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WWJD? Recently the theme at my church was “God is love.” Projected on the wall was the statement: “God is love.” According to 1 John 4:8, 16, “Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.” The sermon was inspiring, driving home the message that God’s greatest commandment is to love others.

Leaving church, we basked in our enlightened Christianity as we wished our neighbors and fellow churchgoers well, then donned our MAGA caps and “Build the Wall” T-shirts, knowing that we’re doing the work of Jesus, and our souls are saved.

It’s wonderful to be a Christian secure in the knowledge that God loves us all.

Eric Lampinen, Manistee Russia Helped Sanders The Mueller Report details “active measures” used by Russia to support the 2016 Trump campaign. The evidence led to the indictment of 13 Russians working for the Internet Research Agency (IRA) or for the military general staff (GRU). These efforts used fake social media that made the Russians appear to be Americans. [Mueller Report, p.14-65] Like many, I was already aware of the general findings of the Mueller Report, but I did not know that the Russians also supported Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic nomination. Here are three quotes from the Mueller Report that concern me: From IRA internal documents: “Main idea. Use any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest (except for Sanders and Trump — we support them.)” [MR, p. 23] The IRA used fake Twitter accounts, including one described as “an account with 3,800 followers that posted pro-Sanders and anti-Clinton material.” [MR, p. 27, fn. 70] On July 6, 2016, WikiLeaks contacted the GRU, saying: “If you have anything Hillary related, we want it in the next two days … because the [Democratic National Convention] is approaching, and she will solidify Bernie supporters behind her after … We think Trump has only a 25% chance of winning against Hillary … so conflict between Bernie and Hillary is interesting.”

[MR, p. 45] Bernie Sanders is running again and might still be getting some benefit in the polls from Russian support he unwittingly received in his last campaign. Or, could it be worse? Are Russia’s “active measures” continuing?

Jay S. Johnson, Empire A Line 5 Question Enbridge spokesman Ryan Duffy says, “We’re committed to moving forward with the Line 5 tunnel project, which would invest $500 million into the state to ensure security of energy supply and further protect the natural resources that we all treasure” in Michigan.

Do you believe Enbridge is investing

to protect the future of Michigan — or the future of Enbridge?

That is the key question which Governor Whitmer was elected to answer.

She is to answer it this week. Cast your vote with her today.

Barbara Stamiris, Traverse City Trump Parade Down Fifth Avenue they marched on national TV the night of April 19, 2016.

“Trump, Trump, Trump” was the sound their boots made as they hit the ground in mindless compliance. Eyes right, goosestepping soldiers and right arms held in stiff salute. What a scene as Donald Trump supporters took over the New York Republican primary.

Older Americans watched in horror as memories of World Wars I & II resurfaced.

Some younger folks vaguely remembered hearing stories from their grandparents. The following conversation might have taken place in many homes that night.

Wife: Come into the living room and watch this on TV. Isn’t this what your grandfather used to feel so strongly about?

Husband: Yeah, but he was crazy, you know. All that stuff about the Nazis in World War II. He was a real piece of work!

Wife: That reminds me. Did you stop and vote in the primary on the way home from work?

Husband: Of course I voted, and not in the way that my grandfather voted. He was one of those crazy liberals, you know. By the way, Honey, did you wash and iron my brown shirts? [ref. Hitler] Please vote, America!

William E Scott, Traverse City Bikes Belong on Trails I don’t like to complain, but I just have to this time. I was nearly hit head-on by a truck passing a couple bike riders on County Road 610 in Lake Ann this Monday morning.

I took the shoulder, so we missed and — because I was driving my pickup rather than our little car — the gravel shoulder, puddles and all, was no problem.

My complaint is this: The bike riders were in the right, but I feel the truck driver should not have had to slow down to 10 mph until he could safely pass. Many times there could be a line of oncoming traffic, and folks driving heavy commercial vehicles are at work and need to get ‘er done, so to speak.

Shifting back up through many gears to get a heavy truck moving again takes time and fuel. I don’t really expect the bike riders to go to the shoulder either because they could take a spill in the rough area, so what to do?

The bike rider has the law on his or her side.

All motor vehicles are paying for the highway usage by fuel tax, license, and insurance; however, I do not believe any of those mentioned are required for bicycle use on our highways. Let’s be realistic and safe: Ride your bikes on designated trails and lanes and leave the highways to motor vehicles. We have lots of bike trails. Enjoy riding them and be safe.

Hank Visser, Lake Ann Add Fish Pass to TC’s Poor Development Choices I’m not sure who the big thinkers are on the ugly fish pass design on the Boardman River, but Traverse City does not need a cheesy fish pond. The Fish Pass is too big, too expensive, too unnecessary, adds more hardened riverbanks to a river that already has too many, and risks letting steelhead out-compete brook trout. Yes, replacing the Union Street dam is long overdue, but

putting in that hideous fish pass is not the answer. The city knows it’s experimental and might allow the steelhead to destroy the brook trout, so why are they doing it?

City planners have a bad track record protecting the environment. They allowed the tree canopy to be destroyed all over the city. They looked the other way on the Uptown Condos and didn’t enforce their own 50-foot set back from the river. They allowed Hotel Indigo on the Parkway and new buildings along an entire stretch of Front Street, from Rose to the Civic Center, to be built to the curb, with no trees.

The “Paddling for Pints” program has encouraged inebriated kayakers to spew their empty alcohol containers and who knows what else into the river. The kayakers can be stopped with a change in the law, but all the concrete and steel can’t be removed — not easily, anyway — and once the brook trout are gone, they can’t be brought back. These bad decisions have permanent consequences.

Nature, in the next 100 years, will become more precious than gold. Other cities are tackling this by restoring the natural environment in urban areas. Not so in Traverse City.

Here, we love asphalt and hate trees.

We love gimcrack and hate nature. Given a natural river, we want to turn it into a kids’ Halloween-carnival fish pond. We’re suckers for ugly and cheap. Slick developers with big ideas and government agencies with untested experiments are going to descend on ditzy Traverse City because our poor protection of the environment advertises to the world that the city can be played.

Kathleen Joanne Stocking, Leelanau County Kudos, Tuttle What an enlightening and startling June 17 column by Steven Tuttle, “Because They Can.” While I’ve been well aware that here in the U.S. we have over-zealous, self-centered sellers of prescription drugs, the actual numbers are shocking.

It’s infuriating that this situation has been allowed to happen.

Manufacturers and sellers of street drugs are vilified, pursued, and incarcerated, yet those same players in the prescription drug market are richly rewarded — a double standard indeed and another example of how our government acts in the interest of corporate America, not of the people.

When I was young we were always told “just say no” to drugs. Obviously, we’re consuming many unnecessary prescription drugs pushed on us by a predatory, profitoriented industry condoned and assisted by the government.

The next time the doctor is writing a scrip for you, question the genuine need or, better yet, just say no!

Lee Astrauckas, Mancelona We Can Afford Kindness The responsibility for the abuse of children on our border lands squarely in the lap of Donald Trump, for it has been the conduct of his administration that has carried out this horrific mistreatment.

To shrug your shoulders and call it the punishment families deserve for crossing borders illegally is to expose your own intolerance. Or, if you consider yourself a religious person and still consider this abuse OK, it’s time to examine your conscience.

This crisis transcends allegiance to a country.

It comes down to simply one question: Is this how any country should behave toward captured children — much less the wealthiest country in the world?

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

Walter Hagen’s Northern Michigan...................10 It’s Festival Time!.......................................12 “We Choose to Go to the Moon.”....................15 Beulah’s Cherry Hut.....................................16 The Unsolved Mystery of the Lost Albatross......20 Not Your Mom-n-Pops’ Hotels........................22 Service Salute: Sgt. Scott Clark......................27 Behold: The G.O.A.T. Horses..........................30 Seen...........................................................32 Northern Michigan’s Least Wanted.................34

dates................................................36-39 music Four Score.....................................................42

Nightlife.........................................................44

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

Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Opinion..............................................................8 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................41 Film................................................................43 Crossword...................................................45 Advice..........................................................45 Freewill Astrology..........................................46 Classifieds..................................................47

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top ten Beaver Island’s Microbrewery Opens This Week

Michigan’s most remote brewery — Whiskey Point Brewing Company on Beaver Island — will open its doors to the public for the first time during the Fourth of July week.

It’s been years in the making, in part because it’s something of a challenge to open a brewery on an island that’s in the middle of Lake Michigan.

Patrick McGinnity, who launched the business with a group of investors, and who, in his spare time, learned how to brew beer, said residents and visitors have been anxious to see the place opened.

“I am really just excited about the economic prospects it brings to the island,” said McGinnity, whose full-time job is director of the Beaver Island District Library. “It wasn’t just about opening a brewery; it was about opening one here.”

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tc cherry triathlons Participants can race in either an Olympic, Sprint, or Super Sprint Triathlon; or in Olympic or Sprint Aquabike during the TC Cherry Triathlons on Sun., July 7 at Greilick Outdoor Recreation Center, TC beginning at 7:30am. $50-$110. 3disciplines.com

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If you were in TC during the summer of 2014, chances are you may have been to the State Theatre to see Jon Favreau’s foodie film hit, Chef, where he played a disgraced chef who decides to buy a food truck and take his culinary talents on the road. Five years after the release of his surprise blockbuster, Jon Favreau and the chefs who trained him to cook for the film are back in culinary action with The Chef Show on Netflix. Part documentary, part cooking show, part celebrity interview series — this show has everything.

Favreau walks the audience through the recipes he learned to make for the movie (of course, including the infamous “IT’S F$@#$** MOLTEN” chocolate lava cake), takes us to his favorite L.A. food trucks, and shares meals and conversations with his Avenger buddies (Robert Downey Jr., Tom Holland, Gwenyth Paltrow, etc.), and so much more. So if you’re looking for something light, fun, and vaguely educational to watch, The Chef Show is it.

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tastemaker Grocer’s Daughter Fudgsicles Fudgesicle (fuj.sikl) noun. The melding of chocolate ganache with various flavors in a delicious confection, served frozen on a stick. See Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate for details. Or just go there yourself and pick one (or more) up. The confectionary in the bright green building in Empire offers a variety of flavors, all based on chocolate of course. There’s milk chocolate lemon ginger, milk chocolate vanilla cinnamon, dark chocolate coconut, dark chocolate honey passion fruit, milk chocolate chai — even abstruse combinations like mango avocado. Whatever your favorite, make sure you check back often, as the flavors are constantly rotating, changing, and morphing into something else. With eight typically available, it’s hard to say what will be on hand at any one time — other than plain milk chocolate and plain dark chocolate, which are always available. Don’t scoff at the plain varieties; they’re delicious. But milk chocolate chai — mmmmm, now you’re talking. $1.99 each. Grocer’s Daughter is open seven days a week at 11590 South Lacore (M-22) in Empire. (231) 326-3030, www.grocersdaughter.com

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Two Affordable Housing Plans Win Funding

Developers in two northern Michigan towns won federal tax credits to increase the region’s affordable housing.

The credits, awarded by Michigan State Housing Development Authority, will go to 14 projects across the state, including two in Petoskey and Manistee.

“Housing tax credits are a critical resource for developers when planning to build or rehabilitate quality affordable rental housing,” said Gary Heidel, MSHDA acting executive director. “Overall, we estimate that this round of tax credit awards will leverage more than $126 million in private investment for Michigan.”

The latest funding round awards $13.8 million to develop or rehabilitate nearly 1,000 units of affordable rental housing across the state.

In Petoskey, developer Werth Investments won an award of $1,111,406 for 134 units of family and senior housing on Crestview Drive.

In Manistee, Hollander Development Corporation and Little River Real Estate Management won $1,091,745 for 45 units, the future Hillcrest Apartments, at Short and Ford streets.

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Stuff we love NMC’s Racing Aviatrixes Finish 14th Northwestern Michigan College pilots Jessi Martin and Hannah Beard — profiled in the June 3 issue of Northern Express — finished 14th overall (and fifth in the college ranks) in the Air Race Classic, the oldest air race of its kind and one that’s exclusively for female pilots.

“It was great, we had no major problems,” said Beard.

Martin and Beard took off from Jackson, Tennessee, on June 18 and finishing some 2,538 miles later in Welland, Ontario, on June 21. They competed against 48 other teams of female pilots — who hail from 32 different states, one Canadian province, Britain, Fiji, France, Indonesia, Norway, and South Korea.

It was a race against the clock, broken into nine legs. The course took racers through nine states and one Canadian province — from Tennessee, across Midwestern farmlands, and north around the Great Lakes and across southern Ontario, ending near Niagara Falls.

“A couple of times we were racing ahead of tornado warnings and storms,” said Beard.

“And going through customs was different.”

It’s the first time NMC has competed in the race but certainly not the last: “We’d like to do it again in 2020,” said Beard. “I want to thank everyone who supported us this year and hope they will support us again next year.”

Give it up for Grow Benzie, the county’s four-acre education and business incubation center. It’s managed to nab critically acclaimed and Grammynominated Mississippi bluesman Cedric Burnside as the headlining act for its annual Bayou in the Barn fundraiser, which will rock the lawn at St. Ambrose Cellars in Beulah from 5pm to 11:30pm Friday, July 5. Burnside will hit the fundraiser fresh from his European tour and one day before he has to be in Chicago to headline FitzGerald’s 38th American Music Festival. In addition to Burnside’s blues — and performances from Colorado-based Michigan native Cousin Curtiss, Petoskey’s Charlie Millard Band, and Benzie’s own zydeco band, K Jones and the Benzie Playboys — attendees will be treated to Louisiana and southern cuisine, a live and silent auction (think: chef-hosted dinner parties, fishing expeditions, and gift certificates), and yard games galore. Picnic blankets and lawn chairs welcome. Tickets — $20 for adults, $10 for kids age 14–18 — includes entry to the event; merchandise, food, and drinks can be purchased separately. www.mynorthtickets.com

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In June of 1776, under the authority of the Second Continental Congress, 33-year-old Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in fewer than three weeks.

The section most often referenced — “We hold these truths to be self-evident ...” — is a small part of a long document that reads more like a bill of particulars in an indictment. The accused was King George III of England.

The section most often referenced — “We hold these truths to be self-evident ...” — is a small part of a long document that reads more like a bill of particulars in an indictment.

In 1754, Benjamin Franklin created a document for the Albany Congress proposing a union of the colonies for the purpose of fighting indigenous tribes. It laid the groundwork for his later Articles of Confederation.

Some would even claim the Mayflower Compact of 1620, calling for “just and equal laws” and constitutions, was the first seed planted.

It wasn’t going to be easy. Historians tell us there were more colonists loyal to England, or at least opposed to war, but their British overlords behaved thuggishly and stupidly, fomenting anger a more benevolent king might have avoided.

They hated the hated Stamp Act of 1765, which the British enacted because — and you’re excused if you’ve heard this before — it was expensive keeping troops thousands of miles from home. Colonists were enraged but simply refused to purchase the required stamps or avoided buying anything imported from England. It was just a little spark among many that lit the revolutionary fuse. The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.

But the British continued trying to imposing additional taxes and levies while creating an oppressive regime in the colonies. It was never going to work.

In 1770, British troops fired on a group of protesting colonists, killing five in the Boston Massacre. Anger that had been burning for decades was getting closer to an explosion.

War was now close at hand.

In 1775, still a year before the Declaration of Independence, deadly skirmishes were already being fought. Paul Revere, William Dawes, and others made their night rides quietly alerting people to approaching British soldiers. (Note: There were many riders, and none of them likely shouted since that would have alerted loyalist informers.)

Most of our history books peg April 19, 1775, the day of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, as the official beginning of the war that was already being fought. It was the year Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys took Fort Ticonderoga; our insurrectionists lost the Battle of Breed’s Hill (adjacent Bunker Hill was not the site of the battle); George

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Washington was named commander of the armies, such as they were; and the Second Continental Congress met.

Jefferson intentionally toned down his sometimes soaring rhetoric, saying he was trying to express the American mind “ ... in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take ... .”

And spell it out he did, listing 27 charges against George III. It included, among many alleged offenses, refusing to follow local laws, refusing to allow legislatures to meet or disbanding them and refusing to allow new elections, making judges dependent on his will, keeping an occupying military force in the colonies in peacetime, abolishing trials by jury, failing to prosecute English military personnel for crimes in the colonies ... it was a long list.

Jefferson didn’t get around to “ ... imposing taxes without our consent” until the 17th item.

(Sadly, the Second Continental Congress removed Jefferson’s reference to King George’s slave trafficking; slavery was legal in all 13 colonies at the time.)

The Declaration of Independence was declared on July 2, approved and printed on July 4, but not finally signed by all delegates until August 2. John Adams assumed July 2 would be the day of national celebration, with parades and fireworks. But history settled on July 4, the day colonists could first read the document.

The War for Independence would last another seven years before the British surrendered at Yorktown in 1783. Nearly 4,500 colonists died; another 6,000 were wounded. It would be another five years before we had a constitution and another year beyond that before our government operated under it.

We celebrate on the Fourth of July because two-and-a-half centuries ago, brave men and women conceived, then fought and died to establish a radical idea: a new nation striving for liberty. We’ve not yet realized their selfevident truths, but we keep trying. For that we should be thankful.

Crime & Rescue MAN JAILED FOR DOMESTIC ATTACK Someone called police when they saw man in a pickup yelling at a woman who was walking along M-22 at 6am.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies responded to North Manitou Trail, near Swede Road, outside Northport, where they found a 37-year-old Kincheloe man sitting in a pickup parked in a field; deputies said the man was uncooperative and would not answer questions about what happened.

Later that morning, someone called 911 to report a man attempting to get into a vehicle with a woman locked inside. A deputy arrived within a minute and witnessed the man yelling; the suspect, the same man from earlier, had refused to obey commands and was arrested, police said.

Deputies learned that the suspect had been out the night before drinking with a 35-year-old Rudyard woman. The woman told police that, during an argument, the man had put her in a chokehold, dragged her out of a car by her hair and ears, and struck her in the mouth.

SERIAL EXPOSER CHARGED Deputies responded after several motorists called 911 to report a man exposing himself on the side of the road near the Interlochen Arts Academy.

Grand Traverse Sheriff’s deputies responded to M-137 and arrested a 52-year-old man for indecent exposure and being a sexually delinquent person. The suspect was not identified, but he is being charged with a felony due to repeated incidents of exposure, police said.

In April, a 52-year-old suspect was arrested twice within several days in Grand Traverse County for exposing himself in public.

MOTORCYCEE DRIVER KILLED A 20-year-old motorcycle driver was killed in a crash near Petoskey.

Justin Wilson of Petoskey was driving a 2001 Kawasaki motorcycle when he collided with a car that was making a left turn.

Wilson was pronounced dead at the scene, Emmet County Sheriff’s deputies said. The crash occurred at the intersection of E. Mitchell Road and Alcan Drive in Bear Creek Township at 11am June 23.

LOST RIFLE SOUGHT Kalkaska County Sheriff’s deputies need help locating a lost rifle.

The rifle was lost by a deputy between May 15 and May 20, after the deputy placed the weapon on top of a patrol car to adjust equipment in the vehicle, according to a June 25 press release.

The deputy forgot he put the rifle on top of the car and drove off. When he realized the mistake, he backtracked, to no avail.

The .223 caliber rifle was lost in Boardman Township, along Boardman Road near Aldridge Street.

Deputies said in a press release: “If you or someone you know has found this property, please return it to the Kalkaska Sheriff’s Office or a law enforcement agency near you.”

by patrick sullivan psullivan@northernexpress.com

CRASH SHUTS DOWN M-22 Police said a Suttons Bay woman ran a stop sign and crashed into a car that contained a family of four from Wyoming, sending everyone to the hospital and causing investigators to close M-22.

Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies responded to M-22 and Stallman Road near Peshawbestown June 26 at just past noon.

Deputies determined that a family on vacation in a 2018 Kia was headed south on M-22 when a 2008 Volvo driven by a 27- year-old woman ran the stop sign at a high rate of speed and drove into the path of the Kia. Everyone was taken to Munson Medical Center for treatment. Deputies said speed and alcohol were factors in the crash.

ELDERLY WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH A 92-year-old woman was killed when her car was struck as she attempted to turn out of a driveway in Benzie County.

Beulah resident Ardith Jones was killed in the crash that occurred at 1:18pm June 23 on S. Marshall Road, near Narrow Gauge Road in Homestead Township, according to the state police.

Jones attempted to turn left onto S. Marshall Road when a 2000 Jeep Cherokee driven by a 16-year-old Honor teen came over a hill and struck Jones’ 2001 Buick Regal on the driver’s side.

SLEEPING DRIVER ARRESTED A 72-year-old Suttons Bay man was jailed after a Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputy found him in a pickup parked on a highway in the middle of the night.

A patrol sergeant on East Lincoln Road came across a stopped 1998 Dodge at 12:44am June 22 along Bugai Road. The pickup was parked in the road, its lights were off, and the driver was asleep, deputies said.

The sergeant woke up the driver, who smelled strongly of alcohol, and arrested him for drunk driving.

DRIVER KILLED IN CRASH WITH TREE A 59-year-old man died after he drove into a tree in Benzie County.

Sheriff’s deputies investigated after an off-duty firefighter found a vehicle just off the intersection of Wallaker and Arner roads in Joyfield Township at 6:30am June 21.

Deputies determined that the vehicle was travelling on Arner Road when it left the roadway and struck a tree at the intersection. The man was not wearing a seatbelt, and deputies believe he had been drinking.

ROGUE BOAT TRACKED DOWN A man was saved by a passerby after he fell into Lake Leelanau, but the man’s boat kept on going and had to be corralled by marine patrol deputies.

A 73-year-old Canton man in a 14-foot boat with an outboard tiller motor fell into the lake when his boat was struck by an unexpected wake from another boat. It happened near Melissa Drive in Bingham Township at 8:26pm June 21; the man was pulled to shore by an onlooker, Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies said.

At first, the abandoned boat had run circles around the man, but then it took off on its own, southbound, and traveled around the lake for over an hour. Marine patrol deputies were able to stop the rogue boat by throwing an anchor into it and using the anchor line to foul the prop.

The vessel was returned to the owner at the Lake Leelanau RV Park. The man was tended to on shore by Suttons Bay Fire personnel.

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bY Amy Kerr Hardin Missouri’s lone women’s health clinic that provides abortions is under regulatory attack. The doctors there have been ordered to perform medically unnecessary internal pelvic exams on women and girls seeking abortions. This amounts to state-mandated sexual assault. The idea is the brainchild of the state health director, Dr. Randall Williams, an OB-GYN — in other words, someone who should know better. The doctors at the clinic announced last week they will not comply with the order.

Michigan similarly has a history of attempting to mandate the sexual assault of women seeking an abortion. Republican lawmakers have thrice introduced legislation (in 2012, 2013, and 2015) to require a transvaginal ultrasound probe prior to an abortion. They cleverly couched the demand in stealthy language, saying that clinics must use the most advanced imaging available — which is an internal probe. All of these measures failed to become law.

A couple weeks ago, Michigan Sen. Ed McBroom introduced a “fetal heartbeat” bill intended to make abortions illegal after about six weeks — which is only two weeks after a missed period. (Gestational age is measured from the first day of the last period.) Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has vowed to veto the legislation should it reach her desk.

It’s all about the optics in the Lone Star state. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill that bans municipalities from doing business with Planned Parenthood.

The law prevents cities and counties from entering into lease and tax agreements with the nonprofit health provider. The vast majority of services provided by the organization have nothing to do with abortion, and many of the clinics don’t even offer that service.

Republicans take swipes at Planned Parenthood as a matter of sport. They understand that many of their conservative constituents are woefully misinformed about what the health provider actually does. A mendacious rumor is alive and well, claiming that abortions are rampant in these clinics and that baby parts are being sold on the black market. Republicans have fanned the flames of this spurious claim to rally their base.

A kind of madness seems to be gripping our nation’s state houses. Kate Gilmore, the United Nations deputy high commissioner for human rights, blasted states for violating women’s reproductive rights, calling it “torture,” saying “this is gender-based violence against women, no question … It’s a deprivation of a right to health.” Those are the kinds of words typically directed at dictatorial regimes.

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A recent NPR/PBS/Marist poll found that 77 percent of Americans support Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. That figure is widely bolstered by Republicans who support abortion rights by 59 percent. Only 13 percent of those polled wish to see Roe overturned.

Given the overwhelming support for women’s reproductive rights, what could these GOP lawmakers be thinking? A total of 27 abortion bans and severe restrictions have been enacted in 12 states this year alone. Nearly 40 percent of all restrictions since Roe became the law in 1973 have occurred in the past eight years. It’s mostly middle-aged men writing these laws, and they appear to be increasingly emboldened to legislate away a women’s right to choose.

Previously, state legislatures used a ploy fittingly termed TRAP laws — targeted regulation of abortion providers — to restrict access to abortion. But now, with justice Brett Kavanaugh on the high court, state lawmakers have doubled down on the assault on women’s health. They are passing truly egregious legislation designed to spark a Supreme Court challenge in hopes of overturning Roe. These new laws have little to do with pro-life efforts, and they are typically mired in a complete ignorance of reproductive health.

Lest we forget, abortion remains legal across the nation. Litigation will stave off most of these new restrictive laws. However, for far too many women, reproductive healthcare is out of reach because, due to onerous regulatory burdens, it’s simply not available where they live.

Illinois is among a handful of states that are a candle in the dark for women’s rights. Its Reproductive Health Act was signed into law last month. The act codifies a woman’s right to exercise autonomy over her own body. Vermont and Maine similarly acted to protect a woman’s right to choose.

Corporate activism over this issue is also on the rise. In excess of 180 major businesses recently signed on to a letter condemning these new state laws and stating that “restricting access to comprehensive reproductive care, including abortion, threatens the health, independence, and economic stability of our employees and customers.” Childbearing should be a conscious decision for many, many reasons, not the least of which is the profound economic impact on the mother.

Additionally, 42 state attorneys general and elected prosecutors penned a statement declaring they will not enforce these new abortion restrictions. They said, “Legal precedent, as established by the highest court in the land, has held for nearly 50 years that women have the right to make decisions about their own medical care including, but not limited to, seeking an abortion. Enforcement of laws that criminalize healthcare decisions would shatter that precedent, impose untenable choices on victims and healthcare providers, and erode trust in the integrity of our justice system.”

Amy Kerr Hardin is a retired banker, a regionally known artist, and a publicpolicy wonk and political essayist at www. democracy-tree.com.

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Have a ay! or D Safe LabAs members of New Life Baptist Church in Advance, North Carolina, prepared to merge with a nearby congregation, they removed the handmade steeple from their building, intending to return it to church member Mike Brewer, who made it. But a passerby who saw the steeple at the curb on June 5 thought it was intended for garbage pickup and took it home, sparking a different kind of steeplechase, according to the WinstonSalem Journal. Church pastor Matthew Pope called it a clear misunderstanding: “The person assumed we were throwing it out.

She ... didn’t want it to go to the dump.” The unwitting steeple thief saw a post about the missing structure on Facebook from Pope’s wife and returned the steeple five days after its disappearance.

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-- In Saint Petersburg, Russia, motor enthusiast Konstantin Zarutskiy unveiled his newest creation in early May: a Bentley Continental GT sedan refitted with heavyduty rubber tank treads instead of regular tires. He calls the resulting vehicle “Ultratank” and is hoping to get permission from the local government to drive the car on city streets.

Zarutskiy tells EuroNews his Ultratank is very easy to drive, although creating it took him seven months as he faced a number of technical challenges. We’d like to see him parallel park it.

-- Hundreds of divers set a Guinness World Record on June 15 at Deerfield Beach, Florida, where they met to perform an underwater cleanup. Fox35 reported that 633 divers collected 9,000 pieces of debris on the ocean floor during the event, which was organized by Dixie Divers. The previous record, 615 divers, was set in the Red Sea of Egypt in 2015.

Bold Francesco Galdelli, 58, and Vanya Goffi, 45 -- otherwise known as the Italian Bonnie and Clyde -- were arrested on June 15 at a luxury villa in Pattaya, Thailand, after years of avoiding Italian authorities for various scams and frauds. The Telegraph reported that Galdelli had confessed to posing as George Clooney and opening an online clothing business “to trick people into sending money.”

The two would also sell fake Rolex watches online, sometimes sending packets of salt to their customers instead of wristwatches.

Clooney testified against the couple in 2010, but they fled Italy before being arrested there.

Galdelli was arrested in Thailand in 2014, but soon escaped after bribing prison guards. The pair will be returned to Italy for trial.

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The company sent all but the elder Pilgeram’s head, which is stored in liquid nitrogen at its facility in Arizona. “They chopped his head off, burned his body, put it in a box and sent it to my house,” Kurt told the Great Falls Tribune. He is suing Alcor for $1 million in damages and an apology -- plus the return of his father’s head. “I want people to know what’s going on,” he said. For its part, Alcor says its contract was with Laurence Pilgeram and that it met that agreement. The company contends Kurt is trying to get the life insurance money that paid for Alcor’s services. The trial is expected to begin in 2020 in California.

Chutzpah German Instagram “influencers” Catalin Onc and Elena Engelhardt have faced a digital dressing-down after they set up a GoFundMe page requesting donations for a bike trip to Africa. They want to raise about 10,000 euros for the jaunt, but some people aren’t on board. Onc and Engelhardt live with Onc’s mother, who supports them by working at two jobs, the Independent reported. They posted on their Instagram page: “Some will just tell us to get jobs, like everyone else and stop begging. But when you have the impact we do on others’ life (sic), getting a job is not an option. A normal job at this point would be detrimental.” Commenters let loose on the couple: “Get a job and treat your mum, she shouldn’t be funding her grown son to wander the world like a lost boy.” And, “You’re not impacting anyone’s life, you are just a couple of freeloaders trying to get holidays paid for by mugs.”

Bright Ideas -- A Domino’s pizza delivery driver in London was the unwitting victim of a prank on June 6 when he tried to deliver four large cheeseburger pizzas to Buckingham Palace, for “Elizabeth.” At the security gate, he was stopped by two armed police officers, who checked to make sure the queen had not, indeed, ordered the pies. “The next thing the copper said was, ‘Sorry, sir, Elizabeth is the name of the queen -- and she lives at Buckingham Palace. I think someone is winding you up,” a source told The Sun. The original phone order had promised cash payment at delivery. Store manager Zsuzsanna Queiser said the “pizzas seemed to go down pretty well with the police officers on duty. Next time, Your Majesty.”

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Walter Hagen (far right) sits with his son, Walter Hagen Jr. (far left), who passed away in 1982, and professional golfer Patty Berg, a founding member and leading player of the LPGA Tour from the 40s through 60s.

Walter Hagen’s Northern Michigan Fifty years after his death in Traverse City, Northern Express looks at a time when one of the most famous golfers in the world called Up North home.

By Patrick Sullivan Imagine this: One of the biggest sports stars in the world lives in Traverse City.

He’s retired and a bit pudgy now. He’s been weathered by years of drinking and chasing women. No doubt he’s past his prime.

But every day, he hangs out at Little Bo’s. On West Front Street. It was kind of a dive bar back then, but that’s where he went and bought people drinks and told them stories. And one time, from the payphone at the back of the place, he called the United Kingdom so that he could congratulate 31-year-old Arnold Palmer on his first British Open win.

Little Bo’s isn’t a dive bar anymore. New owners have taken over, and it’s called Little Bohemia Tavern now. But they still celebrate the golfer who once owned a table near the front of the place, to the left of the bar in the corner.

“This was his self-proclaimed home away from home, because he liked to do this,” said Little Bohemia’s owner, Nancy Freund, making a drinking motion with her hand.

“Daily, he was here.”

LIFE’S 19th HOLE How did Walter Hagen come to live in Traverse City at a time when he was just as

famous as (and sometimes hung out with) Babe Ruth?

Though Hagen was born and raised in Rochester, New York, and got his start at a golf club there, Hagen moved to Detroit as a young man and made that city his home base throughout his professional career. As he got older, Hagen did what successful Detroiters did: He got a place Up North.

“It was a short [encounter]. I didn’t have a long time with him, although I subsequently learned so much about him,” he said. Wiren would go on to amass one of the largest private golf memorabilia collections in the world, and a lot of it is focused on Hagen.

Wiren said anyone who wants to learn about Hagen should start with his autobiography, “The Walter Hagen Story,”

“The truth is I went into the game in the beginning for the money — ten cents an hour plus a nickel tip, which members of the County Club of Rochester, New York, paid their novice caddie, Walter, back in 1900.”

“Wintering in Detroit made him a Michigan guy, and where do Michigan people go for fun in the summer?” said Gary Wiren, master member of the Professional Golfers Association of America and senior director of instruction at Trump International Golf Club.

Wiren, whose wife is from Traverse City and has been coming to northern Michigan every summer since 1959, was awestruck when he met Hagen at the Traverse City Golf and Country Club in 1960 during Hagen’s eponymous tournament.

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published in 1956. (It is available at Traverse Area District Library.)

The last chapter recounts some of Hagen’s favorite bars, one after another, at famed golf courses across the country, and he recounts the people who he drank with in those bars.

“I suppose every joker who knows one golf club from another is familiar with my tendency to get around the course as quickly as possible and bend an elbow at the 19th hole, a favorite on any course,” he wrote.

Hagen’s 20-acre estate on Long Lake,

which he bought in 1954, became his life’s 19th hole.

“In all my wandering around the globe, I never really owned a home. This, my first, is situated on a knoll facing west on Long Lake near Traverse City, Michigan. My picture windows look out on the silvery blue waters across to the island some half mile distant,” he wrote. “Now instead of counting the strokes on each hole I count the tall and slender white birches, the spruce, the hemlock, the maples and cedars on my acres on Long Lake … the 19th hole on the Haig’s course.”

BUT FIRST, CADILLAC Traverse City wasn’t Hagen’s first foray into northern Michigan. Before Traverse City, Hagen stayed for a year in Cadillac, a place he chose to start work on his autobiography.

“Filled with enthusiasm and determination and armed with scrapbooks and typewriters, I retired to Cadillac, Michigan, to begin work,” Hagen wrote in his book. “Why Cadillac? For a fellow who has followed the sun around the world all his life, it may seem queer to choose a northern Michigan town blanketed with snow almost eight months of the year.”

Actually, he wrote, he put a lot of consideration into where he ended up. He

Hagen — known also as Sir Walter, or The Haig — was renowned for his astonishing golf skills, but his affection for sporting expensive tailored clothes while playing earned him a lot of fans too.

Little Bohemia owner Nancy Freund stands at the bar where Hagen happily whiled away many a post-pro day.

picked Pilgrims Village, a resort on Lake Mitchell, because the place rented enough cabins to house him and whomever he needed around to help him write his books (he called those folks his “literary kibitzers”).

More importantly, though, he chose Cadillac because it was so far from Detroit, his fulltime home.

“If I had taken a place on any lake near Detroit, or at any resort area where I’ve lived or played golf, people will just happen to be nearby and drop in. But Cadillac is 200 miles from Detroit,” he wrote. “If they came there to toast my labors, they wouldn’t be dropping in, they’d have to aim at it to get there.”

The first thing Hagen did once he got to Cadillac was to purchase a 20-foot boat with a “lively” motor that he enjoyed with his friends in lieu of getting work done on his book. “’Let’s not be in a hurry to start this book,’ I suggested the day we arrived. ‘There’s plenty of time.’”

(That might explain how Hagen arrived in Cadillac with Charles Price, a golf writer and historian who had signed on to cowrite his biography, but that the book was actually finished several years later with the help of a replacement writer, Margaret Seaton Heck.)

Hagen even constructed a 12-by-12-foot extension to the dock in front of his cabin to make a sitting area where he could fish and work on the book. He also had constructed deck railings coated with an aluminum phosphorous paint that glowed in the dark to make losing anybody to the lake after a night of drinking less likely.

Hagen spent a year in Cadillac, enjoying the changing of the seasons, which he wrote were mild that year. He learned how to use snowshoes and to downhill ski.

CHANGING THE FACE OF GOLF Hagen, who would become famous for being the first golfer to make a million dollars, was born to a working-class family in 1892. Though he grew up wanting to be a baseball player, he came to golf early.

“The truth is I went into the game in the beginning for the money — ten cents an hour plus a nickel tip, which members of the County Club of Rochester, New York, paid their novice caddie, Walter, back in 1900,” he wrote in his autobiography.

Hagen would go on to win more major championships than anyone before him. He won his first, the U.S. Open, in 1914, at the age of 21. He won that tournament again five years later. He won four British Opens.

Wiren said Hagen’s biggest accomplishment was winning the PGA Championship five times and, in one stretch, four years in a row at a time when it was a match play event. To be able to maintain that level of play over consecutive rounds and consecutive years is astonishing, he said.

But Hagen’s allure wasn’t just his dominance on the links. He was known as a fun-loving, decent guy who reimagined what it meant to be a golfer.

For example, Wiren said, Hagen would get to the clubhouse and say to the other golfers, “Hey boys, who’s going to finish second this year?” But coming from Hagen, that kind of comment was not obnoxious.

“It was not him trying to be arrogant or anything — he was just fun,” Wiren said.

In a 1989 Sports Illustrated profile, writer Ron Fimrite recounted Hagen’s remarkable career, but he also explained how Hagen’s legacy is so much bigger than his record.

Hagen, through the force of his personality, changed golf from an upper-class pastime bound to aristocratic traditions to a sport that

regular folks could play.

Hagen also changed the lives of professional golfers.

Fimrite explained: “When Hagen first started playing the game, golf was dominated on both sides of the Atlantic by gifted amateurs — in England by aristocrats, in the U.S. by the socially prominent. Clubhouses were sanctuaries for the members and strictly off-limits to the club professionals.

The pro in those days was little more than a servant, an instructor to the rich, a craftsman who fashioned clubs in the quiet of his own quarters, far removed from the social whirl of the clubhouse.”

Hagen changed that through ostentatious dress and by outspending the aristocrats and upper class, until he eventually changed the perception of club pros and was allowed inside the clubhouses.

A FATAL DRIVE As Hagen’s career wound down in the 1930s, he was involved in a traffic crash that would affect him for the rest of his life.

Hagen was playing in Minnesota’s St. Paul Open in July 1934. On the way back to his hotel after a day of golf, his car struck a 6-year-old boy. The boy was then run over and killed by a streetcar.

Hagen is said to have jumped from his car and cried, ‘Don’t tell me you’re dead, Sonny. … Come on, speak to me.” Hagen was not held at fault for the crash, but from that time on he nearly gave up driving.

“He hated driving,” said Price, the golf writer. “I’d drive for him, but if I ever went faster than 45, he’d have a fit. ‘What’s your hurry?’ he’d say, as cars whizzed by all around us.”

Freund, whose father bought Little Bohemia just weeks after Hagen’s death, 50 years ago, said she heard stories over the

years about how Hagen always got around Traverse City with a chauffeur, or he’d arrange to get rides.

“I don’t think he drove at all after he moved here,” she said.

Hagen, in his later years, more or less stopped hitting the links, too.

“He quit playing golf,” Freund said. “I heard he would hit golf balls into the lake, and kids would go diving for them.”

But regardless, he kept getting back to Little Bo’s.

That’s where he was he decided to call Palmer, to congratulate the young man on his victory in 1961.

In a television interview years later that’s preserved on YouTube, Palmer recalled receiving that call placed from Little Bo’s.

Palmer was, at the time, at a bar himself.

“When I won the British Open at Birkdale the first year … I was in the bar having a drink, and the phone rang, and it was Walter Hagen,” Palmer said. “I was very flattered, and I said hello, and we talked. And we had talked before. He was my kind of man.”

The phone call, though, solidified a friendship that endured, and Palmer flew to Traverse City in 1967 to take part in a dinner at the country club in honor of Hagen, who by that time was dying of cancer.

“So, I came here for that celebration, and we laughed and talked about the differences and what had happened in his time and my time, and at the time I was smoking, he was smoking — big time — and we were drinking a little, too,” he said.

At the dinner, Palmer said to Hagen: “If it were not for you, Walter, this dinner would be downstairs in the pro shop and not in the ballroom.”

Two years later, on Oct. 6, 1969, Hagen died at his home on Long Lake at the age of 76.

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Summer has arrived, and along with it, one of our favorite outdoor pastimes: hitting the unique local festivals that make a weekend Up North absolutely unforgettable. Whether you’re looking to honor an old tradition or start a new one with your crew, here some of the best only-Up-North fests coming this season. By Kristi Kates

(July 12-14) Perhaps the best known of all the folk music events in northern Michigan, Blissfest can be thought of as the granddaddy of them all, having welcomed such big names as Jeff Daniels, Loudon Wainwright III, Richie Havens, and Railroad Earth. The fest’s 39th year is no exception. Alongside its usual monster roster of local, regional, and lesser-known national folk, bluegrass, and world-music acts, Blissfest is bringing in a quintet of impressive headliners: Amy Helm, Canned Heat, Sam Bush, Steve Poltz, and Martin Sexton. Pick up a weekend wristband, and you’re in for three full days of tunes from hyper-talented artists, plus family friendly activities and events.

Don’t Miss: The after-hours side of Blissfest. Attendees can reserve a camping spot to stay overnight on the festival farm site. It’s like your own mini-Woodstock, but with easier access to food and water.

More Info: www.blissfestfestival.org

Summerfest – Indian River

(July 18-21) Expect this quiet northern hamlet to shake off its lazy summer vibe in ways only a small northern town can manage. Summerfest kicks off with a lobster feast and beach bash in Marina Park on Thursday, where a host of beachfront events — sandcastle building, pool-noodle hockey, a Lego minifigure knockdown — get the fest started off right. The neighborhood feel of the event continues on Friday with an ice cream social, rubber duck race, cruise night, and live music from Mike Ridley. Saturday features the fest’s 39th annual craft show, plus more cars and music in the evening.

Don’t Miss: The three-legged race/water-transfer relay, July 18, is pure liquid chaos and fun for the whole family.

More Info: www.irchamber.com

Venetian Festival – Charlevoix

(July 20-27) A full week of festive fun takes over Charlevoix in mid-summer every year. Kicking off on Saturday, July 20, the 89thVenetian fest begins big, with the Aquapalooza Beach and Boating Party (giant floaties welcome; Zion Lion will bring the jams). Sporting activities like pickleball cottage croquet, golf, tennis, and foot races continue throughout the week, as do Arnold Carnival’s rides and games, plus a plethora of food concessions. Live music is part of the fun via the Venetian Rhythms concerts series, featuring such acts as Mitch Ryder, Union Guns, and the Up North Big Band, and don’t forget to snag your year-branded Venetian merchandise to commemorate the occasion.

Don’t Miss:The final Saturday — July 27 — brings the famed Lighted Boat Parade, the Round Lake event around which the whole event revolves and a nighttime treat for average folks and photographers.

More Info: www.venetianfestival.com

Antique Flywheelers Show – Boyne Falls

(July 25-28) Back in 1988, a couple dozen vintage-engine enthusiasts gathered together to make Larry Matthew’s dream of an old fashioned engine show a reality. Since then, this festival pays homage to the days when life used to rumble by much more slowly has drawn in gearhead fans of everything from small engines to large farm engines, chainsaws, buzz saws, cultivators, and other fun and interesting historical examples of vintage power and progress.

Woodworkers, blacksmiths, rope-makers, and an old-school barbers are also on-site for even more live-action experiences.

Don’t Miss: The “Tractor Safari,” held at the end of each night (7pm, excluding Sunday), which features a remarkable lineup of vintage machinery in action.

More Info: www.walloonlakeflywheelers.com

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Rendezvous in Mackinaw/18th Century Trade Fair – Mackinaw City

(August 1-4) Experience the North’s answer to (and 200-year-accelaration past) downstate’s Renaissance Fair, and treat yourself to a look at area merchants of the 18th and 19th centuries selling clothing, accessories, and crafts of the time. As you wander through the trade market area, you’ll also be able to see demonstrations of such vintage trades and frontier skills as cooking, musket-firing, knife-throwing, and more. The event aims to be an authentic depiction of how Native American, American, English, and French people coexisted in encampments as the Straits became settled.

Don’t Miss: Keep an eye out — you might be caught unaware as a “skirmish” breaks out in the encampment!

More Info: www.mackinawchamber.com

Polish Festival – Boyne Falls

(August 1-4) Boyne Falls’ Polish Festival, which pays homage to local heritage through a series of fun, family-friendly events and activities, is hitting 45 years of festival history this year. And no wonder: At this Polish party, you’ll find a carnival, a mud run, a car show, and of course the famous Polka Tent stuffed with a full roster of music (primarily polka tunes, but with a little rock and oldies thrown in for good measure). There will be plenty of Polish (and other) foodstuffs, too, plus you can say hello to the 2019 Boyne Falls Polish Festival Royalty: Honored Citizens Patricia West and Dorris Danbert, Grand Marshals Mike and Marilyn Seeyle, Little Miss Alyssa Reynolds, and Little Mister John Matelski.

Don’t Miss: Some exceptionally talented Gwiazda Dancers from the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America, a talented cross-section of polka dancers/ performers from Metro Detroit’s “Polonia.”

More Info: www.boynefallspolishfestival.com

Riverfest – Alanson

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(Aug. 8-11) Organized by the Village of Alanson to celebrate its small but welcoming community — and river and new Sanctuary Island (reached by a small hand-propelled ferry!) — Riverfest is a festival destination for the entire family. Kids get first dibs on the fun on Thursday with a teen dance in the entertainment tent while the younger set can enjoy a movie in the park.

Friday kicks off the start of the Arts Crafts and Antiques Flea Market (Friday-Sunday), while Saturday is Family Riverfest Day, featuring candy bar bingo, a carnival, and the annual frogjumping contest. The fest wraps up on Sunday with a noon concert from the Petoskey Steel Drum Band.

Don’t Miss: For $1,you can adopt a brightly colored, numbered plastic duck to race in the big Crooked River Duck Race. The fun starts floating 2pm Sunday at the town’s Swing Bridge.

More Info: www.alansonriverfest.com

(August 9-11) Held each summer on the shores of the Straits overlooking the Mackinac Bridge — an appropriate location considering the gentlemen who worked on that very bridge are the focus of the event — the Ironworkers Festival gives guests an inside look at these complex and often dangerous jobs. The fest is open to all, although only ironworkers can compete in the events, which include knot tying, a rivet toss, a spud throw, and the World Championship column climb, plus a series of “old-timer” events for retired ironworkers. Throw in some live music and refreshments, and it’s a great change-ofpace festival.

Don’t Miss: Want to step into an ironworker’s shoes? (Well, sort of …) Check out the vendor booths on-site, which offer authentic tools and boots for sale.

More Info: www.mackinawchamber.com

Odawa Homecoming – Petoskey

(August 10-11) Bursting with drumming, singing, beautiful regalia, and a wealth of cultural traditions and information, the Odawa Homecoming event celebrates the Native American Odawa people of northern Michigan and beyond, and offers countless beautiful ways of introducing others to the culture. Saturday begins with the spectacle of the Grand Entry, followed by a full day’s worth of music, food, and the crowning of Miss Odawa Nation and Junior Miss Odawa Nation. Sunday features a similar events schedule; both days feature opportunities to observe, participate, and meet the dancers and musicians. New upgrades to the Pow Wow grounds will make this year’s event even more special.

Don’t Miss: The Group Hand Drum contest on Saturday, an energetic celebration of rhythm and skill.

More Info: www.odawahomecoming.weebly.com

JUNE June 28, 29 & July 5, 6 RICHARD III

by William Shakespeare

Saturday, June 29 HARLEM QUARTET

Interlochen Shakespeare Festival Directed by William Church

JULY Monday, July 1 BÉLA FLECK & the FLECKTONES

Tuesday, July 9 INTERLOCHEN “COLLAGE”

Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton Directed by Greg Hellems

REBA MCENTIRE

Tuesday, July 23 PETER FRAMPTON The Farewell Tour

Tuesday, July 16 I’M WITH HER

Saturday, July 6 DORRANCE DANCE

Aug. 1 - 4 9 TO 5, THE MUSICAL

Saturday, July 20 JOSHUA DAVIS with STEPPIN’ IN IT

2019 SUMMER Friday, July 12

Wednesday, July 3 THE CAPITOL STEPS

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Thursday, July 11 CASTING CROWNS

Wednesday, July 17 DIANA ROSS Diamond Diana

Friday, Aug. 9 LADY ANTEBELLUM with KYLIE MORGAN

Thursday, July 25 “WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC The Strings Attached Tour

Wednesday, Aug. 21 VINCE GILL

Tuesday, Aug. 13 JONNY LANG AND JJ GREY & MOFRO

Petoskey Festival on the Bay – Petoskey

(August 15-17) This classic waterfront event serves to draw people to Petoskey’s downtown park on the shores of Little Traverse Bay, where a wide selection of summer activities are staged over the weekend. Popular favorite stops include The Big Art Show, cornhole and volleyball tournaments, and a busy midway of food vendors (roasted corn, brats, Native American fry bread, pizza, tacos), plus event and product vendors. Music is a huge part of the fest, with a daytime stage on the midway, plus two stages — an indie music stage on Saturday, and another in the entertainment tent all three nights. Expect to hear performances from the Petoskey Steel Drum Band, the Pine River Jazz Band, headliner Detroit Soul Revue, and many others.

Don’t Miss: The Cardboard Boat Race, a zany regatta of unstable proportions in which each cardboard vessel gets an equal chance to sink or float.

More Info: www.petoskeyfestival.com

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“We Choose to Go to the Moon.”

Historian Douglas Brinkley coming to TC to talk JFK’s challenge 50 Years Ago — and our obstacle today.

By Clark Miller One of America’s most eminent historians, Douglas Brinkley, comes to the National Writers Series at City Opera House, in Traverse City at 7 pm Saturday, July 13, to unveil his latest book, “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race,” which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Brinkley argues that JFK felt deeply that space would show the superiority of American science and technology. He also needed a cause that would distinguish his presidency and show that a bold new era had arrived.

JFK’s predecessor, Dwight Eisenhower, had shown little interest in space. He saw it mostly as a stunt. He wasn’t alone.

Other critics used the term, “moondoggle.”

Measured by today’s standards, Eisenhower was a different kind of conservative. He warned that taxpayer’s money would be better spent fixing social ills. He took a similar stance about the defense budget by decrying the “military-industrial complex.”

In 1953, Eisenhower said, “Every gun that is made, every warship that is launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed … .”

At most, he considered it enough to simply keep up with the Soviet space program.

Kennedy took the opposite approach.

He wasn’t satisfied with keeping pace. The Soviets, under Eisenhower’s watch, had shown their growing technical sophistication with Sputnik.

Kennedy had found his cause He wanted to leapfrog ahead of the Soviets. In 1961, he staked out his bold vision: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.”

Kennedy, who didn’t live to see Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon, gave that speech at Rice University, where Douglas Brinkley now teaches.

Northern Express interviewed Brinkley about the 50th anniversary of the moonshot and what he thinks about the future of space travel.

Express: America’s victory in the space race — getting astronauts to the moon and safely back — was a moment many of us will never forget.

Brinkley: Other generations talk about Pearl Harbor, the assassination of John and then Robert Kennedy, and now 9/11. But the moonshot is different. It’s a celebration of the bravery of our astronauts and the quality of our country’s scientific expertise. That makes it something we can all be excited about.

Express: You’ve expressed skepticism about future space travel.

Brinkley: There’s a saying at NASA. “No bucks, no Buck Rogers.” [Editor’s note: Buck Rogers was an early, fictional space traveler.]

We can’t go back to the moon or build a colony unless taxpayers are convinced to pony up a lot more money. Meanwhile, we have a climate crisis right here on Earth and oceans full of plastic.

Express: You’ve written about returning to collaborative efforts in space.

Brinkley: What sometimes depresses me about American life now is the lack of collaboration. There’s sort of a neo-Civil War going on. The moonshot was something all of America took part in. Much of the world watched it on TV. We need to do big things like that again. It’s not the engineers or scientists who have let us down. Consider all the hate spewed every day now on social media.

Express: And what would a re-energized space program accomplish?

Brinkley: It could enhance living on earth.

Space travel started with a focus on space, but astronauts came back talking about the earth. From their perspective, it looked like a beautiful “blue marble.” From space, you can’t see borders.

Express: What about a cost-benefit analysis?

Brinkley: Going to the moon was very expensive, but it was worth it. I hope we return. It changed everything. Think of the use of satellite-based technologies. Space medicine. There’s the big question — are we

alone in the universe? — but also so many practical spinoffs.

Express: Does the younger generation have a curiosity about space?

Brinkley: Absolutely. They’re all jazzed up about it. There are opportunities for women. Private companies. Jobs. Young people lean so heavily on tech. I teach in the humanities — it’s not easy to find students who want to major in the field. But look at all the programs about space. They are very robust. It’s a good time in America for STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics]. Space falls right into that. No colleges I know of are cutting space medicine or engineering programs.

Express: So much can be done now by robots. Doesn’t that relate to space exploration, too?

Brinkley: I don’t think you’ll get the kind of national funding needed unless it’s a manned venture.

Brush Up on Brinkley

Brinkley has written about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the creation of the United Nations, Jimmy Carter’s “unfinished presidency,” Civil Rights heroine Rosa Parks, newscaster Walter Cronkite, and one of Michigan’s most controversial figures, Henry Ford.

Brinkley serves as a commentator for CNN, usually on topics relating to the history of the U.S. presidency. He has also edited the letters of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson and beat writer Jack Kerouac. An amateur musician and jazz lover, he won a Grammy for co-producing Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom by the Ted Nash Big Band. He is an avid defender of America’s wildernesses.

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Today’s famed Cherry Hut restaurant evolved from a tiny roadside stand first erected on the side of Beulah’s Rogers Road in 1922.

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By Ross Boissoneau Tradition can mean many things. For vacationers and residents around Crystal Lake and nearby, it often means a mandatory visit to the Cherry Hut. In an industry where 90 percent of independent restaurants close during their first year and 70 percent of those that make it past the first year close their doors in the next five, the Cherry Hut is an anomaly: The restaurant is entering its 97th year.

Christy Case, who owns the summeronly restaurant with her husband, Andy, said consistency is the key to its longevity. “It’s consistently good food and good service,” she said. That’s the case whether it’s cherry pie, cherry-ade, cherry BBQ pork, a cherry burger (from meat supplied by Pleva’s Meats in Cedar), a cherry hot fudge brownie, or cherry chicken salad.

Besides all things cherry, the restaurant is perhaps most famous for its turkey dinner, complete with mashed potatoes, vegetables, soup, even dessert. “It’s freshly roasted,” Case said. “That’s not something people do outside the holidays.”

The history of the restaurant dates back to 1922, when James and Dorothy Kraker opened the original Cherry Hut — literally, a small wooden hut — on the north shore of Crystal Lake to market and sell their orchard products. That year also marks the debut of Cherry Jerry, the smiling face cut into the

A look at the legendary restaurant as it closes in on a century of sweet summertimes.

upper crust of their pies.

Fast forward a few years, and a second Cherry Hut appeared in Benzonia, then a third in Traverse City, before all three were consolidated into a new location in 1935, at the site of the present-day Cherry Hut. The Krakers’ daughter Althea began working there as a youngster.

“We’d pit the cherries in our yard. I’d help as a little kid,” Althea (Kraker) Petritz recalled.

During World War II, while home from college, Petritz managed the restaurant.

During her graduate studies at Northwestern University, in Chicago, she met George Petritz, who was working for IBM in the Windy City.

The pair married in 1946 and quickly decided they wanted to put down roots in Althea’s native northern Michigan. Together, the couple began developing a frozen pie business based on the recipes from the Cherry Hut. Their timing was as good as their products.

“Frozen food was in its infancy. We wanted to live in northern Michigan, but how? You’ve got to have your own business,” Althea Petritz said. “I knew the pie business.”

Thus was born Pet-Ritz pies.

In the meantime, Leonard Case Jr., who had been working at the Cherry Hut since his sophomore year in high school, had moved up to managing the restaurant. In 1959 he bought

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it from the Krakers.

That didn’t mean the Petritz family was out of the Cherry Hut business; several of Althea and George’s six children kept up the family tradition by working there.

“I worked there two years, the end of high school and [after] the first year of college,” said Chris MacInnes. Today, she and her husband, Jim, own Crystal Mountain, co-founded and previously owned by her parents.

She’s as bullish today on the Cherry Hut as ever, praising the Cases for the way they run the restaurant and take care of their employees.

“If you have kids, it’s the kind of place you’d want them to work. I learned about sales, organization, how to present yourself and your company to guests. Those early employment opportunities are very foundational. It was a lot of fun,” MacInnes said, “and it was a lot of work.”

Her sister Mimi Appel said working at the Cherry Hut was her first job. She said it was an opportunity to interact with people vacationing from other parts of the country.

“You’d have people from Orange County, from Farmington Hills — it was a little more worldly” than just Benzie County, she said.

The family tradition didn’t end there, either: Their sister Dosie Kermode’s daughter Kayla Six worked there through high school and college.

Three Cherry Hut waitresses from decades past: ( l to r) Jane Garner Jackson, Arlene McIntire Shields, and Althea Kraker, who would go on to manage the Cherry Hut and later jumpstart a frozen cherry pie empire with her eventual husband, George Petritz.

Cherry Hut waitresses, date unknown.

The Cherry Hut’s cherry pies inspired Althea and George Petritz to introduce shelled frozen pie crusts, and then whole frozen pies, to the grocery-buying public, in the late 50s. Pet-Ritz frozen pies, now part of Pillsbury, are still available today. For fresh, you must go to the source: the Cherry Hut.

Case said that continuing family tradition is part of the backbone of the operation. Many of the 60-plus employees return year after year, and a number are actually second-generation staffers. Sometimes a son or daughter is working alongside a parent. “One mom, her two daughters, and four cousins work here.

Another is a mom and her three daughters. It says a lot about our business that they want to keep coming back.”

While the restaurant now opens Mother’s Day weekend and closes after the third Sunday in October, Case said they have no intention of opening year-round. She said the dearth of full-time residents and the fact most of the staff returns to school would make such an endeavor problematic. Plus the cost of operating and heating the restaurant makes it unfeasible.

Althea Kraker Petritz today.

But for those who need their fix of Cherry Jerry or products like jam and jelly during the off-season, not to worry. That’s the role of the Cherry Hut store across from the Benzonia post office. It’s that aspect of the business that eventually saw Case leave her full-time teaching job. “I always thought I’d be a teacher, and I did it for 17 years,” she said.

“I like to cook and bake, and I enjoy working with my husband.”

There’s that family aspect again, and it even extends to the customers. “The best thing is the people you meet, the relationships you build,” she said. Customers tell her about coming to the restaurant when they were children, and now they are bringing their children, even their grandchildren. “It’s a real family-oriented place.”

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The Unsolved Mystery of the Lost Albatross

21 years ago this week, a jet preparing for the Cherry Festival Air show disappeared.

By Al Parker As thousands of fudge-toting, cherryloving tourists and locals crane their necks skyward to watch the National Cherry Festival Air Show, few are likely aware of a tragedy and mystery linked to the event 21 years ago.

On July 3, 1998, Don Schaller, of Quincy, Illinois, was piloting a two-seat Aero L-39 Albatross on a practice flight in preparation for the air show. A veteran pilot, the 48-yearold Schaller was familiarizing himself with the event’s flight paths and admiring the beauty of northern Michigan.

Don Rodriguez, a flight instructor at Northwestern Michigan College, was riding along in the jet, a military aircraft which was built in Czechoslovakia and used to train Soviet and other eastern European pilots.

“I don’t think there would have been anything to keep him from that ride,” Rodriguez’s wife, Patricia Delonnay, later told reporters.

After taking off from Cherry Capital Airport, Schaller guided the plane north, according to radar. Soon, he had the craft about 27 miles out and heading back toward Cherry Capital Airport. The last radio transmission came about 6pm. Flight controllers expected to hear from Schaller again when he was about five miles out.

But that call never came.

The plane disappeared from radar.

About 9pm. Coast Guard helicopters were dispatched from Traverse City to begin a search. For the next few days, the copter crews, equipped with night vision goggles, scanned the waters of Lake Michigan. They were accompanied by a Canadian C-130 cargo plane and the Blue Angels’ C-130, dubbed “Fat Albert.”

A Coast Guard utility boat, along with the planes, repeatedly searched the area

between North Manitou and South Fox Islands, but no sign of the Albatross was found. No oil slick, no debris, nothing.

The search area covered some 1,900 square miles. The Michigan State Police even searched into the Upper Peninsula, near Brevort Lake, southwest of St. Ignace.

It was believed that the Albatross was equipped with parachutes and ejection seats, but Coast Guard officials said that the seats may not have been functioning. It’s not known if the plane was equipped with a homing device of any type.

At the time, Bob Buttleman was director of NMC’s aviation program.

About 30 minutes after the Albatross took off, Buttleman took off as a passenger in a MiG-21 on a similar flight. Buttleman told reporters that if Rodriguez had crashed somewhere and was alive, he was the kind of man who would survive. “He was in the Air Force and National Guard,” he said.

According to friends and family, Rodriguez loved all aspects of aviation, collecting all types of memorabilia, magazines and even the 1946-J3 Cub plane in which he first soloed. Rodriguez’s son, Doug Rodriguez, was 16 years old when he soloed in the same aircraft.

But the 57-year-old flight instructor reportedly did have some concerns about flying over open water, because he was unable to swim. While teaching hundreds of NMC students over the years, he managed to log almost 10,000 flight hours, a number than would surpass the record of many commercial pilots. “He touched the lives of a lot of students,” Buttleman told reporters.

Ironically, Rodriquez and Delonnay were planning to attend his 40th high school class reunion the night he disappeared. And July 3, 1998 was Schaller’s 29th wedding anniversary.

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Because of the Independence Day celebration, the story of the missing plane didn’t hit the media until July 5. Daily updates on the search were covered in local TV, radio and newspaper reports.

But no sign of the plane or the two men were found. On July 9, the Michigan State Police called off the search.

“We’ve exhausted every lead we have, every lead that’s come in,” said MSP Lt. Mark Stewart, commander of the Traverse City post. “We don’t have any debris…we don’t have any oil slicks. We’re not closing our investigation and will continue to accept calls and tips, but we’re suspending our search until we receive new information.

We now believe the aircraft is located in the waters of northern Lake Michigan.”

The Albatross and the MiG-21, also in the air show, were owned by AirUSA, based in Quincy, Illinois. Both planes were used in numerous air shows and military training exercises. The company’s president, Don Kirlin, speculated at the time of the incident that a bird strike might have disabled the single engine L-39.

“A large enough bird ingested in an engine can shut down an engine,” Kirlin told reporters a few days after the plane’s disappearance.

Schaller’s widow, Christine Schaller, echoed that view, noting that the Air Force Thunderbirds had lost two engines to water fowl that year. “It could be the plane had taken on a bird in an upward climb,” she told reporters in Illinois.

The loss of the engine or an electrical shutdown would have prevented any radio contact.

Searches were held over water and air and no wreckage of the plane has ever turned up. Witness reports indicated that a man heard a plane going overhead, then a

large explosion, which he described as being like fireworks, but he never saw a plane.

Over the past two decades, there have been other fruitless searches. Later in 1998, an underwater search using side-scan sonar was conducted, and a 30-foot long object was found. Searchers thought it might be the plane, but it was later confirmed to be a rock formation.

In 2008, another sonar search was conducted and found what could be a plane at a depth of more than 450 feet. It was near a boat that sank in the 1950s. Divers were sent down to confirm the identity of the boat and the possible plane. But the dive could not be completed due to the extreme depth.

Fifteen years after the disappearance of her husband and high school sweetheart, Christine Schaller told reporters that she consoles herself knowing that her husband died “doing what he loved.” She believes the plane will eventually be found and at least part of the mystery will be solved. “They try to register all those things that go down in the lake,” she said.

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While newer versions are replacing older L-39s in service, thousands of Albatross remain in active service as trainers, and many are finding new homes with private warbird owners all over the world. The trend is particularly evident in the United States, where their $200,000–$300,000 price puts them in range of moderately wealthy pilots looking for a fast, agile personal jet.

According to the FAA, there were 255 L-39s registered in the U.S. in 2012, the latest year that data was available.

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Not Your MOM-N-POP’S HOTELS Some of the North’s iconic inns have changed hands in recent years.

Meet three sets of hospitality entrepreneurs reinventing the Up North experience for the next generation.

Owning a hotel is hard enough. But building another? Then buying a third?

Welcome to the world of Peter and Megan Schous, among a number of hoteliers bringing new life to old hotel traditions across the area. They’re joined by Cooper and Emily Heston, who continue to refurbish Falling Waters Lodge in Leland, while up north in Charlevoix, Paul and Jennie Silva and their crew are rolling along in a complete renovation of The Lodge — a.k.a. Earl Young’s Weathervane Lodge — now renamed Hotel Earl. By Ross Boissoneau

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Like so many people, Megan and Peter Schous fell in love with the area after vacationing here. But working in corporate America meant living in the Detroit area, until Peter got a promotion and they moved to Chicago. Which Megan loved.

Living in downtown Chicago was perfect. She was able to stay home with their baby daughter. Life was good. Very good.

But while Up North visiting their in-laws, who had a home in the Empire area, they noticed the village’s only motel, the Lakeshore Inn, was for sale. “Peter said, ‘We should look into buying that.’ I said, ‘You’re crazy,’” said Megan Schous, adding for good measure, “‘You’re nuts.’

While that was under construction, a Well, maybe not. “We ran the numbers, and Realtor friend of Peter’s suggested they look it made sense. In 2013 we bought it and ran it into a property he was representing. Soon for the summer,” Megan said. While the “we” the Camelot Inn of Elk Rapids became a that bought it was the couple, the “we” that ran third Lakeshore Inn — which worked out it was really Megan; Peter still had his day job well, as construction was taking longer than in Chicago. After returning to Chicago when they thought at the second Empire location. the summer season ended (the inn was only It finally opened this summer, though open in the summer), they bought Tiffany’s ice landscaping is still in progress. cream in Empire with Peter’s parents.

Today the Schous family — all six of That’s when Megan told Peter he had them, as the couple has subsequently had to quit his job, and in October 2014, the three more children — lives in Traverse City, family made a permanent move to northern a good midway point between Elk Rapids Michigan. They subsequently sold their and Empire. They say they are all dedicated interest in Tiffany’s to Peter’s parents, but to providing the best experience possible for noticing they were frequently selling out their the people who stay there. “The best thing rooms, they decided to expand, and began is being able to see people happy on their Dana Nessel with Traverse City Mayor Carruthers Pride Week event. said. building another Lakeshore Inn aJim block east. at a 2018 vacation, ” Megan

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Hotel Earl

Owner Paul Silva said renovating Hotel Earl is a project he’d long dreamed of. He and his wife, Jennie, owned one of builder Earl Young’s famed mushroom houses, and were long enamored of Weathervane Lodge.

“We vacationed in Charlevoix for about 20 years. It stood out as a project I wanted to tackle some day,” he said. When he heard the property was for sale, he jumped at the opportunity.

He has a background in real estate, with Silva Associates in the Detroit area, a construction, real estate and management firm. Good thing, too, since the renovation of the hotel was massive: adding a third story with 17 additional guest rooms; new windows, doors, restored balconies; enclosing the exterior corridors and adding a new elevator and ADA-compliant stairways.

Plus a new swimming pool, a high-tech 12seat boardroom, and a 1,500 square foot presidential/bridal suite. Whew.

As might be expected, such massive changes and additions, plus the state’s notoriously fickle weather, led to delays. “It

was a rough winter. That held the project back,” said Ian Fleming, the general manager for Hotel Earl.

Silva said the weather actually led to foundation issues and forced a shutdown in operations for a while. “We had to rebuild and reinforce it,” he said.

Silva’s goal was to preserve the look and feel of the unique midcentury modern building, and to use as much of the original material as possible.

“It’s been a challenge to keep as much of the original façade and feel as possible. The team did a great job,” said Silva.

Fleming pointed to the use of the original witch’s hats, the pointed peaks on the building, and utilizing original stonework wherever they could. “We wanted to keep the same history,” he said.

The project is now on schedule to open the end of this summer. “We hope to open Sept. 1 or sooner,” Silva said. While they live in Detroit, the couple comes up virtually every weekend to enjoy their summer home — and take in the ever-changing view of the restoration and expansion of Hotel Earl.

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Emily and Cooper Heston were pretty familiar with Falling Waters Lodge in Leland. After all, they had both worked there for a number of years — Cooper since high school, as it was owned by his grandfather.

So purchasing it from his family after his grandfather passed away made sense — at least on the surface. But it also meant a lot of work. Much of the general maintenance had been deferred, and updates were sorely needed as well. Nevertheless, the couple closed on the purchase March 30, 2017, opening only a month and a half later. In between, they ripped out carpet and replaced floors, updated furnishings and installed a Wi-Fi system that works throughout the property. “We started with the basics,” said Cooper.

Just after that first round of renovations, they took a bit of time out to get married. For their honeymoon, they went to — wait for it — Falling Waters Lodge, which was filled with family and friends.

Work continued, including replacing the old and unsafe deck. They built it in the parking lot behind the lodge and craned it over the building to where it was welded on. Updating the rooms, including new kitchenettes and décor, brought the property into the 21st century.

Heston was both astonished and gratified to find their guests seemed to appreciate the changes as much as he and Emily did.

“The most surprising thing was I did not expect the guests to feel as excited and passionate as I did. We’ve had people just about burst into tears. I’m invested, but it’s spectacular to see their joy. The best part of the job is to hear the oohs and ahhhs.”

Then there was the need to re-establish a sense of fellowship with the town’s residents and other businesses. “We had an open house for the town after the first part. My grandfather was lovely to some people but not all. It’s been [important] for Emily and I to say we’re opening our arms to Leland — we want you to see this.”

They close the lodge for the season each Jan. 1, giving them a few months to catch their breath and start in on the next round of renovations.

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Service Salute: Sgt. Scott Clark Kalkaska deputy on extended rotation with National Guard firefighters in Bulgaria carries on his family’s military legacy.

By Al Parker How does a Kalkaska County lawman end up spending up to a year in Eastern Europe, including some time in Dracula’s old stomping grounds in Romania?

Sgt. Scott Clark is one of 17 Army National Guard firefighters from Michigan deployed on an extended rotation in Bulgaria and Romania. They are members of the 1442nd and 1439th Firefighter teams, along with the 1440th Headquarters Unit, at the Novo Selo Training Area in Bulgaria.

In civilian life, Clark patrols the roads for the Kalkaska County Sheriff ’s Department.

He’s been there since February 2016.

“Hopefully I’ll be back [in Michigan] before the snow flies,” he recently told the Northern Express in an exclusive telephone interview. It’s a seven-hour time difference between Michigan and Bulgaria.

As a National Guard firefighter, Clark has been stationed in Eastern Europe since January. His deployment is expected to last anywhere from nine to 12 months. He and his fellow firefighters are busy training and educating other troops on fire safety.

“We’re doing a lot of fire prevention training more than fire suppression,” he explained. “Making sure people are aware of fire dangers.”

The American firefighters don’t work with any of their Bulgarian counterparts, but there has been discussion of developing a plan to have them work with locals.

Established in 1962, Novo Selo is one of the largest military bases in Bulgaria and is operated by NATO forces. From all of the NATO nations that send troops to train there, the Americans are the highest population, with Bulgaria second. The 55-square-mile base is in Eastern Bulgaria, less than two hours from the Black Sea. Novo Selo is in an extremely important strategic location, since the Black Sea is considered an insecure area because its waters are shared by many nations that are not friendly to the U.S., including Ukraine, Turkey, Georgia, and Russia. Another nearby and similar base is Bezmer, operated by the U.S. Air Force.

So is the Bulgarian countryside anything like northern Michigan with pine forests, rivers and lakes?

“It’s more like the St. Johns area,” explained Clark. “Flat and with a lot of farms.”

While in Bulgaria, Clark hasn’t had much opportunity to tour the local countryside, but during a stint in Romania he had a chance to visit Brasov, dubbed “Dracula’s Capitol.” It’s a city of about 250,000 residents, making it the seventh largest in the nation, and serves as the regional capitol of the Transylvanian Saxons.

The 29-year-old Clark already has an impressive background as a first responder.

After graduating from Manistique High School in the U.P., he earned an associate degree in emergency medical services at North Central Michigan College in Petoskey, followed by a stint at the Kirtland Regional Police Academy.

He’s been trained and served as a firefighter, a paramedic, and road patrol deputy. It’s a trifecta of first-responder roles.

“I really like road patrol because I get to interact with people,” said Clark. “You get to help people, and that makes you feel good.

I wanted to do this ever since I was a kid. I really love going to work.”

Family is very important to Clark, and he made it clear he misses his wife, Amanda, and eight-year-old daughter, Kynzi, who are back home in Gaylord.

But he’s grateful for the technology that keeps them connected on a regular basis.

“Being able to talk to them makes it a lot easier,” he said. “Thank God for that.”

Clark comes from a family with a strong military tradition. Both of his parents served in the U.S. Air Force. His father was an aircraft mechanic maintaining the engines of the highly-regarded A-10 Warthog. His mother was a mechanic on another technologically advanced aircraft, the durable F-16 Fighting Falcon.

“One of my grandfathers served as a rail car engineer in the Army, while another was a helicopter pilot,” said Clark. “And my stepbrother also served in the Air Force.”

He’s encouraged that there’s been a resurgence of respect for those who serve in the military. “People seem to recognize veterans, POWs, and MIAs more in recent years,” he noted. “That’s a good thing.”

Any message for friends and family in Michigan?

“Just say ‘Hi to everybody back home.’”

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Behold: The G.O.A.T. Horses Want to see some of the greatest of all-time athletes? Hit the Great Lakes Equestrian Festival.

By Ross Boissoneau The competition will be fierce. That’s to be expected — they’re some of the greatest athletes in the world.

And the people riding on them aren’t exactly slackers, either.

The Great Lakes Equestrian Festival attracts thousands of riders and trainers, but don’t forget the main athletes themselves.

Hundreds of horses will be running and jumping over the six-week-long festival. Yes, it is a really big deal. $1.5 MILLION PURSE “This is a professional and Olympic sport,” said Cody Brown, a spokesperson for the Great Lakes Equestrian Festival, which runs from July 3 to Aug. 11. Indeed, many past and future Olympians participate in the event each year. And professional — well, a total purse of $1,500,000 pretty much says professional.

Think of it as the equine version of track and field. More specifically, what high jumping and hurdles are to track, show jumping is to equestrian. Riders and horses partner together in competition to complete a course of jumps.

BIGGER, BETTER & ALL-NEW “The landscape of the show is completely different. It’s grown tremendously,” said

Brown. Now in its fifth year, after a decade as Horse Shows by the Bay, the Great Lakes Equestrian Festival features a new pavilion, new footing (the surface in the rings), and new rings. The installation of three competition rings where there were previously two brings the total of competition rings to six.

Also new is the Dudley B. Smith Equitation Championship. (Equitation is the art or practice of horse riding.) It’s named in honor of the well-known local businessman and supporter of many causes, who died suddenly last year. Smith and his wife, Barbara, were benefactors to many organizations, including Dennos Museum, Cherryland Humane Society, Munson Medical Center, and the Great Lakes Equestrian Festival. “Dudley was a prominent member of the community and was super passionate [about equestrian]. His granddaughter Paige Matthies is one of the top junior riders,” said Audra Jackson, who heads community relations for the festival.

The event will be open to riders 21 years old and under who receive a first, second, or third place ribbon in equitation classes held at 3’6” (each phase plus overall) during GLEF July 3-27. The final class will be held July 27 in the Grand Prix Ring and will consist of two rounds of competition over derby-style fences, with the top 12 from round one returning for round two.

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SUNDAY FAMILY DAYS, A PLAY & FOUR-H Of course, that’s just one of the many things that make the Great Lakes Equestrian Festival fun and unique. New this year is a $25,000 Open Jumper Rider Bonus.

Also new is a performance by Parallel 45 Theatre. There’s a Four-H and Local Barn Day. And as always, every Sunday is family day, offering a variety of fun activities for the whole family to enjoy, including autograph sessions, face painting, shopping, dining, the horseless horse show and pop-up farmers market.

The festival draws audiences from around the state, and competitors from across the country and the world. It’s quickly become one of the most popular events on the circuit. “It’s sold out. We have 1,200 horses per week, coming in from all over the world,” said Brown.

JUST TRY IT ONCE Brown said once enthusiasts take part in the show, they’ll return year after year.

“Our retention rate is high,” he noted. He attributed that to a number of factors: the climate, the area, and the facility, as well as the competition itself. As an example, he pointed to Margie Engle, the 10-time American Grandprix Association Rider of the Year and Olympian, who will leave the European circuit to spend two weeks at the

Great Lakes Equestrian Festival.

As might be expected of something that finds attendees coming from across the country and abroad for a lengthy stay, the Great Lakes Equestrian Festival pumps a significant amount of money into the local economy. According to a study the GLEF commissioned in 2017, the six-week event brings in an estimated $124 million. The study showed that participants bring with them a group of 10+ people on average, who stay in the area an average of 19 nights.

GOAT HORSES & PONY RIDES So there is plenty of reasons for competitors to come. But what about audiences? Again, it’s the spirit of athletic competition that is the first draw. But while the focus is obviously on horses and riding, Jackson said there are plenty of additional attractions to keep the whole family happy and engaged while attending the festival.

“It’s a high-level equestrian competition, but there’s also little kids riding ponies,” she said.

Refreshments, activities like face-painting, a bounce house, and more offer fun for the whole family.

For more information about the Great Lakes Equestrian Festival or to purchase tickets for any of the events, go to www.greatlakesequestrianfestival.com.

The Real-Life Horse Whisperer

Celebrated horseman to again teach clinic at Bay Harbor The Great Lakes Equestrian Festival isn’t the only horse-themed event coming to northern Michigan. Legendary horse trainer Buck Brannaman will host a clinic at the Bay Harbor Equestrian Center Sept. 6–8.

Trainer Brooke Tatrow, who is organizing the clinic, said Brannaman’s expertise is legendary. “He’s the best there is. He just has a way of working with horses and people. He can get amazing things done.”

The inspiration behind the book (and later the movie) “The Horse Whisperer,” Brannaman has been working for more than 30 years with horses and their owners and riders. His concepts come from the California vaquero tradition, based around understanding how horses think and communicate, and training horses to feel safe and secure around people. “He can get amazing things done,” said Tatrow.

The clinic at Bay Harbor will consist of two sessions. The morning session is on foundation horsemanship, primarily for riders who are relatively new to the activity or for horses not yet used to riders. The first part of the class is dedicated to working the horse from the ground in preparation for riding, the second half on horseback.

The afternoon sessions will focus on cow working and ranch roping. The former is for the experienced rider who wishes to expose a green horse to cattle work or to help work further with horses already started on cattle. Ranch roping is designed to refine and improve rope skills for both horse and rider for ranch-related activities.

Tatrow said whatever one’s skill and experience, learning about horses in a neverending process. “The great thing about Buck is he’s also continuing to grow and further himself,” she added.

For more information, go to www.brannaman.com or call Brook Tatrow at (248) 909-6636

The Prettiest Polo Grounds You Never Heard Of Yes, there actually is a Bliss Polo Club, founded by Mason Lampton, a Georgia native who summers in Harbor Springs. “I don’t play golf. I rarely sail,” he said. But polo — now you’re talking. He found the perfect site: a lush and verdant former potato field. “It looked like exactly what I needed for polo,” Lampton said.

So he bought the field and now welcomes fellow polo enthusiasts for three tournaments over the summer. “Players come from around the world. They bring their own horses many miles to enjoy the brilliance of playing in the superb weather,” Lampton said.

Ah, yes, the weather. While it’s much cooler in this area than in the South — part of the draw for these polo-loving folks looking to keep their horses in shape over summer — it’s still up to Mother Nature whether they will play or not. Rain makes the footing for the horses too slippery.

The first tournament is scheduled for July 7–14 at the field, located at 9000 North Pleasantview Rd., Levering. Games typically take place Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday at 11am, and there’s no charge to watch. Lampton recommends checking with the Bliss store to confirm the schedule.

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2. Heath Day, Nick Weirsba, Anne Schwartz, Luke Schwartz, and JD Dakoske at The Little Fleet in Traverse City.

3. Connie Boyer puts the finishing touches on her red 1936 Ford Coupe during the Cheboygan Antique Car Club show.

4. Jen Teeples, Amy Six-King, Julie Poole, Kayla Six, Kate Habers, and Marshall Poole are part of the new Northern Track Series in TC. 5. Jim Campeau shows off his “rat rod,” built from pieces of several classic cars, in Cheboygan.

6. A group gathers for a ribbon cutting of the new sculptures along the Boardman Lake Trail in Traverse City.

7. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel addresses the crowd during Up North Pride Week.

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Northern Michigan’s Least Wanted

By Kristi Kates They do damage to native plants, trees, forests. Destroy animal, bird, and insect habitats.

Prevent the growth of future indigenous plants and herbs. And they’re tenacious, tough, and opportunistic, waging war on our local vegetation without many humans even noticing.

Invasive plants are enemy No. 1 in northern Michigan’s native landscapes, and summer is an ideal time to identify and either remove (or plan for the right time to remove) them.

“We have a lot of problems when invasives come in,” explained Kama Ross, the Leelanau Conservation District (leelanaucd.org) Forester for Leelanau, Benzie, and Grand Traverse Counties. “Invasive plants are the first to take advantage of an environment.”

And while it might be a challenge to get rid of invasives, letting them grow unfettered makes eventual removal even tougher.

“It definitely takes diligence and hard work,” Ross added. “You’ll need to use a combination of mechanical removal — pulling, cutting, and digging — and you unfortunately sometimes also have to use a bit of a systemic chemical to get rid of the root systems; otherwise the invasives just keep coming back.”

What can you do? Keep an eye out for the Big Five — northern Michigan’s worst offenders — whether you see them growing in your yard or along your favorite trail, then make a plan to pull ’em.

GARLIC MUSTARD Alias: Alliaria petiolata Enemy Profile: This prolific ground cover spreads rapidly, not only crowding out native plants and wildflowers, but also destroying fungi needed by woody plants for regeneration. (Negative bonus: the malodorous garlic smell when it’s crushed.)

Seek: Garlic Mustard’s skinny stalks of triangular toothed leaves stretch up to three feet tall. It blooms in late spring through early summer with small, white four-petaled clusters of blossoms. The dark brown seeds arrive in long, narrow capsules attached to the plants.

Destroy: Pull seedlings as soon as you see them, to help prevent them from maturing and producing more seeds (a single Garlic Mustard plant can produce several thousand seeds). Remove at least the upper half of the root to prevent re-sprouting.

Flower and seed heads should be placed in a landfill or burned to prevent seed development. Herbicides can be used in early spring while native plants are

JAPANESE BARBERRY Alias: Berberis thunbergii Enemy Profile: Already prohibited from being a seed contaminant in Michigan (and banned from sale entirely in Massachusetts), the Japanese Barberry is several different kinds of bad news, affecting everything from soil nitrogen to soil pH. It’s also a favorite environment of ticks, thanks to its dense, humid-friendly foliage; many blame it for the ongoing spread of Lyme disease.

Seek: The small, spiny shrub has dark green oval leaves that edge into red in the fall to accompany its red autumn fruits; you’ll see it flowering in pale clusters of yellow blooms in the spring months.

Destroy: Scour any sunny, open spaces and hand pull or dig the plants right out the ground, including all roots. Only use herbicides in areas where few native plants present.

LYME-GRASS Alias: Leymus arenarius Enemy Profile: A lyme of a different type, this perennial grass, native to Europe but proliferating around the Great Lakes, is invasive on beaches and dunes, where it stablizes the dunes themselves, eliminating the shifting sands that are habitat for other rare species of plants such as Pitcher’s thistle.

Seek: It’s stout and sharp, growing up to five feet tall with faint blue overtones in its narrow leaves.

Its flowers are somewhat less noticable than the bulk of the plant itself, but surface as a half-dozen miniatures spikes gathered at the end of a node.

Destroy: Keep watch over beaches and dunes, as well as sites where this species has been installed as landscaping; the grasses can sprout from both rhizomes (creeping root stalks) and root fragments, so it’s best advised to treat with herbicide in the spring while native species are dormant. Mechanical removal is not recommended, but follow-up is, to ensure the plants aren’t re-growing.

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AUTUMN OLIVE Alias: Elaeagnus umbellata Enemy Profile: Indigenous to Eastern Asia, Autumn Olive in late summer sprouts gold-speckled red berries that birds love to eat, but unfortunately, it’s not a healthy food for them; it simply doesn’t have the nutritional quality that they need. “It’s like bird KoolAid,” said Ross. The plant also often edges out native species and increases soil nitrogen levels, which can encourage further growth of other invasive species and weeds.

Alias: Rhamnus cathartica

Seek: It can grow to the size of a large shrub or small tree, up to 20 feet in height and 30 feet wide.

Oval scaly-green leaves with wavy edges grow out of thorny, speckled stems, while the fragrant tubular flowers can range from dusty white to light yellow and bloom from spring through summer.

Enemy Profile: Native to Eurasia, the Buckthorn produces a dense shade that suppresses forest growth, in turn reducing plant diversity. It also changes nutrient cycling in the soil. “It’s not a big problem just yet — but it’s certainly working on it,” Ross said.

Common Buckthorn’s equally irritating cousin, Glossy Buckthorn, is also one to watch for.

Destroy: When you spot it, again usually in sunny, open areas, pull the seedlings out by hand, as cutting and burning are mostly ineffective (they encourage further sprouting of the plant.) Low concentrations of herbicide may also help, but this is a difficult species to control.

COMMON BUCKTHORN

Seek: Another woody invasive ranging in size from large shrub to small tree (reaching up to 25 feet in height) is this plant, which features dark green smooth leaves with small teeth along their margins. The outer bark is brown, inner bark is orange, and twigs often have thorns at the ends. Flowers, blooming now, are small and greenish-yellow; its berries are brownish-black.

For more information or assistance, visit the Invasive Species Network online at habitatmatters.org or call them at (231) 941-0960.

Destroy: Most often found on the edges of woodlands and along paths, it’s best to hand pull or dig out seedlings or small plants.

Foliar spraying (spraying the leaves) can also be effective. Cut stumps of larger plants should be treated with herbicide to prevent re-sprouting.

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---------------------CHARLEVOIX PUBLIC LIBRARY’S 20TH ANNUAL SUMMER BOOK SALE: 9am-5pm, Charlevoix Public Library. 231-547-4157.

---------------------LEELANAU CONSERVANCY YOGA SUMMER SERIES: 9am, Leland Village Green.

With Katherine Palms. Proceeds benefit the Leelanau Conservancy. A slow flow practice modified for outdoor purposes. The focus is on integrating breath & movement through Sun Salutations, balancing & core work. All levels welcome. Donation based. leelanauconservancy.org

---------------------STARS, STRIPES & SPLATTER 5K: 9am, GT Resort & Spa, Acme. Funds raised will help build homes for local veterans. There will be an after party with an inflatable obstacle course, color toss, “Dunk for Housing” dunk tank & more. $35 advance; $40 day of. starsstripesandsplatter.com

---------------------8TH ANNUAL ART IN THE GARDEN FESTIVAL: 10am-5pm, Demonstration Garden, Gaylord. Featuring live music, art displays, local eats, outdoor workshops & more. Donations appreciated. otsegocd.org

---------------------BIG TICKET FESTIVAL: Otsego County Fairgrounds, Gaylord, June 26-29. Featuring 60 musical artists, including Chris Tomlin, For King & Country, Danny Gokey & Jordan Feliz.

There will also be a BTF Ninja Warrior Camp, comedy/movies, Music 5K & Family Run & much more. bigticketfestival.com

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---------------------SUMMER ART SHOW: 10am-5pm, East Park, Charlevoix. Featuring 100 artists & craftsmen. charlevoix.org

---------------------AUTHOR SIGNING: 11am-1pm, Horizon Books, TC. Mychea will sign her book “Someone’s Gonna Get It.” horizonbooks.com/event

---------------------MICHIGAN WATERWAYS FESTIVAL: Cheboygan. Today is Waterways Day & includes the Mutt Strut & live music at the Festival

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---------------------MARILLA FOUNDER’S DAY: Marilla Museum & Pioneer Place, Copemish. “Threshers Dinner” will be served from 1-2:30pm in the Main building. Civil War demo & program will be presented two times: 2-2:45pm & 3:15-4pm.

1:45pm “Tolling of the Bells” for those from Marilla Township who served in the Civil War. There will also be tours of historic buildings, live music, special displays & children’s activities throughout the event. Free will donation. marillahistory.org

29-07 send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

---------------------LIVE MUSIC AT MACKINAW CROSSINGS MALL, MACKINAW CITY: 2:30-5:30pm. Featuring GhostRyder.

---------------------ART OPENING: 5-8pm, Green Bird Organic Cellars, Northport. Leelanau painter Duncan Spratt Moran will share new work now on display. Moran takes a mixed media approach (watercolor, oil, torn paper) to his depiction of his subject: human habitation, agriculture & the northern MI landscape. Free. greenbirdcellars.com

---------------------EAST JORDAN FREEDOM FESTIVAL: June 26-30. Events include old time kids games, an outdoor movie, block party, youth parade, 3-on-3 basketball tournament, grand parade, fireworks, live music by Tom Zipp and The Bullpen, The Third Degree, Yankee Station, & others, & much more. eastjordanfreedomfestival.org/events

---------------------THE CRANE WIVES: 7pm, Portage Point Inn, Onekama. $15-$20. portagepointresort.com/ events/2019/6/29/the-crane-wives

---------------------AN EVENING WITH JAKE SHIMABUKURO: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Upton-Morley Pavilion. This ukulele virtuoso became an overnight sensation after his unique take on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” went viral on YouTube. He draws inspiration from jazz, blues, funk, rock, folk, flamenco & more. $39. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------HARLEM QUARTET: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. This quartet brings their “fresh, bracing, & intelligent” spin on classical music. They collaborate with many different musical artists, from the Chicago Sinfonietta to jazz legend Chick Corea, with whom they won a Grammy Award. $34. tickets.interlochen.org

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Béla Fleck reunites with the original Flecktones for their 30th anniversary tour, stopping at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Kresge Auditorium on Mon., July 1 at 7:30pm. Widely regarded as the world’s premier banjo player, Fleck and his quartet have recorded 13 albums and won six Grammy Awards. Enjoy a fusion of jazz, bluegrass, blues, African & Eastern European influences. $29-$46. tickets.interlochen.org

THE SERIES @ LAVENDER HILL FARM: 7:30pm, Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City. Featuring Lemon Squeezy. $15-$25.50 + fees. lavenderhillfarm.com

---------------------“RICHARD III,” INTERLOCHEN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Upton-Morley Pavilion. Amidst the turmoil of the Wars of the Roses, the gruesome Richard of Gloucester plots his ascent to the throne of England. $34. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------COMEDIAN PAULA POUNDSTONE: 8pm, Boyne City Performing Arts Center. Paula is recognized on Comedy Central’s list of The 100 Best Stand-up Comics of All Time. Proceeds benefit the renovation of the Boyne Country Community Center Building. $35$45. boynecc.com/paula-poundstone-fundraiser.html

MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET: 8pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. A tale of broken promises, secrets, betrayal & celebrations. Relive the era with a score of rock ‘n’ roll, gospel, R&B, & country hits, performed live onstage by world-class actors & musicians. Showcased hit songs include “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Fever,” “Walk the Line,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Who Do You Love?,” “Great Balls of Fire,” & many more. $125, $115, $70, $40. greatlakescfa.org/event-detail/milliondollar-quartet

june 30

sunday

NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC. Today includes Yoga by the Bay, Four Person Beach Volleyball Tournament, Arts & Crafts Fair, NASA: Journey to Tomorrow Exhibit, Old Town Classic Car Show, Great

American Picnic, Air Show, Family Sand Sculpture Contest, Styx, & much more. cherryfestival.org/events

---------------------PREMIER ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW: 10am3pm, Mackinaw City.

---------------------SUMMER ART SHOW: 10am-3pm, East Park, Charlevoix. Featuring 100 artists & craftsmen. charlevoix.org

---------------------LOG CABIN DAY: 11am-3pm, Lighthouse Park, Hessler log cabin, TC. Featuring music, historic crafts & demonstrations. 231-2237400. Free.

---------------------YOGA + BEER: 11am, Silver Spruce Brewing Co., TC. Flow class. Bring your own mat. Donations appreciated. eventbrite.com

---------------------110TH ANNUAL BOHEMIAN CHICKEN DINNER & FAMILY FESTIVAL: 11:30am-4pm, St. Wenceslaus Church, Gills Pier, Suttons Bay. There will also be kids’ games, a raffle, garage sale & silent auction. Adults, $14; kids under 10, $7; toddlers, free. 231-632-4711.

---------------------ANTRIM COUNTY HIGH TEA FOR BREAST CANCER PREVENTION: 12:45pm, Shanty Creek Resort, Lakeview Hotel’s Grand Ballroom, Bellaire. Featuring a fashion show, special guests & more. 231-377-7075. $50.

---------------------CHARLEVOIX PUBLIC LIBRARY’S 20TH ANNUAL SUMMER BOOK SALE: 1-5pm, Charlevoix Public Library. 231-547-4157.

---------------------TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN MINIATURE: 3pm, Northport Community Arts Center. Music provided by an 8-member ensemble from the Traverse Symphony Orchestra. $5-$25. northportperformingarts.org/event

---------------------TC SINGS! COMMUNITY CHOIR BENEFIT: 4pm, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse, TC. A concert of a cappella favorites from around the world. Donations benefit On the Ground, supporting community development in coffee farming regions around the world. tcsings.org

---------------------EAST JORDAN FREEDOM FESTIVAL: (See Sat., June 29)

---------------------LIVE MUSIC AT MACKINAW CROSSINGS MALL, MACKINAW CITY: 5:30-8:30pm. Featuring Toast and Jam.

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MURDER MYSTERY DINNER: 6-9pm, Boyne Highlands Resort, Zoo Bar, Harbor Springs. A Dance with Death: A 1950’s Sock Hop Gone Sour. $75. mynorthtickets.com

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WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WITH CRISTIAN MĂCELARU, CONDUCTOR: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. The orchestra makes its debut with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11, “The Year 1905.” $23 full, $21 senior, $16 student. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------BENZIE COUNTY COMMUNITY CHORUS SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: 7:30pm, Benzie Central High School Auditorium, Benzonia.

A little this and a little that.... An EGOT Awards Show & A Little Je Ne Sais Quoi Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, Tonys & A Little Something Else. General admission: $18; 16 & under: $10. benziechorus.org

---------------------MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET: (See Sat., June 29)

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PATRIOTIC POPS EXPLOSION: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. A tribute to Detroit filled with stories, songs & images. $18.50 adult; $13.50 member. tickets. vendini.com

july 01

monday

NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC. Today includes the Cherry Pie Bike Ride, Princess Tea, Kids Cherry Pie Eating Contest, Hole in One Contest, Kids Turtle Race, Adult Cherry Pie Eating Contest, Adult Cherry Pit Spit Contest, Brett Young & much more. cherryfestival.org/events

---------------------“LUNCH & LEARN”: KIDS & GUNS: Noon, Petoskey-Bay View Country Club. “Facts, Myths & A Public Health Plan Forward” will be presented by Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the CDC-funded Injury Prevention Center at the University of Michigan Dr. Rebecca Cunningham. $30; includes lunch. community.alumni.umich.edu/littletraverse/home

july 02

tuesday

NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC. Today includes Boomers Bootcamp, Heritage Day, Kids Pet Show, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians Pow Wow, Kids Cherry Pie Eating Contest, Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias, Consumers Energy Heritage Parade, & much more. cherryfestival. org/events

---------------------SUNRISE YOGA FLOW: 7am. Vinyasa Flow session on the East Bay beach of TC. Donation based class. eventbrite.com

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IMPRESSIONIST MASTERS FILM SERIES: 10-11:30am, Crooked Tree Arts Center Theater, Petoskey. Featuring “Exhibition on Screen: I, Claude Monet.” Free. crookedtree.org

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GET CRAFTY: 11am-noon, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Star Streamers: Make a star streamer wand & wave our country’s colors on the 4th of July. greatlakeskids.org

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SCHEER GENIUS LAUGH FACTORY COMEDY MAGIC SHOW: 11am-noon, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. 231-3314318. Free.

MAKER SPACE: 1-3pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Bottle Top Art: Make something using recycled bottle & jar lids. greatlakeskids.org T3 TEEN TABLETOP – STAR FLUXX: 3pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Open to all teens between the ages of 11-17. Free. tadl. org/event/t3-teen-tabletop-star-fluxx

FREE SUMMER SIZZLE BEGINNER BURLESQUE CLASS: 6pm, Traverse Wellness Center, TC. With certified instructor Amira Hamzar. For all sizes, shapes & levels. Must be 18 or older. Ladies only. Space is limited to the first 15 people to RSVP. Call/text to reserve your spot: 231.313.5577. Free. AmiraHamzarRaks.com

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---------------------------------------------------------------DETOX YOGA FLOW: 6:45pm, cafe space at Press on Juice, TC. This one hour class involves twists & poses that are focused to help eliminate toxins from the body through movement & breath. Bring your own mat. 944-5694.

Donation based. eventbrite.com

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CENTRAL LAKE COMMUNITY PADDLE: 7-8:30pm, Bradford Street Boat Launch, Central Lake. Must bring your own craft/boat, paddle & pfd. Free.

BOOK LAUNCH PARTY: 7pm, Leelanau Books, Leland. Join author Katharine Crawford Robey & illustrator Julie Copiz for a launch party for “The Sleeping Bear Wakes Up.” Free. missionpointpress.com

MONDAY MOVIE NIGHT: 7-9pm, Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne City. Free.

“THE NICETIES,” INTERLOCHEN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: (See Mon., July 1)

------------------------------------------“THE NICETIES,” INTERLOCHEN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Harvey Theatre. When a black college student is summoned to her white professor’s office to discuss a term paper on the American Revolution, a polite academic discussion sparks a heated debate about race, power & equality. $34. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------BENZIE COUNTY COMMUNITY CHORUS SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: (See Sun., June 30)

---------------------BÉLA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. Béla Fleck reunites with the original Flecktones for their 30th anniversary tour.

Widely regarded as the world’s premier banjo player, Fleck & his quartet have recorded 13 albums & won six Grammy Awards. Enjoy a fusion of jazz, bluegrass, blues, African & Eastern European influences. $29-$46. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------CAMILLE THOMAS W/ ROMAN RABINOVICH: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. Pianist Roman Rabinovich joins cellist Camille Thomas for an evening of classical music. Thomas gained international recognition following her first-place finish in the European Broadcasting Union Competition. Rabinovich, the winner of the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, has performed recitals across the United States & Europe to great critical acclaim. $34. tickets.interlochen.org

---------------------MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET: (See Sat., June 29)

------------------------------------------THE MAGIC OF BILL BLAGG LIVE!: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Praised by Entertainment Weekly as the “best-kept secret in magic,” Bill Blagg is one of America’s top touring illusionists. $34 pit; $29 orchestra. tickets.interlochen.org

july 03

wednesday

GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: Flintfields Horse Park, TC. Equestrian competition, featuring jumpers, hunters & equitation with riders from around the country competing for prestige & prize money.

Runs every Tues./Weds. through Sun. each week from July 3 - Aug 11. Every Sun. is family day, offering autograph sessions, face painting, shopping, dining, the horseless horse show, farmers market & more. greatlakesequestrianfestival.com

---------------------GREATEST FOURTH IN THE NORTH: Lake City, July 3-7. Today features the Merrit Speedway All Star Monster Truck Show, Business After 5, Empty Canvas, Midwest Dueling Pianos, & more. lakecitymich.com/greatest4th-in-the-north

---------------------NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC. Today includes Fun & Games for Special Kids, Butterfly Encounter, Royale Pageant of Fashion & Luncheon, Hole in One Contest, Kids Cherry Town Fun Night, Nelly wsg Chingy & Montell Jordan & much more. cherryfestival. org/events

---------------------43RD ANNUAL WATERSIDE NANCY ADAMS ART & CRAFT FAIR: 10am-5pm, Downtown Boyne City Waterfront.

SUMMER STEAM: 11am-1pm, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. S is for Science! Nanotechnology for Kids: Investigate the smallest science by visiting hands-on Nano Science Stations. greatlakeskids.org

---------------------WIENER DOG RACES: 11am, Jean Jardine Park, Harbor Springs.

---------------------CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, gazebo, Petoskey. Featuring Pete “Big Dog” Fetters, an American music singer, guitarist & harmonica player. crookedtree.org

---------------------MUSIC IN MACKINAW: 4pm, Conking Heritage Park, Mackinaw City. Featuring the 126 Army Band.

---------------------FAMILY CARNIVAL & FIREWORKS: 5-11pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. crystalmountain.com/event/family-carnival-fireworks

---------------------EVENING ON RIVER STREET: 6-9pm, River St., Elk Rapids. Live music by Dags und Timmah! Free. elkrapidschamber.org

---------------------FREE SUMMER SHAKE UP BEGINNER BELLYDANCE CLASS: 6pm, Traverse Wellness Center, TC. With certified instructor Amira Hamzar. For all ages, sizes, shapes, levels & genders. Space is limited to the first 15 people to RSVP. Call/text to reserve your spot: 231.313.5577. Free. AmiraHamzarRaks.com

---------------------SHANTY CREEK’S FREEDOM FESTIVAL: 6-11:30pm, Shanty Creek Resort, Summit Village, Bellaire. Includes a bungee run, water slide, dunk tank, lawn games, live entertainment by Danny B, fireworks overlooking Lake Bellaire & more. shantycreek.com/venue/ summit-village

---------------------TABLE NOURISHING BOOK CLUB: 6pm, Table Health, GT Commons, TC. For the month of July read Jonathan Safran Foer’s book “Eating Animals.”

---------------------YOGA IN THE PARK: 6pm, Hull Park, TC. Vinyasa flow session. Mats will be there if you need one to borrow. Donations appreciated. eventbrite.com

---------------------MANITOU MUSIC: NMC CONCERT BAND: 7pm, Old Schoolhouse, Glen Arbor. Bring a lawn chair. Free. glenarborart.org

---------------------THE ACCIDENTALS: 7-9pm, Sojourn Lakeside Resort, Gaylord. This female-fronted, multi-instrumentalist power trio released their latest single “Heavy Flag” in Oct. They are also currently scoring an indie film, touring & teaching workshops across the country. $20. apps.vendini.com

---------------------“THE NICETIES,” INTERLOCHEN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: (See Mon., July 1)

---------------------THE CAPITOL STEPS: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Bringing their special brand of satire back to Interlochen to Make America Grin Again, The Capitol Steps is an ensemble of former Senate staffers who use songs & skits to lampoon today’s political headlines. $34. tickets.interlochen. org/events/capitol-steps/july-3-2019-730pm

---------------------BAY HARBOR FIREWORKS DISPLAY & PETOSKEY STEEL DRUM BAND: 8-11pm.

Held over Bay Harbor Lake on Marina Lawns.

---------------------FLOWING: THE CREATIVE GENIUS OF MENDELSSOHN: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. Enjoy music by the resident string quartet. $15. tickets.vendini.com

---------------------TORCH LAKE FIREWORKS: 9:30pm, south end of Torch Lake. Held at dusk.

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july 04

thursday

GREATEST FOURTH IN THE NORTH: Lake City, July 3-7. Today features the Lake City Athletic Boosters Annual Race - 2K, 5K & 10K, Annual Masonic Center #408 Pancake Breakfast, Grand Parade, Lake City Senior Center Annual Strawberry Festival, Tyler Roy in Concert, Seth Bernard in Concert, Fireworks over Lake Missaukee & much more. lakecitymich.com/ greatest-4th-in-the-north

---------------------BOYNE CITY INDEPENDENCE DAY RUN: 7:30am. Featuring a 10K & 2 Mile Run. Runs along Lake Charlevoix. Starts & ends on Front St. near Sunset Park. boyne4thofjuly.com/ schedule-of-events.html

---------------------FIRECRACKER 5K RUN: 8am, Beulah Park.

---------------------GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Weds., July 3)

---------------------PAUL REVERE 5K: 8am, 111 W. Bay St., Harbor Springs. Featuring a 10 Mile Run & 5K. runsignup.com/Race/MI/HarborSprings/PaulRevere5K10MileRun

july 05

friday

GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Weds., July 3)

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GREATEST FOURTH IN THE NORTH: Lake City, July 3-7. Today is Kid’s Day with a children’s parade, Rosco the Clown, Clark the Juggler, The Michigan Stiltwalker, games, Boogie Dynomite, Class of ‘98 & much more. lakecitymich.com/greatest-4th-in-the-north

---------------------NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC. Today includes the Cherry Golf Scramble, Kids Sand Sculpture Contest, Cherry Idol Auditions, Diaper Derby & Toddler Trot, Seniors Shuffleboard Tournament, Kids Chalk Art, Euchre Tournament, Josh Turner, Queen’s Ball & much more. cherryfestival.org/events

---------------------CADILLAC FREEDOM FESTIVAL: Today is Kids Day & features Tea with the Queen, Splash Dance, Fire on Water, a community movie & more. cadillacfreedomfestival.com/ schedule-of-events

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FRIENDS OF THE MANISTEE COUNTY LIBRARY FOREST FESTIVAL SALE: 10am4pm, Book House, behind the Manistee Library.

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NATURE STORY TIME: 10-11:30am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. Featuring a short children’s story & an activity or hike. $5. grassriver.org

FOURTH OF JULY 4K: 9am, Crystal Mountain, tent at Kinlochen near the Rose Garden, Thompsonville. $15 through July 3; $20 day of. crystalmountain.com/event/july-4k

NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC. Today includes Kids Fun & Games with Arts & Crafts ft. Bubble Gum Blow, Teen Volleyball Tournament, Cherry Pie Make & Bake, National Cherry Festival Cornhole Tournament, Cherry Mile, Cherry Kids Fun Run, The Four Tops & The Spinners, Junior Royale Parade, Concert on the Lawn, 4th of July Fireworks & much more. cherryfestival.org/events

---------------------44TH ANNUAL HARBOR SPRINGS COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ART SHOW: 10am5pm, Zorn Park, Harbor Springs. Find on Facebook.

---------------------GEM CAR PARADE: 11am-noon. Held on Main St. at the Village at Bay Harbor.

---------------------JULY 4TH PARADE, HARBOR SPRINGS: 1pm, Downtown Harbor Springs.

---------------------MACKINAW CITY JULY 4TH CELEBRATION: 1:30pm: Games for kids & adults on the Marina lawn. 9pm: Straits Area Concert Band performs a patriotic concert in Conkling Heritage Park that will lead up to fireworks at dusk.

---------------------32ND ANNUAL TC OPTIMIST BOARDMAN RIVER RUBBER DUCKY RACE: Ducks must be delivered & registered at the Union Street bridge by 3:30pm. Top finishing ducks will win prizes & the first one to cross the finish line wins the Grand Prize. $5 for 1 duck; $25 for 6. tc-optimist.org/duck-race/overview

---------------------RED WHITE & BREW: 5-8pm, Downtown Harbor Springs. Live music by The Accidentals. Find on Facebook.

---------------------STREET MUSIQUE: HAPPY 4TH!: 6-8pm, Downtown Harbor Springs & waterfront. Featuring the Sunshine Stringband, The Lonely Lovers, & Keith Scott Blues. There will also be the Magic Lady & face painting. Find on Facebook.

---------------------ALDEN EVENING STROLL: 7-9pm, Downtown Alden. Featuring live music by Danny B. & street entertainers. Shops & restaurants stay open late.

---------------------CONCERTS ON THE LAWN: 7pm, GT Pavilions Campus, Grand Lawn, TC. Enjoy live music by The Cherry Blossom Ramblers.

Concessions open at 5:30pm & offer a picnic style menu & Moomer’s ice cream. Find on Facebook.

------------------------------------------CHARLOTTE ROSS LEE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Noon, Pennsylvania Park, gazebo, Petoskey. Featuring Keith Scott Blues.

---------------------RANDOM ACTS OF MUSIC: Downtown Gaylord. Starts at noon at various businesses downtown. Artists include Zie Rosin, Anne Wakenhut, Terry Coveyou, Randy Reszka, Peter Jensen & many others. gacaevents. weebly.com

---------------------ELLSWORTH - ST. CLAIR LAKE FIREWORKS: Featuring music/DJ, freedom salute cannon, boat parade, fireworks at 10:30pm & more.

---------------------BAYOU IN THE BARN: 5-11:30pm, St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah. Live music by Grammy nominated Cedric Burnside, Cousin Curtiss, the Charlie Millard Band, & K. Jones & the Benzie Playboys. Benefits Grow Benzie. $20 advance; $25 door. mynorthtickets.com

---------------------PETOSKEY ROCKS!: Downtown Petoskey.

6-8pm: Street musicians. 6:30-8:30pm: Free carriage rides. 8-9:30pm: Music in the Park with the Pistil Whips. 8pm: Ghost Walk. Dark: “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” will be shown in Pennsylvania Park. Free.

---------------------JOHN STANDEFER, FINGERSTYLE GUITAR: 7pm, Red Sky Stage, Bay Harbor. John is the winner of the 2002 National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship & the Open Division winner of the 2004 International Home of the Legends Competition. $15 advance; $20 night of. redskystage.com

---------------------MUSIC IN THE PARK: 7pm, Marina Park, Northport. Enjoy funk, jazz, rock & swing with Jazz North. Free.

---------------------SUMMER SOUNDS CONCERT SERIES: 7-9pm, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville. Detroit band Nina & The Buffalo Riders brings their soulful classic rock sound. $10; 12 & under, free. michlegacyartpark.org/ events/summer-sounds

---------------------INTERLOCHEN CHAMBER PLAYERS: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dendrinos Chapel & Recital Hall. Ensembles of Interlochen’s acclaimed faculty & World Youth Symphony Orchestra students unite for an evening of classical & contemporary chamber music. $24. tickets.interlochen.org

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THE SERIES @ LAVENDER HILL FARM, BOYNE CITY: 7:30pm. Featuring Cari Ray & The Shaky Legs. $15-$25.50 + fees. lavenderhillfarm.com

---------------------“RICHARD III,” INTERLOCHEN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: 8pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Upton-Morley Pavilion.

Amidst the turmoil of the Wars of the Roses, the gruesome Richard of Gloucester plots his ascent to the throne of England. $34. tickets. interlochen.org

---------------------MICHAEL FEINSTEIN: SEASONS OF SINATRA: 8pm, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Bay Harbor. Feinstein brings the music of the Great American Songbook. $125, $115, $70, $40. greatlakescfa.org/event-detail/michaelfeinstein-seasons-of-sinatra

july 06

saturday

NATIONAL CHERRY FESTIVAL: TC. Today includes the Meijer Festival of Races, Hole in One Contest, DTE Energy Foundation Cherry Royale Parade, Cherry Idol Finals, Jeff Dunham, Festival Fireworks Finale & much more. cherryfestival.org/events

---------------------CADILLAC FREEDOM FESTIVAL: Today features the Freedom 5K Run, Fly-In/DriveIn Breakfast, Mike Townsend KIDS Fishing Tournament, Freedom Festival Parade, Thunder on the Lakeshore, Irish Dancers & much more. cadillacfreedomfestival.com/scheduleof-events

---------------------GREATEST FOURTH IN THE NORTH: Lake City, July 3-7. Today includes the Missaukee Conservation Club Breakfast, Terry Thompson 15th Annual Memorial Beach Volleyball Tournament, Diamond in the Ruff Novelty Dog Show, Steel Syndicate, Parade of Boats & much more. lakecitymich.com/greatest-4th-inthe-north

---------------------GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Weds., July 3)

---------------------MANISTEE FIRECRACKER 5K: 8am, Manistee Middle School/High School. Featuring a 5K & 1K.

---------------------ANTIQUES AT THE FAIRGROUNDS: 9am5pm, Emmet County Community Center, Petoskey. Featuring about 170 dealers from around the country. $5; under 15 free. antiquesatthefairgrounds.com

---------------------RANDOM ACTS OF MUSIC: Starts at 10am at various businesses in downtown Gaylord.

Artists include Sandra Kennedy, Deb Chapman, Steve Diebel, Alison Birkhofer, Eliza Thorp & many others. gacaevents.weebly.com

---------------------“FIND YOUR PARK” AFTER DARK STAR PARTY: 4-6pm & 9-11pm, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Dune Climb, Empire. Highlights: Solar viewing afternoon, twilight, Moon, Jupiter, Saturn later. At the Dune Climb, please park in the row furthest from the dunes with your headlights facing M-109. Free with a park entrance pass. gtastro.org

---------------------AN EVENING WITH LAURA KASISCHKE: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Writing House Commons. Laura has published nine collections of poetry & nine novels, including most recently “Where Now: New and Selected Poems.” She has been the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, the Rilke Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, & much more. $24. tickets. interlochen.org

---------------------DORRANCE DANCE: JUNGLE BLUES, THREE TO ONE, MYELINATION: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Enjoy this MacArthur winner, choreographer & tap dancer. $38. tickets.interlochen.org

THE SERIES @ LAVENDER HILL FARM, BOYNE CITY: 7:30pm. Featuring Thünderwude. $15-$25.50 + fees. lavenderhillfarm.com

---------------------“RICHARD III,” INTERLOCHEN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: (See Fri., July 5)

---------------------JEFFERSON STARSHIP: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. This band’s massive hits include “White Rabbit,” “Somebody to Love” & “We Built This City.”

General admission: $25. tickets.vendini.com

july 07

sunday

TC CHERRY TRIATHLONS: 7:30am, Greilick Outdoor Recreation Center, TC. Participants can race in either an Olympic, Sprint, or Super Sprint Triathlon; or in Olympic or Sprint Aquabike. $50-$110. 3disciplines.com

---------------------BLUEBERRY PANCAKE BREAKFAST: 8amnoon, Rainbow of Hope Farm, Kingsley. Benefits Rainbow of Hope Farm. $8 donation; $5 for ages 5-10. rainbowofhopefarm.weebly.com

---------------------CADILLAC FREEDOM FESTIVAL: Today features Pork in the Park, Clark the Juggler, live music, fireworks over Lake Cadillac & more. cadillacfreedomfestival.com/scheduleof-events

---------------------GREAT LAKES EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL: (See Weds., July 3)

---------------------ANTIQUES AT THE FAIRGROUNDS: 10am4pm, Emmet County Community Center, Petoskey. Featuring about 170 dealers from around the country. $5; under 15 free. antiquesatthefairgrounds.com

---------------------GREATEST FOURTH IN THE NORTH: Lake City, July 3-7. Today includes Evangelical Presbyterian Church Outdoor Summer Concert with 4-One Quartet & more. lakecitymich. com/greatest-4th-in-the-north

---------------------YOGA + BEER: (See Sun., June 30) ---------------------“HOME/PLACE: HISTORIC COTTAGES OF GLEN LAKE”: 2pm, Glen Arbor Arts Center.

Featuring book publisher Barbara Siepker & architectural photographer Dietrich Floeter.

This program is offered in conjunction with the GAAC exhibition “New Views: Home/Place,” an exploration of home & place identity. It can be viewed in the GAAC gallery through Aug. 8.

Free. glenarborart.org

---------------------SUNSET CONCERT SERIES: 7-9pm, Grace Memorial Harbor Pavilion, Elk Rapids. Featuring 1,000 Watt Prophets.

---------------------THE SERIES @ LAVENDER HILL FARM, BOYNE CITY: 7:30pm. Featuring Thünderwude. $15-$25.50 + fees. lavenderhillfarm.com

---------------------WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, MEI-ANN CHEN, CONDUCTOR; MIDORI, VIOLIN: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Kresge Auditorium. Guest conductor Mei-Ann Chen leads the orchestra as they accompany internationally-acclaimed violinist Midori in Dvorak’s Violin Concerto, Op. 53, plus more. $31. tickets.interlochen.org

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BRIGHT LIGHTS OF BROADWAY: 8pm, Bay View, John M. Hall Auditorium, Petoskey. A concert dedicated to the hits of Broadway in a whirlwind of songs from the last 10 years of musicals Bay View has produced, from Les Miserables to The Wizard of Oz. $18.50 adult; $13.50 member. tickets.vendini.com

---------------------CRUISIN’ 2019 W/ KENNY OLSON & FRIENDS: 8pm, Union Street Station, TC. Featuring Tosha Owens, Billy Davis, Matt Hayes, Jimmy Olson, Joshua Carlson & Wayne Craycraft. 941-1930. Cover charge.

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STONE CIRCLE GATHERINGS: Performance poetry, storytelling & music are featured at this outdoor amphitheater every Sat. through Labor Day weekend at 9:15pm.

Poet bard Terry Wooten will host the gatherings around the fire. Stone Circle is located ten miles north of Elk Rapids off US 31. Turn right on Stone Circle Dr., then follow the signs.

There is a $5 donation for adults; $3 for kids 12 & under. 231-264-9467.

---------------------BLOOMS & BIRDS: WILDFLOWER WALK: Tuesdays, 10am, Grass River Natural Area, Bellaire. A relaxing stroll on the trails with Grass River Natural Area docent Julie Hurd to find & identify wildflowers. Along the way listen & look for the birds that call Grass River home. grassriver.org

---------------------BLUE MONDAYS: Freshwater Art Gallery, Boyne City. Open mic held every Monday, 7-9pm through the summer. freshwaterartgallery.com

---------------------GENTLE YOGA FOR ADULTS: Interlochen Public Library. Held on Tuesdays during the summer, 9:30-11am. Bring your own mats, water & towels. tadl.org/interlochen

---------------------GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOURS: Mon., Tues., Weds. at 2pm. The tours begin & end at Perry Hannah Plaza - 6th & Union streets.

Each tour is about two & a half hours of slow walking over a two-mile route, with a rest stop at the TC Visitors Center.

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chance to ride a lap of the Peak2Peak Mountain Bike Race Course including the Crystal Climb. Meet at the Park at Water’s Edge.

Rental bike with helmet: $19. Helmet only: $10. crystalmountain.com/event/thursdaynight-mountain-bike-ride

---------------------TRAVERSE CITY BACKGAMMON CLUB: Tuesdays, 6-9pm through July 30. Right Brain Brewery, TC. Free lessons available to all new-comers. facebook.com/TraverseCityBackgammonClub

---------------------TUESDAY BIKE NIGHTS & CAR CRUISEINS: Tuesdays, 6-9pm, Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls. Bring your favorite roadster, hog, or coupe. There will also be free chairlift rides, a weekly raffle to benefit local charities & giveaways. boynemountain.com

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BEACH TRASH ART EXHIBIT: Runs through July 20 at Capt. Thomas M. Kelly Biological Station, Suttons Bay. Artist Deborah Hecht uses objects she has found on Lake Michigan beach to create mosaics. schoolship.org/ news-events/beach-trash-art-exhibit

---------------------“FLOATING, BUILDING & GILDING”: Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. Featuring work by Betty Bea Washburn, Katarzyna Korytowska & Charles Murphy. Runs through July 13. twistedfishgallery.com

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BOYNE CITY’S STROLL THE STREETS: Fridays at 6pm through Labor Day, downtown Boyne City comes alive as families & friends gather to “stroll the streets” listening to music, enjoying entertainment, children’s activities & more. boynecitymainstreet.com

SPACE EXHIBIT: July 1-21, Raven Hill Discovery Center, Warren Loranger Great Room, East Jordan. Featuring displays of shuttle tiles, spinoffs from NASA’s space program, a scaled solar system model, a “lost on the moon” problem-solving activity, other displays & posters & more. miravenhill.org

CHERRY CAPITAL CYCLING CLUB MON. EVENING PENINSULA RIDE: Mondays, 6pm, TC Central High School, west side parking lot. Old Mission Peninsula ride out along East Bay & return along West Bay. Beware of high traffic areas & please ride single file in these areas, especially Center Rd. along East Bay & Peninsula Dr. along West Bay south of Bowers Harbor. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

THE MAGIC THURSDAY ARTISTS SUMMER SHOW & SALE: City Opera House, TC. Runs July 1 - Aug. 31. Enjoy over 100 works of original art in oil, pastel, acrylic & watercolor.

Hours are weekdays from 10am-5pm. The opening reception is on July 10 from 5-7pm. A special feature this year is “Art Takes Flight,” a nod to the beauty of birds in northern MI. cityoperahouse.org

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---------------------FREE PROGRAM FOR THOSE WITH MEMORY LOSS: Peace Ranch, TC. Hosted by the Evergreen Experience. This farming & gardening program for those with memory loss is held on Saturdays through Aug., 9-11am. Register.

810-299-1479. mievergreenexperience.com

---------------------THURSDAY NIGHT MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDE: Thursdays, 6pm, Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. Open to all, but geared for intermediate level riders & new racers. You’ll get a

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---------------------NEW VIEWS: HOME/PLACE - AN EXHIBITION: Glen Arbor Arts Center. A juried show of 27 2D & 3D works that explores home & place identity from original & unexpected perspectives. The exhibition runs through Aug. 8. There will also be a full range of programs – from author interviews to panel discussions -- that explore the exhibition’s theme from a wide variety of perspectives. Glen Arbor Arts Center is open Monday – Friday, 9am – 4pm; & noon – 4pm on Saturday & Sunday. glenarborart.org

“PENCIL AND PAPER”: This summer is dedicated to the fine art of drawing, a fundamental building block of which most other forms of art are created. This exhibit will highlight works from three regional artists: Paul VanHeest, James Johnson & Erwin P. Lewandowski, & two Charlevoix-based artists: Paul Andrzejewski & Steve Toornman. Runs through Aug. 10 at Charlevoix Circle of Arts. charlevoixcircle.org

---------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - “LOCAL COLOR”: This exhibition series highlights outstanding examples of art, design & craft created by artists in the region. June, July & Aug. feature the work of Martha Landis & Connie Landis.

- “FRESH WORKS”: Held in Atrium Gallery.

Crooked Tree Arts Center Painters’ Studio exhibit. Runs through July 27.

- “IMPRESSIONS SMALL WORKS SHOWCASE”: Runs through Aug. Presented by the American Impressionist Society. Nearly 200 original paintings from artists across the nation will be on display for this showcase. crookedtree.org

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: - “BODIES OF COLOR... RECENT WORK

BY DECARLO LOGAN”: Logan’s artwork analyzes the intangible aspects of identity to encourage dialog & understanding. Two recent mixed media series by the artist will be on display. Runs through July 20.

- “BODIES OF ME... RECENT WORK BY LIZ WIERZBICKI”: Held in Carnegie Gallery.

Liz creates work that critiques ideas of gender, sexuality & self in a digital age. Runs through July 20.

- “BODIES OF... JURIED EXHIBITION OF CERAMIC ARTS”: Juror Sigrid Zahner selected approximately 60 works by Great Lakes regional artists to be included in this exhibition. Runs through July 20. crookedtree.org

GAYLORD AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS, GAYLORD: - 100 DAY PROJECT EXHIBIT: See what 100 days of creativity can bring to life! Exhibit open during Art Center hours of 11am-3pm, Tues. through Fri. & 12-2pm, Sat. Runs until July 6.

- CREATIVE CROWD: Fridays, 11:30am2:30pm through Aug. 30. Bring your own supplies to work on any type of art or craft project you choose. gaylordarts.org

---------------------HIGHER ART GALLERY, TC: - CALL FOR ARTISTS: MODERN ARCHETYPES: An all-female artist exhibit exploring the idea of human consciousness & how archetypes unite all of us. Submit up to 2 pieces each which really capture the idea of the role archetypes play not only in your own life personally, but in society as a whole. Deadline to apply is July 1 at midnight. Exhibit runs Sept.

6 - Oct. 4.

- “IN CONVERSATION”: A duo show featuring the artwork of two local artists: Carol C. Spaulding & Douglas Hoagg. Runs through July 17. higherartgallery.com

---------------------OLIVER ART CENTER, FRANKFORT: - TC ARTISTS REUNITE FOR EXHIBITION: Featuring three artists who met years ago while attending high school in TC. They include Glenn Wolff, Nancy Nash & Steve Kline.

Enjoy seeing recent work from each of their portfolios. Runs through July 12.

- SMALL WORKS, BIG IMPACT: COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROJECT: Over 100 community members, ages 3 to 80+ created work for this exhibition. It is a fundraiser & as the work sells, it is taken off the wall. Runs through Aug. 16. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

---------------------DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - “ARMAND MERIZON: HIS LIFE AND ART”: Armand was a lifelong Grand Rapids painter remembered for his detailed landscapes & brilliantly colored abstractions. Runs through Sept. 8.

- “LEE SUNG KEUN: INTERCONNECTED”: S. Korean artist Lee Sung Keun creates sculptures of primordial shapes that, at first sight, evoke human cells or the notion of fertility.

Runs through Sept. 22.

- “MINGLINGS: THE MIGRATION”: Featuring internationally recognized fiber artist Gerhardt Knodel. Inspired by a 17th century Ming dynasty textile fragment that traveled in its day from China to Portugal. Runs through Sept. 8.

- “TRANSFIGUREMENT II”: MI ceramic artist Susanne Stephenson presents this retrospective exhibition. Runs through Sept. 8. Open daily 10am-5pm & Sundays from 1-5pm. dennosmuseum.org

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The Lumineers is on the way back with its third album, appropriately titled III, and has been out and about promoting it with a variety of appearances, the latest being an outdoor mini-concert staged for the late night show Jimmy Kimmel Live. The band performed several songs from the new album, including “Life in the City,” “Donna,” and “Gloria.” Said to be a concept about one person and her relationship with her family and friends, III will be in outlets this upcoming September …

The Chemical Brothers, recently tapped as one of the headliners for this year’s Glastonbury Music Festival in England, has released a new video and single from its new album, No Geography. The track, “Eve of Destruction,” features a music video directed by Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall, which features a Japanese sci-fi ambiance with a large group of superheroes and enemies fighting it out over the Chemical Brothers’ energetic beats. The duo will have just one U.S. concert date this year — Aug. 1 in Queens, New York — as they’ll be busy playing additional summer festivals and celebrating the 20th anniversary of their 1999 album, Surrender …

Albion-based Americana-soul band The War and Treaty has earned two

nominations for the 2019 Americana Music Awards (for Emerging Act of the Year and Duo/Group of the Year). The honor is no doubt influenced by the popularity of the band’s Buddy Millerproduced full-length debut album, Healing Tide, and impressive live performances. The Americana Music Awards take place Sept.

11 in Nashville, Tennessee, as part of that city’s AmericanaFest …

Rapper Kid Cudi and footwear giants Adidas have teamed up to release a new line of footwear and other apparel. The aim: to “provide a platform to share the positive impact that creativity can have in mental wellness through music, art, and design.” A series of posters promoting the collaborating have surfaced throughout New York City, Los Angeles, and Miami, with artwork — a feminine profile with a burning moon silhouetted inside — that hints at the designs the footwear and other gear might offer. No specific date has yet been announced for the products’ launch …

LINK OF THE WEEK The Cowpie Music Festival, held just outside of Grand Rapids, has announced the lineup for its August 8–10 event. On the bill are Desmond Jones, Lady Ace Boogie, Stormy Cromer, Elijah Russ and Groove Ground, Mark Lavengood, and many

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more. Get tickets and all the details at www. cowpiemusicfestival.com …

THE BUZZ Two concerts are happening soon at the Reuther Music Pavilion in Canadian Lakes (Mecosta, Michigan). Check out Great Scott on July 7, and the Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra, featuring Rick Reuther, July 21 …

Kentwood’s Summer Concert Series (on the lawn behind Kentwood City Hall) has two big concert events coming up too: Hannah Rose on July 18, and The Crane

Wives on July 25 …

As of June, Grand Rapids band Deep Greens and Blues has stayed number one on the Local Spins Hot Top 5 chart for the third straight month in a row …

Sparta’s own Concerts in the Park will welcome the Denise Anderson Connection on July 10 … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

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Blending Interpol’s trademark pointy-pop sound with seasonings of classic soul (“No Big Deal”), new wave (“Thrones”), and arena rock (“The Weekend”), the set is perhaps one of the best to date, ebbing and flowing through the different ambiances of each track, yet staying cohesive as one big wall of Interpol sound.

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Following the launch of his Detroit Love label last year, Craig quickly released a standout compilation album, for which this set serves as the follow-up. Bringing together exclusive tracks from the likes of Matthew Dear (“Boss”) and Kevin Saunderson (“World of Deep,” feat. Virus J), the set also showcases Craig’s work with Green Velvet (“Rosalie”). There are 19 tracks on the digital/CD releases; eight tracks on vinyl.

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by Nelson and John Alagia). Many of them are big names like Neil Young, Kesha, and Sheryl Crow. But while this is an impressive notch in the band’s belt, it didn’t seem to do much to progress its sound, which remains a retread of country-rock music (“Save a Little Heartache,” “Civilized Hell”) and still sounds like it’s stuck in the Nashville of the ’80s

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So what happens? Fightin’, of course, and lots of it. There are a few decent set pieces where everybody gets in their licks and we get to see the full suite of everyone’s powers and abilities. And for those few minutes of action, you sort of forget how boring the rest of the film has been. But just when you’re feeling warmed up, it all ends rather abruptly. I honestly can’t tell if that’s due to the story itself or that we’ve all been conditioned to expect superhero films to last upwards of three hours.

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The plot: Best friends Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) took a take no prisoners approach to high school. And while their hard work paid off — they’re both getting into the Ivy League schools they wanted — after discovering that their partying, drug-doing, and drinking peers also got into top schools, they plan one final night to show themselves and their classmates that they’re fun too. Calling it now: Booksmart will endure as a touchstone for generations to come. The smartest move is to book it to the theater and see it.

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BAYVIEW INN, WILLIAMSBURG 7/6 -- Tim Thayer, 7 CHATEAU CHANTAL, TC 7/4 -- Jazz at Sunset w/ Jeff Haas Trio feat. Anthony Stanco, Laurie Sears & Lisa Flahive, 7-9:30 CHATEAU GRAND TRAVERSE, TC 7/3 -- Wine Down Wednesday w/ Jenny Warren, 5-7 GT DISTILLERY, TC Fri. – Younce Guitar Duo, 7-9:30

RIGHT BRAIN BREWERY, TC 7/5 -- Dance Party w/ DJ Skin Kwon Doe & Marshall Law, 9 ROVE ESTATE VINEYARD & WINERY, TC 6/30 – Dennis Palmer, 2-4 7/5 – Levi Britton, 5-8 SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9 STATE STREET MARKET, TC THE MARKET BAR: Tues. – Karaoke Night Hosted by Ben Eaton, 9 Thu -- Open Mic Thursdays Hosted by Gregory Evans, 7-9

HOTEL INDIGO, TC 6/29 -- Blair Miller, 7 KILKENNY'S, TC 6/29 -- DJ Weezy, 6 7/5 -- Strobelight Honey, 9:30 7/6 -- Broom Closet Boys, 9:30 LEFT FOOT CHARLEY, TC 7/1 -- Open Mic Night w/ Rob Coonrod, 6-9 7/5 -- Blake Elliott, 6-8 7/7 -- I Am James & Keven Browne, 1-3

STUDIO ANATOMY, TC 6/29 -- Nagazi, Aurelius, Damned By Dawn, Katharsys Theory, 7 TC WHISKEY CO. 6/30 -- Chris Michels, 4-6 7/3 -- Paul Livingston, 6-8

MARI VINEYARDS, TC Tue -- Open Mic, 5:30-7

TAPROOT CIDER HOUSE, TC 6/29 -- The Rhythm Kings, 8-10

NORTH PEAK BREWING CO., TC DECK: 7/2 – David Lawston, 5-9 7/3 – Levi Britton, 5-9 7/4 – Dave Weber, 5-9 7/5 – Cross Cut Kings, 5-9 7/6 – Shawn Miller, 5-9

THE COIN SLOT, TC 7/2 -- Blair Miller, 4 THE DISH CAFE, TC Tues, Sat -- Matt Smith, 5-7

ORYANA COMMUNITY CO-OP CAFÉ, TC 7/1 -- Celts Unrailed, 7 7/2 -- The Duges, 4 7/5 -- Summer Green, 4 PARK PLACE HOTEL, TC BEACON LOUNGE: Thurs,Fri,Sat -- Tom Kaufmann, 8:30

THE LITTLE FLEET, TC 7/5 -- The Daylites, 6:30-9:30 7/6 -- Dickie, 6:30-9:30 THE PARLOR, TC 6/29 -- Chris Sterr, 8 7/5-6 -- John Pomeroy, 8 THE SHED BEER GARDEN, TC 6/29 – Brett Mitchell, 5

THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO., TC 6/29 -- Broom Closet Boys, 8 6/30 -- Distant Stars, 8 7/1 -- Clear Heels, 8 Tues. – Jazz Society Jam, 6-10 7/3 -- Rhett & John, 8 7/4 – Blair Miller, 7 7/5 -- Brett Michell & The Giant Ghost, 8 7/6 -- Arthur White, 8 UNION STREET STATION, TC 6/29 -- Biomassive, 10 6/30 -- Head for the Hills Live; then DJ JR, 10 7/1 -- Bihlman Brothers Band, 9 7/2 -- TC Comedy Collective, 8-9:30; then LGB 7/3 -- DJ Coven, 10 7/4 -- DJ DomiNate, 10 7/5 -- Happy Hour w/ Blue Footed Booby; then Soul Patch & Luke Winslow King Trio 7/6 -- Soul Patch & Luke Winslow King Trio, 10 7/7 -- Kenny Olson & Friends featuring Tosha Owens, Billy Davis, Matt Hayes, Jimmy Olson, Joshua Carlson & Wayne Craycraft, 8 WEST BAY BEACH HOLIDAY INN RESORT, TC 6/29 -- Live on the Bay Concert Series w/ Funkamatics, 6-10 6/29,7/6 -- DJ Motaz @ View, 10 7/2 -- Blues on the Bay Concert Series w/ Sweetwater Blues Band, 7-9:30 7/3 -- Jeff Haas Trio & Laurie Sears wsg Anthony Stanco, 7-9:30 7/4 -- Live on the Bay Concert Series w/ Madison Rising, 7 7/5 -- Live on the Bay Concert Series w/ Fifth Gear, 6-10 7/5 -- DJ Kevin Banducci @ View, 10 7/6 -- Live on the Bay Concert Series w/ Honesty & the Liars, 6-10

Manistee, Wexford & Missaukee PORTAGE POINT INN, ONEKAMA 6/29 -- The Crane Wives, 7 7/3 -- Open Mic Night, 7-11 7/4 -- Throwback Thursdays w/ DJ Eddie, 8 7/6 -- The Accidentals, 8-10

Emmet & Cheboygan BEARDS BREWERY, PETOSKEY 6/29 -- The North Carolines, 9 6/30 -- BB Celtic & Traditional Irish Session Players, 6-9 7/5 -- Holly Keller, 9 7/6 -- Something Great, 9 7/7 -- Rivertown Jazz Band w/ Charlie Millard, 6-9 CITY PARK GRILL, PETOSKEY 6/29 – Lipstick Jodi, 9:30

7/5 -- Annex Karaoke, 10 7/6 -- Galactic Sherpas, 10 ERNESTO'S CIGAR LOUNGE & BAR, PETOSKEY 7/3 -- Tyler Parkin, 8-11 7/6 -- Greg Vadnais Quartet, 8-11 KNOT JUST A BAR, BAY HARBOR Mon,Tues,Thurs — Live music

LEO’S NEIGHBORHOOD TAVERN, PETOSKEY Thurs — Karaoke w/ DJ Michael Willford, 10 THE QUEENS HEAD WINE PUB, CHEBOYGAN 7/3 -- Evan Archambo, 5:30-8 THE SIDE DOOR SALOON, PETOSKEY Sat. – Karaoke, 8

Leelanau & Benzie BIG CAT BREWING CO., CEDAR 6/30 -- Patrick Niemisto & Miriam Pico, 6-8 7/3 -- The Duges, 6:30-8:30 7/7 -- Barefoot, 6-8 BLUSTONE VINEYARDS, LAKE LEELANAU 7/6 -- The Moxie Strings, 7 BOATHOUSE VINEYARDS, TASTING ROOM, LAKE LEELANAU 6/30 -- Jim Hawley, 3:30-6 7/3 -- Bryan Poirier, 5:30-8 7/7 -- Blake Elliott, 3:30-6 CICCONE VINEYARD & WINERY, SUTTONS BAY 7/3 -- Evenings in the Pergola w/ Larry Perkins, 5:30-8

7/5 -- New Third Coast, 6-9 7/6 -- Zak Bunce, 6-9 LAKE ANN BREWING CO. 6/29 -- Delilah Dewylde, 7 7/2 -- New Third Coast, 6:30 7/3 -- Cabin Fever String Band, 6:30 7/4 -- Andre Villoch, 6:30 7/5 -- Emma Cook & Questionable Company, 6-9 7/6 -- G-Snacks, 7 LEELANAU SANDS CASINO, PESHAWBESTOWN BIRCH ROOM: 6/29 -- Alan Turner, 9 7/6 -- Dags & Doc, 9 SHOWROOM: 7/2 -- 45th Parallel Polka Band, noon

DICK’S POUR HOUSE, LAKE LEELANAU Sat. — Karaoke, 10-2

LUMBERJACK'S BAR & GRILL, HONOR Fri & Sat -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9

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Q

: is an attractive straight girl who lives in another state. We talk and text every day. It isn’t sexual or romantic at all, but my friend gets me in a way that, I’m sorry to say, my wife does not. My wife seems jealous. I’ve noticed her moping around when I’m on the phone and sometimes rolling her eyes when I’m laughing with my friend. How can I reassure her without giving up my new friend?

— Concerned

A

: Spouses can’t meet each other’s every need — and shouldn’t be expected to.

Like, if you’re doubled over in pain, you don’t just hand your wife some dishwashing gloves and a knife and be all, “Kitchen-floor appendectomy, babe?”

Still, it makes sense that your wife is getting all green monster-y. Human emotions, including jealousy, are a tool chest for solving the mating and survival problems that have kept popping up throughout human history.

Jealousy is a guard-dog emotion, rising up automatically when we sense that our partnership might be threatened — like by an attractive rival moving in on our boo. Research by evolutionary psychologist David Buss finds that our jealousy, in turn, triggers mate-retention behaviors, such as going around all hangdog mopeypants to try to guilt our partner into spending less time with their sparkly new friend.

Now, it seems like you could just reason with your wife: “Come on...my friend’s fiercely hetero, she lives in another state, and I’m having another baby with you.” However, though we each have the ability to reason, reasoning takes effort, while emotion comes up automatically, without mental elbow grease. So it turns out that emotion does a lot of our decision-making, and then we dress it up as reason after the fact (maybe like a little Socrates action figure).

Your best bet is be extra loving to your wife — basically to lovey-dovey her off the ledge.

Psychologist Brooke C. Feeney’s research on the “dependency paradox” finds that the more an insecure partner feels they can count on their partner for love and comforting the less fearful and clingy they tend to be.

In other words, you should consistently go a little overboard in showing affection, like by sending your wife frequent random texts (“in supermarket & thinking about how much i love u”), caressing her face, doing little sweet

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things. Basically, stop just short of boring her to death with how much you love her.

This, in turn, should make her more likely to yawn about your friendship than go all junior prosecutor: “Did you just shave your legs for that phone call?!”

Mourning Wood

Q

: My male neighbor was married to a wonderful woman for 15 years. She died, and he was grieving heavily for several months, telling my husband and me she was the love of his life and he didn’t “know how to do life” without her, etc. Well, six months later, he was dating, and in less than a year, he’s engaged to somebody new! I’m beginning to wonder if all his “I’m so grief-stricken” was just for show.

--Irate

A

: The way you see it, he went through some Stages of Grief: 1) Wow, this is terrible and life-shattering. 2) Boobs!

However, it isn’t surprising that you’re “irate” at what you perceive to be a suspiciously speedy recovery. Evolutionary psychologist Bo Winegard and his colleagues believe grief evolved to be, among other things, a form of advertising. “Prolonged and costly” grief signals a person’s “propensity” to develop deep emotional attachments to others. This, in turn, suggests they can be trusted as a friend, colleague, or romantic partner.

The reality is, there are individual differences in how people respond to loss that don’t always square with widely held beliefs about how grief is “supposed” to work. These beliefs, explains grief researcher George Bonanno, “tend to create rigid parameters for ‘proper’ behavior that do not match what most people go through.” They end up fostering doubt and suspicion about what’s actually successful coping. “When we cast suspicion on a bereaved person just because we think she coped with death too well or got on with her life too quickly, we only make her loss more difficult to bear.”

Understanding this, maybe you can try to be happy for the guy and support him in his new relationship. Don’t assume that his finding new love means he’s forgotten his late wife or no longer misses her. Consider, as Bonanno observes, that if somebody had a wonderful relationship, they may feel an acute void and long to have the wonderfulness back. And to be fair, there was some passage of time here.

It’s not like the guy was all up in his phone at the funeral, drying his tears in between swiping right on Tinder.

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1 Pamphlet 6 Economic upswing 10 One pronoun option of many 13 Dizzy Gillespie’s faith 14 Praise in the paper, perhaps 15 Forest father 16 Trunk contents 18 Facto intro 19 “Peter Pan” beast, briefly 20 Unchecked 22 “Fantastic Mr. Fox” author Roald 25 Just makes (out) 27 Closes 28 It might be smoked in a den 30 Hobbit corrupted by the Ring 32 “It’s alright” 34 Tea container 35 Supermodel Taylor 38 Approves of 39 Groups two by two, as with this puzzle’s theme answers?

42 Hot glue ___ 43 Crunch counts 45 Game with 108 cards 46 Quizzing 48 Trap set in the kitchen, maybe 51 Danger 52 ___ a bone 54 Alliance of nations 56 Otherwise 57 Like a certain Freudian complex 59 Apiary dwellers 61 Colorado resort 62 Seat near the yard 67 Fumbles 68 Cornell of Cornell University 69 Swiftness 70 JFK flier, once 71 Recognizes 72 Walla Walla vegetable

1 “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” network 2 Chance field?

3 Solver’s epiphany sound 4 Group that shows off old Mustangs, e.g.

5 Level in an arena 6 Lego units 7 Item in a rowlock 8 On another continent, perhaps 9 Home to the Arizona Museum of Natural History 10 German beer brand distributed by Anheuser-Busch 11 “Who ___?”

12 Rare award feats, for short 15 Transfer gas, in a way 17 Shoe front 21 Flavor enhancer, for short 22 Blood bank supporter 23 Pig in ___ 24 Strikes it rich 26 Involve, as in conflict 29 Hiking trail display 31 Chihuahua drink?

33 Apply crudely 36 Mila of “Black Swan” 37 Fireplace, in England 40 Flaming 41 Nintendo DS competitor, for short 44 Racers in 2013’s “Turbo” 47 Captain Kangaroo player Bob 49 1/6 of a fl. oz.

50 “Arrested Development” character F¸nke 52 Peace symbols 53 Brings up 55 John Legere for T-Mobile, e.g.

58 Inhabitants of a certain sci-fi planet 60 Alexa’s device 63 “Boyz N the Hood” protagonist Styles 64 “Unaccustomed ___ am ...”

65 Lance of the O.J. trial 66 Stimpy’s companion

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian voice actor Tom Kenny

has played the roles of over 1,500 cartoon characters, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Spyro the Dragon, Jake Spidermonkey, Commander Peepers, and Doctor Octopus. I propose that we make him your role model in the coming weeks. It will be a favorable time for you to show your versatility; to demonstrate how multifaceted you can be; to express various sides of your soulful personality.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Life will

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini musician

conspire to bring you a surge of love in the coming weeks—if you can handle it. Can you?

Will you be able to deal adeptly with rumbling love and icy hot love and mostly sweet but also a bit sour love? Do you possess the resourcefulness and curiosity necessary to have fun with funny spiritual love and running-through-the-labyrinth love and unexpectedly catalytic love? Are you open-minded and open-hearted enough to make the most of brilliant shadowy love and unruly sensitive love and toughly graceful love?

Paul Weller is famous in the UK, though not so much elsewhere. According to the BBC, he is one of Britain’s “most revered music writers and performers.” To which I say: revered, maybe, but mentally healthy? Not so much. He bragged that he broke up his marriage with his wife Dee C. Lee because “things were going too well, we were too happy, too comfortable, everything seemed too nice.” He was afraid that “as a writer and an artist I might lose my edge.” Don’t you dare allow yourself to get infected with that perverse way of thinking, my dear Gemini. Please capitalize on your current comfort and happiness. Use them to build your strength and resilience for the months and years to come.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I don’t

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo author Donald

endlessly champion the “no pain, no gain” theory of personal growth. My philosophy holds that we are at least as likely to learn valuable lessons from pleasurable and joyful experiences as we are from difficult and taxing struggles. Having said that, I also think it’s true that our suffering may lead us to treasure if we know how to work with it. According to my assessment, the coming weeks will bring one such opening for you. To help you cultivate the proper spirit, keep in mind the teaching of Aquarian theologian and author Henri Nouwen. He said that life’s gifts may be “hidden in the places that hurt most.”

Miller reminds us that fear can have two very different purposes. On the one hand, it may be “a guide to keep us safe,” alerting us to situations that could be dangerous or abusive.

On the other hand, fear may work as “a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.” After studying your astrological indicators for the coming weeks, Leo, I have come to the conclusion that fear may serve both of those functions for you. Your challenge will be to discern between them; to know which situations are genuinely risky and which situations are daunting but promising. Here’s a hint that might help: trust your gut feelings more than your swirling fantasies.

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): The Japanese

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Why do flocks

word “wabi-sabi” refers to an interesting or evocative imperfection in a work of art that makes it more beautiful than if it were merely perfect. “Duende” is a Spanish word referring to a work of art that gives its viewers the chills because it’s so emotionally rich and unpredictably soulful. In the coming weeks, I think that you yourself will be a work of art with an abundance of these qualities. Your wabi-sabi will give you the power to free yourself from the oppressive pressures of seeking too much precision and purity. Your duende can give you the courage you need to go further than you’ve ever dared in your quest for the love you really want.

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(March 21-April 19): When the universe began 13.8 billion years ago, there were only four elements: mostly hydrogen and helium, plus tiny amounts of lithium and beryllium. Now there are 118 elements, including five that are key components of your body: oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. All of those were created by nuclear reactions blazing on the insides of stars that later died. So it’s literally true to say that much of your flesh and blood and bones and nerves originated at the hearts of stars. I invite you to meditate on that amazing fact. It’s a favorable time to muse on your origins and your ancestry; to ruminate about all the events that led to you being here today—including more recent decades, as well as the past 13.8 billion years.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Most American

women couldn’t vote until a hundred years ago.

Women in Japan, France, and Italy couldn’t vote until the 1940s. Universal suffrage has been a fundamental change in how society is structured.

Similarly, same-sex marriage was opposed by vast majorities in most countries until 15 years ago, but has since become widely accepted. African American slavery lasted for hundreds of years before being delegitimized all over the Western world in the nineteenth century. Brazil, which hosted forty percent of all kidnapped Africans, didn’t free its slaves until 1888. What would be the equivalent of such revolutionary transformations in your own personal life? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you have the power to make that happen during the next twelve months.

of geese fly in a V-formation? Because to do so enhances the collective efficiency of their travel.

Each bird generates a current that supports the bird behind it. Let’s make this phenomenon one of your power metaphors for the coming weeks. What would be the equivalent strategy for you and your tribe or group as you seek to make your collaborative efforts more dynamic and productive?

Unforeseen help will augment any actions you take in this regard.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “A conversation

is a dialogue, not a monologue,” mused Libra author Truman Capote. “That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.” That cynical formulation has more than a few grains of truth in it, I must admit. But I’m pleased to tell you that I suspect your experience in the coming weeks will be an exception to Capote’s rule. I think you have the potential to embark on a virtual binge of rich discussion and intriguing interplay with people who stimulate and educate and entertain you. Rise to the challenge!

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In accordance

with astrological rhythms, you are authorized to make the following declarations in the next two weeks: 1. “I refuse to participate further in this situation on the grounds that it might impinge on the expansiveness of my imagination.” 2. “I abstain from dealing with your skepticism on the grounds that doing so might discourage the flights of my imagination.” 3. “I reject these ideas, theories, and beliefs on the grounds that they might pinch, squash, or deflate my imagination.” What I’m trying to tell you, Scorpio, is that it’s crucial for you to emancipate your imagination and authorize it to play uninhibitedly in the frontiers of possibilities.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dear

Sagittarius: I invite you to make a copy of the testimonial below and give it to anyone who is in a position to support your Noble Experiment.

“To Whom It May Concern: I endorse this Soulful Sagittarius for the roles of monster-tamer, fun-locator, boredomtranscender, elation-inciter, and mountaintop visionary. This adroit explorer is endowed with charming zeal, disarming candor, and abundant generosity. If you need help in sparking your enthusiasm or galvanizing your drive to see the big picture, call on the expansive skills of this jaunty puzzle-solver.”

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