.

Now, as the election looms, Parker has recruited 30 “voting ambassadors,” former players ages 16 to 24, who have each volunteered to encourage at least two of their peers to vote.

“If all of them do this, that could be as many as 50–100 new voters in the 18- to 23-yearold range who are voting in Benzie County,” Parker wrote.

Follow the project on the Facebook page Benzie Votes or @benzievotes on Instagram.

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When Road Construction Unearths a Treasure Those of us who frequent the fabulous trails and labyrinth next to Traverse City’s Historic Barns Park and Botanic Garden might be frustrated by the surrounding road construction — old gravel roads are being turned to pavement, which will be part of a stormwater system that feeds retention swales and wetlands — but the work has already revealed something special.

While excavating the site of a cottage that once housed employees of the former TC State Hospital farm, the Team Elmers construction crew came upon a large concrete vault.

They carefully crushed the vault, scooped out the broken concrete and other debris, and at the very bottom of the hole discovered a single china plate, in perfect condition, without a chip or crack — even after over 60 years underground and a less-than-gentle retrieval.

The china, which was commissioned by the State of Michigan and features the Michigan coat of arms, once graced the very fine dining rooms that served patients of the former asylum. It was produced by the Lamberton China Company in Trenton, New Jersey, somewhere between 1920 and 1925. You can see it on display at the Botanic Garden’s Visitor Center gift shop, 1490 Red Dr. in Traverse City. www.thebotanicgarden.org

Dining Deals and a SkeleTour in Harbor Springs For reasons we don’t have to explain, many towns have abandoned their restaurant weeks this year. Not so in Harbor Springs. You can catch its restaurant “week” for 10 days(!), running from the time you read this until Oct. 25. At the time of press, 13 eateries had signed on. There’s just one caveat: Instead of pre-set price points, like the event has had in the past, participating restaurants have the flexibility to offer whatever specials work best for them. But here’s what’s great for you, hungry people: Popular discounts include two-for-oneprice entrees; a free appetizer or dessert with entrée; or just a red-hot deal on certain meals — and most offers are good for takeout as well as dine-in. Bonus event: At the same time this little resort town on the north shore of Little Traverse Bay is hosting its restaurant week, it also has 40 skeletons hanging out around town, plus a self-guided SkeleTour so you can hunt down each. Learn more and get the map at www.harborspringschamber.com

8 bottoms up Gabriel Farms & Winery’s Strawberry-Rhubarb Cider

FUN RUN FOR ALL!

So, summer has faded amid the death song of insects and the rustle of changing leaves.

Please know, gentle reader, that a warming dose of the temperate season lives on in Gabriel Farms & Winery’s Strawberry-Rhubarb Cider (5% ABV, $7/pint). Each sip of this blushcolored, effervescent compote hearkens to Northern Michigan's once-cloudless, blue-sky mornings. Strawberry fragrance floods the nose, but the berry’s sweetness and flavor are muted, undercurrents that flow stealthily beneath the rhubarb’s tart crispness. A tender four months old, Gabriel Farms & Winery is one of the area’s newest venues, offering not just cider but also house-made wines and craft beers, as well as a small roster of “Short Bites” that pair well with the beverages. For example, the Strawberry-Rhubarb Cider was well complimented by the Spicy Feta Dip, which came with a choice of fresh vegetables, naan, or crackers.

The winery’s Karen Needs A Manager Kolsh-style beer (5% ABV, $7/pint) was also a winner, as was the Sweet Gabby, a delicious, sweet table wine made from Tip-of-the-Mitt Brianna grapes. Find it all at Gabriel Farms & Winery at 2800 E. Mitchell Rd., (231) 622-8880, www. gabrielfarmsandwinery.com.

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Half the states, including Michigan, will only count mail-in ballots that arrive by the time the polls close on Nov. 3. County clerks here will be allowed to begin processing mail-in ballots, though not tabulating votes, 10 hours before the polls close. Allowing them additional time to verify signatures and begin processing the ballots will speed things up, but we're talking around 2 million ballots statewide.

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The Brennan Center for Justice has researched voter fraud and found it accounts for 0.0003 percent of all votes cast. All the cases of fraud they did discover involved individuals or a small group trying to stupidly game the system and getting caught.

There was no widespread voter fraud, much less any organized effort at such a thing.

Here in Michigan, more than 21 million ballots have been cast since 2007. In that time, there have been 11 successful prosecutions for voter fraud, and four of those involved petition signatures.

You will recall there were cries of widespread voter fraud before, during, and after the

There are already states in which the majority of voters have voted by mail for years. There has been no widespread fraud in those states, and there's no reason to suspect there will be any around the country this year.

It will take a long time. Not as long, however, as in the other 25 states and D.C. They will count any ballot postmarked on or before Election Day. All have time limits, though Washington state's is pretty extreme; they'll count any ballot properly postmarked for 23 days after the election. And most won't start processing ballots until the polls close.

These states, which account for 364 of the 538 electoral votes, will take at least several days to tally every ballot. It will be frustrating, but not to everybody.

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Every state has some form of early, mail-in voting this year, and only Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Indiana still require a reason to request a mail-in ballot.

The other 45 states and Washington, D.C. provided early voting options on request, and about half those states sent early ballot applications to all registered voters.

The delays will result in shrill cries of fraud and other shenanigans, but anything beyond human errors is incredibly unlikely.

A dozen states have been doing mail-in voting by request for years, and five — Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Utah, and Hawai'i — vote only by mail. They are now accustomed to an election night with many races a long way from being decided. And they know results will trickle out over the course of several days following Election day.

For example, Arizona has been doing voteby-mail on request for a decade. Its registered voters can be put on a permanent early voting list. And more than half the state's voters have voted by mail for several election cycles. There was an increase in vote-by-mail requests this year, but because so many people already vote by mail, it wasn't as dramatic as in some other states. Arizona's September primaries were fairly typical; it took five days before all the ballots had been counted.

We will have to accept that as the norm, not the exception, this election. Once the polls are closed, tens of millions of mailed ballots must have the external signature verified, the envelope opened, the security envelope removed, the ballot removed from the security envelope, the ballot unfolded, and the ballot fed into the voting machine. And all of it by hand.

2016 presidential election. President Trump even appointed a Voter Fraud Commission led by Kris Kobach, who was then Kansas Secretary of State. Kobach had made a career of claiming illegal immigrants were voting in massive numbers. His investigations always began with much bravado and ended quietly when he could find no fraud. The presidential commission he led met twice and disbanded, having found nothing.

There are already states in which the majority of voters have voted by mail for years. There has been no widespread fraud in those states, and there's no reason to suspect there will be any around the country this year.

There most certainly will be computer glitches, ballots improperly signed or completed, human errors, people at the wrong precinct, folks who can't vote believing they can, mechanical breakdowns, and other unanticipated issues. A handful of ballots might be delayed or lost, as happens every election.

None of that will be fraud because none of it will include the intent to deceive. People making mistakes and machines breaking down are annoying, sometimes downright maddening, but are neither intentional nor fraudulent.

Except in states where the outcome is obvious, election night will stretch into election days this year. It signifies nothing nefarious, although it will generate loud caterwauling, conspiracy theories aplenty, and many capitalized tweets.

The votes will ultimately be counted, overseen by honorable public servants, and we'll know the results. Accuracy is considerably more important than speed, so our patience will be required.

The Queen of underground country Returns Years after the birth of her son, then the death of her father, Lovells’ Rachel Brooke emerges with a new old-country album we can’t stop spinning.

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By Craig Manning The last time Rachel Brooke released a full-length solo album, things looked very different — both in the Northern Michigan country songwriter’s personal life and in the world at large.

That album, titled A Killer’s Dream, dropped on Dec. 4, 2012. Barack Obama had just won his second presidential term, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 was the No. 1 movie at the box office (remember the box office?!), and One Direction’s Take Me Home was at the top of the Billboard charts.

For Brooke — an artist crowned “the Queen of Underground Country” by the wellknown website Saving Country Music — the past eight years have been full of life changes.

In 2015, she and her husband welcomed a baby boy into the world. Last year, her father — the person who ignited her love of music — passed away.

She continued making music along the way, largely as part of several collaborative side projects. For the most part, though, Brooke has spent the past seven or eight years just “living life,” as her press materials put it — taking time away from the stage and the limelight to pursue other passions.

FEMINIST, MOTHER, MUSICIAN “I always knew that I would eventually come back to [music],” Brooke told Northern Express. “I had some pretty major life changes and, honestly, being able to write and create had to take a little bit of a backseat. I had a son; he’s almost five. And so I was raising him, kind of staying put. And then I also was working a full-time job as an outreach advocate for sexual assault and domestic violence at a shelter in Northern Michigan. I worked there for a couple years, and I really felt like I was called to that. I consider myself a feminist, and I felt like I belonged there, helping to empower other women in those types of situations. Then, eventually, I started to feel the music coming back, and I knew deep down in my soul that I was ready to start up again.”

That calling led to The Loneliness in Me, a collection of 12 new songs that Brooke cowrote with her husband, Brooks Robbins, and recorded with her brother, Andy Van Guilder, at his studio in Traverse City. Brooke, while often associated with Detroit by national country music publications, is actually a Northern Michigan girl at heart: She lives in the small town of Lovells, a stone’s throw away from Grayling.

Her late father, Barry Guilder, moved to the area in the 1970s and made a name for himself playing the banjo around Northern Michigan. His influence led Brooke to fall in love with classic country music, which deeply informs the sound of her latest LP. “I definitely wanted to make a country record,” Brooke said of the new album. “A lot of my solo albums are country, but they’re all slightly different. A Killer’s Dream, if I had to describe that one, I would consider it a country-blues kind of thing. But with this one, I really wanted to make a strong country record — but not quite traditional country.

I tried to have a strong country feel but also play a little bit with the sound and include a colorful, slightly experimental edge added in as flavor.”

Something else that’s transformed since Brooke last made a solo record: the landscape of country music. When A Killer’s Dream hit in 2012, country was starting its lean into a heavily pop-indebted direction, led by the influence of Taylor Swift and acts like Florida Georgia Line, whose first No. 1 hit “Cruise” ushered in the era of what’s often referred to as “bro-country” that same December.

In the years since, pop-country has retained its hold on the radio waves, though artists that lean to traditional country — Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, and Ashley McBryde among

them — have also attracted giant fanbases, Grammy gold, and No. 1 country albums, all without sacrificing their traditional roots or underground bona-fides. It’s a country music movement that Brooke is thrilled by — and one that makes her wonder if her songs might have a bigger potential audience now than they did eight years ago.

“I think it’s cool,” Brooke said of the trend.

“There’s this new movement of people making country music, I think in a better way than the pop stuff. I’m hoping that I can tap into that audience because I think that they might be interested in the music on my record.”

SOUNDS LIKE A LEGEND The first thing most listeners will notice about Brooke is her voice, which carries a vintage character that recalls both distinguished country greats like Loretta Lynn and more recent classic-leaning country singers like Ashley Monroe and Margo Price.

It’s the kind of voice that makes everything it touches sound like a vintage country jukebox, but Brooke pairs it with exciting, expectationdodging influences that elevate The Loneliness in Me above mere Nashville pastiche.

Brooke admits that elder country music statesmen like George Jones were heavy in her listening rotation while she was making this album, but she points, too, to the loose, rabble-rousing rock ‘n’ roll of Jerry Lee Lewis and the melodic pop genius of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys as some of her biggest influences. Both sides come to the fore on the title track, which sets a bright earworm chorus hook over a feverish bar-band rave-up.

That bar band deserves a late-night stage in a rowdy music venue somewhere, but who knows how long it will be before Brooke’s latest batch of songs gets to resound in that kind of setting. Like every other musician that has released music in 2020, Brooke’s plans for The Loneliness in Me have been at least partially knocked off course by the coronavirus pandemic.

Had all gone according to the initial roadmap, Brooke would have released the album in August and spent fall on the road.

Instead, the record is arriving in late October, and Brooke is working to plan some sort of livestream event to commemorate the album’s release day.

As for playing live in front of an audience again, Brooke says she has tentative plans to hit the road next spring and summer — but only time will tell if COVID-19 cooperates.

In the meantime, Brooke says she’s trying to stay optimistic, both about what the future holds and about what her music can do for listeners now that she’s back in the game.

“It’s tough right now,” Brooke said about the plight of professional musicians in the midst of a pandemic. “The only real resource I have is the internet, but even trying to promote yourself that way right now is hard. Is it even reaching anyone? Everybody is posting about coronavirus and about the election. And people can do that. People should do that; I’m not saying that it’s wrong. It’s just hard to reach people. So I just keep trying to trust the process, trust the music, and trust that I’m here in the right place at the right time.”

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THE LONG GOODBYE

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BY Jack Segal Last week, President Trump sowed confusion within his government — and amongst our allies — by tweeting, that “We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas.” In other words, our long goodbye to Afghanistan will be completed this year, 2020. Or will it?

When the president says on Twitter that something “should” happen by Christmas, it’s not clear whether that is a directive to the Pentagon, a signal to the American electorate that he hasn’t forgotten his pledge to end our “endless wars,” or just another random latenight outburst.

The president’s tweet came just hours after national security adviser Robert O’Brien announced a drawdown to 2,500 troops in Afghanistan by early 2021.

President Trump’s tweet drew a surprisingly blunt reaction from his senior military adviser, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley. Aware that the president’s tweet was sideways from what he and O’Brien had meticulously planned, Gen. Milley announced this: “We're on a plan to do a responsible, deliberate drawdown to about 4,500 very shortly. Future drawdowns will be determined by the president. The whole agreement and all of the drawdown plans are conditions-based, and I expect that we'll have further discussions on the conditions."

[The discrepancy between Milley’s 4,500 and O’Brien’s 2,500 went unexplained.]

Asked when a full withdrawal might happen and what effects that would have, Milley refused to “speculate.” He stressed that “The key here is that we're trying to end a war responsibly, deliberately, and to do it on terms that guarantee the safety of the U.S. vital national security interests that are at stake in Afghanistan."

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The U.S.-Taliban deal, signed in February, calls for a full U.S. withdrawal by May 2021.

But the deal stipulates that will only happen if the Taliban upholds its commitment to deny safe haven to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

This latest round of public relations gymnastics stems mainly from the president’s impetuous use of Twitter as a megaphone for what he wants — or what he thinks the voters want. Some of what he tweets actually morphs into U.S. policy by a very opaque policy-making process within the White House. But most tweets are soon forgotten, except by his millions of Twitter followers.

The dilemma of how to say goodbye to our 19-year-long war in Afghanistan has plagued generals, diplomats, and presidents since our engagement there began back in October 2001. In 2009, shortly after being warned that Afghanistan had been neglected by the Bush (No. 43) administration in favor of its preferred war in Iraq, President Obama increased U.S. forces from 50,000 to 90,000 — the Obama “surge.” But he put a time limit on the increase, indicating that

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“by the end of 2014, the Afghan people will be responsible for their own security ... ” and U.S. troop levels would be cut rapidly to less than 10,000.

But by May 2014, Obama shelved his plan to pull virtually all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan within 18 months. Later, saying the security situation in Afghanistan “remains precarious,” President Obama announced in July 2016 that instead of dropping the U.S. troop level to 5,500, he would keep it at about 8,400 through the end of his term, Jan. 20, 2017. He said his successor could determine the next move.

On August 21, 2017, President Trump reversed the trend of troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, emphasizing the threats there and defining our “victory” (a word leaders rarely use in connection with Afghanistan) as stopping attacks, preventing the Taliban from taking over, and obliterating ISIS and al-Qaeda.

Facing that daunting list of presidential requirements, the military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson, a few days later said that an additional 4,000 troops would be deployed, beyond the 8,500 U.S. service members already incountry. Yet another few days later, the Pentagon announced that its numbers were a bit off. Rather than 8,500 troops, the force in Afghanistan had been over 11,000 for months; with the additional 4,000, the total would come to 15,000. In other words, the force would be larger than it had been two years earlier under President Obama.

For the latest word on all this, we can track the numbers. In February 2020, 13,000 American troops were still in the country.

By June, that number had been cut to 8,600, fulfilling our obligation as part of the February deal with the Taliban. Last month, acting Assistant Secretary of Defense David Helvey announced that “Based on the current conditions in Afghanistan, the Defense Department expects there will be fewer than 5,000 U.S. military service members in that country by the end of November ... .” But what does he know, one might ask? He is many layers removed from the White House Twitter-sphere.

My guess is that we will get to around 5,000 by the end of the year, meaning not all the troops will be home for Christmas. The last stage of withdrawal will be dangerous. Our forces will be at their weakest; Afghan troops will not be pleased to see us go, taking our very helpful kit with us, and the insurgents may want to make a last run at us. But I also expect the Taliban — wanting very much to be rid of us — to do just enough to allow us to make a decent departure. The light of our long goodbye may truly be just at the end of this tunnel.

From 2002–2010, Jack Segal made 40 weeklong visits to Afghanistan as senior political adviser to NATO’s four-star operational commander. He acknowledges, with regret, some small responsibility for the mess.

Compelling Explanations In June, Connecticut State Police investigating a December armed robbery outside the Golden Palace Chinese Restaurant in Norwich arrived at the Corrigan Correctional Center in Montville to obtain a DNA sample from Gregory Blue, 38, who first accused police of planting his DNA at the scene of the robbery before telling them "a phlebotomist who took his blood years ago dropped his DNA at the scene via airplane," according to authorities. Investigators had found blood at the scene of the robbery and on hats the unidentified 45-year-old victim said had been left by the assailant. The Connecticut Post reported the DNA samples matched, according to the arrest warrant, and on Sept. 25, Blue was charged with firstdegree robbery and second-degree assault.

News That Sounds Like a Joke Larry Stothers, 41, and Jayson Rappa, 31, were arrested on Sept. 26 in Largo, Florida, and charged with strong-arm robbery after allegedly stealing a prosthetic leg, according to The Smoking Gun. Police say they were called by the victim after Stothers and Rappa confronted him over a stolen backpack, "and in the course of the fight, a prosthetic leg was taken from the victim." Court records did not reveal the whereabouts of the leg.

An aggressive Muscovy duck named Bob in Mansfield, England, has terrorized postman Steve Hinds to the point that Hinds has refused to deliver mail to the duck's owners until they contain him, The Scottish Sun reported. Hinds told the Sun that on Oct. 3, "The duck started hissing at me and ... it ran me up the path snapping its beak."

The apologetic owners left a Crunchie candy bar as a peace offering for Hinds and a note reading, "He used to be lovely and cuddly.

Now he is a vicious sex-maniac! We have fenced him in and hopefully he won't escape."

But two days later, Bob escaped the fence and came after Hinds again. At press time, the standoff continues.

$1,000, had no damage, and investigators later determined it was part of a collection that had been stolen from the store in a July burglary, according to the Winter Haven Police Department. The Ledger reported that police also learned Henry had visited another jewelry store on several occasions in September, attempting to sell other rings from Griner's collection. She was arrested Oct. 4 on charges of felony grand theft.

Great Art! Passersby were in awe as 32 tons of raw carrots were dumped from a large truck onto a road running through the University of London campus on Sept. 30. The carrots were an art installation presented as part of the Goldsmiths art college Master of Fine Arts degree show by student Rafael Perez Evans, who titled his work "Grounding" and said it is designed to raise awareness about food waste, United Press International reported.

The show ran from Oct. 2-6, and "Rafael has arranged for the carrots to be removed at the end of the exhibition and donated to animals," a university spokesperson said.

Recent Alarming Headlines In White Marsh, Maryland, a person driving past the closed Rustic Inn bar on the morning of Oct. 7 saw what they thought was a Halloween decoration in the parking lot, WJZ reported. After doubling back, the driver determined it was a dead body, and "the body has suffered some sort of trauma," said Jennifer Peach of the Baltimore County Police Department. Peach went on to appeal for tips from the public: "We don't have a lot of information at this point."

Anger Management Justin Anthony Garcia, 30, of Lehigh Acres, Florida, landed in the Lee County Jail on Sept.

27 on charges of aggravated battery following a heated argument over which is better: whole milk or almond milk, reported Fox 23 News.

Deputies of the Lee County Sheriff 's Office were called to the scene after the disagreement between two cousins escalated from verbal to physical, according to court documents, eventually ending with Garcia drawing a pocketknife and chasing his cousin through the front yard, cutting him on the torso. An uncle intervened and separated the two until deputies arrived, but the arrest complaint does not say which type of milk Garcia prefers.

Entrepreneurial Spirit Two young men soliciting residents in Covina, California, for donations for the Covina High School football team ran into a problem when they appeared at the door of a resident who quickly questioned them: "It's funny you bring that up, because I know for a fact that you guys don't go to Covina because I teach there ... I'm a football coach." When neither of the alleged scammers could name the head coach, they left, Fox11 reported on Oct. 7, and the football team tweeted confirmation that the two were not with the program.

Hotels.com is offering one lucky customer the opportunity to "live under a rock" to escape "election stress disorder" during election week Nov. 2-7, United Press International reports. The accommodations in a manmade cave 50 feet below ground in New Mexico will cost just $5 per night. "Political fatigue is real, regardless of the year or election," said Josh Belkin, vice president of Hotels.com. "Who knows what else 2020 has in store for us."

Least Competent Criminals Three men are on the run in Philadelphia after a botched ATM burglary on Oct. 2, the Associated Press reported. The men entered a Chinese takeout restaurant and ordered food, then set off an explosive device while they waited that damaged an ATM, but they couldn't remove the cash box inside the machine, police said. They escaped emptyhanded on foot and bicycle, and police are still searching for them.

Alice Lavern Henry, 47, of Lake Wales, Florida, told a clerk at Griner's Jewelry in Winter Haven that she had found the ring she brought in to sell while treasure-hunting on a beach. The clerk became suspicious when she noticed the ring, valued at more than

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Nathaniel Rose’s embrace of winemaking’s ancient methods isn’t the fastest way to financial wealth, but the 35-year-old — and his steadily growing legion of fans — judge success another way: by the riches biding their time inside his bottles.

By Patrick Sullivan There is a paradox that confronts you when you turn into the dirt driveway of Nathaniel Rose Wines, north of Suttons Bay. Rose, a 35-year-old winemaker who grew up in Leland and three years ago won a double gold at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition for a five-year-old red, has a degree in biochemistry from Western Michigan University. He also has a budding reputation as one of the hottest winemakers on the peninsula, one whose wines can fetch $150 for a single bottle.

Yet as you pull up to the office-like tasting room (now closed due to the pandemic; tastings now occur outside and 20 feet apart because, as Rose says, “the whole loss of sense of smell and taste would be kind of career-ending for me), you’re greeted not with the polish and indications of wealth that characterize most of the wineries on Leelanau and Old Mission peninsulas, but with a ramshackle barn, winemaking equipment spilling out into the parking lot, and, at the edge of a tree line, an old motor home and a couple of weathered boats on trailers.

Nevertheless, if you look close enough, hidden in this strange tableau is the unlikely story of how Rose became one of the youngest winery owners in the region.

LOVE OF FERMENTED BEVERAGES Rose has accomplished a lot, but to do so,

he’s also sacrificed a lot.

First off: that old motor home … actually, an Airstream, one of the few models with its own engine and sporting square corners rather than elegant, sleek curves. That motor home is where Rose lives.

His winemaking story started right after high school, at age 18. He became interested in fermentation, and after he and his mom made a batch of mead, that interest quickly

made pyment, which is a blend of honey and grapes, which has kind of been a staple for me ever since.”

While in college, he returned to Leelanau each summer, and got job at a local winery’s tasting room. In 2006, a stroke of luck: While at the Dune Grass Festival, in Empire, Rose met a guy who owned a bio-dynamic vineyard in southwest Michigan. Rose transferred from Central Michigan University to Western

“I got the phone call from the first place that I was a winemaker at, Raftshol Vineyards, that he was retiring, that he was selling the farm, and that I had the first shot at it,” Rose said. “At that point, I just pretty much dropped everything.” grew into an obsession. He branched into beer and wine and elected to study fermentation in college, thinking one day he’d go into brewing beer professionally.

“At that point, I had made many batches of beer, many batches of mead. You know, these were all five-gallon, home-brew-sized batches,” Rose said. “In 2005, I climbed up the front of the dunes and picked a bunch of wild grapes that were freakishly underripe. But that was actually good for adding the acidity mead needed. And so, I

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Michigan University so that he could work at the guy’s vineyard during the school year.

Soon, he added on other gigs at wineries around southwest Michigan.

The next year, with the money he’d saved working at other people’s vineyards, Rose bought some grapes of his own. His first commercial test vintage from those grapes, he said, turned out much better than he had expected.

“And so,” he said, “we kind of decided that I had a knack for that and should pursue it.”

BREAKING IN In 2009, Rose graduated and returned full-time to Leelanau County. His mission: to find a place his career could get a toehold.

“I quickly learned that nobody hires a winemaker that hasn’t already been a winemaker,” Rose said.

Despite no one wanting him, Rose said that he next experienced an odd bit of luck.

That year — 2009 — turned out to be an historically bad year for grapes in Michigan.

The weather stayed cold, and the grapes struggled to ripen. Across both peninsulas, it looked like the year’s crop might be one of the worst.

“There were just absolutely no warm days in 2009 for things to ripen,” he recalled. “So, later in the season, I was trying to buy wine at one of my favorite wineries at the time — because they made big heavy reds which is what I was into — Raftshol Vineyards.”

Rose talked Warren Raftshol into giving him some work that season, helping the longtime winemaker bottle wine in exchange for some extra cash — and some wine to add to his growing collection. That led to some other work around the farm, and then, as harvest approached, Rose asked Raftshol when he planned to start picking the grapes.

Raftshol told him he’d decided not to harvest that year. The unripened grapes would have too little sugar content and would be far to acidic to produce drinkable wine.

“It would make wine like battery acid — if made by standard wine production,” Rose said. “He was just going to let everything rot on the vine, and I said, ‘No, I can actually make really good wine out of this.’”

Rose looked to pyment, that combination of wine and mead he’d started making four years ago, and knew that Raftshol’s unripened grapes would be perfect.

“I said, ‘We can make great wine out of this; we’re just going to have to buy a fair amount of good honey,’ which he was in for,” Rose recalled. “And it turned out, when those [bottles] were released the next summer, those were the most popular products. The more underripe for pyment, almost, the better. It was like the perfect vintage for pyment.”

GRAPES IN THE BANK Rose passed his audition that year — though neither Rose or Raftshol had any idea Rose was auditioning.

The next year, Rose made more wine at Raftshol. And it turned out that 2010 was a great year for grapes in Michigan. Rose’s plan to establish himself as a winery owner by the time he was 35 began to take shape.

He was going to invest everything he could — his labor, his earnings — into what he knew best: grapes. Each year, as he’d done for the last few, he would buy grapes, turn them into vintages, and store them so they could age for four or five or eight years, until they were ready to be sold and served.

“I knew [2010] was an excellent fruit quality year. And so, I had been saving up all that I had been making for the past year working for Warren Raftshol, and I called up my former bosses downstate that all had the vineyards, and I spent as much as much money on fruit as I could,” Rose said.

There are serious barriers to getting into winemaking. And though Rose only made $10 an hour working at Raftshol, he got something else, something that was, to him far more valuable: Warren Raftshol allowed the young winemaker to use not only his license but also Raftshol’s facility to produce his own wine. Raftshol also allowed Rose to store it there, and told him that all the wine he’d made and stored would be transferred into Rose’s name whenever he wound up with a winery of his own.

“Most of my assets, instead of really saving them as money, I turned that money into grapes that I turned into wine and then amassed that asset, so that it would be big enough upon release to pay for a property,” Rose said. “Everything in this industry you have to plan so far out, you know?”

at it,” Rose said. “At that point, I just pretty much dropped everything.”

Despite having made and saved all his wine, Rose was not wealthy. He had invested his money in making wines; he didn’t have much cash in savings.

But there was something that worked in his favor. Raftshol Vineyards sits on land that had been put into a conservation easement decades ago. Its 27 acres can not be developed. Because of that, there were really only two options for the land’s future: remain a winery or become a natural area.

Warren Raftshol was willing to sell his winery to Rose on land contract. That enabled Rose to achieve his dream of having his own winery three years earlier than he planned.

Rose succeeded in establishing a winery in Leelanau County despite obstacles that make it extremely difficult for a young start-up to get going there or on the Old Mission Peninsula.

“Some of the regulations in Leelanau and Old Mission make it cost prohibitive for young people to get into the industry. You have to own 10 contiguous acres of land, and five of those have to be planted in fruit,” he said. “With it costing, at a minimum, about $15,000 per acre to put the vines in — not even buying the land — plus the land prices for 10 acres of land in Leelanau County, that has to be on a good enough site that the grapes aren’t going to get frosted out so you’re talking on top of hills, so you’re talking view property, and then having to wait five years until the grapes are ready — it’s kind of tough.”

Rose said it is easier for young people to get started in other parts of Northern Michigan because they don’t have to own the land that produces the grapes. He said young people are doing interesting things with wine in Antrim and Benzie counties and up and down the west coast of the state.

ANCIENT ART & PATIENCE Rose credits his success and his knack for creative, innovative approaches to winemaking to the circuitous and unconventional route he took into the craft.

He didn’t ever go to winemaking school. He had planned, one time, to enter a graduate-level program at Michigan State

University, but the program was eliminated just as he was preparing to attend, and he didn’t want to study winemaking in another state. He likes to work with Michigan fruit, he said, and he decided that was what he would focus on.

Anyway, he said, having studied the science of fermentation rather than winemaking has forced him throughout his career to think differently about winemaking. Rose said that led him to a winemaking approach that’s distinct from many other winemakers in the region.

“Oenology school essentially teaches a method of winemaking, and they teach the modern method of winemaking. And so without having had that beaten into me through education — “This is the way you do it!” — I pretty much just went with what was common sense, which ended up pretty much being the — I don’t want to call it the traditional method because sometimes people use that to apply to the older side of the modern winemaking method,” he said, “more the ancient winemaking method. Especially when you have limited equipment.”

Rose likes to make reds, and in the process of learning how to do that in Leelanau, a region traditionally known for whites, he discovered that the climate is ideal for making European-style red wine, provided it’s allowed to age properly.

“If you let the fruit hang until ripeness, which we can achieve most years up here, if you let the fruit hang long enough, because we’re buffered by the lake and don’t really frost until November, you get ripeness,” Rose said. “I think one of the problems a lot of the times is that people were concerned that they would lose the fruit and were picking it earlier and not achieving that ripeness.”

Aging the wine properly before bringing it to market is another challenge, especially for a fledgling winery operating on a lean budget. To store the wine for five to 10 years means it must be held under certain conditions and tended to regularly.

All that time and effort costs money. And that’s reflected in the cost of a bottle of Nathaniel Rose Wines, many of which cost around $30 or $40 or $50 a bottle — and some, like his 2012 Left Bank, a blend of

Cab Sauvignon, Merlot and Cab Franc, $150 for a bottle.

While California wines, because of the high sugar content of the grapes, are suited for quick release, Michigan wines do better when aged. In the early years, especially, that led some Michigan wineries to attempt to speed up the aging process with chemical additives to get their wine ready for market within 18 months, an unfortunate consequence of a strained business model.

“That’s just not what the state’s suited for,” Rose said. “What comes off the vine is just about perfect. You’ve just got to wait five years until it’s ready to drink.”

FOR THE LOVE OF MICHIGAN WINE Bill Schmidt became friends with Rose several years ago after the two bonded over a shared love of Michigan wine.

Schmidt, who moved to the shores of Lake Leelanau after he retired from Pfizer five years ago, first met Rose at a tasting room in Leelanau County shortly before he retired.

Schmidt collects Michigan wines, and he especially likes reds; he’s become an avid fan of Rose’s winemaking.

“I probably have more old Michigan wines than maybe anybody, more than anybody I know,” Schmidt said. “Nathaniel is one of the best as far as his understanding of winemaking.

He’s done an awful lot of research. He really does know what he’s doing.”

Schmidt said the key is that Rose understands how Michigan red wines are so similar to French reds in that they need to be aged properly.

“I think there’s a few winemakers around here that do really well with that,” Schmidt said.

Schmidt said he also appreciates Rose because of how he shares his love of wine and winemaking. Many winemakers, he said, jealously guard their secrets and won’t go into detail about the process of making wine.

He said he recently shared some bottles of Nathaniel Rose Wines with a friend visting from out of town who happens to be a sommelier.

“He was almost embarrassed to say that these were some of the best wines he’s had in a while,” Schmidt said.

COMPLETING A CIRCLE That same year, Rose got involved with some old friends who were starting a meadery in Benzie County, St. Ambrose.

While he made his own wine on the side — wine that he couldn’t sell until it had aged, wine that he couldn’t sell until he had his own winery license — he worked at St. Ambrose through 2013, helping to develop the recipes and the formulas used to make their mead.

Meanwhile, Rose struck an agreement with the Brengman Brothers Winery, in Leelanau County. He also worked as a winemaker there and moved all of his wine and winemaking equipment to the young estate, continuing to invest in more grapes and create more of his own vintages each year.

That lasted until 2017, when everything would come full circle for Rose. It was a phone call that changed everything.

“I got the phone call from the first place that I was a winemaker at, Raftshol Vineyards, that he was retiring, that he was selling the farm, and that I had the first shot

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Cedar Shop a paean to all thingS poliSh

By Ross Boissoneau There it stands, in downtown Cedar: The Polish Art Center. Some paintings of the Old Country probably, maybe some Polish pottery.

Likely some Polish-made jewelry as well. How appropriate, right in the middle of a town that — until this strange summer, of course — celebrates its Polish heritage every July with one of the North’s biggest Polska celebrations, Cedar Polka Fest.

If that’s what you think, you’re in for a surprise. A few of them, actually.

WITAMY (WELCOME)

First, there’s quite a bit more than paintings and pottery. Second, the proprietors weren’t thinking about Cedar’s reputation when they elected to move Up North. In fact, they’d never even heard of the town or its Polish heritage.

Start with the center’s contents. It’s easy to experience sensory overload as soon as you walk in. White paper cones on strings dangle from the ceiling throughout the store. Bright, colorful pottery lines the shelves. Jewelry, T-shirts, drinking glasses, story books, tiny lambs made of sugar, even “I Love Polksa” folk art decorative facial tissues — on and on it goes, the shop at 8994 S Kasson St. nearly bursting at the seams.

And here’s the voice of Kathleen BittnerKoch: “Have you been here before?”

“No,” I respond. (I’d certainly have remembered. And been prepared for the visual onslaught.)

The Polish Art Center is — quite obviously — far more than art. The Polish Emporium might be a better name, as it’s a celebration of all things Polish, from its art, music, décor, and apparel to imported food delicacies, vegetable seeds, and a freezer stuffed full of pierogis and meat from Bittner-Koch’s nearby Polish Heritage Farm. Which is what brought them to Cedar in the first place.

HISTORIA (HISTORY)

Bittner-Koch and her husband, Thomas Koch, moved north after becoming dissatisfied with urban farming in the Detroit area. She went on Craigslist and found a farm for sale outside Cedar. At the time, she says she had no clue regarding the town’s Polish heritage and no intention of opening a store. Instead the couple concentrated on establishing their family farm, where they raise “Leelanau’s finest Mangalitsa,” the hairy breed of fine hogs Modern Farmer dubbed “the Kobe beef of pork.”

Two and a half years into the farming operation, a space opened up in downtown Cedar. By this time the family was familiar with the town’s Polish culture, and Bittner-Koch saw an opportunity, so she persuaded a downstate retailer she knew well that opening a Polish Art Center in Cedar would be a good idea.

Those retailers: Ray and Joan Bittner, her parents — and also owners of the original Polish Art Center, in Hamtramck. They had bought the iconic cultural center from its founder, Polish immigrant Joseph Kalenkiewicz, in 1973. BittnerKoch said she and her sister, Michelle, had grown

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up in their parents’ store; it simply made sense to her to open another location in the heart of Northern Michigan’s Polish epicenter.

According to Bittner-Koch, the original is at least three — no, make it four — times the size of her Cedar store, somewhat incredible to imagine when you look around at her vast inventory of goods, so much of which comes with unique and intriguing stories.

DOBRA (THE WARES)

Take the amber jewelry, for example. BittnerKoch explained that the amber comes from the Baltic area, as a result of prehistoric pine forests being decimated by volcanic activity.

The highest quality amber comes from Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine. Each is unique,” she said, explaining how Polish amber is often polished and set off by silver, while Lithuanians favor diamonds, and Ukraine and Russian jewelers use it raw.

She also launches into a treatise on the medicinal properties of amber. It has long been a staple of various folk and homeopathic remedies for its purported healing properties.

“Succinite is anti-inflammatory,” she said of the main component in amber. “The body will absorb it.” It’s been used as a natural antibiotic, to relieve stress and anxiety, to protect cells from degeneration and organism from illnesses and premature aging and as a fast-acting natural antioxidant.

One of the most eye-catching items are the Pisanka, or decorated eggs. Brilliant, jeweled

colors and intricate patterns are made using wax and dyes. Those struck by the elaborate patterns and brilliant colors and interested in making their own might be in luck if the pandemic eases: Bittner-Koch usually teaches classes on decorating the eggs each spring.

ODWIEDZIC (VISIT)

The amber and eggs are just the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Besides those beauties and the stocked freezer; and the hats, scarves, and footwear; and the cookies, candies, flags, patches, books, dolls — well, the list goes on and on. Just like the store. And according to BittnerKoch, there’s so much more where that all came from: “We get all our stock from Hamtramck,” said Bittner-Koch.

While their parents are still intimately involved in the Hamtramck store, Michelle runs that location while Kathleen oversees the shop in Cedar. “Now what we did for fun, we do for a living,” Bittner-Koch said. The two sisters are also the amber buyers. The multitude of paper cones, a.k.a. winter bells, are in large part Michelle’s handiwork, and they are available to purchase, either pre-made or in kits.

The Polish Art Center in Cedar, just 20 minutes from Traverse City, is open Monday and Saturdays 10am–5pm and Sundays noon to 4pm. You can shop its plentiful goods (and those of the Hamtramck location) at PolArtCenter.com — but to really get the impact, you have to visit in person.

(231) 835-2242

Voter Suppression in Bingham Township, 1866 A story for our times.

There’s an old aphorism about remembering history: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Generally credited to Spanish-born philosopher and poet George Santayana and often tweaked in the retelling (the most common variation, “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it,” tends to be the best-known), the old saying’s meaning continues to ring true.

As we throttle toward the United States’ 2020 elections, Leland's Mark Smith, a retired educator and passionate researcher of local history, shared a remarkable document with Northern Express that, sadly, demonstrates just how true. The document, passed to Smith by fellow researcher Larry Wycoff, is a scan of an original letter written by Aaron Page of Omena and sent to Indian Agent Richard Smith in 1866.

“The letter,” Smith explains, “concerns voter intimidation and suppression of local Indian votes through strong-arm trickery. It is indicative of much larger concerns of the time.”

Though regarding Bingham County politics a century and a half ago, the letter reveals something that remains an enormous concern of our time in our small corner of the world, too: That regardless of what our Constitution says about all men being created equal, those in power often will do whatever it takes to maintain that power, and disenfranchising the powerless has long been a primary method.

Before you glimpse into the mind of Aaron Page through his words, however, Smith offers some context into the reason the letter came to be.

“The Native Americans were unhappy with the way their land was being assessed and allocated by Supervisor Robert Lee. Their deeds to their land were often not registered (or registered wrongly), and so their land claims were falling between bureaucratic cracks. They decided to be agents of change and to vote against Supervisor Robert Lee. You will see for yourself how that went,” he said. “I would say it was an act of bravery and self-determination, and I would also say that Aaron Page, the author of the letter, was one of the good guys, at least attempting to stick up for the Native Americans.”

What follows is a brief introduction by Smith, then his faithful transcription of Page’s letter; a copy of the handwritten pages is showcased above.—Ed.

By Mark Smith Here is a story for our times. In the late summer of 1866, “forty or fifty Indians” turned up to vote in a local election in Bingham Township. Ever since 1850, when Indians were granted state citizenship (provided they renounced any tribal affiliations), they were permitted to cast ballots for local and state offices. However the process of voting in 1866 was different than today.

Voting then was not a private choice made in the confines of a voting booth. (It was not until the turn of the century that “secret” ballots became the norm, following the Australian model; in 1896, for example, Americans in 39 out of 45 states cast secret, government-printed ballots.) But in Bingham Township in 1866, voting was a public matter; everyone knew how you voted.

How did voting work then? Party activists distributed lists of names — aka “tickets” — of candidates to voters, hoping they would support those candidates.

Those tickets would be exclusively from one party, Democrat or Republican.

Incumbents had a distinct advantage, using their position to make promises and threats to recalcitrant voters, knowing all the time that the actual vote would be a matter of public record.

In the case of the Indians, it was usually the Indian Agent, also a partisan, who provided the tickets, which were then brought to the voting booth and handed over to the voting officials. According to historian Jill Lepore, “Shrewd partisans began bringing prewritten ballots to the polls and handing them out with a coin or two. Doling out cash —the money came to be called “soap” — wasn’t illegal; it was getting out the vote.”

Why was getting out the vote so

important? In 1866, when a new party came to power, there was always a wholesale firing of old party officials and a reassignment of jobs to new, loyal party members.

This practice, called the spoils system (or patronage system), would remain the status quo until 1883, when the Pendelton Act — part of a civil service reform movement — began requiring federal jobs be awarded based on merit and employees selected through competitive exam. Today we still operate under the Pendleton Act, with civil servants mostly staying on in their posts despite election consequences, thereby ensuring a level of expertise and continuity, rather than the disruptive firings and hirings of the spoils system. So, to be clear, in 1866 there was added pressure and added incentive for party officials to “get out the vote” by any means necessary in order to save their jobs.

It is during this contentious time that Aaron Page, who had moved to Northport 12 years earlier and married Almira Dame, daughter of Deacon Joseph Dame (the man who platted the village of Northport), no doubt carefully penned his letter to the powerful Indian agent Richard Smith. Read closely and you will see the rather nefarious operations of the inspectors as they attempt — and succeed — in depriving the Indians of the right to vote their choice.

Aaron B. Page Letter Aug 1 1866 on Indian Suffrage Bingham, Mich Aug 1st, 1866 R.M. Smith, Indian Agent I herewith enclose a brief statement of the proceedings of the Inspectors of Election, viz

Robert Lee, Supervisor, H.G. Sutton, Town Clerk and A.D. Belloy, oldest justice of the town of Bingham at the last Township Meeting at which time they refused the Indians the right to vote.

As long as the Indians allowed themselves to be dictated by them and vote as they wished there was not one word said against their voting.But the Indians had become dissatisfied with the Assessment made by the Supervisor, Robert Lee, and as he had held the office several terms they determined if possible to elect a new man.

As soon as the Town Board were appraised of their intention it was hinted about that the Indians would not be permitted to vote, but on what grounds they were to be excluded was not mentioned. The Indians therefore resolved to fulfill on their part every requirement of the law that there should be no lawful reason to deter them from voting, consequently all that were not certain their names were entered on the Book of Registration went to the Town Clerk previous to the day of the Election and had them registered.

On the day of Election all Indians, numbering between forty and fifty, went to Polls together, taking an Interpreter with them. On their arrival I stated to the Town Board that as the Indians had learned they were to be excluded from the Polls they had provided themselves with an Interpreter that all might plainly understand on what grounds the Hon. Board pretended to sustain such a decision. To which they replied they were very glad that we had brought an Interpreter as they were very desirous of explaining to the Indians the reasons that had induced them to make the decision they had. They went on to say that if the Indians were permitted to vote they would lose their Annunities. The Indians replied “ we will run the risk - we have

voted ten years, receiving our annuities in the meantime as usual and we are confident we shall not forfeit by exercising our rights as citizens by voting.”

The Board then said “they could not receive their votes as they were not citizens.

They were receiving pay from the government and were consequently minors, besides they were not subject to the draft.” Neither did the same laws of the state prohibit their killing deer and other wild game.

It being noon the Board adjourned for dinner. The Polls were again opened at three o’clock and Peter Ance offered his vote, which was challenged by L. D. Quackenbush, and told by A. D. Belloy that his name was not on the Register. The Indian enquired how it could be that his name was not on the Register for he had voted here several times before and no one had made the least objection. The Board offered no explanation but asked him if he did not receive pay from the government.

To which he replied in the affirmative, and to the question “do you belong to a Tribe” he answered No! He then offered to swear in his vote but the Board would not administer the oath nor receive his ticket.

I referred them to the law on this subject where it plainly states that “if the Indian shall take the oath prescribed the Board shall receive his vote. But the Board were immovable and after two more had made ineffectual attempts to vote the Indians retired peaceably and returned home.

John B. Ance, Peter Ance, and Joseph Chippewa were the only ones who presented their tickets to the Moderator as they were repeatedly informed by the Board that they would not be received.

Yours Respectfully, A.B. Page

Northern Express Weekly • oct 19, 2020 • 13

oct 17

saturday

6TH ANNUAL ORCHARDS AT SUNSET VIRTUAL 5K & FUN RUN: Run any time through Oct. 5K: $25; Fun Run: $10. mynorthtickets.com/events/orchardsat-sunset-5k-and-funrun-2020-10-17-2020

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HYBRID VIRTUAL FARMLAND 5K & FREE FOR ALL BIKE: 1045 Rasho Rd., TC. Challenge yourself on the original course anytime from Dec. 4-6 & still get your finisher medal & event souvenir. A classic, European style turf grass course awaits you with optional knee high barriers including straw bales, fallen logs, wood fence & stone fence. Traverse over grass or snow & ice, wooded dirt trails, & farmland running terrain. Register by Dec. 3. runsignup. com/farmland5k

---------------------MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: GRAPE STOMP: Run a 5K or half marathon any time between Oct. 1-31. runsignup.com/Race/MI/TraverseCity/MichiganHarvestRun?mc_ cid=72816f6914&mc_eid=aabc289af4

---------------------MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK 25TH ANNIVERSARY ONLINE AUCTION: Featuring northern Michigan artists & original artworks, apparel, gift certificates & more. Runs through Oct. 25, 7pm. This fundraising event will benefit Michigan Legacy Art Park. Free. artpark.schoolauction. net/artparkwishlist/homepages/index

---------------------VIRTUAL NORTHERN MICHIGAN PARADE OF HOMES: Presented by the Home Builders Association of Northern Michigan. Featuring eight homes & one deck to view for free from Oct. 10-24. upnorthhometour.com

---------------------ZOMBIE RUN (VIRTUAL): During the month of Oct., participants can run or walk a 5K anywhere & at any time. All registered participants will receive a ZR gaiter & a commemorative 2020 race bib. Gaiters & race bibs will be available for pick up at Right Brain Brewery in Oct. All event proceeds support TART Trails. $20 kids; $25 adults. tczombierun.com

---------------------JORDAN VALLEY’S GEORGE HAWLEY MEMORIAL RUN: Jordan River National Fish Hatchery, Elmira. 5K run & walk and 10K run, 9am; 1/2 mile kids run, 10am. northernstriders.com

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BENZIE COUNTY DEMOCRATS MONTHLY MEETING: Benzie County Democratic Party Headquarters, 9930 Honor Hwy., Honor. Meetings on third Sat. of the month with 9:30am coffee klatch, 10am community announcements, followed by featured speaker. Free. benziedemocrats.com

---------------------10TH ANNUAL NORDIC SKI SWAP: Elmwood Township Park Pavilion. Drop off used gear you would like to sell from 8-9:30am.

Swap sale runs 10am-1pm. All ages. Experts will help with ski selection. VSC will accept Nordic skis, poles, boots, bindings, roller skis, ski racks & ski bags for all ages. Free. vasaskiclub. org/nordic-ski-swap.html

---------------------FOOD DRIVE: Floor Covering Brokers, showroom, S. Airport & Barlow, TC. Please bring in non-perishable food donations, Oct. 15-17.

Floor Covering Brokers Carpet One will match all food donations, up to a $2,500 value. Benefits the Father Fred Foundation.

---------------------MODEL RAILROAD ZOOM MEETING: 10am-1pm. National Model Railroad Association North Central Region Division 2 Monthly Meeting held on Zoom. Will include a presentation on model railroading & a show & tell. For sign in & password contact: info@ncrdivision2. groups.io

---------------------FRANKFORT FILM FESTIVAL: The Garden Theater, Frankfort, Oct. 15-18. Seating capacity limited to 25%. Masks required. Today fea-

tures “Honeyland” at 11am; “Master Cheng” at 1pm; “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” at 3:30pm; & “Give Me Liberty” at 7pm. $12 each film. frankfortgardentheater. com/film-festival#movies

october

17-25

---------------------FRENCH GROUP: 11am-1pm. Presented by Peninsula Community Library. Meets the third Sat. of the month via Zoom. All levels welcome.

Email taxiotisdahl@tadl.org for Zoom link.

---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: Oct. 16-25. Restaurants in & around Harbor Springs offer food specials & special pricing.

WOMEN’S MARCH TC 2020: 1-3:30pm. Women’s March National Day of Action. Join the march to pay tribute to Ruth Bader Gingsburg & to once more stand up & demand change.

Stand along the Parkway, starting at Union St. Bring signs. Due to COVID-19, no speakers, no gathering, & masks & social distancing required. Call Monica at 231- 325-6812 or see the event page on Facebook. Free.

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

---------------------HISTORIC EMPIRE WALKING TOURS: 2-3:30pm. The history of this Up North town goes back to the lumber days of 1884 & there are still remnants to see from that time. Hear about early settlers, how Empire got its name & more. Group is limited to six people. Meet in Empire at the southwest corner of M-22 & Front St. by the old school house. Wear comfortable shoes & bring water. $15. mynorthtickets.com/ organizations/sbd-tours

---------------------OTSEGO RESORT’S ANNUAL WINE & CHEESE FALL COLOR TOUR: 2-4pm, Otsego Resort, Gaylord. Four stations located on the Tribute Course. Two tastings per station with one paired small bite per station. $48. otsegoclub.com/event/annual-fall-color-tour-2

---------------------HAUNTED TRAIL AT THE GHOST FARM OF KINGSLEY: 7-11pm, Feast or Famine Haunted Trail. 5010 Pierce Rd., Kingsley. $15. GhostFarm.net

---------------------NIGHT SKY STORYTELLING: ORIONID METEOR SHOWER: 7-9pm, Offield Family Viewlands Working Forest Reserve, Harbor Springs.

Register. Free. landtrust.org/event/night-skystorytelling-orionid-meteor-shower

oct 18

sunday

Send your kids to the Pint Sized Paint Out at Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey on Sat., Oct. 24 from 12-2pm. This is a free fall-themed outdoor painting event. Compete for fun prizes! The Fall Paint Out for artists ages 18 and older, working in all media, also culminates on Sat. on the Bidwell Plaza at Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, with the reception and wet paint sale running from 4-6pm. crookedtree.org/events/petoskey SCOOBY DOO-WOP: A LIVE DRIVE-IN MYSTERY ADVENTURE: Presented by Mashup Rock & Roll Musical. The Scooby Doo-Wop Gang have come to northern MI to investigate a mysterious ghost spooking Old Town. They need your help to solve the clues & find out who is behind this haunting, all from the comfort of your own Mystery Machine. For this in-person theatre experience, you & your carload will be contacted by the gang via your smart phone, receiving written clues & audio recordings as you travel to three different locations in TC. Held at 11am, 1pm or 3pm. Donation. mashuprockandrollmusical.com/scooby-doo-wop

FRANKFORT FILM FESTIVAL: The Garden Theater, Frankfort, Oct. 15-18. Seating capacity limited to 25%.

Masks required. Today features “The Painter and the Thief” at noon; “Lucky Grandma” at 2:30pm; “Spaceship Earth” at 4:30pm; & “Bad Education” at 7pm. $12 each film. frankfortgardentheater.com/film-festival#movies

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6TH ANNUAL ORCHARDS AT SUNSET VIRTUAL 5K & FUN RUN: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

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------------------------------------------FALL CHAIRLIFT RIDES: 11am-3pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Enjoy panoramic views of three counties during the peak of the fall color season. Purchase tickets at the base of the Crystal Clipper. 8 & under free with paying adult. $5/person. Find on Facebook.

---------------------NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: AN EVENING WITH CHRISTOPHER HAUGH & JORDAN BLASHEK: 7pm. Two friends — a Democrat & a Republican — take a road trip across America & talk politics. Haugh & Blashek will talk about politics rationally & in real-time as they discuss the making of their new book, “Union: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Search for Common Ground.” Guest host is Neal Rubin, a columnist for The Detroit News & writer for the syndicated comic strip Gil Thorp. Held on Zoom. Register.

Free. bit.ly/NWSFallSeason

---------------------HYBRID VIRTUAL FARMLAND 5K & FREE FOR ALL BIKE: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

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MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: GRAPE STOMP: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

ton Brass will bring something for everyone, from familiar classical works to popular jazz standards. Main floor, $30; balcony, $20; under 18, $10. Livestream link, free. ramsdelltheatre. org/bostonbrass

---------------------ZOMBIE RUN (VIRTUAL): (See Sat., Oct. 17) ---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------HISTORIC EMPIRE WALKING TOURS: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

oct 19

monday

CANADIAN BRASS: SOLD OUT: 7:30pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor.

Canadian Brass has earned the distinction of “the world’s most famous brass group.” $60 all seats. greatlakescfa.org/event-detail/canadianbrass-1

LIVE & LOCAL WITH JORDAN HAMILTON: 7pm. Jordan & Curator of Education Jason Dake will discuss Jordan’s background & influences, as well as his experiences performing at various venues throughout northern MI. Jordan Hamilton, cellist of Last Gasp Collective & the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra, merges songwriting, loop pedals, sample machines, & vocals to create a sonic landscape of experimental hip-hop, folk, soul & classical music. Registration is pay what you can, $0-$15, & must be completed by 5pm the evening of the event. After you complete the registration, a member of Dennos staff will email you the details to join on Zoom. dennosmuseum.org

VIRTUAL NORTHERN MICHIGAN PARADE OF HOMES: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

6TH ANNUAL ORCHARDS AT SUNSET VIRTUAL 5K & FUN RUN: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

CANADIAN BRASS: SOLD OUT: 4pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Canadian Brass has earned the distinction of “the world’s most famous brass group.” $60, $47, $42, $32. greatlakescfa.org/event-detail/canadian-brass

---------------------MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK 25TH ANNIVERSARY ONLINE AUCTION: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

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------------------------------------------BOSTON BRASS: 8pm, Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts, Manistee. With over 35 years of international touring behind them, Bos-

------------------------------------------FOREST HISTORY, THEN AND NOW: 6:30pm. Join via Zoom as Mark Stormzand, forester & author of the book “Stormy Outside:

RIES: GRAPE STOMP: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

The Adventures and Misadventures of a Forester and His Dog,” creates a picture of the history & future of Michigan’s forests. Registration required. Once you register you will receive a confirmation email. Free. tadl.org/event/foresthistory-then-and-now

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HYBRID VIRTUAL FARMLAND 5K & FREE FOR ALL BIKE: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------ZOMBIE RUN (VIRTUAL): (See Sat., Oct. 17) ----------------------

------------------------------------------MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: GRAPE STOMP: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------HUNT FOR THE REDS OF OCTOBER: Explore & discover great red wines of Leelanau Peninsula. Takes place weekdays during Oct. Tickets are $25 per person, includes a souvenir wine glass, a complimentary red wine pour at each of more than 20 participating wineries offering diverse red wines, & a $5 donation to the American Red Cross. mynorthtickets.com/events/hunt-for-the-redsof-october-10-1-2020-76983

---------------------MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK 25TH ANNIVERSARY ONLINE AUCTION: (See Sat., Oct. 17) VIRTUAL NORTHERN MICHIGAN PARADE OF HOMES: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------ZOMBIE RUN (VIRTUAL): (See Sat., Oct. 17) ---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

oct 20

tuesday

THE APPLICATION OF HEALTH TECHNOLOGY IN RURAL AREAS: 8-9:30am.

Register for the virtual Health Forum of Northern Michigan, a collaboration between Grand Valley State University & NMC. Speakers include Laura Kilfoyle, MPA - State of Michigan; John Beckett, MD, FACEP - Munson Health; Jack Minor - Health Spark; & Kristine Wilmoth, MSCP - Pine Rest Traverse City Clinic. Free. gvsu.edu/hfnorthernmich

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MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK 25TH ANNIVERSARY ONLINE AUCTION: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------VIRTUAL NORTHERN MICHIGAN PARADE OF HOMES: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------HUNT FOR THE REDS OF OCTOBER: (See Mon., Oct. 19)

oct 22

thursday

6TH ANNUAL ORCHARDS AT SUNSET VIRTUAL 5K & FUN RUN: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

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ASIST: 8am-4:30pm, Shanty Creek Resort Conference Center, Bellaire. A two-day workshop in suicide intervention skills. BOTH full days are required.

Sponsored by Kiersten’s Ride & East Jordan/ Bellaire Family Health Center. To register, email your name, cell #, role in community, & county you live in to: KierstensRide@outlook. com. Questions? Call 231-675-5047.

---------------------HYBRID VIRTUAL FARMLAND 5K & FREE FOR ALL BIKE: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: GRAPE STOMP: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK 25TH ANNIVERSARY ONLINE AUCTION: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

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---------------------PEEPERS: 10am, Boardman River Nature Center, outside, TC. For ages 3-5. A 60-minute nature program that includes stories, crafts, music & discovery activities. Register. Find on Facebook. $5.

---------------------MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK 25TH ANNIVERSARY ONLINE AUCTION: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------VIRTUAL NORTHERN MICHIGAN PARADE OF HOMES: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------ZOMBIE RUN (VIRTUAL): (See Sat., Oct. 17) ---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------HUNT FOR THE REDS OF OCTOBER: (See Mon., Oct. 19)

oct 21

wednesday

6TH ANNUAL ORCHARDS AT SUNSET VIRTUAL 5K & FUN RUN: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

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HYBRID VIRTUAL FARMLAND 5K & FREE FOR ALL BIKE: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

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Marlin Schmidt - marlin.schmidt@att.net 800-842-5317 OR 574-217-0878

MUSIC SPOTLIGHT: 7:30pm. A virtual performance from Interlochen Center for the Arts.

Free. tickets.interlochen.org/events/musicspotlight/october-22-2020-730pm

---------------------MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: GRAPE STOMP: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

Your car will be leased to a food company IN BUSINESS FOR 74 YEARS! Tank cars cost $12,000 and PAY $2,840 per year

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---------------------HYBRID VIRTUAL FARMLAND 5K & FREE FOR ALL BIKE: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

For high income and tax benefits, purchase a rail road tank car.

VIRTUAL NORTHERN MICHIGAN PARADE OF HOMES: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

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6TH ANNUAL ORCHARDS AT SUNSET VIRTUAL 5K & FUN RUN: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

RETIREMENT IS ALL ABOUT INCOME

HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

HUNT FOR THE REDS OF OCTOBER: (See Mon., Oct. 19)

oct 23

friday

6TH ANNUAL ORCHARDS AT SUNSET VIRTUAL 5K & FUN RUN: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

-------------ASIST: (See Thurs., Oct. 22) ---------------------FRESHWATER SUMMIT: The 13th Annual Freshwater Summit will be a series of virtual sessions held in Oct. The lightning talk session is Oct. 23 from 10-11:30am. Presentations include Lake Michigan’s water levels, NMC’s freshwater studies program, restoration & green infrastructure projects, ISEA’s BWET programs, Grand Traverse Community Scorecard, Wild Root for wild waters, & the Boardman River uncovered. Free. gtbay.org/ events/2020-freshwater-summit

---------------------HYBRID VIRTUAL FARMLAND 5K & FREE FOR ALL BIKE: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: GRAPE STOMP: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------FALL CHAIRLIFT RIDES: 4-6pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Enjoy panoramic views of three counties during the peak of the fall color season. Purchase tickets at the base of the Crystal Clipper. 8 & under free with paying adult. $5/person. Find on Facebook.

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MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK 25TH ANNIVERSARY ONLINE AUCTION: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------EAST JORDAN 1ST ANNUAL PUMPKIN WALK: 7pm, East Jordan Community Park.

Tonight is family friendly with a costume contest & goodies for kids (12 & under). All donations benefit the Depot Jordan Valley Teen Center.

---------------------VIRTUAL NORTHERN MICHIGAN PARADE OF HOMES: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------ZOMBIE RUN (VIRTUAL): (See Sat., Oct. 17) ---------------------HAUNTED TRAIL AT THE GHOST FARM OF KINGSLEY: 7-11pm, Feast or Famine Haunted Trail. 5010 Pierce Rd., Kingsley. $15. GhostFarm.net

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From Ohio. Enjoy this concert on the Gopherwood Concerts Facebook page. Suggested $10 donation. facebook.com/GopherwoodConcerts

---------------------HAUNTED TRAIL AT THE GHOST FARM OF KINGSLEY: 7-11pm, Feast or Famine Haunted Trail. 5010 Pierce Rd., Kingsley. $15. GhostFarm.net

oct 25

sunday

FALL CHAIRLIFT RIDES: 11am-3pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Enjoy panoramic views of three counties during the peak of the fall color season. Purchase tickets at the base of the Crystal Clipper. 8 & under free with paying adult. $5/person. Find on Facebook.

HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

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HUNT FOR THE REDS OF OCTOBER: (See Mon., Oct. 19)

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oct 24

saturday

PINT SIZED PAINT OUT: 12-2pm, Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey. A fall-themed outdoor painting event for kids.

Register. Free. crookedtree. org/events/petoskey

---------------------FALL PAINT OUT: 4-6pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Bidwell Plaza, Petoskey. A fall-themed plein air reception & wet paint sale. For artists ages 18 & up. Free. crookedtree.org/event/ ctac-petoskey/fall-paint-out

---------------------6TH ANNUAL ORCHARDS AT SUNSET VIRTUAL 5K & FUN RUN: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------HYBRID VIRTUAL FARMLAND 5K & FREE FOR ALL BIKE: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: GRAPE STOMP: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------CADILLAC FISH DECOY & SPORTING COLLECTIBLE SHOW: 10am-3pm, Cadillac Commons. An open air covered market. Free.

---------------------MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK 25TH ANNIVERSARY ONLINE AUCTION: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------VIRTUAL NORTHERN MICHIGAN PARADE OF HOMES: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------THE PROGRESSIVE HARVEST TOUR: 3pm.

Registration & cocktail hour is at Otsego Resort with featured drinks. Then hop on the Northern Michigan Trolley & head to Michaywe Inn The Woods for fall inspired appetizers. Next travel to the Iron Pig for the main course. Then enjoy one last ride back to Otsego Resort for dessert & live entertainment. 989-732-5181. $55. otsegoclub.com

---------------------ZOMBIE RUN (VIRTUAL): (See Sat., Oct. 17) ---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------SCOOBY DOO-WOP: A LIVE DRIVE-IN MYSTERY ADVENTURE: (See Sun., Oct. 18)

---------------------MURDER MYSTERY DINNER: 6-9pm, Otsego Resort, Duck Blind Grille, Gaylord. “Best Laid Plans”: An Old Hollywood Whodunnit. $60. otsegoclub.com/event/murder-mystery-dinner

---------------------EAST JORDAN 1ST ANNUAL PUMPKIN WALK: 7pm, East Jordan Community Park.

Tonight is Fright Night. All donations benefit the Depot Jordan Valley Teen Center.

---------------------GOPHERWOOD CONCERTS PRESENTS ROBBIE SCHAEFER: 7pm. Robbie is a guitarist & songwriter for the indie folk band Eddie

6TH ANNUAL ORCHARDS AT SUNSET VIRTUAL 5K & FUN RUN: (See Sat., Oct. 17) HYBRID VIRTUAL FARMLAND 5K & FREE FOR ALL BIKE: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------KIDZONE TRUNK ‘N’ TREAT: 5-6pm, New Hope Community Church, parking lot, Williamsburg. Bring the kids for hot dogs, cotton candy & a parking lot full of trunks filled with candy. Free. newhope.cc

---------------------MICHIGAN HARVEST VIRTUAL RUN SERIES: GRAPE STOMP: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------MICHIGAN LEGACY ART PARK 25TH ANNIVERSARY ONLINE AUCTION: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------ZOMBIE RUN (VIRTUAL): (See Sat., Oct. 17) ---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS RESTAURANT WEEK: (See Sat., Oct. 17)

---------------------SCOOBY DOO-WOP: A LIVE DRIVE-IN MYSTERY ADVENTURE: (See Sun., Oct. 18)

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SPOOKY GARDEN DECORATING CONTEST: The GTACG is hosting seven other local nonprofits for an in-person & virtual Spooky Garden Decorating Contest now through midnight on Halloween. Take a stroll through the Walk-Through Garden, find your favorite & vote online at https://tinyurl.com/ydxypmv4 for only $1 per vote. Plus, the top pick will receive a $100 grand prize. facebook.com/ events/1027816774323437

---------------------BASKETS OF BOUNTY HOLIDAY DONATION DRIVE FOR AREA SENIORS: The Grand Traverse County Commission on Aging is seeking: paper towels, Kleenex, toilet paper, flushable wipes, lip balm (Chapstick), BandAids, shampoo/conditioner combo, body lotion, body wash, toothpaste, toothbrushes, liquid hand soap, dish soap, laundry detergent (smaller containers), assorted puzzle books (new), hand sanitizer & wipes, & cat & dog treats. Donations are tax deductible. Please make checks payable to: Grand Traverse County Commission on Aging. Cash donations are also accepted. All donations will be accepted through Weds., Nov. 25 at the Commission on Aging office located at 520 W. Front St., TC. Donations can be left in the front entrance area until the office opens to public. grandtraverse.org

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CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR 10TH ANNUAL YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL: Regional high school students are invited to submit an original one-act play. Finalists are paired with national theater mentors, win $100 & see their play performed on the City Opera House stage.

Deadline is Dec. 11. cityoperahouse.org/ypfentry-deadline

---------------------RAISING FUNDS FOR HOMELESS PETS: From Oct. 16 - Nov. 15, Pets Naturally, S. Air-

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port Rd., TC will sell copies of “River Love – The True Story of a Wayward Sheltie, a Woman, and a Magical Place Called Rivershire” by local author Tricia Frey for $20, half of which will be donated to Cherryland Humane Society.

Pets Naturally will also include a $5 coupon for added value. triciafrey.com

---------------------EXPLORE EAST BAY: Runs through Nov. 1.

This new, free, eight-week outdoor walking program invites you to explore eight featured parks in East Bay Township & improve your physical health. Participants will record their daily steps & walking minutes. Each week the program will feature one park in East Bay as part of a weekly photo contest. Sign up. http://eastbaytwp.org/ exploreeastbay/

---------------------“30 BIGS IN 30 DAYS”: Big Brothers Big Sisters (Bigs) is looking for 30 volunteer mentors during Oct. The need for men & women ages 16-86 is great as Bigs continues to see an increase in children who would greatly benefit from a mentor. Volunteer mentors are needed in all five counties in northwestern MI: Antrim, Charlevoix, Emmet, Kalkaska & Grand Traverse, & who come from all walks of life & all backgrounds. There are 6,000 children in the region in need of a mentor. Bigs & Littles are invited to meet in person, or through Bigs’ Virtual Mentoring program for four to six hours a month. bigsupnorth.com/volunteer

---------------------LET’S WALK TOGETHER: Presented by Norte. Connecting, moving together & learning about the expanding walking infrastructure in TC. Approx. 1-3 miles, 30-45 minutes. Meet at Hull Park, TC every Sat. at 9am. elgruponorte.org

---------------------FALL MOUNTAIN BIKE COLOR TOUR: Saturdays, 10am, Oct. 3-31, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Ride the sections of the Peak2Peak race course & Betsie River Pathway at a leisurely tour pace. $29/person; includes rental bike & helmet. $19 for Peak Members. $10 if you bring your own bike. crystalmountain.com/ event/fall-color-tour

---------------------MONDAY SOUL YOGA FLOW: Mondays, 8am, Oct. 5-26, Bodies in Motion Studio, TC. A 60-minute Vinyasa Flow class. Restore your body through the connection to movement & breath. Donation based class. Must sign-up on Eventbrite before class. Mask must be worn to your mat & any walking around areas. eventbrite.com

---------------------NORTE MEETUPS FOR THE DEAF COMMUNITY: Saturdays, 11am-noon, Oct. 10-31, Norte’s Wheelhouse, GT County Civic Center, TC. Invited: Anyone hard of hearing, families of Deaf children, CODAS (Children of Deaf Adults), SODAs (Siblings of Deaf Adults), & friends & interpreters of the Deaf. Bikes are available to borrow if need be. elgruponorte.org

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SCENIC CHAIRLIFT RIDES @ SHANTY CREEK: Saturdays, 11am-4pm, Oct. 3-17, Shanty Creek Resort, Bellaire. Enjoy a kaleidoscope of color from Shanty Creek’s chairlift, high atop Schuss Mountain. Tickets: $25; includes the entire chair, up to four guests. shantycreek.com/product/fall-color-chairlift-rides

---------------------SUNRISE YOGA FLOW: Tuesdays, 7:30am, Bodies in Motion Studio, TC. A Vinyasa Flow session. Move & restore your body through movement & breath. Donation based class.

Bring your own mat. Must sign-up on Eventbrite before class to reserve your spot. Must wear mask to your mat. eventbrite.com

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TCAPS ANNOUNCES NEW FREE MEAL DISTRIBUTION SITE: Free meal distribution will be offered once per week on Saturdays at TC West Middle School. Meals for families participating in the UpNorth Virtual program & children within the community can receive an entire week’s worth of meal components each Sat. from 8-9am. Students returning to face-to face instruction will receive daily meals at their school. You can pick up weekend meals on Saturdays from 9-10am. Please complete a meal

request form each week by noon on Fridays. tcaps.net/about/departments/food--nutritionservices/menus

farm markets

BELLAIRE WINTER FARMERS MARKET: Held on Fridays from 10am-2pm. Located at both Bee Well & Terrain in downtown Bellaire.

---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS FARMERS MARKET: 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=

---------------------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: Wednesdays: 8am-noon, Lot B, downtown TC, across from Clinch Park. Online order pick-up: 4:30-7pm on Weds. Order online from Thurs., noon until Mon., noon. Saturdays: 7:30am-noon, Lot B & Lot T, downtown TC. https://dda.downtowntc.com/farmers-market

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“DON’T MISS THE BOAT”: Harbor Springs History Museum. Presented by the Harbor Springs Area Historical Society. This exhibit highlights the historic ferries of Little Traverse Bay & features original watercolors & giclees by local artist William Talmadge Hall. Runs through the summer of 2021. Hours: Tues.Sat., 11am-3pm. harborspringshistory.org/history-museum-exhibits

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“PAINT OUTSIDE THE LINES”: Bonobo Winery, TC. This art exhibit by Christi Dreese showcases her abstract style & oil landscapes. Find on Facebook.

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“POWER TOOLS EXHIBIT” & “ART IN A TIME OF CORONAVIRUS | A POSTCARD RESPONSE”: Glen Arbor Arts Center. Power Tools is a multifaceted, juried exhibition built on the belief that the arts provide us with powerful tools of expression. The work of 17 artists will be exhibited. Art In A Time Of Coronavirus is an exhibition of 97 hand-built postcards [4” x 6”] that present the maker’s personal response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Postcards were created from paper, polymer clay, fabric, recycled & mixed media materials by 33 people.

Glen Arbor Arts Center is open daily from 11am–2pm. glenarborart.org

---------------------ANNUAL ALL MEDIA JURIED EXHIBITION: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Runs through Oct. 23. This year’s juror is Eden Ünlüata - Foley, MFA, MA, associate professor of visual arts at West Shore Community College. Eden Ünlüata - Foley’s process involves deciding what themes are present in the submitted work, & then deciding which theme each work most associates with & best exemplifies. A total of 105 works were submitted for jurying. From those works, he selected ten works that will equally divide the $2,000 total award. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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

---------------------MARY WAHR: “RETROSPECTIVE” ART SHOW: Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts, Manistee, Oct. 16 - Nov. 13. Featuring drawing, painting, printmaking, paper casting, scratchboards, & collage. ci.ovationtix.com/35295/production/1032716

---------------------CHARLEVOIX CIRCLE OF ARTS: - “TIME WITH EAGLES”: A collection of images by Charlevoix photographer Bill Dietrich.

Half of his images were taken in Charlevoix, while others were taken in the Pacific Northwest in Skagit Valley on the Skagit River where he attended an eagle photography workshop in Seattle & La Conner, Washington. Runs through Oct. charlevoixcircle.org - ALL MEDIA OPEN CALL TO MICHIGAN ARTISTS: Submit to: re | ART: reject, reflect, refine, remark, a juried fine arts exhibit. Artists are invited to comment visually on the many shifts taking place in our current experience, as change opens a path to rethink, revisit, reunite, recharge, reevaluate, redefine, etc. Juror will award cash prizes. Deadline for entry is Jan. 10 at noon. charlevoixcircle.org/juried-exhibit

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details. higherartgallery.com - CITIZENS COPING: Group show featuring a range of mediums & over 30 artists expressing how they are coping under the current administration. Runs Oct. 11 - Nov. 3.

- “THE INTROVERT IN THE WINDOW”: Oct. 24-31, Higher Art Gallery, TC. Consists of work alternating between essays & paintings. Each piece explores human perception by correlating topics from the sciences, humanities, visual arts, & global culture - all drawn from Nadia Daniels-Moehle’s autodidactic education.

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DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - MATHIAS J. ALTEN: AN AMERICAN ARTIST AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: The German-born American Impressionist Mathias Joseph Alten, often referred to as the Dean of Michigan painters, is regarded as one of the most celebrated regionalist artists to have worked in the United States. Runs through Jan. 31. dennosmuseum.org/art/upcoming-exhibitions/index.html - MICHIGAN MODERN: AN ARCHITECTURAL LEGACY: This exhibit celebrates Michigan’s modern architectural design history from 1928-2012. It is comprised of over 50 photographs by James Haefner primarily for the State Historic Preservation Office as part of their Michigan Modern Project, & featured in the book by State Historic Preservation Officer Brian Conway, titled “Michigan Modern: An Architectural Legacy.” Runs through Jan. 31. dennosmuseum.org/art/upcoming-exhibitions/ index.html

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: - TRAVERSE AREA CAMERA CLUB COMPETITION SHOW 2020: Runs through Nov. 13, Carnegie Rotunda. Each spring the Traverse Area Camera Club hosts a photography competition for club members. Photographs are peer-reviewed at novice, intermediate, advanced & master levels. This exhibition highlights 2020’s award-winning works in each level. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-traversecity/traverse-area-camera-club-competitionshow-2020 - COLOR CATCHERS: KATHLEEN CARPENTER, MARILYN HOOGSTRATEN, KATHY

Deadline for Dates information is Tuesday for the following week.

---------------------HIGHER ART GALLERY, TC: - OPEN CALL FOR “THOSE WHO TEACH”: Deadline to apply is 1/15/21. Exhibit featuring the artwork of Michigan’s Visual Art Educators. higherartgallery.com/calls-for-art - OPEN CALL FOR ART: “TREE OF ART”: Create anything to help decorate a white tree with white lights. It does not need to be related to the holidays. Deadline is Nov. 10. The show will run Nov. 23 - Jan. 1. See web site for more

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BY RUTH BARDENSTEIN, JEAN BUESCHER BARTLETT & SUSAN MORAN: Runs through Dec. 18, Gilbert Gallery. These

SILBERNAGEL, BABS YOUNG: Held in Gallery. Color Catchers invites you to appreciate the impact & mystery of color through the work of these photographers. crookedtree.org - ONE, TOGETHER EXHIBITION: Runs Sept.

28 - Nov. 13. This exhibition explores collaboration, collectivity & togetherness through creative practice. crookedtree.org/event/ctactraverse-city/one-together-exhibition

three artists met in Ann Arbor &, over time, have nurtured both personal & creative connections.

They regularly share & critique one another’s work & together visit gallery & museum exhibitions. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-petoskey/ collective-impulse-new-work-ruth-bardensteinjean-buescher-bartlett-and-susan - CALL & RESPONSE: Held in Bonfield Gallery. This exhibit recognizes the many ways works of art can spark conversation, action & aid in the processing of ideas, feelings, experiences & events. Original work in a variety of media will be on display. Runs through Dec. 18. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-online-ctacpetoskey/call-and-response - ONLINE EXHIBIT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG ARTISTS: Oct. 17-Nov. 6. Artists, ages 8 - 18, are invited to submit their artwork for inclusion in the online exhibition based on the theme of “community”: “Kids on Community.” Young artists are asked to tell what community means to them. Artwork in all media is eligible. Email your submissions to gallerydirector@crookedtree.org by Fri., Nov. 6. Include the student’s name, age & hometown in your email.

“Kids on Community” will be published virtually on crookedtree.org from mid-Nov. through Dec. 2020. crookedtree.org

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let us all remember that for as bad as some of his recent comedies may have been, he’s also the man who awed us in the award-winning and electrifying vision that was Uncut Gems. (And he was utterly, totally, and completely robbed of an Oscar nom by Hollywood’s hoity-toity elite.) In fact, in the leadup to the nominations, in an interview with Howard Stern, Sandler claimed if he was snubbed by the Academy, he would deliberately make the worst movie ever, which led to speculation that Hubie Halloween is, in fact, that movie.

After careful review, it’s clear Hubie Halloween is not that movie. In fact, on the sliding scale of recent Sandler-verse comedies, this one is actually pretty good.

Love him or hate him, Sandler is Sandler.

And with his exclusive Netflix deal, he has been able to pretty much do whatever he wants, which generally means bringing together his funny friends for ridiculous romps. It’s both this sense of freedom and fun that makes the stakes feel so low here.

Because as much as his body of work can be a source of contempt, there really is such love and goodwill behind Sandler films because he’s never trying to be anything other than who he is.

And in his latest, a Halloween whodunit and horror-movie sendup, he taps into his silly and sweet side to make some fine family fare for the spooky szn (i.e., season). We’re talking “Monster Mash” playing and ’90s-familyadventure-vibing enjoyment. It’s very much a film that’s straight out of the Sandler assembly line but sprinkled with pumpkin spice.

And to keep the pumpkin spice metaphor going, while pumpkin spice may be basic, oversaturated, and a source of ridicule, just like Sandler’s movies, you have to admit it still tastes pretty good.

Filled with classic Sandler shtick and shenanigans, this story of oddball outsiders and puerile humor centers on Sandler’s Hubie Dubois, who with his strange accent, social ineptitude, and place of residence (he lives with his mother), could be a distant cousin to Sandler’s The Waterboy character.

Set in Salem, Massachusetts, Hubie is a descendent of those who tried to put a stop to the infamous witch hunts, and in some ways Hubie carries on that protective torch, acting as the town’s self-appointed hall monitor of sorts. And with Salem’s epic Halloween celebration approaching, Hubie is “working” overtime to keep everyone safe. Yet for as nice, well-meaning, and devoted to the town as Hubie is, he is also the citizens’ whipping boy — the target of all their jokes and taunts.

But it’s not just the standard tricks and treats keeping Hubie occupied this year. With a deranged convict on the loose from a mental institution and a new neighbor who might not react well to the evening’s impending full moon, Hubie has got to make the town’s denizens heed his warnings. And so the scene is set for a semi-enticing mystery that is

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basically only there to provide a backdrop to the standard Sandler show of classic pratfalls and a typically bonkers cast.

Seriously, the cast playing the eccentric (and occasionally hilarious) townsfolk is incredibly stacked. You’ve got Steve Buscemi as the strange lycanthropic new neighbor; Ray Liotta as Hubie’s bully; June Squibb as Hubie’s mother, who unwittingly wears novelty T-shirts showcasing off-color sayings (e.g., “Boner Donor”); Kevin James as a dopey policeman (shades of Paul Blart?). Plus, Maya Rudolph, Tim Meadows, Michael Chiklis, Keenan Thompson, Ben Stiller, and the list goes on! There’s even a romantic subplot with a very game Julie Bowen (Modern Family).

As eclectic of a collection of actors as this may seem, they are all united by how they so wholeheartedly embrace the absurdity and fun. And if you do the same, you will have fun too. Plus, where else will you get to see Ray Liotta pulling pranks in full clown garb?

Sure, there’s not a lot to the story, and it certainly feels like it was written over a couple of beers in the span of one afternoon, but it also has a positive and warmhearted message. ’Cause even in the face of multiple cycling accidents, projectile vomiting, and insult after hurled insult, Hubie keeps going. He keeps being himself in the face of bullies.

The comedy is not smart, but it’s not nearly as dumb as it could’ve been. And it’s gross, but not gross-out. But mostly, it is kind and earnest, never mean or angry, and it is this undeterred spirit that sets the film apart.

Let’s face it, expectations of Sandler films are pretty low. But consider that you didn’t have to shell out $75+ for tickets, popcorn, and snacks at the local movie theater, and you’re looking at an enjoyable (if somewhat forgettable) evening with your tweens and teens. It may not be like getting a king-size candy bar in your trick-or-treating bag, but at this present moment, with our holiday celebrations looking so different this year, a fun-size bar will more than do.

Meg Weichman is a perma-intern at the Traverse City Film Festival and a trained film archivist.

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and women across cultures from Z to Z: from the Zulus to the Croatians in Zagreb.

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Granted, Buss did this research 30 years ago.

Do his findings hold up? They do -- according to a survey of 14,000 people in 45 countries published in March of 2020 by evolutionary psychologist Daniel Conroy-Beam and his grad student Kathryn V. Walter, in concert with a huge international team of researchers.

They write, “Consistent with Buss (1989), our results showed that health, kindness, and intelligence were highly valued by both men and women” around the world.

: I’m a woman who recently stopped talking with a guy I’d been seeing because, frankly, I didn’t find him intelligent enough. He is a good guy, but just a little dim for me. When I told my friends this was the reason I ended things, they said it was a bit snobbish. Does this make me an intellectual snob? I get that he has other good qualities, but I just don’t feel like they’re enough.

— Nerd Seeking Nerd

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: Love sometimes requires one to make sacrifices, but these shouldn’t include avoiding any words with more than two syllables.

You aren’t alone in wanting a partner with smarts. In 1989, evolutionary psychologist David Buss and his colleagues did a massive study exploring mate preferences, including the desire for an intelligent partner, across 37 cultures (“on six continents and five islands”).

Their participant group included Gujarati Indians, Estonians, mainland Chinese, Santa Catarina Brazilians, and South African Zulus.

Using such a broad cross-cultural group (rather than just surveying the latest crop of American college undergrads) helps parse which traits might be evolved “human universals,” inherited by humans around the globe, irrespective of culture. Universal human traits — for example, communicating with language and fear of snakes — evolved to solve recurring problems faced by ancestral humans across continents and over generations, improving our chances of surviving, mating, and, most importantly, passing on our genes.

Buss found that for some mate preferences, “cultures varied tremendously.” For example, the Dutch had a “whatevs!” attitude toward whether a partner is a virgin, while people in mainland China, India, and Iran placed a lot of importance on “chastity or virginity” in a partner. There were also strong sex differences in certain mate preferences — even across cultures — for example, with men (on average) “always ... valuing virginity more than women.” This might help a man avoid a hookup-erella and the evolutionary fail of unwittingly investing in a kid who’ll pass on some other dude’s genes. Of course, no woman has to worry her kid isn’t hers (especially not after 26 hours of screaming labor to push it out).

There were also some universal mate preferences — across cultures and in both sexes. Buss and his team found that intelligence (as well as kindness and health) were chart-toppers, traits desired by men

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Why might intelligence in a mate have evolved to be such a strong, culturally universal preference? In research exploring the role of men’s intelligence in heterosexual women's mate choices, psychologist Mark D. Prokosch and his colleagues explain that “greater intelligence is generally associated with success in a wide variety of circumstances,” most notably, workplace success, leading to higher income. “Selecting a more intelligent mate often provides women with better access to resources and parental investment for offspring.” Additionally, smart-man genes are likely to lead to smarter children, making intelligence attractive as an “overall heritable ... quality.”

There’s a widely held myth that romantic partners need to be near doppelgangers -- have matching traits and interests -- to make it as a couple. This sells memberships to those dating sites promising to ferret out “points of compatibility.” However, research by psychologist Manon van Scheppingen finds that varying, complementing personality traits (such as outgoingness or conscientiousness) in partners often lead to greater relationship satisfaction. That said, it’s reasonable to want a partner with a level of smarts that’s a pretty good match with yours, because, well, a meeting of the minds is a little hard when one mind is tuned into Cold War documentaries while the other is all up in reruns of “Scooby-Doo.” Chances are the notion that you’re a “snob” for wanting an intellectually well-matched partner is driven in part by others’ fear that they’ll be nixed by potential partners for traits beyond their control. There’s this lovely fiction that “what’s inside is all that matters.” A person’s heart and character are deeply important, but you can’t just decide to have the hots for some Mr. Libido Repellent because he feeds orphaned baby birds with an eyedropper while taking calls for a suicide hotline. Likewise, you can believe all people have innate value and treat them with respect and dignity and still not feel you’re compatible with a partner whose intelligence test results lead to a participation trophy.

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OCT 19 - OCT 25

BY ROB BREZSNY

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I vote in American elections,

but I’ve never belonged to a political party. One of my favorite politicians is Bernie Sanders, who for most of his career has been an Independent. But now I’m a staunch advocate for the Democrats.

Why? Because Republicans are so thoroughly under the curse of the nasty, cruel, toxic person known as Donald Trump. I’m convinced that it’s crucial for our country’s well-being that Democrats achieve total victory in the upcoming election. In accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to do your personal equivalent of what I’ve done: Unambiguously align yourself with influences that represent your highest, noblest values. Take a sacred stand not just for yourself, but also in behalf of everything you love.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Yes, do

let people see you sweat. At least for now, be forthright and revelatory. Let people witness your secret fire, your fierce tang, your salty tears, and your unhealed wounds. Hold nothing back as you give what you haven’t been able to give before. Be gleefully expressive as you unveil every truth, every question, every buried joy. Don’t be crude and insensitive, of course. Be as elegant and respectful as possible. But make it your priority to experiment with sacred vulnerability. Find out how far you can safely go as you strip away the disguises that have kept you out of touch with your full power.

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5 Used (to) 15 She uses a bird to sweep the house 17 Computer overhaul 18 Gridiron measurements (abbr.)

19 Little bite 20 Gold, to Guatemalans 21 “Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?” network 22 Bodybuilder’s units 24 Word before Earth or City, in computer games 27 Drab shade 29 She was Dorothy on “The Golden Girls” 30 Org. that listens for alien signals 31 It’s obsolete 35 Jovial question from someone eager to help 36 It covers Miami, Montpelier and Montreal 37 SOPA subject 38 Opera follower?

39 New Year’s, in Hanoi 40 Mandolin relative 41 Robin Meade’s network 42 Southwest sch. whose mascot is King Triton 44 Daily grind 45 Guy to say “’Sup?” to 46 “___ Ho” (Best Original Song Oscar winner of 2009) 47 The D in OED 50 Easy lunch to prepare 56 Insider’s knowledge 57 Viktor Bout or Adnan Khashoggi 58 Dark form of quartz DOWN 1 Off-kilter 2 Messed with the facts 3 World Series precursor, for short 4 “As I see it,” in chatrooms 5 Tack on 6 Shorten nails

7 Smoke 8 Palindromic prime minister of the 1940s-60s 9 Leather sharpener used in old-timey barber shops 10 Old rulers 11 Chemist Hahn 12 “Excusez-___ ...”

13 Roxy Music name 14 Room for board games, perhaps 16 Person with a booming voice, often 21 Donut shop option 22 Upgraded 23 Fail spectacularly, like a skateboarder 24 ___ Saga (David Feintuch series of sci-fi novels) 25 “No need to pay” 26 Bishops’ wear 27 Grain alcohol 28 Put someone in their place 29 Some hats worn on The Oregon Trail 30 Lose your composure, in junior high-speak 31 “Anchors ___” 32 Senator Jake who flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery 33 Heart location?

34 Ophthalmologist’s concerns 42 Implored 43 Richard who played Don Barzini in “The Godfather” 44 Vacation time, in slang 45 ___ the Younger (Arthurian knight) 46 Director Campion 47 Zoologist Fossey 48 Disgusting 49 Cereal with gluten-free varieties 50 Org. that bestows merit badges 51 “Love, Reign ___ Me” (The Who) 52 420, for 20 and 21 (abbr.)

53 “Just as I suspected!”

54 “On the Road” protagonist ___ Paradise 55 “Never heard of her”

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2008 and 2017, Southern California had two sizable earthquakes: 5.5 and 5.1 on the Richter scale. But during the same period, the area had 1.8 million small quakes that were mostly too mild to be felt. The ground beneath the feet of the local people was shaking at the rate of once every three minutes. Metaphorically speaking, Capricorn, you’re now in a phase that resembles the mild shakes. There’s a lot of action going on beneath the surface, although not much of it is obvious.

I think this is a good thing. The changes you’re shepherding are proceeding at a safe, gradual, well-integrated pace.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): No American

woman was allowed to earn a medical degree and practice as a physician until Aquarian-born Elizabeth Blackwell did it in 1849. It was an almost impossible feat, since the all-male college she attended undermined her mercilessly. Once she began her career a doctor, she constantly had to outwit men who made it difficult for her. Nevertheless, she persisted. Eventually, she helped create a medical school for women in England and made it possible for 476 women to practice medicine there. I propose that we make her your patron saint for now. May she inspire you to redouble your diligent pursuit of your big dream. Here’s your motto: “Nevertheless, I’m persisting.”

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): Henry David

Thoreau wrote, “I fear my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.” You’ll be wise to have a similar fear, Pisces. According to my analysis, you can generate good fortune for yourself by transcending what you already know and think. Life is conspiring to nudge you and coax you into seeking experiences that will expand your understanding of everything.

Take advantage of this opportunity to blow your own mind!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I’ve been told

that nobody sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do,” testified Aries chanteuse Billie Holiday. She wasn’t suggesting that she had a stylish way of crooning about fine dining. Rather, she meant “hunger” in the sense of the longing for life’s poignant richness. Her genius-level ability to express such beauty was due in part to her skillful vocal technique, but also because she was a master of cultivating soulful emotions. Your assignment in the coming weeks, Aries, is to refine and deepen your own hunger.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Renata

Adler expresses my own feelings when she writes, “Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.” I bet if you’re honest, Taurus, you would say the same. It’s almost certainly the case that the people you regard as worthy

of your love and interest are absolutely unique. In the sense that there are no other characters like them in the world, they are superstars and prodigies. I bring this to your attention because now is an excellent time to fully express your appreciation for their one-of-a-kind beauty—to honor and celebrate them for their entertainment value and precious influence and unparalleled blessings.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “If you cannot

find an element of humor in something, you’re not taking it seriously enough,” writes author Ilyas Kassam. That’s a key thought for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. Levity and joking will be necessities, not luxuries. Fun and amusement will be essential ingredients in the quest to make good decisions. You can’t afford to be solemn and stern, because allowing those states to dominate you would diminish your intelligence. Being playful—even in the face of challenges—will ensure your ultimate success.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’m hoping the

horoscopes I wrote for you in late August helped propel you into a higher level of commitment to the art of transformation. In any case, I suspect that you will have the chance, in the coming weeks, to go even further in your mastery of that art. To inspire you in your efforts, I’ll encourage you to at least temporarily adopt one or more of the nicknames in the following list: 1. Flux Luster 2. Fateful Fluctuator 3. Shift Virtuoso 4. Flow Maestro 5. Alteration Adept 6.

Change Arranger 7. Mutability Savant 8. Transition Connoisseur

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “When one is a

stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too,” wrote author Anne Morrow Lindbergh. “If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one’s own core, is one connected to others.” In bringing these thoughts to your attention, Leo, I don’t mean to imply that you are out of touch with your deep self. Not at all. But in my view, all of us can benefit from getting into ever-closer communion with our deep selves. In the coming weeks, you especially need to work on that—and are likely to have extra success in doing so.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My cosmic tipsters told me that you will be even smarter than usual in the coming weeks. As I scoured the heavenly maps, I detected signs that you have the potential to be a skilled code-cracker, riddle-decipherer, and solver of knotty problems and tricky dilemmas. That’s why I suggest you express gratitude to your beautiful brain, Virgo. Sing it sweet songs and tell it how much you love it and find out which foods you can eat to strengthen it even more. Now read Diane Ackerman’s description of the brain: “that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome.”

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I loathe

narcissism, but I approve of vanity,” said fashion writer Diana Vreeland. Here’s how I interpret that: People who care mostly for their own feelings and welfare, and who believe they’re more important than everyone else, are boring and repellent. But those who enjoy looking their best and expressing their unique beauty may do so out of a desire to share their gifts with the world. Their motivation might be artistry and generosity, not selfcenteredness. In accordance with cosmic potentials, Scorpio, I invite you to elude the temptations of narcissism as you explore benevolent forms of vanity.

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