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T NOT that Deb Droppers necessarT’S ily likes to party all the time, but she il really knows how to throw one. re Chances are you’ve been to a soiree or two of hers: New Year’s Fest, Community Advocates Ribfest, Great Winter Adventure and Chili Cook-off, the Do Dah Parade, the Kalamazoo Holiday Parade, the expanded Art Hops, Art on the Mall.

Droppers is the force behind these happenings as founder and head of The Event Company, which coordinates 62 annual events in Kalamazoo and Portage each year. Her clients include Downtown Kalamazoo Inc., Community Advocates, New Year’s Fest of Kalamazoo Inc. and The Community Healing Center.

She isn’t sure how many events she has planned in the last 17 years at the helm of The Event Company, but Droppers’ party-planning prowess was evident way before that.

“She was always organizing things and very creative,” says Dr. Shirley Van Hoeven, Droppers’ mother and a retired Western Michigan University professor of communication.

“We saw it in her very early. As a toddler, she had an imaginary bird that she described to us so well and with all this detail. He was very much part of

When it comes to community events, Deb Droppers makes magic. says. “She always had ideas, was planning things and coming up with stuff no one else would think of.”

After graduating from Kalamazoo Central High School in 1975, Droppers went to Hope College. Even there, she organized events for her sorority and was a member of the student activities committee. fun Making work w FTER COLLEGE graduation, FTE Droppers returned to her D hometown to work for Metro h Transit as its marketing coordinator. She left an indelible mark there, implementing cleanliness tests for the buses and improving drivers’ job satisfaction. Those two actions may seem antithetical, but it turned out they weren’t.

“I found that I could market all I wanted, but having grumpy drivers was going to keep riders from coming on board,” she says. Droppers borrowed the Quality of Work Life model from General Motors (which let her sit in on training sessions) and involved drivers in making the whole experience “more fun.” ”We would produce awards for the cleanest bus and made it so the bus drivers had everything to gain by having a clean and inviting bus,” she explains.

“That helped change attitudes because it became a prideful component of their workday.”

One thing about Droppers — spend five minutes with this high-energy, 50-something woman and you know — she does not like to sit still. After a few years at Metro Transit, Droppers was ready for a new challenge. She thought, “Hmmm, the city of Kalamazoo needs a communications director.” She met

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r of Fun! all our lives. She was always organizing things for ‘Petey’ — where he would sit at the table, what he would be doing,” Van Hoeven recalls.

Droppers graduated from organizing Petey’s life to creating “elaborate situations,” as her mother describes them, for her Barbie and Ken dolls. It was in school, however, that Droppers found a new forum — and real, live people — to utilize her talents.

“In junior high, Deb organized students to go to the city council or school board meetings to discuss issues like student and human rights,” Van Hoeven

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with then-city manager Sheryl Sculley, interviewed a host of city directors about their needs, developed a proposal and had a job three months later.

That’s when the fun really began.

One of the first things Droppers developed was a guide called “How to Party in Kalamazoo,” aimed at college students living in the Vine neighborhood.

“The guide was developed to specifically reach out to the college kids in that neighborhood to tell them how to conduct themselves — what was allowed, how to work with neighbors and live together for the betterment of the neighborhood,” she says.

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All of 26 years old at the time, Droppers made “house calls” to identified “party houses.”

“I think it worked because we realized students will be students and parties are part of the fabric of college life,” she says. “We had a commitment to tell them what was acceptable and what wasn’t. The personal, proactive approach was probably what worked best.”

In 1986, Sculley brought Droppers another challenge: a proposal submitted All her events: clockwise from upper left, Click Downtown introduces hundreds of college freshmen to Kalamazoo’s urban core; children’s activities are popular at Roofsit; The Spinners lit up the night at Community Advocates Ribfest in 2009; KISS tribute band Kings of the Nighttime World are a popular act at New Year’s Fest; and more than 30,000 people attend Ribfest each August.

by Maxine Becker and Jean Huston for a family-friendly New Year’s celebration downtown. “Sheryl said, ‘I don’t care what it takes. You make this happen,’” Droppers recalls.

And happen it did, every New Year’s Eve for the past 26 years. This past New Year’s Fest drew 7,000 celebrants of all ages downtown to choose from 29 shows and activities, culminating in a ball drop and fireworks at midnight.

In 1989, Droppers moved on to a job with the YMCA, where she organized the Corporate Games, which she calls “one of the best health-and-fitness programs Kalamazoo County ever had.”

Each fall employees of 125 area businesses competed in 21

sporting events, with the YMCA providing training programs throughout the summer and winter.

“It was a year-round health-andwellness program,” Droppers says. “I still have people come up to me and say how much they miss the program.”

A heart for nonprofits The Corporate Games were the impetus for Droppers to start her own company.

“I wanted to transition the Corporate Games program into schools,” she says.

“At the Y we were really concerned with childhood obesity, and I thought we could modify the program for the schools and work with PTOs (Parent Teacher Organizations) to get a friendly competition going.

“I figure, if you’re going to do an event for 1,000 people, you might as well do it for 5,000,” she says.

But the Y didn’t have the resources, so Droppers took the idea and formed her own firm. The program for the schools never took flight, but The Event Company found plenty of other work.

She started by doing corporate events but found her heart was really

Droppers’ cherished late Uncle John, center, is flanked by her and her brother, Jeff Van Hoeven, a Portage school teacher.

with nonprofits. “My company kind of morphed,” she admits. “I missed working with my volunteers and taking great ideas and making them happen for the good of a charity.”

Among The Event Company’s chief clients are Downtown Kalamazoo Inc. and its nonprofit arm, DKA Charities. Droppers organizes a plethora of downtown-focused events, including two parades and several dozen other functions such as expanded Art Hops (called Art Hop & More), Art on the Mall, Click Downtown and Mixers on the Mall.

How she ended up working with DKI is another one of Droppers’ moments of serendipity.

“We used to have an in-house event coordinator as part of our staff,” explains Vicky Kettner, DKI’s community relations director. “It came to be that she put in her notice, and Deb just happened to be outside Ken Nacci’s office door at that very moment.

“Ken came out, saw Deb, and said, ‘How would you like to take on doing our events?’”

Droppers doesn’t remember why she was even in the DKI office at the time, but a priceless partnership resulted.

“This woman is invaluable to us,” says Kettner. “She has the energy and capacity to just make things happen.

She knows what it takes to put on a show. People don’t think about it, but if you consider what it takes to plan a big

wedding — all the months that go into that — well, Deb does that for us pretty much every weekend of the summer.”

A treasured uncle For Droppers, however, the event dearest to her is Community Advocates Ribfest, held at Kalamazoo’s Arcadia Creek Festival Place each August. The three-day, competitive rib-cooking event attracts more than 30,000 attendees and includes performances by big-name music acts. The proceeds go to Community Advocates, the local chapter of The Arc, a nationwide nonprofit that serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Ribfest is how Droppers stays connected to her late uncle, John Bouwman, who had Down’s syndrome.

“John is the love of my life. I grew up with him,” she says. “This event means so much to me because of him.”

As an adult, Droppers and her husband, Kurt, would bring Bouwman from Holland to their Kalamazoo residence every month for a weekend.

“John loved going there and being with Deb, Kurt and their three boys,” says Van Hoeven, who is Bouwman’s older sister. “John used to call it ‘going to the big house.’” John died five years ago at age 58.

“This event is a tribute to what we’ve done in our society to recognize the great love and capacity that people with Down’s syndrome have and can give to a community,” Droppers says.

“I do this event because it raises money for John and other people like him.”

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Droppers makes sure that message is heard with every sticky finger and musical act experienced at Ribfest. Community Advocates clients introduce the performers to the crowd, “putting the face of the charity in front of the donors,” Droppers explains.

She admits it can be a bit tricky to get “these rock bands who are kind of narcissistic” to embrace the mission.

“I pick them up at the airport, and, on the way to the hotel, which I take the long way to, we have a conversation about the reason why they are here. That it’s not about them, it’s about the charity,” she says.

“One band had a real attitude, and I threatened to put them right back on the plane. But they straightened up,” she says with a smile that reflects her status as the mother of three sons.

The performers also respond in surprising ways sometimes. At 2010 Ribfest, rock singer Eddie Money was waiting in the wings when the extremely nervous young man chosen to introduce him stumbled and forgot what to say. Despite his road manager’s admonitions, Money walked out on stage, put his arm around the boy and whispered in his ear, which was picked up by the microphone, “You’re going to introduce me, and my name is Eddie Money.”

The crowd roared, and a magical moment was sealed.

‘People who don’t give up’ Droppers makes sure it’s known that she doesn’t make events happen on her own. She depends on thousands of volunteers every year. Ribfest requires 600-plus volunteers, New Year’s Fest, 400 and the Holiday Parade, 150. Those numbers don’t include the hundreds of individuals who sit on the boards and committees for the events.

“Volunteers take development,” Droppers says. “You’ve got to keep them involved and keep in touch with them because they are what makes an event happen.” (continued on page 41) W W W . E N C O R E K A L A M A Z O O . C O M

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VERY SUMMER Saugatuck sees a natural influx of boaters and beach-goers, but for one weekend in June visitors to this lakeshore community would rather be out of the water than in it.

Thousands of film buffs, as well as movie producers, directors and actors, converge on this usually small city of a couple thousand for the Waterfront Film Festival, which has been dubbed “The Sundance of the Middle Coast.”

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Festival co-founder Hopwood Depree, a filmmaker and actor born and raised in Holland, Mich., touts the festival as a “really great and unique experience … and a really wonderful way to kick off the summer.”

The festival is a laid-back affair that starts with an openingnight street party and outdoor screenings, followed by three days of films, parties, events for film professionals and outdoor

The Waterfront Film Festival is able to show more than 70 films in four days by using a variety of Saugatuck venues from high school auditoriums to restaurants.

activities. There aren’t any prizes awarded; instead, the festival aims to be a fun, non-competitive celebration of independent film. It has been recognized as one of the top five film festivals in the world by Screen Actors Guild magazine, side-by-side with Sundance and Cannes.

Depree says the Waterfront Film Festival offers audiences a deeper experience than they can get at the local multiplex, providing a “unique opportunity to be able to experience the whole sort of aura that surrounds an independent film.” Filmmakers, actors and others associated with a film are on hand to present their work to the audience. “You get to watch the film and then interact with the people who made the film and ask them questions,” Depree explains.

Festival audiences are also privileged to see many films in the “discovery stage,” when they are relatively unknown.

The Waterfront Film Festival kicks off with “Waterfront Film a party on Thursday Festival has a longafternoon with food and drink, musical standing tradition acts and other of launching a lot of entertainment. When the sun goes down, Midwest premieres a 50-foot inflatable of films that go on screen is raised, to national and inand the audience is treated to an outdoor ternational acclaim,” showing of short Depree says, noting films. that March of the Penguins and Man on Wire premiered at the festival. “It’s really fun for our audiences to be able to say to their friends and family, ‘Hey, I saw that six months ago’ or ‘I saw that last year at Waterfront.’”

Educational seminars and networking events offer aspiring filmmakers opportunities to advance their careers.

In past years, these have included panels of filmmakers discussing their work, information about taking advantage of Michigan’s film incentive program and a conversation with Yeardley Smith, best known as the voice of Lisa Simpson from the animated Simpsons television show.

Four of the founders of the Waterfront Film Festival, from left, Dori DePree, Hopwood DePree, Kori Eldean Rentz and Dana DePree Minter.

The 2012 festival runs June 14 – 17, but its lineup doesn’t get announced until Memorial Day weekend. Past attractions have included Oscar winners and nominees, such as the documentaries Murderball and Winged Migration, Sundance prizewinner American Splendor and the surprise hit Napoleon Dynamite.

Last year’s festival included an opening-night concert by hip-hop/reggae artist Shaggy, and Joshua Leonard, who starred in The Blair Witch Project, was on hand to present the Midwest premiere of his latest film, The Lie. Other recent celebrity attendees include actress and producer Daryl Hannah and Miss America 2008, Kirsten Haglund (Miss Michigan 2007).

As exciting as it is to rub elbows with such luminaries, festival audiences may enjoy seeing films with a local flavor even more. For example, the movie Cherry, filmed in Kalamazoo, had its Midwest premiere at the Waterfront Film Festival in 2010.

“There have been so many great films that have been made in Michigan over the years,” Depree says, admitting that even as a seasoned film professional he still gets a thrill from seeing his home state on the big screen. “It’s such a fun chance to get to see people you know or places you recognize on the big screen. That’s really why we love to have the film festival and why we love to show made-in-Michigan films, because it seems like the audience also gets the same kind of thrill out of that experience.”

Depree has been interested in moviemaking since childhood. He started acting in church plays and quickly moved on to devising his own

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Film Festival productions. “I always would borrow my mom’s Super 8 movie camera and make little short films on my own,” he say with a laugh, recalling his first forays into film. As a student at Holland

High School, he would borrow the athletic department’s video camera after school. ”I’d make these low-budget horror movies and just little short films and had a great time.”

After high school, Depree headed to Los Angeles, where he studied film and acting at the University of Southern California. “I just really got a well-rounded education both at USC but also with prac-

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Ray, the exhibit’s photos were taken by his HE WORLD COMES HOME. 8 days. 50 father during location hunting and film countries. 125 directors. 150 films.” festivals around the globe.

That’s how the promotional material The opening ceremony for the 17th read for the 17th Kolkata Film Festival, Kolkata Film Festival was attended by one of the world’s most renowned cinema thousands, who thunderously applauded events. As a lucky attendee at the November Shah Rukh Khan, a superstar actor of Bolfestival in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, I expelywood, the informal name for the extenrienced an exciting gala, from the opening sive film industry in Mumbai (Bombay). ceremony to the last flicker of credits.

The opening ceremony also featured a The festival’s movies, mostly featurescreening of The Magicians, a 93-minute length with a few shorts, were shown in 11 film produced in the Netherlands and venues across the city, making them easily directed by Joram Lürsen. accessible to Kolkatans and international Many of the films at the Kolkata Film guests. More than 2,600 delegates, who Festival were produced in India and other paid an entry fee of 300 rupees ($6) each, Asian nations, with a fair number from as well as numerous members of the media, the Middle East, Europe and Central and attended. As the promo materials boasted, a South America. There were a handful from total of 150 films, representing the work of the United Kingdom and only two from the 125 directors from 50 nations, were shown. Moviegoers linger outside Nandan Cinema Hall I, the premier venue of the 17th annual Kolkata United States. Talk among the attendees The premier viewing location was the Film Festival. indicated that the best movies came from Nandan-West Bengal Film Centre, Kolkata’s Iraq, Iran and Eastern Europe. Most were either in English or showcase for cinema that features five theaters, including one of had English subtitles. the city’s most popular.

Kolkata’s movies were not of the Hollywood variety, The Kolkata Film Festival, which is accredited by the Parishowever. Happy endings were not guaranteed. Fast-action based International Federation of Film Producers Association, and explosive stunts were not the norm. Fluff was not to be is the second oldest film festival in India. (The oldest is the found. Some of the plots were exquisite, while the storylines International Film Festival of India, which started in 1952.) The of some might only be appreciated by people of the cultures Kolkata festival began in 1995 with the work of Indian master from which the films originated. Many films were works of filmmakers Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak. The art, with long scenes that allowed viewers to appreciate the festival was an inevitable result of the West Bengal government’s cinematographic beauty much as one might enjoy gazing upon establishment of the Nandan film center in 1985, a move advoa masterpiece in a museum. cated by Ray, who was the center’s first chair.

Not unlike its American siblings, the Kolkata Film FestiThe Nandan location also features an extensive exhibit val presented a smorgasbord of world-class independent and of still photographs by Satyajit Ray from the 1950s and 1960s. foreign movies on a grand and dynamic scale. While many of Ray, who was born in Kolkata in 1921, received a posthumous these movies will probably never brighten the silver screens Special Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and on this side of the world, the popularity and success of the Sciences in 1992, the year of his death, for his lifetime achievefestival is evidence that that the love of movies transcends ments in filmmaking. He was the first Indian to be so honored. cultural boundaries.

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tical experience in Los Angeles.” Internships led to acting and behind-the-scenes jobs, including a stint at a talent agency.

After college, he made his first fulllength feature film, which he co-wrote, co-directed and starred in as himself.

Rhinoskin: The Making of a Movie Star is a humorous take on the struggles of an aspiring actor trying to break into Hollywood and meeting with many failures and humiliations in his quest for a film or television role.

Although the character in the movie was not very successful, the movie itself was. “I had a lot of amazing luck with Rhinoskin,” Depree says. “It went to film festivals all over the world and ended up getting a theatrical release and aired on the Sundance Channel. Through that experience of traveling with it for over a year-and-a-half, I met so many interesting, well-connected people in the independent film world that it really helped me get my start in the entertainment business.”

The experience also generated the idea for the Waterfront Film Festival.

Depree’s sisters, Dana and Dori, and their friend Kori Eldean accompanied him on his tour of film festivals. “We all loved the entertainment business and loved being involved with film and television projects,” Depree says. “Everywhere we went we always would discuss the fact

An audience watches Humpday, starring Joshua Leonard (on screen) in the Waterfront Film Festival’s largest venue, “the boathouse,” which seats 700.

Waterfront Film Festival’s Oscar Night® America party is an opportunity for party guests to glam it up for the paparazzi.

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that West Michigan would be a great location for a film festival, and Saugatuck was a great town that had a strong artistic base and would seem like a perfect summertime spot to hold an event like the Waterfront Film Festival.”

The four started planning, and with another friend, Judy Smith, they launched the festival in 1999. “We were thrilled with the turnout and attention that the festival got, both on a local and regional basis but also on a national basis,” Depree says. “That first year we had a number of respected filmmakers interested in submitting their films and attending.”

Due to the region’s “tremendous amount of enthusiasm” for the event, they were encouraged to carry on.

Now in its 14th year, the Waterfront Film Festival screens more than 70 films, in addition to hosting many other events.

“It’s grown over the years to be quite an operation that has really achieved all the goals that we set out to do in that first year,” Depree says.

He adds that because the festival is so large and successful now, many people don’t realize that it is a nonprofit organization run entirely by volunteers.

“It really started with a handful of people volunteering their nights and weekends to pull it off, and now it’s become such a huge operation that it really is demanding to have a year-round staff in place,” he says. As organizers figure out how to maintain the festival as a yearround enterprise, they will depend on continued backing from donors. “(Waterfront) relies solely on the regional sponsors and the attendance to make it happen,” Depree says.

To raise funds and have more of an off-season presence, the Waterfront Film Festival has hosted an official Oscar Night® America party in Grand Rapids for the past few years. People from the entertainment industry in Michigan and across the country attend. One of this year’s special guests was Verve Pipe lead vocalist and West Michigan native Brian Vander Ark. The gala starts with a red-carpet walk complete with paparazzi.

Partygoers then watch the Academy Awards broadcast on big screens while enjoying gourmet food and champagne, live music and an auction.

Although Depree is now based in Los Angeles, he still has a home in Michigan and comes back frequently — and not just for the festival. “I have always loved to shoot ďŹ lms in West Michigan,â€? he says. “Whenever I can bring a ďŹ lm or television project back to Michigan, I always try to do that.â€?

He has shot four movies and two television shows in his home state. One of the ďŹ lms (which his sisters were involved in producing), The Last Big Attraction, is about a young man who works at Holland’s main tourist mecca, Windmill Island.

Depree has had many roles on ďŹ lm and television projects, including acting, writing, directing and producing. “To me it’s all thrilling, it’s all fun and it all is sort of the same thing. I enjoy doing it all, and it just depends on the project as to what role I’ll be involved in,â€? he says.

Back in 2008, Depree was appointed to the Michigan Film OfďŹ ce Advisory Council by then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm, and under her administration the council designed the state’s ďŹ rst ďŹ lm incentive program. He continues to serve under Gov. Rick Snyder, who signed a reduced incentive plan. “I’m still very active in the ďŹ lm industry in Michigan and just really love to see more of the entertainment industry come to Michigan,â€? he says.

Depree is contributing more directly to the health of the local ďŹ lm industry through his own work. For the last few years he has concentrated on producing and opened his own production company in Holland, TicTock Studios, in order to produce Michigan-made ďŹ lms.

TicTock Studios’ most recent movie ďŹ lmed here, Virginia (starring Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris and Emma Roberts), hits theaters this spring. Depree is currently setting up his next projects. “Hopefully I’ll be able to bring one of those to shoot back in Michigan at some point.â€?

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Y DAY, SUE CAULFIELD finds her way through the labyrinthine language of labor contracts and navigates rivers of human interactions as director of academic collective bargaining at Western Michigan University.

By night, labyrinths and rivers figure into her life again as she incorporates both into the fabric wall hangings through which she expresses her artistic side.

But the incongruities of Caulfield’s life don’t end there: She’s a criminologist who has become a mediator. She has a wanderlust that has led her to visit more than 23 countries, but is happiest creating at home.

Caulfield was born in New York City to a family whose Boston roots go way back. (An ancestor built Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Massachusetts.)

Massachusetts is “home” in Caulfield’s mind, to the extent that she’s still an ardent Red Sox fan. But, in reality, as children of the military (her dad was in the Army), she and her two brothers never lived anywhere long enough to put down roots. Now 53, Caulfield has lived in 27 homes, including the five houses she’s occupied since moving to Kalamazoo 22 years ago. She attended three high schools before graduating from the Department of Defense’s American High School in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1976.

After high school, Caulfield spent two years at the University of Maryland’s campus in Munich (again, a Department of Defense amenity for military families), then finished her undergrad degree at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. She started college as an accounting major but during a class in criminal justice, in her words, “fell in love with criminology.”

Caulfield’s travel adventures have had her riding camels in Egypt and beachcombing on the coast of northwestern France.

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While completing a master’s degree in criminal justice at South Carolina, she decided she wanted to teach. This quest sent Caulfield back to New York, where she completed another master’s degree and then a Ph.D. in criminology at the State University of New York in Albany in 1988.

Caulfield’s first teaching job was at the Gary campus of Indiana University,

where she spent about three years. When she was looking for a new challenge, Western Michigan University was looking for an assistant professor in its sociology department, so she took the job.

After living in dozens of places, Caulfield found “Kalamazoo and Western are the best fit ever. I love living here.” For 12 years, Caulfield taught criminal justice and criminology at WMU.

Mediation changes her Halfway through those years, however, she discovered a new passion: mediation.

Having been trained as a volunteer community mediator by Community Dispute Resolution Services, Caulfield was intrigued by the non-court, nonadversarial approach to problem solving. She served as a volunteer mediator for Gryphon Place’s Dispute Resolution

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Caulfield’s whimsical gardens are a labor of love for the woman who once swore off gardening.

Services program, mediating community disputes there and at smallclaims court. She also did workplace conflict mediation for the U.S. Postal Service and was trained by the state of Michigan to train others to become community mediators.

With an ongoing interest in adolescents (her criminology focus at one time was on juvenile delinquency), Caulfield developed a program titled Project FREE (Facilitating, Resolving, Educating, Empowering) to train teens in communication and conflict resolution.

This new interest in finding alternative ways to solve problems changed the way she taught, says Caulfield. She wanted to get her students more involved in the learning process and to work better together in groups. Teachers, she says, can be “the sage on the stage or the guide on the side.” She found she preferred not to impart words of wisdom from the front of the classroom, but to guide her students so they could learn from and with each other.

It wasn’t just her teaching style that changed. “I watched myself change,” she says. “It was a gradual, organic process” — a process that led her away from the Caulfield’s Veil Between the Worlds was a recent award winner in the KIA’s Area Show.

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classroom and to the university’s administrative side, to a job she never dreamed of wanting but which called to her.

In 2007, she became WMU’s director of academic collective bargaining, a position that allows her to tie together her love of the law with advising people and helping them work together. Caulfield represents WMU’s administration in negotiating contracts with groups that represent faculty, part-time instructors and teaching assistants. It’s a stressful and challenging job (“It was weird,” she reflects. “I got condolences for getting the job.”) and one that would drive anyone to seek a source for calm and balance.

An artist inside and out Caulfield sought that balance through art.

“I have been drawn to the creative side of myself all my life,” she says, “but I haven’t always been able to express this.”

Through classes at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (KIA), Caulfield tried all sorts of media: drawing, painting, pottery. (“There are already too many bowls in the world,” she decided.)

None of them seemed right for her. She’d been sewing since she was 10, but she didn’t like making clothes or upholstering furniture. Then, four years ago, shortly after she finished negotiating her first contract in her new job, she tried screen printing and thought, “Oh, my God! This is it!”

She began by screen printing stylized cats (a cat lover, Caulfield currently owns three: Elphaba, Mehitabel and Leonard), primarily on quillows, unique pillows that fold into quilts or vice versa. Before long, upon seeing a woven paper and calligraphy piece at the Transformations Spirituality Center on Gull Road, she decided, “I could do that with fabric.”

And so she did. Using vintage Singer sewing machines, including a 1937 model given to her by her grandmother, Caulfield began making woven, screen-printed pieces that look like tapestries, many of which incorporate words. Caulfield is “a word person” who loves crossword puzzles and playing Words with Friends.

“I like words on their own,” she says. A recent series consists of two-dimensional wall hangings of baskets, each composed of words and fabrics, “encouraging the viewer to reflect on the role of those words in their own life.”

Her art took wing. She began selling pieces and heard good feedback. She’s had shows at a number of local venues, including Borgess Woodbridge, WMU, the Powell Library’s Barnabee Gallery, SolSpring at the Kalamazoo Center for the Healing Arts and Kingscott Gallery. She’s a frequent featured artist at monthly Art Hops, and an example of her work hangs in Kalamazoo’s fair-trade organic chocolate store, Confections with Convictions, where Caulfield is a regular volunteer.

One of Caulfield’s pieces, Veil Between the Worlds, received the Kalamazoo Knitting Guild Award for Fiber in this year’s West Michigan Area Show at the KIA. In recent years, images of labyrinths, like the one in the Area Show piece, have taken a dominant role in her work. On a walking trip in France in 2008, Caulfield visited the famed Chartres Cathedral, which fueled her ongoing fascination with labyrinths. Most recently, Caulfield has traveled to Wales, France and Egypt, usually walking paths people have followed for centuries.

So it should not be surprising that Caulfield has found a way to express her

creative side in the outdoors too. Having lived in 27 houses, she decided when she moved to her West Side home in 2003 that she wasn’t going to “build a ton of gardens, because they are a ton of work.�

But somehow, she says ruefully, “they just grew.â€? “In 2007, I decided I didn’t want a front yard anymore, so I tore out the sod,â€? she says. The next year, she was inspired to start landscaping. The ďŹ rst step: “I had six tons of gravel dumped in the driveway.â€? Then, one bucketful at a time, she moved the gravel into the denuded yard, laying out walkways. With an elevated

circle garden in the center, lots of perennials and whimsical touches such as sculptures and ower beds made out of real beds (primarily cribs), the numerous gardens in front and back of the house are one more way CaulďŹ eld expresses herself.

CaulďŹ eld’s faith is another important inuence on her art. Military families, when she was growing up, could attend the Catholic service or the Protestant service at the one chapel on base. “I was raised Protestant,â€? she says. “I didn’t know there were different denominations until I was 20.â€? She has attended People’s Church since 1990, and she says the Uni-

tarian Universalist philosophy frequently shows up in her themes, just as her work is likely to show up in her church.

CaulďŹ eld says that art has been a saving grace and her therapy. “It helps me stay balanced. It makes my heart sing.â€?

Like her travel adventures, her art helps her express and understand how she connects with humanity, she says. And like her work in criminology, mediation and labor negotiations, her art helps CaulďŹ eld ďŹ nd ways to connect, to reduce harm and to create peace.

You can see CaulďŹ eld’s work at the Grand Haven Art Festival, June 23-24.

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If someone were to ask you to describe the essence of the spirit of Kalamazoo, how would you respond? Here is an answer from Andy and Kathleen Widner, owners of The Spirit of Kalamazoo, a shop located on Portage Street in downtown Kalamazoo.

WHEN WE THINK of the spirit of Kalamazoo, three words come to mind: community, resiliency and entrepreneurship. All of these describe the history of the city, its people and where the community is today.

From the first settlers who put down stakes in this river valley, there have always been innovators working towards being the best in their chosen fields. This area has been a leader in many areas, including agriculture, from celery to flowers; medicine and medical devices; paper production; and educational opportunity. The entrepreneurial drive of the Upjohns, Gilmores, Strykers and founders of Kalamazoo College and Western Michigan University have all left a huge imprint historically and financially.

Kalamazoo has proven resilient by reinventing itself many times, as is evident from its various nicknames: the Celery City, Paper City, Mall City and Education City. This city had the first walking mall in the U.S., but when times changed, city leaders made the hard choice to open the mall and invite in unique businesses. Those same businesses have led to us being termed a “Cool City.” In the past 15 years those who oversee Kalamazoo’s downtown have made many difficult, sometimes controversial, decisions, but the smart use of incentives and planning has led to the addition of a new generation of distinctive businesses, shops, restaurants and festivals. There is always something going on downtown.

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It is great to be part of a city like Kalamazoo where you can point to restaurants, shops and family activities all within walking distance of City Hall and the county courthouse.

Kalamazoo’s downtown is a true downtown, with a smalltown atmosphere in which strangers greet each other on the sidewalk and children ask to go to the library, museum or movie theater or for ice cream.

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BRENT SANFORD has had his hands in clay for so long he feels as if he is part clay himself.

Brent, now 18 and a senior at Portage Northern High School, has enrolled in art classes at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts since he was 6 years old. “There was something I liked so much about playing with the clay,” he says. “After a while it became a part of me.”

Over the years, Brent’s interest became a hobby and then a valuable trade, in which he has garnered much experience and made money through sales and commissions. In addition, his passion has become a source of knowledge that he proudly passes on to other KIA students.

“I have a really creative mind, and clay is awesome for experimenting,” says Brent. “You can do a lot of things with it.

It’s also very conventional because so many of the things you make, you use.”

In his first art classes, Brent tried painting and drawing, but he continued to find clay the most fascinating. When he turned 9, baseball and hockey kept him so busy that he had to take a break from art. But then his father, Todd, an avid art enthusiast and collector, took Brent to visit the KIA and they ran Three of Brent’s bowls. into children’s art

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Brent Sanford, in the pottery studio at the KIA, displays a platter he made.

instructor Natalie Lagoni, whom Brent refers to as “one of his second mothers.”

“I was happy to see her, and she was happy to see me,” he says. “I realized how much I had missed working with clay, and she invited me take another class. That got me back into the swing of things.”

Since then, Brent’s interest hasn’t waned. In sixth grade, Brent started taking private pottery lessons with a college art student in a home studio. There he learned his core ceramic techniques, such as centering, opening and pulling up the walls.

In the summer of Brent’s freshman year, while they were staying at the family cottage in South Haven, Brent’s father arranged for him to visit Dawn Soltysiak, who had (continued on page 43)

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Red-metal Bonanza Copper was king in mid-1800s Michigan.

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OBERT D. CLARKE, an Eastern journalist writing for Harper’s Monthly, marveled at the huge masses of pure native copper awaiting shipment to smelters in Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

He had arrived at Sault Ste. Marie, the gateway to the Lake Superior Country, in the summer of 1852.

There he walked around piles of the red metal, chunks each weighing from 1,000 to 5,000 pounds, a total of 200,000 pounds, awaiting transportation on a primitive strap-iron, horse-drawn Larry B. Massie, recipient of the first-ever railroad around Lifetime Achievement Award from the the roaring Sault Historical Society of Michigan, is a Michigan Rapids. Not until three years product and proud of it. Born in Grand Rapids, he grew up in Allegan and has three degrees later would the opening of the in history from Western Michigan University. first Sault Locks break this The author of 20 books about Michigan history, he shares his enthusiasm for and expensive shipping bottleneck knowledge of Michigan’s heritage statewide at the Sault. at conferences, school assemblies, libraries,

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Weeks later, standing in one of the horizontal shafts of America’s first great copper lode, the Cliff Mine near Eagle River in the Keweenaw Peninsula, he beheld in awe a huge mass of copper in situ, weighing an estimated 100,000 pounds. Three miners laboriously chiseled the mass into manageable blocks. One brave soul held the chisel while the others alternately pounded it with sledgehammers. Clarke learned that it would take eight long days to sever a mass 18 inches thick by 4 feet across. For this, the miners earned less than $1.50 per day, and they supplied their own candles, tools and blasting

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It took as long as eight days off chiseling hi li to separate some of the huge masses of solid copper into manageable blocks.

powder and paid $10 per month rent at the company boarding house.

Cutting the copper with a circular power saw had been attempted, but, due to the presence of occasional narrow veins of quartz that speedily destroyed even the hardest steel blade, the laborintensive process of hand chiseling remained the only available technology.

Once cut into manageable chunks, the copper ore was winched onto a small railroad truck and wheeled out of the mine.

Throughout the 1840s, solid masses comprised about 70 percent of the spectacular output of the Cliff Mine, the richest copper mine in the world during that era. The remainder consisted of smaller fragments known as barrel work

An engraving shows the interior of a Keweenaw copper mine.

and stamp work, minute traces of copper crushed out of ore at a stamping mill. By 1855, when the opening of the Sault Locks made transportation of the red metal much more

efficient and cheaper, Michigan led the nation by far in copper production.

The frenzied rush to the Keweenaw Copper Country, which rivaled the later dash of the 49ers for California gold, had its origins in the early 1840s.

Although rumors of huge nuggets of native copper had circulated for centuries and prehistoric native Americans had mined the metal in a primitive fashion, it took the documented reports of Michigan’s first state geologist, Douglass Houghton, and the excitement generated by the exhibition of the “Ontonagon Boulder” in 1843 to grip the nation’s attention.

By the time of Houghton’s tragic death in the icy waters of Lake Superior near Eagle River in 1845, the rush was

on. Thousands of prospectors, most of whom knew next to nothing about what they were about to do, made their way to the Keweenaw Peninsula. Fighting swarms of black flies and mosquitoes dubbed “Keweenaw eagles,” they stumbled through the thick forests and “shin tangle” and splashed through the peninsula’s many swamps in search of copper boulders or outcroppings. Many found some copper but rarely enough to realize a profit. Most returned “down below,” poorer but wiser men.

A small percentage, however, like the proprietors of the Calumet and Hecla Mines, the Ontonagon Range, the Minesota Mine (misspelled through a clerical error), and especially the Cliff Mine, made fortunes from the red metal.

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During his tour of the Copper Country, Clarke originally made his headquarters at Eagle Harbor, newly platted that year. He thought the village “attractive by its beauty,” consisting of some 30 frame and log structures situated among a “stately and magnificent grove of yellow or Norwegian pines.”

He spent his first evening doing what generations of tourists continue to do: rambling along the shoreline in search of agates. “Impressive indeed is the scenery of the shores!” he wrote.

“The broken crust often piled up in cliffs which impend over the lake, often sinking and receding into little coves and bays where spreads a pebbled beach, the restless waves still rolling ashore their hunted treasures of agate, carnelian and amethyst.”

After witnessing a glorious sunset, with “the sun nesting like a globe of fire on the horizon,” Clarke first encountered the hordes of bloodsucking insects that infested the region. Returning to the Atwood House, where he was staying, he found the proprietors lighting “smudges” to drive away the gnats and mosquitoes. A fellow guest told him that he had been bitten by mosquitoes there when knee-deep in the snow.

Despite the unpleasantness of mosquitoes, normally not plentiful in the village itself because of the prevailing breeze off the lake, Clarke enjoyed his stay in Eagle Harbor, especially because of the local cuisine. Chief among the piscine luxuries he relished was siskowit, which “in delicacy of flavor, is thought by epicures to surpass all others.” Found predominantly in the cold waters of Lake Superior, the siskowit, a member of the trout family, combined the richness and color of lake trout with the flavor of whitefish and surpassed in taste, Clarke thought, even speckled or brook trout.

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bl b gle While on a ramble between E Eagle Harbor and Eagle River, Clarke encountered in profusion another gustatory delight: patches of raspberries and thimbleberries. Growing only in the North Country, the latter, a variety of raspberry destitute of hairs, literally melts in the mouth.

Apart from such delicious diversions, Clarke’s chief reason for his visit to the Keweenaw Peninsula was to witness the mining of copper, which he described in detail. Arriving at the Cliff Mine, he was greeted heartily by Captain

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Edward Jennings, who had supervised the initial mining at the site in 1846.

Jennings had learned his trade in Cornwall, England, and most of the original copper-mining techniques were based on the Cornish model, with the miners predominantly Cornish immigrants.

Jennings furnished Clarke with typical miner’s garb for his tour of the works: “rough, strong over-pants, a large woolen shirt and a hard, round hat.” Then he was handed a lighted candle stuck into a lump of clay, which could be adhered to the rock wall or placed on top of the hard hat. Holding that candle in his right hand, he climbed down the shaft on a metal ladder secured to the wall.

At intervals of 50 feet or so, platforms allowed a momentary rest from the arduous descent. At 420 feet below the surface, Clarke looked down another 70 feet, where miners were busily sinking the shaft deeper. The shaft intersected horizontal tunnels known as drifts, which were excavated by blasting powder and pick axes in the quest for copper.

Following his tour of the mine, the climb back up being considerably less enjoyable than the descent, Clarke inspected the rest of the operation, which at that time employed 260 workers. He sketched a “whim,” a capstan-type piece of machinery by which a horse walking in a circle raised the copper from the shaft.

An 1852 view w of the Cliff Mine.

In addition to the masses of solid copper, about 30 percent of the mine’s production consisted of copper-bearing ore. This was collected in a kiln of cast-iron plates lining the bottom of a pit. Sixty tons of ore was loaded in and roasted with firewood, thus enabling it to be more easily broken up by 400-pound mechanical hammers called stamps. Flowing water separated the remaining rock from the small pieces of copper, in a process similar to panning for gold. Clarke concluded that one “has not seen mining in its best phase till he visits the cliff.”

Having gathered enough material for an extensive two-part article published in Harper’s Monthly in 1853, “Notes From the Copper Region,” Clarke boarded the steamer Baltimore. At the request of some vacationers aboard, the vessel sailed west to LaPointe on Wisconsin’s Madeline Island. There the party assembled for a dance in one of the large warehouses formerly utilized by the American Fur Co. Some local Chippewa demonstrated a war dance as well. Then, Clarke wrote, “four young Indians were set to running a foot race, the prize, got up by some of the party, being a barrel of flour. Starting with their blankets about them, they quickly threw them aside as useless encumbrances, and ran puris naturalibus. In this state the victor, to the great distress of the ladies, was brought to receive the prize, which he rolled off with evident pride.”

Now, 160 years after Clarke’s visit to the Copper Country, naked Indians no longer race down the streets and all the mines have been closed. But tourists continue to enjoy the exhilarating beauty of the region, pick thimbleberries, savor the jam available at a local monastery and hunt for elusive agates. Others prospect with metal detectors among the mountains of tailings left from the heyday of mining, and on a good day a lucky few might unearth a narrow strip of pure copper, an artifact from the era when Cornish laborers chiseled huge masses of Michigan’s red-metal bonanza.

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Wisdom of the Wanderer For much of this Encore season, correspondent Robert M. Weir has been living in India. His travels have brought Encore readers stories about rebuilding flooddestroyed Himalayan homes (October), the Dalai Lama (November) and educating children in Kolkata’s slums (February). Weir concludes his series in this issue, reflecting on his travels across the world and sharing tales of his sojourn in the Philippines.

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By Robert M. Weir I also avoided hotels. While S I BEGAN planning a trip from Michigan to working in Kauai, I stayed with my client. In Hawaii and India that started in July 2011, Manila the first time, I stayed in a compound I realized it wasn’t going to be simple. operated by a non-governmental organization While, technically, one can get to India (NGO), thanks to a tip from Quaker friends from Hawaii, the itineraries offered by the in Kalamazoo. I also discovered that three airlines don’t make it very easy. days in that city is enough, so, at the I planned to spend 12 days in Hawaii recommendation of the NGO manager, I working with a client on a book project and booked a bonus round trip to the remote then about six months in India, where I’d resort islands of Bohol and Panglao (see help another client craft a manuscript about related story). On Kauai again, I stayed with educating slum-dwelling children in Kolkata neighbors of my client.

(Calcutta).

My client on Kauai was Toby Every American-based airline would Christensen, the Healing Drummer, who either zigzag me from Hawaii to Los Angeles uses the djembe for sound therapy. Our work and Amsterdam or all the way back to New sessions included him standing over me, Jersey for a non-stop flight to India from supine on the floor, creating rhythms with the Newark. Total travel time: 48 hours — and massive drum inches above my chest. Oh, the expensive. Orient-based airlines offered a things I do for research. When not working, 42-hour itinerary with layovers in Shanghai, we walked water-lapped beaches, hiked Tokyo and Bangkok. While Asia was on my volcanic mountains and sailed on Hanalei bucket list, this wasn’t the way I wanted to Bay, home of Puff the Magic Dragon and Little visit those countries.

Jackie Paper.

Hawaii is halfway across the Pacific.

In India, I traveled the dangerous LehSurely, I thought, there must be a decent route Manali Highway to Leh (elevation 12,500 to India. It turns out there is — but you have feet) looking for three women merchants to use multiple airlines.

I had conversed with a year earlier, in Delta Airlines would take me from July 2010. Exactly one week after my 2010 Washington, D.C., where I would hear the departure, a killer flood caused by a deluge, Dalai Lama, to Kauai, Hawaii, and then back roared down the mountains and wiped out to Detroit in February; that’s one liberally Leh’s commercial market. I returned in 2011 defined round trip. In the middle of that trip, to see if my friends were OK and found out Hawaiian Air would be my carrier between that the rushing water had missed them by a Kauai and Manila, the Philippines, outbound half-mile margin.

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I stayed in a guesthouse on the fringes of the village, where I could see a stream, a wheat field, trees and a ring of towering peaks.

Guests dined outdoors, eating what the cook prepared with ingredients grown organically on the property. I fortuitously met and accompanied people from Architects Without Borders and SEEDS India as they worked to rebuild Ladakhi homes.

In Dharamsala, I attended three days of teaching by the Dalai Lama and stayed in a mountain guesthouse with black mold on the interior walls. While the place was otherwise aesthetically attractive, I had no desire to sleep between the sheets, so I crawled into my sleeping bag, atop the covers, until I moved into a Tibetan monastery. There, I slept in a monk’s cell, on a cot next to a pane-less window while rock ’n’ roll blasted from a nearby disco. I also spent hours laughing with my host monk, Gompo, age 22 or 24 (he didn’t have a birth certificate), and other monks to whom I taught English in the evenings.

My client in Kolkata, Rosalie Giffoniello, has lived and worked there educating slumdwelling children for the past 11 years. The Indian government has decreed that every child is to receive an education, but that stipulation also requires uniforms, shoes and books. In reality, many families can’t afford these, so slum children don’t go to school. Rosalie, co-founder of Empower the Children, and others like her have created “non-formal schools” to provide

These men, in community fashion, peel potatoes, a principal ingredient in biryani, which is cooking over open fires in the cauldrons in the background.

A young neighbor in the basti stands in his boyhood home.

He’s one of eight children raised in this single room who slept together in the bed in the background. The items under the bed are cooking cauldrons.

Madhumita was one of the brides whose wedding the author attended.

Hundreds of commuters stand in the doorways of this moving train as it pulls into India’s Howrah Train Station. Howrah, with 23 platforms, handles more than 600 trains and one million passengers daily.

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Wanderer education without formalities — or books, which wouldn’t survive incessant heat, humidity, dirt and vermin.

Rosalie’s flat, where I stayed, is in a slum. Granted, it’s a nice slum made of

concrete as opposed to wood scraps and corrugated steel. But it’s still a slum — a basti — with unplanned architecture and neighbors who don’t have legal rights to their residences.

The basti is beautiful in its simplicity and what we in the West would consider an old-time flavor. It’s an urban village where adults and older siblings raise everyone’s children. Their

First and last stop: Full circle in the Philippines THE MONSOON is dropping a July deluge on Manila. Roads might be flooded, says the taxi driver, so he takes an alternate route from the airport.

We drive for more than an hour past buildings that all look the same, and it seems as though this city of 11.5 million people will go on forever. Why didn’t I just book a room in a nice hotel?

Fortunately, the driver, Romulo, is of good spirits and pleasant conversation. He says that he and his family live near my destination, and he invites me to visit. Sure, I say. “We live in a squatter’s neighborhood,” he adds.

“Nobody owns their homes. We’ve been there 20 years.”

After 90 minutes, we arrive at the headquarters of Philippine Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas (PhilDHRRA), the non-governmental organization (NGO) where I’m to stay for the next

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three days. Its small sign is nearly hidden behind huge palm fronds and is further obscured by the rain and neardarkness. It’s a good thing that Romulo knows the neighborhood; another taxi driver might not have found this place.

Rey, the NGO manager, greets us.

I’ve already told Romulo to wait — just in case. But the room is nice and clean, albeit small, and it’ll do just fine. So Rey totes my backpack while I carry my smaller pack with my computer, camera and other precious devices.

On my second day in Manila, I visit Romulo. His wife, Shirley, and elder son, Patrick, meet me at the edge of their neighborhood, and we stand under the steps of a pedestrian overpass to avoid rain. Romulo is late coming home from working a 10-hour shift. He’s not allowed to drive the taxi home, so he commutes for two or more hours each way by jitney, a type of small bus patterned after World

War II general-purpose vehicles (Jeeps).

When Romulo arrives, we walk along an alley where vendors sell domestic goods, toys and food that ranges from fruit to fish. His home has three rooms. Romulo and his family and I sit on a wooden bench and plastic lawn chairs in the main room, which is about 15 feet by 15 feet and L-shaped, with a cooking area to the rear. A television, powered by a bright-orange drop cord, stands on a small table a few feet from my knees. The second room is barely big enough for a cot. The third room is upstairs, accessed by a concrete stairway.

We talk for an hour, sharing stories of their lives and mine. Patrick and his brother are in college, and Jessa, the daughter, is in high school; she has a Facebook page. Romulo earns 300 pesos a day. The sons’ tuition is 5,800 pesos per trimester. When there’s not enough money, the family borrows from a neighborhood cooperative; interest on a bank loan is outlandish.

I also enjoy in-depth talks with Rey about the work of his NGO, part of a network of 67 NGOs to foster agrarian self-reliance in the Philippines. The building in which I’m staying provides lodging for transient students and researchers who come to nearby Loyola University. I’m welcome to return there in January, Rey insists, but my heart is set on some dreamy South Pacific island. I ask Rey for suggestions, and he recommends Bohol, the island of his birth, and its sister Philippines resort island, Panglao.

At the airport, while waiting for my outbound flight to Delhi, I book a round-trip flight from Manila to Bohol for a week in January, when I’ll pass back

games are simple — hopscotch, tag, tops, caroms, kite flying (amazingly among buildings). Their toys don’t require batteries, and their voices are rich with laughter and imaginative chatter.

through here. I schedule the flights so I won’t need to leave the Manila airport.

But later, while I’m in Kolkata, Philippine Air changes its schedule, so in January I stay overnight at one of those nice hotels near the airport, courtesy of the airline.

At that hotel, a clerk recommends an economical guesthouse near the beach in Panglao with nice rooms, air conditioning, an outdoor pool and a full breakfast for $40 a night.

Panglao is one of those pictureperfect places that people in snowy climates pine for during the depth of winter. I take a holiday. No computer. No Internet. Little camera use. No trying to visit natives’ homes. Minimal interaction with tourists.

Let’s face it: Kolkata was crowded, noisy and dirty.

Here, white beach sand slopes to the water’s edge, waves gently lick the

Most of the residents are Muslim.

The “call to prayer” is broadcast through megaphones, starting at 4:45 a.m. The imam’s voice is a melodic baritone. Not understanding his words,

I lay in bed and meditated my own prayers.

The laundry dobie and his family are Hindu. The tailor from whom I ordered shirts and kurtas is Sikh, as is the owner

shore, the water is delightfully warm and clear. Dozens of colorful outriggers, most named after Catholic saints, ride peacefully on moorings while captains await tourists who want transportation to dolphin areas and snorkeling sites.

Cadres of women in professional medical attire roam the beach, offering massage. I accept one per day. The therapist unfolds a sheet and lays it on the sand. I stretch out and squirm until the sand conforms to my body. And she begins. The oil applications are ample, and my skin drinks it in.

As the sun sets, beachside restaurants open to offer evening fare.

People eat with bare feet in the sand.

Native flame twirlers and celestial bodies, uninhibited by light pollution, entertain. I eat fresh fish, crab and lobster.

I invest a day on an outrigger, beginning before sunrise. We spot dolphins, eat breakfast on a remote island, snorkel, drink coconut water on a spit of land that submerges as the tide rises. Starfish lie motionless on white sand beneath the water.

I also invest a day with a tourist guide who takes me to historical sites from the Spanish era, an ancient Catholic cathedral and Bohol’s famous chocolate hills, where vegetation turns brown and assumes the illusion of candy kisses.

We also see huge anacondas that can be petted and tiny tarsiers, the world’s smallest mammal.

For one week, I’m a tourist. It feels good.

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of a favorite eatery. The lady who cleans Rosalie’s at is Catholic, and she took me to Mass in three churches. Rosalie was raised Jewish but has adopted Buddhism, so we had religious diversity right there within the at.

I was welcome in this basti. People invited me into their homes — single rooms about 15 feet by 15 feet for a family of 10. I entered dormitories, which were smaller yet, where a dozen men slept on thin pieces of carpet or cardboard. Teens asked me to play caroms. I witnessed holy gatherings in the narrow streets and the slaughter of cattle, goats and a camel for Eid alAdha, the Festival of SacriďŹ ce, right outside my window.

The women, dressed in their beautiful, colorful saris, were usually smiling. The children greeted me with “Hello, Uncle,� a carryover from the days of British rule. The men, who gathered within feet of my window each night to discuss religion, politics or neighborhood affairs, readily switched to English when I joined their discussion.

I attended a wedding anniversary party, a two-night affair on the roof of the building where we lived, and weddings, which are ďŹ ve-day events.

One man whose daughter was one of the brides, gripped my shoulders in his two hands, looked me strongly in the eyes and insisted, “You must come. You must.�

I lived among these people — as Rosalie has for a decade — but I didn’t live as they do. I had my own bedroom, our private bathroom, albeit with an Eastern-style squat toilet, a living room where we crafted our book, a dining table, a water ďŹ lter, a kitchen sans stove and oven.

Often, I wondered if I could truly live as these people do.

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Here, this wallah naps, awaiting his next fare.

glass in the windows and a live-in maid.

But if my occupation were that of the fruit vendor who sells bananas for four rupees (six cents) or the cobbler whose “shopâ€? is a blanket on the sidewalk, my intestinal system would have to learn how to drink unďŹ ltered water from the community pump. My taste buds would have to like food laced with chilies. I would have to tolerate bathing and using a toilet in a wall-less area in the commons. I would wear ip-ops.

I would also be living among poor people who exude sweet calmness, playfulness and joy. I would learn from them.

As it was, I fell asleep to their chatter, woke to their prayers, looked out my window and saw laundry strung on braided clotheslines or across a barbed-wire fence, chatted with men who cook biryani, won at caroms and participated in religious festivals with a Muslim, Hindu, Sikh or Jain friend at my side. That’s travel — in my book.

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Performing Arts

Chamber, Jazz, Orchestra & Bands

Plays

Stulberg Competition — This annual competition features gifted string instrument performers under the age of 20. May 19, semifinals, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1–4 p.m., free; finals, 8 p.m., ticketed. May 20, master classes, 12:30–3:30 p.m., free. Dalton Center, WMU. 343-2776 or 387-2300.

Concerts in the Park — The Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo produces a series of summertime treats for the ears. Various musical acts will appear on Sunday afternoons.

Mixers on the Mall — Get-togethers held every Wednesday (except July 4) at 5 p.m.

Live music and refreshments with proceeds going to DKA Charities. June 13–Aug. 22.

Kalamazoo Mall North Block, except June 27, July 18 and Aug. 8 at the Arcadia Creek Festival Place.

Eleemosynary — A play that probes the complex relationships between three generations of women. May 4–6 & 11–13, 8 p.m. Fancy Pants Theatre, 246 N. Kalamazoo Mall.

Kahani — Indian guest-director Irfana Majumdar directs this play exploring power and hierarchy within the family and society. May 10, 7:30 p.m.; May 11 & 12, 8 p.m.; May 13, 2 p.m. Balch Playhouse, Kalamazoo College. 337-7333.

Honus and Me — Civic Youth Theatre presents this tale of a young lad who finds a valuable baseball card and experiences the magic it unleashes. May 18 & 25, 7 p.m.; May 19 & 26, 1 & 4 p.m.; May 20, 2 p.m.; May 22 & 23, 9:30 a.m. & 12 p.m.; May 24, 5 p.m. Parish Theatre, 426 S. Park St. 343-1313.

Musicals & Opera Dirty Rotten Scoundrels — Based on the 1988 film, this musical about two con men competing to fleece a young female target is sure-fire entertainment. May 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26, 8 p.m.; May 17, 7:30 p.m.; May 20 & 27, 2 p.m. Civic Auditorium, 329 S. Park I find television St. 343-1313. very educating.

Every time someGutenberg! — In this body turns on the two-man musical spoof, set, I go into the a pair of aspiring writers other room and perform an audition of read a book. their new project — a musical about the printGroucho Marx ing press inventor. May 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26, June 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 8:30 p.m. New Vic Theatre, 134 E. Vine St. 381-3328.

The Light in the Piazza — A lush, romantic musical filled with beautiful songs and intense romance. June 8, 9, 15, 16, 21–23, 28–30, 8 p.m.; June 10, 17, 24, July 1, 2 p.m.

Farmers Alley Theatre, 221 Farmers Alley, 343-2727.

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change — A musical comedy revue spanning the spectrum of modern male-female relationships. July 20, 21, 26–28, Aug. 2–4, 9–11, 8 p.m.; July 22, 29, Aug. 5, 12, 2 p.m.

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Vocal and Radio Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons — One of rock ‘n’ roll’s most enduring acts will perform. May 31, 7:30 p.m. Miller Auditorium, WMU. 387-2300.

All Ears Theatre — Step back into history and enjoy live radio performances for later airing on 102.1 WMUK-FM. Magma, May 12; Case History of a Gambler, May 26. First Baptist Church, 315 W. Michigan Ave. 6 p.m. Free.

Miscellaneous Kalamazoo Improv Festival — Crawlspace Theatre Productions presents a three-day festival with comedic talent from Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo. May 10, 8 p.m.; May 11 & 12, 8 & 10 p.m. Farmers Alley Theatre, 221 Farmers Alley. 343-2727.

Summer Festivals — Enjoy live music, food and fun at one of the many festivals this summer. May 31–June 2, Dionysos Greek Festival; June 9, Kalamazoo Pride 2012; June 14–16, Island Fest; June 22–23, Irish Festival; June 29–30, R&B/Funk Music Festival; July 12–14, KVBA Blues Festival; July 21, Woofstock Festival; July 26–28, Taste of Kalamazoo; Aug. 2–4, Community Advocates Ribfest; Aug. 17–18, Rock for Kids. Arcadia Creek Festival Place.

Visual Arts WMU Richmond Center for Visual Arts (RCVA) 387-2455 Pencil to Print — Original artwork by John Romita Sr., Herb Trimpe, John Severin, Mike Ploog, John Buscema, Bill Everett and more. Through June 29. Netzorg/Kerr Gallery.

Summer Alumni Exhibition — Works by Sy Ellens and Marilyn Johnson will be on exhibit. Through June 29. Albertine Monroe-Brown Gallery.

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 349-7775 Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Quest of Beauty — This exhibition is the premiere of a special installation of the KIA’s collection of works by the master artist. Ongoing exhibition.

Birds of a Feather — Works by John James Audubon and John Costin featuring the splendor of American birds in portfolios produced nearly two centuries apart.

Through June 24.

High School Area Show — A juried exhibition of works from students in nine counties of SW Michigan. June 2–24. Reception and awards ceremony, June 8, 5–7 p.m.

Birds in Art — A display of works by international artists featuring avian art from a juried exhibition. May 26–July 28.

A Conversation between Monet and Sochi — Korean artist Lee-nam Lee employs digital technology to offer new interpretations of 19th-century artwork in video format.

Through Aug. 18.

ARTbreak — Informal free presentations on art-related topics. Roger Brown’s Americana, May 8; The Making of an Icon, May 22; Karen Bondarchuk: The Corvid Series, May 29; When Hope Hatches: Wildlife videographer Matt Clysdale, June 5; Birds in Art: The Exhibition, June 12; Audubon: Birds of America: Drawn from Nature, June 19. Bring a lunch to these 12 p.m. sessions.

KIA Art Fair — The 61st annual Art Fair will feature 190 artists along with musicians, acrobats, street performers, a car show and a beer garden. June 1, 3–8 p.m.; June 2, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Bronson Park.

Miscellaneous Saniwax Gallery — KRESA exhibit recognizes exceptional student artists with multimedia works. Opens May 4, 5–9 p.m.

Park Trades Center, 326 W. Kalamazoo Ave. Suite 209. 345-3311.

Midtown Gallery — Summer exhibits include: May — Small Works/Grand Ideas featuring the Signature Artist Collective with Susan McHenry; in Metropolis, Ally Pye and Marcus Boucher; June — James Palmore and Jennifer Hodges with Susan Rumsey, Glass Month Exhibit featuring works by several artists; in Metropolis, Eric Joseph; July — Third Anniversary Show with several artists, guest jeweler Vicki Cook and guest ceramicist Young A.E. Park; in Metropolis, Lee John Nguyen.

Artist receptions at all Art Hops. 356 S. Kalamazoo Mall. 372-0134.

Art Hop — View the works of local artists at local venues/galleries in downtown Kalamazoo. May 4; June 1; July 6; Aug. 3, 5–9 p.m. 342-5059.

Symphony of Homes Tour — The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra League presents Historic Country Homes, a tour of ďŹ ve homes in the Alamo area, including four built in the 1860s. May 18–20. Information at www.ksoleague.com.

Super Saturday — Celebrate the arrival of summer with the Art on the Mall art show and the Do-Dah parade along with other activities and entertainment. June 2.

Park Trades Center 30th Anniversary — A haven for creativity, the center welcomes the public for tours, demos, hands-on activities, music and more. Aug. 17, 5–9 p.m. 326 W. Kalamazoo Ave.

Literary Events Kalamazoo Public Library 553-7809 Party in the Park — Preschoolers and care providers can hear stories read by community leaders and costumed characters. May 30, 10 a.m. Bronson Park, Kalamazoo.

STEPPING BACK WITH THE ARTS “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley.â€? These poetic lines from the Scot Robert Burns demonstrate a universal truth: What we plan often goes awry. So it was with the poet himself. Son of a workingclass farmer, Burns toiled the ďŹ elds in his youth. But he studied diligently, and his wit and charm were sharp. He wished to marry his pregnant girlfriend, but her parents refused, demanding ďŹ nancial restitution.

So he planned to escape to the West Indies.

However, this scheme went awry when his ďŹ rst book of poems was published and he was hired to help on a project to gather the folk songs of Scotland. For that task, he traveled throughout the country, rising in popularity as he wrote and collected songs and becoming a national ďŹ gure of Classics Revisited — Join lovers of classic literature to discuss Stendahl’s The Charterhouse of Parma, May 17, 7 p.m. Central library.

Music at the Library — Red Sea Pedestrians will perform June 13, 7–8 p.m. Central library.

Movies Under the Stars — Bring a blanket and watch The Muppets Take Manhattan. June 21, 8–10 p.m. Oshtemo Township Park.

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prominence. His schemes went awry but in a very proďŹ table and popular way. Burns ďŹ nally married his girlfriend in 1788 and divided his time between writing poetry and farming until he obtained a government position three years later. He died from rheumatic heart disease in 1796.

Art Encounters: A Festival of Music, Art and Crafts for All Ages — Co-sponsored by the Portage Entertainment Series, this festival has activities for every age group with art demonstrations, interactive art, craft demonstrations and music. Aug. 18, 1–4:30 p.m.

Lunches of Note: Smoothie Making — The Fresh Food Fairy will demonstrate smoothie preparation for middle-schoolers and up. July 19, 12–1 p.m. Registration required.

Museums

Stuart Manor Tea & Movie Pairings — Enjoy tea and discussion at Stuart Manor House, then a movie at the library. A New Way to Look at Classic Mysteries & A Foreshadowing of Those to Come, tea, June 6, 12–1:30 p.m.; movie, Rebecca, June 7, 6:30 p.m.; History of the Blues, tea, June 20, 12–1:30 p.m.; movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, June 21, 6:30 p.m.; Literary Humor, tea, July 18, 12–1:30 p.m.; The Titanic: Join a 100-Year Anniversary Voyage, tea, Aug. 1, 12–1:30 p.m.; movie, Unsinkable Molly Brown, Aug. 1, 2 p.m. Prepaid registration for teas required. Call 329-4522.

Summer Classic Film Fest: Science Fiction — Discussion 5:30–6:15 p.m. before each ďŹ lm begins at 6:30 p.m. Forbidden Planet, July 12; Logan’s Run, July 26; Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Aug. 9. Discussion of science ďŹ ction with author Jim Hines, Aug. 10, Kazoo Books on Parkview.

Kalamazoo Valley Museum 373-7990 Disease Detectives — Disease-ďŹ ghting detectives explore an environment to learn more about infectious disease transmission and prevention. Through May 28.

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It’s kind of catchy, isn’t it? It’s kind of inspiring. It’s how we feel every day when we see the new batch of projects we get to help nurture and grow.

We love taking your ideas and bringing them to life. We love seeing how a project develops from that first idea to the final product.

Kalamazoo Nature Center 381-1574 Springtime at the Barn — Kids can learn about the pony, baby chicks, sheep and goats at the barnyard. May 27, 2–3 p.m.

Boomers and Beyond — A program geared for adults over 50 who will learn about migratory birds from John Brenneman. Bring binoculars and a lunch.

May 29, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.

Kellogg Biological Station 671-2510

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Birds & Coffee — Join a bird walk followed by coffee and discussion. May 9 & June 13, 8:30–10 a.m. 12685 E. C Ave. near Gull Lake.

Nests! — Join an interactive hike to look for nests and baby birds. May 26, 1–2:30 p.m.

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Remember Me: Civil War Portraits — Learn how tintype photography was done through portraits of Civil War soldiers.

Through June 17.

Treasure! — Explore the who, why and how of treasure hunts and take part in your own hunt. June 16–Aug. 26.

Uneasy Years: Michigan Jewry During Depression and War — Stories of Michigan Jews before and during World War II are revealed. June 30–Sept. 23.

Gilmore Keyboard Festival Films — Films shown as part of the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. Pianomania, May 9; The Inner Life of Glenn Gould, May 10; The Art of Chopin, May 11, all start at 12 p.m.

Planetarium Programs — The DigiStar planetarium presents various programs.

Crossing the Sun, Mon., Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun. at 3 p.m.; Mystery of the Missing Seasons, Weekdays, 11 a.m., Sat., 1 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m.; The Artist’s Sky, Tues. & Thur., 3 p.m., Sat., 2 p.m. Through June 15.

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Droppers (continued from page 11) Droppers also is clear that these events are often others’ ideas, which she just executes. She credits Lori Moore of WKZO with the Do Dah Parade; Lisa Williams, former communications director at the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo, with developing Art Hop; and ofďŹ cials from Holland, Mich., with providing inspiration on how to make a downtown a destination. “I have been so fortunate to work with people who don’t give up,â€? she says.

She also gets help from the two to three college interns she hires each year. As the daughter of parents deeply tied to WMU (in addition to her mother, her father, Don Van Hoeven, was campus minister), Droppers is a big advocate of experiential education. She teaches four classes at WMU each year, and many of her interns come from her event-planning courses. “Teaching really helps what I do as a consultant,� she says. “There is nothing like standing in front of 25 students to make you get your act together. I have to translate what I do every day into learning.�

It’s not a surprise then that Droppers has made sure every detail, policy and step of implementing any event she handles is documented so that, if necessary, someone else could step in and make an event happen. “The framework has to be there to allow them to move forward,� she explains.

She also has a water-tight memory that can easily recall any event she’s organized. When Droppers ďŹ nally slows down and talks about her past and the hundreds, maybe even thousands, of events she’s coordinated, she becomes giddily happy. For her, thinking about the people she’s worked with, the fun they’ve had, the successes they’ve enjoyed and those they’ve helped as a result is joyous. “It is so great to remember all the fun jobs I have had and cool people who make it oh-so-special,â€? she says. “People succeed when they do what they are passionate about. I live every day doing what I love to do.â€?

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Spirit of Kalamazoo running events that begin and end at Arcadia Creek Festival Place, Sidewalk Sales, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Art Fair in Bronson Park, Art on the Mall and Sunday Concerts in the Park.

The parades that travel down Michigan Avenue attract people who have been attending them since their childhoods. Their enthusiasm isn’t dampened by cold or rain; they just make friends with shop owners selling hot chocolate and coffee. When the streets are clogged with traffic once the parade ends, parade-goers make the most of their time downtown by visiting restaurants and shops.

So many people say that the holidays don’t feel like the holidays without a ride on the Holly Jolly Trolley, which travels downtown streets in December. The icicle lights twinkling in the trees on the Kalamazoo Mall are another feature that make a visit to downtown a “holiday must.” If you have children in tow, lucky for you that Santa and Mrs. Claus come downtown to the Mall Plaza. Not only do your little ones get to tell Santa their requests, you don’t have to wait in a long line or feel like you can’t take the picture yourself!

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community that drove a group of anonymous donors to set up The Kalamazoo Promise college scholarship program for Kalamazoo Public School students, with the hope that it will better the students and result in a better community. This program serves as a model for other communities trying to build their cities from the people up.

Not only is The Kalamazoo Promise a unique attribute of our city, but the availability of classes at a public university, community college or private liberal-arts college is also special. Within a two-mile radius of downtown, three schools — WMU, Kalamazoo College and Kalamazoo Valley Community College — provide

higher-education opportunities to the community.

My wife and I have watched the most recent metamorphosis of Kalamazoo into a big small town where you have stores, food and entertainment without the traffic or other negatives of a big city.

We love how the city has grown, and we wanted to be a part of downtown. Those who invested in downtown before us gave us confidence to do the same, along with many city and business leaders who helped make it happen.

The spirit of Kalamazoo makes this community one of a kind. We truly believe the future here is bright, and we are excited to be a part of it.

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a pottery studio close to town. “She said I could help her in her studio in exchange for time helping on the farm,” says Brent. He was soon collecting eggs, cleaning out peacock cages and watering and feeding chickens.

In return, he learned a hand-built approach to pottery from Soltysiak, who helped him “perfect his form” by teaching him different techniques.

Returning to the KIA in the fall, Brent realized he had knowledge he could share with other students. “I got to a point that I was so proud of myself and I knew that I could do all these things that I started helping other students by instructing them how to center and pull their walls,” he says.

Once he started assisting in classes, Brent says, he realized that ceramics was something that he was really good at. “I also realized this was getting ‘same old, same old’ so I had the idea to switch it up and try something new.”

Meanwhile, Brent’s house was slowly filling with bowls, which were useful and beautiful but taking up valuable cupboard space. “My mom

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Brent Sanford on the wheel trimming a pot.

said, ‘Brent, you can’t really make any more bowls. I’m putting a ban on you,’” Brent recalls. “So I decided to work on my cups.”

With special permission to take a KIA adult class, Brent enrolled in a ceramics class on hand-building cups and platters taught by Sue Leabu. To make a cup by hand requires a variety of skills, including scoring, slipping, attaching a bottom and putting the entire cup together. Brent found the class not only challenging but inspiring.

“I realized pretty quickly that it takes a lot more time to make a cup by hand than it does on the wheel. So I started making cups on the wheel,” he says. “But I also learned there’s so much more to ceramics than throwing on the wheel. It gave me fresh, new ideas about what I might continue to work on doing.”

Currently, Brent is taking a class in Anagama, a special form of Japanese pottery that involves firing the clay in a wood-burning kiln, creating beautiful and unusual colors.

“It’s phenomenal,” says Brent. “You get colors like orange, dark oranges, yellow, even black. It depends on where you place your piece in the kiln.”

In the fall, Brent plans to attend the University of Arizona to study physics and astronomy. When he has a living space large enough, he wants to buy his own wheel and kiln and continue to improve his pottery techniques and knowledge.

“Clay is always going to be with me, and it’s always been with me,” he says. “With art, it’s not just something you whip together.

Every piece has a part of you in it. Whenever you make a piece, there’s this satisfaction you can’t explain. And then if someone likes what you made, there’s a feeling of elation.”

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Pumpkin Wine

For Jacob Calvin Stucki Nov. 30, 1926 – Aug. 25, 2011

“We made it ourselves That was the same year we were cutting logs for a cabin over at Lake Arbutus.

That was the winter it was forty below.”

This morning I found a ripening pumpkin, perfectly round and yellow, faintly streaked with orange, growing on the old compost heap north of the barnyard. It was hidden under a leaf the size of a serving platter. The spot looked too shady for pumpkins.

He had told us that story before, and we disbelieved the temperature until the Clark County Press ran their “On this Date” column

The night before my father died the sky was full of heat lightning distant thunder mumbled sounding as if someone was moving heavy furniture on the floor above.

There is a photograph of that still, sunny, bitter-cold day in the woods near Hatfield that winter it hit forty below.

“What’s going on?” he asked suddenly.

My father had been very deaf for years, Unable to hear or to feel thunder And yet he said again “What’s going on?”

“This has never happened before.”

His bedroom windows overlooked the woodlot where the fireflies had been so many and so bright that they had mistaken them for flashlights in the trees that first summer.

“They’re all high up there!” He fingered the bedclothes.

“Who?” “. . .oh, me, and Naomi and Frank and Mary Ann,” he answered, his eyes still closed.

“They’re drinking wine … pumpkin wine … ” Summer rain began to patter on the dusty leaves outside.

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They were all young and strong and immortal, smiling around a breakfast campfire in the Wisconsin woods, homeknit woolen socks pulled up high.

“Maybe Betty was there, too. And Billy.”

A pot of coffee with eggshells boiled on a grate over the coals a horse in work harness cocked a hind foot in the distance.

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“It didn’t taste all that great … the wine, I mean.”

Then that long-ago day crept back to where it had been hiding, and he never spoke any more.

But the lightning flared again, illuminating his face and his faint smile told me that they had drunk it all.

Marcia Stucki’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in the North American Review, the Sou’wester and other magazines. She is retired from the Upjohn Co. and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.

She lives on a small farm near Galesburg and recently taught “Backyard Chickens: How? Why?” at Western Michigan University’s Lifelong Learning Academy.

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In the 1830s, when early settlers began moving into the area soon to be called Oakwood, they came upon several lakes, one of which they dubbed “Lake View Lake.â€? One of these pioneers, a man by the name of Smith Wood, lived in a log cabin on the lake’s northern edge. When his infant died, he buried the child on the bank of the lake, and as a result, Lake View Lake came to be known as Wood’s Lake. An amusement park, baseball ďŹ eld, picnic spots and skating rinks once offered entertainment to Wood’s Lake recreationists.

In 1949, bathers ocked to test the lake’s May waters (as shown above). Woods Lake today continues as a park owned by the city of Kalamazoo.

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Bud Friesen in Denali National Park in Alaska.

After retiring from a career as a professional portrait photographer, railroad items outside his photography studio.

Bud has returned to his ďŹ rst love, outdoor and In the early 1980s, he acquired a 25-foot-high nature photography. grade crossing tower built in 1913 by the Pere A member of the Twin City Camera Club Marquette Railroad in Benton Harbor. in St. Joseph and the Fruit Belt Camera Club of Bud and his wife, Erna, have traveled Paw Paw, Friesen is also a train buff and model extensively throughout the United States and railroader. He had a 1930s B&O caboose on Canada. They reside in Coloma and spend most 70 feet of track along with signals and other of their winters in Florida.

Photographers! Please submit your favorite photograph to Encore for consideration in the photo centerfold feature.

Be it the wonders of the natural world in our area, a local cityscape that causes fond memories, or an individual or group activity that seems to speak of Kalamazoo-area living, we’d like to see it.

We invite photographers of all ages and abilities to submit photos for publication. Please e-mail editor@ encorekalamazoo.com or contact Midtown Gallery’s Terry Nihart (midtownkalamazoo@ yahoo.com), who is assisting with this photography feature. Please provide a short rationale detailing why your photo is representative of living here, along with personal proďŹ le information and the speciďŹ cs of taking the image you submit.

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