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insanity and perversion rules today. Please keep printing articles like Mr. Kachadurian’s.

May God bless him, and I hope he will keep writing sane articles like that one.

Matt Grant, Traverse City

No Virtue in Complaining

Facts First, Kachadurian

Poetic Injustice

As a counselor of combat veterans with PTSD, a common theme found is disillusionment when reality destroys initial values. An example of reality follows: “Wars of Choice And the Corporate Bottom Line” Kill, Kill, Kill For the Corporate Bottom Line.

You kill your share And I’ll kill mine.

Our generals will tell us where to go To spread the terror we must sow.

To get for the Corporations what they need To satisfy their growing Greed.

And the secret money, it will flow To the politicians and others on the go.

But it all depends on our kind, Max Or the whole system will collapse.

So, you kill your share And I’ll kill mine.

For the Corporate Bottom Line.

Bernard Hanchett, Traverse City

Reinstate the Draft

I suggest our country act to reinstate the selective service draft. We are currently in 187 countries worldwide, chasing safety for America’s citizens. To meet this demand with seemingly more going forward, requires a significant human resource commitment.

Our nation should be providing this element on an equal basis, not assigning it to lifetime soldiers and their families, as noble and honorable as they are. During the Civil War, conscription allowed individuals to pay others to fight in their place. Today’s military alignment is not much different. Resuming the draft would assure a larger portion of our people would have skin in the game.

More attention might lead to the discussion of a foreign policy predicated on waging unwinnable, unending wars.

Bradley Price, Northport

I’m writing about the Opinion column penned by Thomas Kachadurian in your October 30 issue, “The Void of Progressive Logic.” I must agree with Mr. K that his piece was indeed, void of logic, but there’s little in it to attach to progressive thinking.

Let’s start with his take on global warming, euphemistically called climate change these days.

His characterization about the carbon tax is entirely mistaken. At its base, the carbon tax is designed to put incentives for reducing the use of CO2 back on those who vent more of it into our atmosphere. By putting a tariff on CO2-producing fuels, our government would be using our free-market system to help effect a reduction in greenhouse gases. It’s not the taxes that would cool the earth, but the proper use of our economic system that might give us a chance.

He cites the murder rate in Chicago as evidence that gun control does no good.

However, like nearly everyone I’ve heard who uses this example, he ignores that Chicago is surrounded by a countryside that enables the purchasing of nearly any type of mass-murder weapon one might imagine. The laws in the city can have little effect as long as folks are able to pip over to a neighboring county or state with lax controls on their weaponry and get the killing machine of his or her dreams.

Our income taxes began as a tax on the wealthiest, and we have an established principle of a graduated taxation system. Taxes aren’t just cash flowing from one place to another; they’re used for infrastructure that makes our capitalist economy work for all of us. His aside on polar ice is just factually incorrect; a quick search on the internet came up with an analysis from NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/ nasa-study-shows-global-sea-ice-diminishingdespite-antarctic-gains So, I believe that Mr. Kachadurian is fully entitled to his own opinions, but he doesn’t get to have his own facts. And the facts contradict his rant in the pages of the Northern Express.

Steve Szilvagyi, Onekama

God Bless Kachadurian

I would like to thank you for printing Mr. Kachadurian’s Opinion column. Thank God for him and a breath of sanity. When I was born in Traverse City 70 years ago, common sense and morality ruled the day. Sadly, near-

As much as Mr. Kachadurian seems to admire what he calls his logical thinking, he gives us little or no facts to work with and offers no solutions to problems. He tends to oversimplify issues or adopt a simpleton tone in order to complete a thought or paragraph. The city commissioners are probably just trying to find a balance between steady traffic flow and safety for pedestrians. But Kachadurian starts off with linking a few new stop signs to the fantastical thinking of leftists. Higher taxes don’t cool the earth, but the government can add a little incentive through taxation for energy companies to adopt practices for cleaner energy. Windmills and solar panels are booming in some parts of the country.

I wonder what Kachadurian would say if a frack sand pit opened by his house. I worked as a locomotive engineer in Texas and New Mexico during the last oil boom a few years ago. Many a time I was slightly poisoned by the H2S gas that emanates from oil wells, and the effects can be deadly. There are better ways to produce energy, and they’re being utilized.

With mass killings, new laws are about all we can do. All we do now is wait for the next lone wolf to run out of bullets. The opencarry NRA fan is never there to plug the next mass lunatic in the nick of time. I believe you should be able to own a handgun and a rifle, but should you be legally able to buy 30 assault rifles in one month?

I don’t feel class envy, and being in Detroit doesn’t scare me, but there goes Kachadurian complaining about the homeless in Traverse City and characterizing them as a gang of young louts taking advantage of others. Sometimes you just have to see things that don’t fit with your postcard-style photography and deal with it. If you believe in the Ten Commandments, then maybe you’re virtuous enough to lend a helping hand. Being homeless is a bigger problem than your distaste for their appearance.

CONTENTS

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

Reviving History.................................................9 Journeyman....................................................10 Bringing Service Home....................................13 A Home for the Brave....................................14 Veterans Seen...................................................16 The Long Road Home....................................19 The Boathouse.............................................20 Mr. Hockey’s Softer Side................................23

dates...............................................25-28 music FourScore.......................................................29 Nightlife.........................................................32

columns & stuff Guest Opinion...................................................4 Top Five...........................................................5 Spectator/Stephen Tuttle....................................6 Weird...............................................................8 Modern Rock/Kristi Kates................................30 The Reel...........................................................31 Advice Goddess.............................................33 Crossword...................................................33 Freewill Astrology.........................................34 Classifieds....................................................35

Ben Anderson, Cedar

Kudos

The Oct. 30 Northern Express was the best issue ever! Great story on Steve Feringa.

Super stories on “Modern Masters of ye Olde Arts.” Best of all was Thomas Kachadurian’s Opinion piece. As a side benefit to his logical presentation is all the snarling letters you’ll get from whiny liberals. He shows great horse sense, which is just stable thinking.

Woody Hansen, Traverse City

Kachadurian’s Arrogrance

Wow! That was my reaction as I read Thomas Kachadurian’s Oct. 30 Opinion column, “The Void of Progressive Logic.” I feel his article was mean-spirited and arrogant. He writes that “the left” passes laws to make more things illegal; the poor feel joy in seeing the wealthy suffer; if you’re liberal, your thinking is flawed; he knows why Benzie County has a drug issue; people experiencing homelessness come here because it’s a nice place to land if you’re a “vagrant”; people experiencing homelessness “tarnish our city”; Traverse City leaders aren’t smart or courageous; and on and on.

I am happy to state that I am a bleedingheart liberal. I believe that all people are part of our city — not just the fortunate ones. I’m definitely not a genius, but I’m wise enough to know that being critical, harsh, and uppity are character defects that I choose not to exemplify. I felt his letter was to show disdain for those that think differently than he does.

If it had a valid point, I missed it. Is it so bad to base decisions on feeling? I think the opposite is true. Mr. Kachadurian states that “the left” feel that love, and good-natured spirit will magically reform those who have

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evil as their guiding doctrine. Not only is this condescending, but I feel it reflects upon the writer’s negative mindset. Maybe a little love and good-natured spirit are just what we need during these tumultuous times we live in. I try to keep in mind that when I say something mean about a person or group of people it says more about me than whom I’ve spoken of. Living in an ivory tower won’t keep poverty, drugs, homelessness, or any other uncomfortable, unhappy situation from knocking at my door. Peace to you, from a (gasp!) liberal.

Debbie Beason, Fife Lake

Kachadurian Hits the Mark

Thomas Kachadurian’s Oct. 30 column is the most correct and common-sense writing I have seen in the Northern Express in many years. A regular reader of the Express might conclude that his thinking is in the minority in this region; however, I believe that the far lefties are the ones in the minority and are simply more vocal. Thus, I predict the leftist haters will be voicing their displeasure loudly, directed both at Kachadurian and at the Express for publishing him. I, on the other hand, thank the Express for providing a rare bit of balance in the public discourse.

DEFUSING NORTH KOREA Senseless Hunt

A sandhill crane hunt is not the solution to farm losses. Over 1,200 sandhill cranes were killed in Michigan last year. It would be much more effective to pursue why the Environmental Protection Agency has not licensed Avipel, an effective, safe seed covering that costs $5 per acre. Avipel use is reduced by requirements that farmers buy, dust, sow seeds, and return unused Avipel to the co-op. Legislators should tell the American Farm Bureau to demand that the EPA license Avipel. Being licensed would prompt seed suppliers to pre-treat seeds, making it easier for farmers to use. If the intent is to establish a hunt, Tennessee did not get the increase in hunting dollars it expected. As of 2016, wildlife-watchers outnumber hunters 7 to 1 and outspent hunters 3 to 1. Greater sandhill cranes, a subspecies of western lesser sandhill, have a smaller breeding population estimated at only 650 breeding pairs in Michigan.

Sandhill cranes live 20–30 years, are slow to mature, and do not breed until they are 4 or 5 years old. Pairs mate for life and average less than one chick per pair, per season. Studies of breeding populations in Wisconsin estimate a decreased reproductive rate, from fewer than 0.7 chicks per pair in 1992 to fewer than 0.4 chicks/pair in 2006. This means for every two pairs of sandhill cranes, fewer than one chick was produced. No productivity studies have been conducted in Michigan to date. Given this information, there is no reason to establish a hunt.

Scott Roelofs, Traverse City

JoEllen Rudolph, Petoskey

opinion

by Jack Segal Kim Jong-Un wants to survive. Donald Trump wants to reaffirm what he already knows: that he’s a great president. Xi Jinping is riding a wave of power just handed to him by China’s 90 million Communist Party members, and Xi now wants to assert China’s role as the pre-eminent regional power. In other words, the three key players in the drama of North Korea’s nuclear weapons are basically on the same page. Each should be able to see a way to achieve their respective goals, if everyone just tones down the rhetoric. Not possible? It must be.

Although President Trump has exceeded expectations in antagonizing, disrespecting, and provoking North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un — e.g., “Little Rocket Man,” “fire and fury like the world has never seen,” “totally destroy North Korea” — Kim’s spokesmen have also been creative, calling the president a “mentally deranged dotard.” Kim himself, in a uniquely personal attack, warned that “[Trump] convinced me, rather than frightening or stopping me, that the path I chose is correct.”

Kim said he would defend North Korea “to the last.” President Trump responded on Twitter that Kim was “obviously a madman.”

So why am I hopeful? What the president’s top leaders are signaling on North Korea is certainly not reassuring. On Oct. 27, Defense Secretary James Mattis warned Kim Jong-Un that “ …The United States will never accept North Korea as a nuclear power.”

In diplomacy, that’s a red line — North Korea must never have nuclear weapons and presumably must destroy those it already has.

But North Korea’s crafty (not crazy) dictator knows what happened to Muammar Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein when they abandoned their nuclear weapons programs. No thanks.

In fact, Kim inherited the nuclear card from his father, Kim Jong-Il. As far back as the 1980s, U.S. intelligence detected cooperation among North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, and Libya. Just this year, analysts noted new North Korean missile designs that mirror those used in Ukrainian missiles.

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Trying to get North Korea to rid itself of its nuclear ambitions failed once before. In 1996, North Korea, under Kim’s father, was facing famine and shortages of heating oil. He negotiated a deal with the U.S., the “Agreed Framework.” North Korea promised to halt its weapons program, dismantle a reactor, and open suspect sites to inspectors. Once the deal was announced, North Korea promptly moved its program underground.

By 2002, Kim’s father shocked the world by announcing that the country had developed a nuclear device. In 2006, it conducted its first A-bomb test. Surprise: North Korea cannot be trusted.

But if our position is that North Korea cannot have nukes, what we expect North Korea to do is less clear. Meanwhile, our allies, particularly South Korea and Japan, are terrified that the personal vendetta between President Trump and Kim could escalate into a war — even a

nuclear war — and they would have no say about that. China shares that fear.

During his Asia tour, General Mattis promised that the U.S. commitment to our Asian allies was “ironclad.” Their security rests on extended deterrence; if anyone attacks any of them, we would use our military power, including nuclear weapons, to respond.

For South Korea, this commitment was codified at a June 2009 summit that declared “the continuing commitment of extended deterrence, including the U.S. nuclear umbrella … ” to the [Republic of Korea].

That’s right, friends. We have promised to sacrifice American lives and even American cities if Seoul (or Tokyo or Sydney) were destroyed by North Korean nuclear bombs.

We would retaliate with nuclear weapons, even if that meant sacrificing Seattle.

But our Asian allies have begun wondering whether that commitment is still valid. This is where China comes in. Xi Jinping does not want a war in Korea, nor new nuclear weapons states in Asia, nor to see President Trump calling the shots in Asia. Vi’s claim to preeminence relies on his being able to manage “his” region. Xi’s upcoming meetings with President Trump provide the forum for a negotiation aimed at ending this crisis while also making Xi and our president look “presidential”.

I doubt North Korea will agree to disarming itself in the face of U.S. threats. So that is probably off the table, for now. Nor can China be seen to be carrying our water and joining in the bullying of Kim JongUn. Instead, we should agree with Xi to broaden the discussion. Could China offer a nuclear “extended deterrence” guarantee to North Korea? Could the U.S. agree to scale back our large U.S./South Korean military exercises? Could North Korea shelve its long-range missile development? Could China reconvene peace talks between the two Koreas?

The U.S. should not go to any negotiation one-on-one with North Korea. That would almost certainly fail, play right into Kim’s rhetoric, and lead to more threats, which would further frighten our regional partners and China. Instead, we should persuade China to come to a regional security table — chaired by Xi Jinping and Donald Trump (they’d both like that) — with Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and whomever we care to include. But the atmospherics we should seek is to pit an isolated, weak North Korea against a strong, wealthy, and powerful Asia.

In that atmosphere, and with cautious, quiet diplomacy, a way out of this manufactured mess just might be possible.

Jack Segal served as national security council director for non-proliferation (1998–2000).

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Sheriff on Sugar Loaf: Keep Out Excitement is growing over the prospect that a new owner could bring skiing and year-round fun back to Sugar Loaf. Perhaps too much excitement.

Unwanted visits to the defunct ski resort in Cedar prompted the Leelanau County Sheriff to issue a notice that the law enforcement agency intends to crack down on trespassers.

Deputies said they’d been contacted by the resort’s new owner, Jeff Katofsky, and asked to step up enforcement, according to the department’s Facebook page. While workers have been removing old equipment and cleaning up the place, several new signs and sign posts have been damaged by trespassers, and there is evidence people have been entering unsafe structures.

The department’s warning: “The Sugar Loaf property has been posted ‘no trespassing’ in accordance with the recreational trespass laws and anyone entering onto the property without permission of the owner will be subject to prosecution.”

In the 17 years since the resort has been shuttered, it’s become a popular destination for hikers and photographers who want to climb the top of the hill to take in the panoramic views of Lake Michigan and Leelanau County.

tastemakers Poppycock’s Acorn Squash Pot Pie Poppycock’s restaurant, a staple of downtown Traverse City that’s been serving up New American cuisine since 1989, has just revamped its menu for fall with a full harvest of savory seasonal flavors.

Among them are a pear cassoulet; an herb- and shallot-rubbed pork tenderloin with local wild mushroom risotto; and a grilled pork tenderloin with sweet potato croquettes, all poised perfectly to help you fend off that fall chill.

But perhaps the most autumnal dish of them all is Poppycock’s acorn squash Pot Pie. Pot pies have long been a dinner staple across America, particularly in New England and the Midwest, although in the Pennsylvania Dutch region, pot pie is a stew devoid of pastry.

Here in northern Michigan, Poppycock’s does pot pie right, combining roasted acorn squash with parsnips, sweet potatoes, spinach, onions, caramelized fennel, double-cream brie, and mushroom Marsala cream, with a crispy-soft cap of herb puff pastry on top.

If that doesn’t keep the gales of November at bay, we don’t know what will. Get it for $17 at Poppycock’s, 128 E. Front St., poppycockstc.com or (231) 941-7632.

May Erlewine’s music includes traditional folk roots, old time country swing, soul and rock and roll, and is mostly about feeling and telling life’s stories. The May Erlewine Trio heads to Thompsonville to play The Barn at Iron Fish Distillery’s first family concert on Sun., Nov. 5 from 3-5:30pm. $10 adults; free for 18 & under. Iron Fish Distillery will donate 10% of beverage proceeds to Benzie Area Christian Neighbors (BACN). Please bring a donation of children’s winter gloves, hats, or socks, which will be distributed to area families by BACN. ironfishdistillery.com. You can also catch May performing at the Gopherwood Concerts Series at The Elk’s, third floor, in Cadillac on Sat., Nov. 11 at 8pm.

Advance tickets: $15 adults, $7 students, free for 12 & under. Door: $18; $9. gopherwoodconcerts.org

Safe Harbor Opens Fourteen years ago, in reaction to the deaths of several people sleeping outdoors in freezing temperatures, churches around Traverse City began offering emergency winter shelter for the homeless.

This week, after years of hard work and a political battle with some residents who didn’t want it, Safe Harbor opens its new, permanent shelter. No more busing homeless folks to a rotating roster of churches every evening. No more temporary barracks set up in buildings that weren’t made to house people.

The new emergency homeless shelter at 517 Wellington St. was constructed following a $1.75-million fundraising campaign. The 72-bed shelter will operate from 6pm to 8am, seven days a week, November through April.

Safe Harbor’s organizers hope new services — like laundry, personal lockers, and a central housing assistance office — will enable as many people as possible to transition into stable homes and find jobs.

“We’re very excited about this being less of a Band-Aid and more of a solution for people experiencing homelessness,” said Christie Minervini, board member and fundraising chair.

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The arguments remain essentially the same.

The more-height advocates tell us density is the key to a vibrant downtown, and we must build up, not out. They point out that downtown accounts for 60 percent of the city’s tax revenues, and development there means more revenues, better services, and infrastructure maintenance. They believe downtown verticality means more housing opportunities, especially affordable housing.

The ground floors of these developments will

“captured” by the Downtown Development Authority (DDA). It will be used for projects in that TIF district. The city, county, and Northwestern Michigan College, recipients of other property taxes, will only receive their share of the baseline amount for as long as the TIF agreement is in place. (TCAPS is not included in the arrangement, and no revenues intended for its use are captured by the DDA.) The DDA has used captured TIF revenues for worthwhile projects downtown. But the rest of the city, the county, and NMC receive only collateral benefit from those projects of the what’s-good-for-downtown-is-goodfor-everybody sort. We’ll never know if our

How much more tax revenue does a 90-foot building generate than a 60-foot building? How many more residences would that include? How many could be considered affordable? The value to the developer is obvious, but the value to the rest of us less so. include more restaurants, offices, and shops creating more jobs. It will help deter sprawl and create a critical mass of people downtown, further stimulating the economy. And they believe people living downtown won’t need to use their cars much.

They also sometimes mention something they call workforce housing, but it’s a mythological term. There is no way to guarantee that even a single new affordable-housing unit downtown will ever be occupied by someone working downtown.

The anti-height advocates have fewer but more basic arguments. Nine or ten story buildings, they say, jammed up against the sidewalk in accordance with local zoning laws, will forever change the character of downtown Traverse City, creating big citylike brick and steel canyons. They wonder about the impact of such development on the city’s aging infrastructure. They believe big residential buildings downtown will create more traffic, not less.

We already have some concerns about infrastructure. With $66 million worth of development slated for the warehouse district, including 200 residential units, the city is examining its main sewer line servicing the west side of town. If it’s determined that the 80-year-old line cannot, or even might not, handle additional capacity, a multi-milliondollar fix will be required.

More people living downtown should add a vibrancy that does not now exist, but there’s not much evidence that residents of a ninestory building are more vibrant than those in a six-story building; there would just be a few more of them.

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Any of these downtown structures, regardless of height, will be part of a tax increment financing (TIF) district. That means a baseline property tax will be established as the amount the city general fund will receive. Any taxes above that baseline will be

emphasis on downtown and TIF districts has detracted from projects elsewhere.

There isn’t a thing anyone can do downtown to prevent what’s being called sprawl. Plenty of people are here, or came here, for a rural lifestyle. They prefer a village to a city. They want a place with a little room. They’ll gladly exchange that for a commute to work and are unmoved by new urbanism. Nothing will change that.

We know where the voters of Traverse City are on this issue, having clearly said by ballot that they want buildings in TC limited to 60 feet unless they get a chance to vote on those buildings. A majority of the city commission disagrees.

Since this is a debate over 30 or 40 feet of building height — you can go up to 60 feet downtown by right and without apparent hassle — those advocating greater height should fill in some blanks for us.

How much more tax revenue does a 90-foot building generate than a 60-foot building?

How many more residences would that include? How many could be considered affordable? The value to the developer is obvious, but the value to the rest of us less so.

Pro-height advocates, defending pro-height city commissioners, tell us real leaders must sometimes rise above the will of the people in order to do what’s right. We did, after all, elect them to make decisions, and they know more than we do. If it’s true we don’t sufficiently understand the nuances of the issue, then somebody didn’t do a very good job explaining it. If we don’t have all the facts, then somebody should have shared them with us.

We’re talking about three stories of building height. Traverse City will not die because downtown is a little shorter than some would like. And it’s a puzzling issue on which to ignore the will of the voters.

Crime & Rescue SWAMPED SAILOR SAVED Police rescued a lone sailor whose boat was swamped in Lake Missaukee.

Missaukee County Sheriff’s deputies responded Oct. 30 at 12:10pm after someone called 911 to report the flagging sailboat.

Deputies launched a boat at the Green Road access in Lake Township and made contact with the sailor, a 32-year-old Manton man. Deputies rescued the man and towed his boat a half-mile to shore.

The man was found to be cold and wet but otherwise OK. He told police that a gust of wind had caught his sail and flipped his boat.

LOOSE TRAILER CAUSES HAVOC A trailer ended up embedded in the side of a Pontiac after it came loose from its hitch in Leelanau County.

Deputies were called at 11:48am Oct. 26 to South Lake Leelanau Drive in Suttons Bay Township where they found the driver of the Pontiac, a 51-year-old Lake Leelanau woman, uninjured after the crash.

A GMC truck driven by a 59-year-old Traverse City woman had been towing the utility trailer when it broke free on a curve, crossed the centerline, and struck the oncoming car. The woman was cited for having improper safety chains on her trailer.

ARREST TURNS VIOLENT Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies attempted to arrest an Interlochen man who was hanging out with a woman he was supposed to stay away from.

Deputies went to the 35-year-old woman’s home in Green Lake Township at 9:30pm Oct. 23 and recognized the 43-year-old suspect inside watching television. The deputies announced themselves several times, causing the man to retreat to the back of the house.

The woman answered the door, but when she was informed that they had warrants for her arrest, she also attempted to get away. The deputies followed the woman inside and went to a rear bedroom in search of the male suspect.

The suspect came out of the bedroom and struck a deputy twice in the head before he was shot with a taser and arrested, police said.

The man faces assault and resisting arrest charges. He also violated a bond condition that he not have contact with the woman. He was earlier charged with domestic violence involving a pregnant woman, and he could face a personal protection order violation because the woman had a restraining order against him.

DOGS SNIFF OUT SUSPECT A stolen UTV led police to track a suspect through Crawford County and arrest him for a string of crimes.

Sheriff’s deputies were called to investigate a break-in and the theft of a John Deere Gator Oct. 27. While they were investigating, other crimes were reported across Maple Forest and Frederic townships.

Some of the crimes had just occurred, so state police sent out a tracking dog and located a suspect, who was arrested for breaking and entering, theft, and malicious destruction of property.

Vehicles and other items were recovered and returned to their owners.

CLUES LEFT AT CRIME SCENE A woman told police she arrived home to find a door pried open, $6,000 in jewelry gone, and a shifter knob with a small green skull design left behind on her bedroom floor.

The 37-year-old

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called police at 12:33am Oct. 29 when she arrived at her Anderson Road home, said Traverse City Police Capt. Keith Gillis.

Also missing were two pillow cases, likely used to haul away two boxes containing the jewelry. A lighter that the woman didn’t recognize was found near the shifter knob. Gillis said there were no suspects but the items would be tested for DNA. MAN STABBED IN THE BACK A 33-year-old Lake City man burst into the Missaukee County Sheriff’s office to report that he’d been stabbed several times in the back.

The man was taken to Cadillac Munson at 5:46pm Oct. 28. Deputies set out to look for the alleged stabber, a 23-year-old Lake City man who knew the victim and who had been last seen running from the residence on S. Gladwin Street.

The next day, deputies received a tip that the suspect was seen in the 6000 block of Jennings Road in Lake Township. Deputies went to the area and arrested the man without incident.

EX-BOYFRIEND ACCUSED OF ASSAULT A 57-year-old man is accused of breaking into his ex-fiancee’s house and assaulting her.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a Paradise Township home where a 54-year-old woman reported that she’d been assaulted.

The woman told police that she had twice attempted to call 911, but her former boyfriend took away her phone and damaged it.

Deputies found the suspect at his house, where he eventually surrendered. He faces charges of home invasion, assault, malicious destruction of property, and disabling a telecommunication device.

UTILITY POLE CRASH SUSPICIOUS When Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies were called about a downed power line, they found power lines draped across Fouch Road in Elmwood Township, a Jeep that had crashed into a swamp, and an injured man laying nearby.

Police were called to the scene at 1:24am Oct. 29. The injured man, a 51-year-old Cedar resident, told deputies he’d been at Bootleggers in Traverse City and had let someone he didn’t know drive him home. There was no sign of another person at the scene, and the man was unable to provide a description.

Deputies determined the man was the driver of the Jeep at the time of the crash. When he was taken to Munson Medical Center for treatment, his blood was drawn to determine his intoxication level. The man is expected to face a charge of second-offense drunk driving.

The suspect and his 47-year-old fiancee had argued earlier in the day over the man talking to other women. The suspect had smacked his girlfriend in the face with an open hand, but the woman told deputies she didn’t call police at that time because she didn’t want to get her boyfriend in trouble, Clark said.

The couple bought alcohol and, by evening, started arguing about the man’s drinking and the prospect of rehab, leading the couple to wrestle and the suspect to allegedly grab a knife. The man registered a .238 blood alcohol level when he was tested by deputies.

MAN ANGERED BY REHAB TALK A Blair Township man was arrested after waving a knife amid an argument over whether he should go to rehab.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the 50-yearold’s home at 11:21pm Oct. 29, said Capt. Christopher Clark.

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Traditions

The 72nd annual Yellville (Arkansas) Turkey Trot, which took place on Oct. 14, is famous for its Turkey Drop, in which live turkeys are dropped from a low-flying airplane and then chased by festivalgoers. This year, KY3.com reports, several turkeys were dropped during the afternoon despite animal-rights activists having filed a formal complaint with the sheriff ’s office, saying the pilot “terrorized” the birds. But pharmacist and past pilot Dana Woods told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: “We treat the turkeys right. That may sound ironic, but we don’t abuse those turkeys. We coddle and pet those turkeys. We’re good to them.” Wild turkeys can fly, but in 2016, about a dozen turkeys were dropped and not all survived the fall. According to The Washington Post, over the past several years, local sponsors and the chamber of commerce have distanced themselves from the Turkey Drop, now more than five decades old. The Federal Aviation Administration is checking to see if any laws or regulations were broken, but said it has not intervened in past years because the turkeys are not considered to be projectiles.

‘Tis the Season

Could turkeys be sensing the peril of the season? Police in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, tweeted a warning to the town’s residents on Oct. 15 about aggressive wild turkeys, WBZTV reported. As proof, an accompanying video showed four turkeys chasing a Bridgewater police cruiser, but police were not as amused as their Twitter followers. “Aggressive turkeys are a problem in town,” the department tweeted.

“State law doesn’t allow the police or (animal control) to remove them.”

Update

In 1990, Marlene Warren, 40, answered her door in Wellington, Florida, and was shot in the face by a clown bearing balloons (one of which read “You’re the greatest!”) and flowers.

On Sept. 26, Palm Beach County Sgt. Richard McAfee announced that Warren’s widower’s current wife, Sheila Keen Warren, 54, had been arrested for the murder, 27 years after the fact, and taken into custody in Abingdon, Virginia.

Sheila Keen married Michael Warren in 2002, NBC News reported. (Warren went to prison in 1994 for odometer tampering, grand theft and racketeering in connection with his car rental agency.) Sheila had worked for him, repossessing cars, and they were reportedly having an affair when the murder took place. While Sheila had always been a suspect, new technology finally allowed prosecutors to retest DNA evidence and build a case against her.

Sex Therapy

Zookeepers believe China’s 4-year-old giant panda Meng Meng, currently on loan to the Berlin Zoo, displays her displeasure with her surroundings, food or caretakers by walking backward. “Meng Meng is in puberty,” zoo director Andreas Knieriem explained to the Berliner Zeitung newspaper on Oct. 22.

“The reverse walk is a protest.” To address the situation, zookeepers will introduce Meng Meng to Jiao Qing, a male giant panda three years older, who presumably will ease her frustration by engaging in sexual activity with her.

Lucky!

Kenyans Gilbert Kipleting Chumba and David Kiprono Metto were among the favorites to win the Venice Marathon on Oct. 22. Instead, Eyob Ghebrehiwet Faniel, 25, a local running in only his second marathon, took the prize

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after the lead runners were led several hundred meters off-course by an errant guide motorcycle.

Faniel is the first Italian man to win the Venice Marathon in 22 years. “Today’s race shows that the work is paying off,” Faniel said following his victory. Uh, sure.

Most Considerate Criminal

Nelly’s Taqueria in Hicksville, New York, suffered a break-in on Oct. 3, but the burglar redefined the term “clean getaway.” Surveillance video showed a man donning food-service gloves and starting a pot of water to boil before hammering open the cash register. He secured $100 in his pockets, leaving a dollar in the tip jar, then started “cooking up a storm,” owner Will Colon told Newsday. Cameras recorded as the thief cooked beans, sauteed shrimp and chicken, and helped himself to a cold soda before enjoying his meal standing up. “The way he handled that pan, man, the dude had some skills,” Colon said. Afterward, he carefully stored the leftovers in the refrigerator, cleaned his pans and wiped down all the surfaces he had used. Then he took off through the back window, the same way he had come in.

People Different From Us

-- In Lissone, Italy, 40-year-old fitness instructor Laura Mesi made news when she married herself in late September. “I told my relatives and friends that if I had not found my soul mate, I would marry myself by my 40th birthday,” Mesi said, according to The Independent. She spent more than 10,000 euros ($11,700) for the occasion, which included a white wedding dress, a three-tiered cake, bridesmaids and 70 guests.

Mesi is part of a self-marrying movement dubbed “sologamy” that has followers all over the world. Her marriage holds no legal significance. “If tomorrow I find a man to build a future with, I will be happy, but my happiness will not depend on him,” Mesi declared.

-- An anonymous collector from Palm Beach, Florida, was the winning bidder in an Oct. 11 online auction for a half-smoked cigar that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill enjoyed during a 1947 trip to Paris.

AP reports the 4-inch cigar remnant brought just over $12,000 in the auction managed by Boston-based RR Auction. The company says Churchill smoked the cigar on May 11, 1947, at Le Bourget Airport. A British airman, Cpl. William Alan Turner, kept the cigar after he and his crew flew Churchill and his wife between Paris and London. The label on the Cuban stogie includes Churchill’s name.

Least Competent Criminal

Greensburg, Pennsylvania, police made a traffic stop on Oct. 19 and found drug paraphernalia in plain sight on the car’s front seat. When police asked where the occupants had obtained the heroin found in the center console, they said they had bought it from someone named Cody in the maternity ward at the Excela Health Westmoreland hospital in Greensburg. Officers arrested Cody R. Hulse, 25, at the hospital after he admitted to possessing and selling heroin just feet away from his newborn daughter. The TribuneReview reported that police found 34 stamp bags of heroin, four empty bags and multiple hypodermic needles in Hulse’s possession. “I have an issue myself with drugs ... heroin,” Hulse told them. “I really didn’t want to bring it in.”

Hulse’s girlfriend, the mother of the newborn, said she did not know he was selling drugs from the room.

Reviving History Volunteer student welders and Civil War history buffs team up to restore the grave markers of local Union soldiers.

By Kristi Kates The American Civil War lasted from 1861 to 1865.

A year after its end, the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) formed to helped link and advocate for veterans of the Union army, marines, navy, and cutter service (which would become the U.S. Coast Guard).

The GAR dissolved in 1956, after the death of its last member, Albert Woolson.

But its successor, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), lives on today.

And that’s where Jeff Morse — and the final resting places of our local Civil War veterans — comes in.

MILITARY LESSONS “Years ago, I took a civil war history class at the college and found it really interesting,” said Morse, an adjunct electrical program instructor at Northwest Michigan College.

“So I got involved with the SUVCW organization here in town.”

Morse has several ancestors who were in the Civil War: a great-great-great grandfather, a great-great grandfather, and four great-great uncles.

“They’re all from Ohio. Most of them ended up living in the Traverse City area, moving up here after the war in search of free land,” Morse said. “It was mostly uninhabited up here, and from what I understand, through the land grant process they could get something like 160 acres.”

Through his Civil War interest and his involvement with the SUVCW, Morse noticed that many of the Civil War grave markers/flag holders at cemeteries around the region had fallen into disrepair.

RESTORATION PROTOCOL “I’d noticed for years the markers were getting rusty and many were being broken,

but we were unsure what we could do about it,” he said. “We eventually found a bunch of them in a pile at one site and finally decided that we had to do something.”

SUVCW’s local camp — aka Robert Finch Camp No. 14 — appealed to the national SUVCW office and were approved to remove the damaged markers, fix them, and then replace them.

“Following specific protocols, of course,” Morse added.

Morse and his colleague at the SUVCW, war memorials officer Scott Schwander, first got their team working on the main portion of the markers themselves — the fivepointed cast iron stars.

“Each star marker is emblazoned with all five battle units of the Grand Army of the Republic: engineering, navy, infantry, cavalry, artillery, plus a little cannon on the top point of the star that can hold a small American flag,” Morse said.

His team is now restoring each marker, first cleaning them with a phosphoric acid solution to remove the rust, then painting them with a primer, then black paint, then a clear coat.

IRON INTEGRITY Holding each marker into the ground are two cast-iron stakes. Over the years, many have been broken, from lawn mowing or simply from being knocked over. Broken stakes were a problem that the local branch of the SUVCW didn’t have the means to repair.

So Morse approached NMC welding technology program coordinator and instructor Devan DePauw to see if he could help.

“We weren’t really able to add anything to our educational program to assist with this project, but we were happy to look for volunteers,” DePauw said.

Several student volunteers are now working on restoring the cast iron stakes.

“Cast iron is a notoriously frustrating metal,” DePauw said. “It has an inconsistent composition and can be very brittle. If you heat it up and cool it too quickly, it can crack.

Most of these stars had two stakes but have had one or the other broken off. We cut the remaining stake off, and we’re brazing the cast iron with bronze and mounting a new stake in the middle, doing our best to keep the integrity of the design.”

STUDENT SERVICES Two of the students who have volunteered to work on the markers are Ries van der Grijn, a first-year student in the associate of applied science in the welding technology program, and his classmate, Michael Stolarczyk, also a first-year in the same program.

“I just thought this would be a good opportunity to help the community and also good practice for my welding career,” van der Grijn said. “I wasn’t used to working with the cast iron, but as a lot of the pieces of these markers are broken, and it’s our job to weld them back together, I got better at it.

Then I realized I also get to help restore the memories of all these men.”

Stolarczyk had similar sentiments. “I’ve always been into history, and I also like the idea of doing something that’s going to last,” he said. “These markers were originally made by people who were alive long before me — that’s what’s really hitting me about this project.”

GREATER COMMUNITY The volunteers meet at the welding technology building most Saturdays and say they’re looking forward to going to see where the restored markers are installed. Most of the 30 or so markers they’ve worked on so far are

from Traverse City’s Oakwood Cemetery.

“We all come here to the classroom every Saturday. I buy donuts, and we get to work,” DePauw said. “I’ve always been a sentimental person, so I was glad to help when Jeff asked.”

“I think it’s unfortunate when things that are critical threads to the fabric of our history are neglected or forgotten. The students are doing it because they see a good cause that they want to support, and I appreciate the opportunity to get students involved in a community project. The more people realize that we’re all part of a larger community, the better off we’ll all be.”

LOCAL LEGACY Some weeks, four or five markers get repaired; other weeks a dozen. Each star is 8 inches across and 16 to 18 inches high.

And there are hundreds out there in need of attention.

“I’m pretty sure this will be a long-term project,” DePauw added.

While the SUVCW’s service range extends from Cadillac all the way to Mackinaw, the majority of the markers they’ve got in mind for repair are in Grand Traverse, Benzie, Leelanau, Antrim, and Kalkaska counties.

“Those alone could easily exceed 500 to 600 total,” Morse said. “So this isn’t a project that will be completed overnight. But it’s a rewarding project, because one of the things we do at the SUVCW is help keep the memory ‘green’ of the veterans of the civil war.

I’ve never been in the military, but I am very patriotic, so this is me doing my part to keep up the veterans’ dedication to our country.”

Morse pointed out that after the work is completed on the 150-year-old markers, they’ll likely last for another 150 years.

“For the next generation to see them — that’s all I want,” he said.

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JOURNEYMAN Fifty years ago, 20-year-old Tim Keenan was dropped into the jungles of Vietnam. A 2,000+ hike at age 62 compelled the Traverse City vet to head back to the battlefield so he could make peace with its horrors, his enemies, and himself.

By Patrick Sullivan Nearly a decade ago, Tim Keenan retired as community corrections director for the 86th District Court, then he started on a personal journey almost by accident. He hiked the 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail, which led to a book, which gave him the strength to return to Vietnam, which led to a film.

Now Keenan, who’s served as president of the Traverse City chapter of Veterans for Peace over the past 10 years, hopes he can help other vets with PTSD, and he’s become an enthusiastic exponent of how hiking the Appalachian Trail can transform a life.

Keenan’s book, “The Good Hike,” a combination of recollections of his hike and his time in Vietnam, was published last December by Mission Point Press, and a 36-minute film about his 2014 return to

Vietnam, called Naneek, is making the film festival rounds. It won the audience award for best short documentary at the 2015 Traverse City Film Festival.

The Northern Express sat down with Keenan 50 years after his tour in Vietnam to talk about the whirlwind decade he’s spent coming to terms with his past. The conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Northern Express: This all started when you retired from your job as community corrections director in Traverse City in 2008 and at some point decided to hike the Appalachian Trail. How did that decision come about, and what were you looking for?

Tim Keenan: I was picking up equipment — every couple of months I’d buy something,

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because it’s so expensive, and I wanted it to be light. But part of me was thinking, Well, if no one mentions it, I may not even do it.

But I had mentioned it so many times, all of a sudden, people said, “Well, you’re almost done with work — are you going to do the trail?” I thought, Oh God. No, I guess I’m in.

And plus, I was anxious. The woods stuff.

Express: In your book you wrote that despite spending so much time in northern Michigan, you’d never really spent that much time in the woods because of the posttraumatic stress disorder you brought back from Vietnam.

Keenan: I had never camped and hiked overnight since Vietnam. I would walk with my kids in the woods sometimes, and my dog sometimes, but when I was in the woods, I’d be very edgy, just edgy. I never

said anything to anybody, but that’s the way it was. I wasn’t comfortable, and I was glad to get out. So, you know, I don’t know why, but I decided to do the trail and see what happens. I’ll just go as far as I can.

Express: When did the trip become something bigger? When did it become about confronting your experience in Vietnam?

Keenan: Oh, I didn’t know what was going to happen to me when I got on the trail, as far as the Vietnam stuff goes. Because I know, even now, I think about it every day. I mean, it’s not something that ever goes away. It’s there. And all these events that happened to me in Vietnam, I never know when they’re going to surface in my life. Anything could trigger it. It could be nothing. So my son Colin dropped me off in Amicalola State

Park [in Georgia], and then he gave me a hug and said, “Call me when you want me to pick you up.” And I never called.

Express: You called him from Maine.

Keenan: I called him from time to time.

All my children were worried about me. I mean, I was 62 and, what are you doing out there? But I didn’t realize how difficult it was, physically, to do it. And plus I had to go uphill. I was hiking by myself for the most part. For like 400 miles I hiked alone, and when I was going up hills, I’d think, Wow. We did this in Vietnam. That’s what we did.

We took hills. Hill after hill after hill.

Express: You have some pretty horrific stories about battles set on hills in your book.

Keenan: I guess the only thing that kept me going [in Vietnam] was being with a bunch of people my same age. You know, none of us knew anything about what was going on. Most of us were drafted.

Ninety percent of us. And that’s what we were doing. We’d take a hill. And then take another hill. And then come back and take the hill we took before. The main thing was contact with the enemy. So when I was on the trail, that’s what I was thinking about. And I was thinking about people too. Friends lost. But going up the hill, I just take a break and stop and take some deep breaths and just realize how grateful I was to be here and be able to walk. Just walk. Don’t worry about all of the other stuff. It’s not going to happen. There’s going to be no firefights. No grenades. No bombs being dropped. None of that stuff is going to happen.

Express: Aside from the cold and the fatigue, did anything bad happen to you while you were hiking the trail?

“War made Tim Keenan afraid to go into the woods. All 2,178.3 miles of the Appalachian Trail helped heal him. A brave journey into the wilderness of PTSD, with beauty and love on the other side.”

Mardi Jo Link, author of The Drummond Girls and Bootstrapper

“The Good Hike is the story of an epic journey that helped the author confront his combat related PTSD issues while experiencing the beauty of the wilderness and love and support of his hiking partner.

It is the blend of a hiking story, a war story and a love story.”

Express: You kept a journal along the way.

At what point did you realize it would become a book?

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It took three or four more years to complete the book as Keenan sharpened his journal entries and forced himself to write about his Vietnam experiences through the year he spent there in 1967 and 1968.

Express: Was it cathartic to write the book?

Keenan: It was very, very therapeutic for me, to get it all down on paper and reread it myself and think, Wow, that all happened?

And then to talk about it with friends. I was able then to go back to Vietnam. I think the Appalachian Trail gave me the courage to go back to Vietnam and meet the enemy.

Express: When did you decide you were going to make that trip?

Keenan: It was talked about on the trail.

Cosmos, the woman that hiked with me for a bit, she joined me in Erwin, so we were 400 miles in, in Erwin, Tennessee. She was originally going to hike 100 miles with me, but she ended up hiking 1,800, all the way to the end, and then took a plane back to where she met me and hiked the other 400 alone. But anyway, she was talking about it sometimes on the trail at night. She said, “You should go back there, you need to go back there.” Because I had this thing, although I’d been working on it for years, about being racist. It really turned me into a racist. I was a happy-go-lucky boy in my senior class, and then all of a sudden I’m in Vietnam and now, a few months later, I hate all people with slant eyes. I mean, it was not a good thing. So I worked on that for years, trying to get rid of it, through counseling and talking to people and trying to mentally get my stuff together, because I don’t like that feeling of being a racist.

THE GOOD HIKE TIM KEENAN

Keenan: The closest thing to bad, I was near Fontana Dam, and I was going to try to find a place to get resupplied. I was walking down the road, so I hitchhiked and got a ride from this dude, in his camper, me and this other hiker. And were in the back of his camper because there was no room in the front. And we were going for a long ways, and we said, “Hey, I thought it was only like a mile or two down the road on the map. It seems like we’ve gone further. What’s happening?”

And he said, [Keenan imitates a deep southern drawl] “What’s the matter, you THE GOODAnd HIKE scared or something?”

I go, “Stop this vehicle now.”TIM AndKEENAN the other guy said, “Stop it now.” So he stopped, and we got out and start hitchhiking back. We were three or four miles beyond where we needed to be, and we don’t need to walk extra miles.

said, “Wasn’t one of the reasons you got on the trail about the Vietnam stuff? Your PTSD? Have you ever tried to write about that?” I said, “Yeah, I’ve tried for 30 years, 40 years to write about it, but I never can get beyond certain dates that happened, because when I write about it, I have to relive it, to make it sound as close to the intensity level that I want the reader to feel. I want him or her to feel what I was feeling. That’s so difficult.”

Express: Not only did you go back to Vietnam, but you had a small film crew with you, and you made a film out of the experience. How did that come about?

Keenan: My son Jake was saying, “Hey, why don’t you go back?” I said, “Hey, you get a passport, and I’ll think about it.”

And he did get a passport. I wasn’t going to go alone. I’d asked my Vietnam veteran friends. None of them want to go back, and I totally understand that. But Jake said, “I want to go back with you,” so we started a plan. And meanwhile, Neal [Steeno], who I didn’t know very well at all, he calls me from Milwaukee, and he said, “Tim, I had a dream.” He’s a designer for M22. He said, “I had a dream that I was a filmmaker, and I filmed a Vietnam veteran going back to Vietnam.” And I talked to my family about it, and they said you should go for it.

Keenan had to think about it. He wanted something deeply personal out of the trip; he didn’t want to be in a reality show. In the end he met with Steeno, who promised he would stay out of the way. Keenan realized the film might be able to help other veterans.

He decided to go ahead with the project.

Express: And so you ended up with a very moving film of an experience where you met your enemy and reconciled with them.

Do you think having the camera around changed the experience?

Keenan: I don’t think so. I mean, when we were there, early, we were at this Buddhist temple, and I was with my son and Neal and the camera guy, Robert — they were on the other side of this building. And I said to Jake, “They are both nice guys. I hope they just stay out of the way and let me do what I want to do, and don’t ask me to pose or any of that stuff.” And all of a sudden I hear, from the back of the building, “Don’t worry, Tim. We won’t.” I forgot I was mic’d. He’s listening to every word I’m saying.

Express: The film has gotten a lot of YouTube attention. It’s received 33,000 views. And there are a lot of comments, many of them very positive, but many of them very angry about how you engaged

with the North Vietnamese soldiers. Are you surprised how raw those emotions are 50 years later?

Keenan: I just talked to Neal — our film’s going to be in the Saginaw Film Festival in November — so we talked last night.

He was telling me about some of the comments. Some of the people are not very kind. I don’t surround myself with those kinds of people. I know, I was in groups with people who still call Vietnamese people gooks. I mean, come on. But that’s them. I am trying to get better.

Because I want to clear my mind. It’s all about forgiveness. Forgiveness myself and having the Vietnamese people forgive me.

Express: How would you assess our country’s current relationship with war?

Keenan: We’ve always been at war. I mean, since World War II, we’ve bombed 27, 28 different countries. We’ve been at war.

It’s kind of what we do. When I went to Vietnam I thought I was doing the right thing, for sure. I believed in my country.

I still love my country very much, but as far as the war thing goes, I just can’t go along with it. I don’t think we do enough to attain peace. I think we just jump to conclusions and make a move, and we kill so many innocent people. It just continues to happen.

Express: Have any of your kids tried to hike the Appalachian Trail?

Keenan: No. My daughter got on for a couple of days. And she got off it. They weren’t prepared. You’ve got to prepare yourself. And, like my mentor told me, when you get on the trail, you’ve got to promise yourself, before you quit, you’ve got to go at least 30 days. Because everyone quits after just a couple of days. Two or three days, they quit. Go a month. And then, if you still say this sucks, then get off. And it was true. I would have quit after about 80 miles in Hiawassee, Georgia. I got off. I held off in a Holiday Inn Express with a hot tub for three days. And then I said, “Okay. Get back on the trail.”

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In 1967, Tim Keenan grew to loathe the impenetrable jungle of Vietnam during his one-year tour of duty as a combat soldier. For 47 years, he couldn’t shake his dread of the woods, until he confronted his fears head on and began a thru-hike of the 2,178.3-mile Appalachian Trail.

Keenan: I never thought I was going to turn it into a book. I thought, I’m going to do this because I’m going to put this in some kind of form, and I’m going to give a copy to each one of my kids. Because I’m going to encourage them to do this because it’s a life-changing event, hiking the entire Appalachian Trail. That’s why it all began, and that’s what it was going to be. And I did it. I got home, and a few months later I was done with it. It was rough, very rough.

But that’s all I needed. And this guy that I knew down in New Mexico wanted to read it, and he read it and said, “You should do something with this.” So I ended up trying to revise it a little bit. And then he’s the one that actually suggested, he “The Good Hike” is Keenan’s story of finally coming to peace with himself, buoyed by the healing powers of nature and his fellow hikers.

His story weaves in the beautiful towns and mountains of the great Appalachian trail with the jungle and battle zones around Dak To, including the infamous Hill 1338.

Keenan also tells a story of love. His trail partner helped him face his PTSD and cope with the trail’s intense rigors. Most importantly, she taught him how to love again.

This Monday, Nov. 6, Tim Keenan and four other vets will speak about the difficulties of coming home from Vietnam. Each will speak for around 15 minutes, followed by a Q&A. The event will take place from 6:30pm until 8pm at the main branch of the Traverse Area District Library.

“The Good Hike” will make you smile and laugh.

And it will make you cry.

The author is the subject of an award winning documentary, NANEEK, directed by Neal Steeno. www.naneek.com

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Steve Chowen is executive editor of the Cherry Tree Project.

Bringing Service Home With the nearest VA center between five and eight hours’ drive away, many veterans living Up North forgo the care and benefits they’ve earned.

The Cherry Tree Project seeks to change that.

By Al Parker Steve Chowen’s eyes light up, his voice rising as he describes challenges that America’s military veterans face getting services they deserve, especially health care.

“We’ve got people driving right by five community hospitals to get downstate to be treated at a VA facility,” he said. “It’s just not right.”

Since March, Chowen has served as executive director of the Cherry Tree Project, a non-profit organization devoted to supporting northern Michigan veterans through advocacy and outreach. The group is sort of a one-stop shop for veterans who want or need assistance is a variety areas.

“We collect data, coordinate, collaborate, assess public and private resources and build partnerships to improve access to healthcare, housing, jobs, education and burial services,” explained Chowen, a former medevac helicopter pilot who retired after a 20-year Army career.

“Our intent is not to replace any organization that currently serves veterans, but rather enable, extend, and improve these services by addressing and solving challenges that veterans face.

Project Cherry Tree, or PCT, covers a wide geographic swath across the northern Lower Peninsula and eastern U.P. The counties in its realm include Benzie, Grand Traverse, Antrim, Leelanau, Kalkaska, Oceana, Mason, Lake, Osceola, Clare, Gladwin, Arenac, Roscommon, Ogemaw, Iosco, Wexford, Missaukee, Manistee, Oscoda, Otsego, Crawford, Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency, Charlevoix, Presque Isle, Cheboygan, Emmet, Mackinac, Chippewa, and Luce.

According to 2017 PCT data, there are 66,952

veterans in its sprawling service region, but only 25,130 — that’s only 37.5 percent — are enrolled with the Veterans Administration, meaning 62.5 percent of the area’s veterans aren’t getting benefits they have earned and might need, according to Chowen. “We want to flip those numbers around,” he said.

To help do that, PCT launched a new website this month — projectcherrytree.org — and wants veterans to be aware of it.

Many veterans won’t talk about their needs and their experiences unless it’s with another vet who understands their background.

“Vet-to-vet often seems to be the best way to communicate with veterans,” said Chowen.

“If we can help more veterans get into the VA system, and they understand the process and their earned benefits, they can relay this information to other veterans that may need services. Connecting with another veteran ‘in the know’ can often be the step that gets another veteran to the benefits they’ve earned.”

PCT launched in 2016 with a cadre of advisors and committee member, including high-ranking military members, hospital CEOs, U.S. senators, college presidents, business owners, community leaders, and politicians. In June, a series of recommendations came from a blue-ribbon panel convened by Congress. The Commission

on Care was ordered to analyze VA operations and vets’ access to health care.

One of the report’s recommendations is to have “community-based health care networks.”

It calls for creating a system of both VA clinics and private health-care providers that allow vets to access a full range of treatment and care options in their own backyards. That’s vital to northern Michigan veterans who average a 318-mile, five-hour trip to the nearest VA medical center in Saginaw, according to PCT data. Some vets living in the eastern U.P endure 500-mile trips that take eight hours.

“That’s really grueling for the veterans, some of whom are World War II veterans in their 90s,” said Chowen.

PCT is working with the VA and local health-care officials to have those veterans treated locally by established local hospitals and providers. “One of the major concerns is that hospitals and individual health care providers are reimbursed adequately and timely with the veteran not in the middle of the process,” said Chowen. “We’re working with our legislators to address these concerns as it will not work if the payment system is not fair and equitable.”

Beyond the goal of expanding local healthcare options, PCT has other goals to improve the quality of life for veterans in northern Michigan.

They seek to streamline and promote veteran educational resources, connect vets with jobs and job training, and establish a veterans’ cemetery in northern Michigan. Now there are only two VA cemeteries in the state available for burials, Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly and Fort Custer National Cemetery near Battle Creek.

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A Home for the Brave

By Kristi Kates “Brave hearts” is an apt term for those who have served in the military. Well trained and strong of body and mind when they embark on their military journeys, many servicemen and women return physically injured and emotionally and mentally struggling.

Brave Hearts Estate in Pellston hopes to help them find their way back to themselves.

Part of Operation Injured Soldiers, a Michiganbased foundation dedicated to the physical and mental rehabilitation of wounded vets — often through the sports and hobbies they enjoyed before their military service — Brave Hearts Estate is a retreat center that offers 238 acres with walking trails, an 8,000 square foot main home, 3 exterior cabins, and a 3D archery course. It offers free weekend stays to qualifying veterans and their families.

GENEROUS DONOR The house and property were donated to Operation Injured Soldiers on Veterans Day of November 2014. The estate opened to guests the following spring. Its donor? Perhaps not surprising, a veteran himself, a Naval serviceman who served in the Korean War but wants few details about his identity shared.

“We know who he is, and we talk to him often, but he doesn’t wish to be recognized for his contribution, and he doesn’t really talk about his experience,” said Paula Brown, cocaretaker of the estate with her husband, Mike.

“He just wants to help, and he’s donated to several other organizations as well, all with a military connection. This house was lived in by the donator and his wife,” said Brown. When she passed away, he didn’t want to be up here without her, so 90 percent of everything in the home was donated along with the house, and we’ve added to it along the way.”

GREAT ROOMS The Browns started as volunteers at the estate. After a couple of years, they were hired as the co-caretakers. (Mike Brown was formerly in the Air Force, and he also works another job, as a machinist.) Together, alongside an office manager, they oversee everything that’s needed

for the veterans to enjoy weekend retreats at through,” Brown said. “But they come here this generously appointed property. and actually find people who understand what “We get the rooms ready, I do all the they’re talking about, because they’ve been shopping and cook, and we prepare breakfast through it too.” and dinner for the guests,” said Brown.

On a typical day, guests awake and make While the house and property are covered, their way downstairs for breakfast. food and other needs are not; Operation “One of the house rules is that we all dine Injured Soldiers is a 501c3, so it relies on together,” Brown said. donations, grants, and fundraising to acquire For the afternoon, some take day trips the rest of the supplies needed to provide for to Petoskey or Mackinaw City — many have visiting veterans. never been up North before.

“Part of my week is also spent raising At dinner, they all reconvene, and then awareness of the organization and the estate, drift into the earth-toned great room with to help with these needs,” its comfortable sofas, oversized Brown said. popcorn maker, and views of Guests can stay the calming landscape outside.

Thursdays through Sundays A woodstove heats the room in from Memorial Day to Labor the winter; conversation warms “...they come Day; after Labor Day, they the space year-round. The first here and actually evening is often when any initial can stay Fridays through Sundays. Each weekend find people who barriers start to break down. welcomes a new round of veterans (and, if they choose, understand what FORGING A BOND their immediate family “We have board games and they’re talking members).

Jenga and things available, but The home features seven most people want to sit and talk,” about, because bedrooms, three kitchens, Brown said. “Sometimes you they’ve been and three dining rooms, plus notice that a few vets or a couple a common room/living area of the wives will bond and drift through it too.” on each level. There’s also off into little groups to talk more. large windows for viewing It seems that once they start wildlife, a wraparound talking, they can’t stop.” porch, and a pool table.

The trick for many is in “The way it’s laid out, getting them to talk in the first people can have their privacy but still get to place, which is one of the most rewarding parts know each other,” Brown said. And it’s the of the job for the Browns. “getting to know each other” part that’s key to “Mike, having been military, can relate as a the healing power of Brave Hearts Estate. vet, so he often helps get conversations going,” Brown said. “When they arrive, a lot of them SHARED EXPERIENCES are very reserved. So Friday is typically a very To be part of Operation Injured Soldiers, quiet day, as everyone is just kind of getting you must be a veteran who is at least 30 percent used to each other. But by Sunday, I am usually disabled, or you must have seen combat — two seeing smiles and getting hugs.” situations that can make many soldiers feel One veteran, Keith, had lost most of his lonely and detached from society when they unit in combat. return to civilian life.

“And he had just pretty much had it,” Brown “One of the things we hear often from said. “I introduced myself when he arrived and guests is that while most of them have offered a hug, and he said, ‘No, I’m okay.’ As we counselors, they feel that the counselors don’t went to leave on Friday after settling everyone really understand what the soldiers have gone in, he told us that he might not be here in the

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morning, as this was the first time he’d really been out of his house. We said, ‘Well that’s fine, but we hope you’ll stay.’”

“Saturday, he was still here. Then on Sunday morning, he met us at the door, and told us that it was the first time he’d slept through the night without nightmares or night terrors.”

TAKING A CHANCE Terry Scheidler is a 20-year Navy veteran from Beaverton, Michigan, who is permanently disabled and uses a wheelchair as a result of his military service.

“I served in Vietnam from ’65 to December of ’68,” he said. “My injuries are primarily due to Agent Orange.”

Scheidler found out about Brave Hearts Estate five months ago via an Operation Injured Soldiers email. “I thought it sounded like a good place to go,” he said, “so I thought I’d take a chance. I’d just been sitting around my old house, and you can’t go very far doing that.”

The first thing he noticed when he arrived at the estate was Miss Paula, as he called her.

“She’s cool,” he said.

“And I don’t know what happened — I can’t explain it — but she opened the door, I rolled up in my wheelchair … and it was like everything I had on my shoulders just dropped outside.”

Scheidler’s favorite thing about visiting the estate — he’s been four times since his first visit — is the property itself. He recently acquired a track wheelchair, an all-terrain wheelchair with a tank-style belt in place of wheels, and said he loves being outside at Brave Hearts. He’s also given back to the organization by raising funds to put new microwaves and refrigerators in each of the three cabins.

“It’s so beautiful up there — it’s just splendiferous,” he said. “All the things they do for us, it just makes me so happy. And then they feed me! I don’t eat much anymore, but the food they have is so good. All the vets, all the branches, we all got along and had no problems at all. I love that place, and those people. It’s like being in Heaven.”

TRANQUIL TIMES On the other end of the military spectrum is Saginaw resident Dana DeLong, a three-

year veteran of the Army National Guard who participated in operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm (the Gulf War), departing the military with serious emotional difficulties.

“I was working at the Saginaw VA for a while and heard our supervisor talking about some of the places that vets could go,” DeLong said. “I’d been going through a difficult time and wanted to get away, but finances were rough, so I couldn’t really just pick up and go stay at a hotel somewhere. I took my family with me to Brave Hearts Estate, and it ended up being such a great family weekend.”

DeLong went electronics-free for the weekend with her daughter, Mya; took a painting class while at the estate, also with her daughter; and said that the time away from her everyday routine was invaluable.

“The atmosphere there is very calming, peaceful, and tranquil,” she said. “There aren’t 20 million things going on, so you can sit and talk with the others if you want. I always love talking with the veterans and feel comfortable

talking to them … although all of our stories are different, they have similarities, and with veterans in general there’s always a bond. But you can also go sit by yourself and reflect if you want.”

DeLong has been to the estate twice so far.

“But honestly, I’d go every weekend if I could,” she said.

MILITARY CONNECTIONS The Browns themselves have a special connection to this particular charity project: Not only was Mike Brown in the Air Force but their three kids are also in the military. So the couple can relate to their guests on many levels.

“Our son Calvin was in the Marines. He’s inactive and has been home for six years.

Our daughter, Pam, was in the Army. She’s been home for four years. And our son Jon is on active duty. He’s a Navy corpsman and is stationed in Bahrain right now,” Brown said.

She added that her kids don’t often tell her what they’ve gone through on their tours of

duty. It’s a kind of unfilled puzzle piece that she respects but often thinks about, even more so since she started at Brave Hearts Estate.

“They tell the bad stories to their dad,” she said. “I only get the good stories. So hearing the experiences of some of these vets — some are shocking, some make you cry — a lot of them make me think a lot more about what my own kids must have gone through.”

But the best thing about the job, she said, is that they’re giving these veterans someone to talk to, as well as a little peace.

“When they’re leaving on Sunday morning, and I hear them say, ‘I’m coming back,’ that’s what I strive to hear,” she said. “That means I did my job and made them feel welcome.

Everybody here does this from our hearts, to help our veterans.”

Brave Hearts Estate is located at 4171 Ely Rd., in Pellston, (231) 539-7111. For more information, visit www.injuredsoldiers.org/brave-hearts or www.facebook.com/BraveHeartsEstate.

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NORTHERN VETERAN SEEN

Mrs. Harley Ochs, wife of the pharmacist/owner of Charlevoix’s Central Drug store put photos of her servicemen sons Bill and Frank in the window when they began service and vowed not to remove the images until her boys returned.

The idea caught on, and as the war years went on, the display grew to 140+ photos. Photo courtesy of the Charlevoix Historical Society.

Camp Grayling, photo undated.

A wagon carrying veterans of the Civil War makes its way through Harbor Springs during community’s 1909 Labor Day parade. Photo Courtesy of the Harbor Springs Area Historical Society.

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Camp Grayling, 1922. All Camp Grayling images courtesy of Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center Headquarters.

Camp Grayling’s Officers Club, captured in 1936, still stands. It turns 100 years old this year.

Members of the American Legion in Harbor Springs march past the old town hall building (now the Harbor Springs History Museum). Courtesy of the Harbor Springs Area Historical Society.

Camp Grayling tent barracks, photo undated.

MPs on duty in Grayling during 1946 field training.

Corporal Leslie T. Shapton of Charlevoix, who was killed in action near Vierzy, France on July 18, 1918. His body was returned to Charlevoix’s Brookside Cemetery in May 1921. The local American Legion post was named after him. Photo courtesy of the Charlevoix Historical Society.

Colors 1st Quartermaster during reviews at Camp Grayling, 1946.

Scenes of Camp Grayling taken during 1944 field training.

Major Alton Miller conducting switchboard instruction class, 1945.

Photo taken during overnight “problem” at Camp Grayling, 1946.

Camp Grayling troops entraining for home after field training, 1945.

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THE LONG ROAD HOME Veterans facing homelessness find a safe, supportive place to live at Gaylord’s Patriot Place.

Tom Pratt is the program director.

By Al Parker In a quiet neighborhood, just northwest of downtown Gaylord, is northern Michigan’s only transitional housing community for male veterans facing homelessness.

Patriot Place has been providing shelter and support for veterans since 2010. The cluster of eight single-story homes along the quiet two-lane street look like any other well-kept residential area, but this one offers both homes and hope to veterans in need of help.

“Patriot Place serves male veterans coping with disabilities such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), substance abuse disorders and/or mental health concerns,” said Program Director Tom Pratt. “We’ve served roughly 200 veterans since we opened.”

Trenton Michigan native Greg Pierce enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1976 and served until 1982, working closely with the Central Intelligence Agency in the ongoing war on drugs. After his discharge, his life was seemingly on track and going well. He was working and happily married — until March 2016, when his wife died suddenly.

“I was blown away when she died,” recalled the 58-year-old veteran.

A PTSD diagnosis followed, along with some heavy self-medicating with alcohol.

“We had been a two-income family, and when my wife died, I just couldn’t afford our bills,” he said. “I was practically instantly homeless.”

Pierce didn’t want to be a burden to his aging parents and needed a place to get away, to collect his thoughts. He eventually applied to Patriot Place and spent seven months there, leaving earlier this year.

“It’s just a fabulous place,” he said. “I had really good roommates. They are good people there. It’s a real sense of family with

the fellow vets.” before Peasely found himself without a roof Piece enjoyed the experience so much over his head. He spent a few days at the that he is now devoting his life to working Goodwill Inn in Traverse City, then heard with other veterans. He recently completed about Patriot Place and applied in February. training to be a peer support specialist at “I’ve basically been homeless,” he said. the VA medical facility in Battle Creek, “I’ve been bouncing around for three years. where he’ll be offering vets advice on stress Patriot Place is the best thing that ever management, anger management, budgeting, happened to me. I didn’t know what to housing, benefit, healthy relationships, and expect, but it’s wonderful here. I was living more. As a veteran himself, he knows well alone for a year, and I hated that. Now I what other vets are going through. have great roommates. One is an ex-Navy “I love working with submariner, the other is veterans,” he said. “I will be ex-Air Force. We all like eternally grateful for the people movies, so we watch a lot who helped me. And that of movies together.” includes the people at Patriot Not content to sit “I was blown Place.” around, Peasely landed a “I’ve been bouncing around job as a dishwasher at the away when for three years.”

Treetops Resort. When In January 1982, Frank she died. I was transportation to work Peasely joined the Navy against — another bus ride — practically his parents’ wishes.

Right became an issue, Peasely away things went bad for the got a helping hand from instantly Massachusetts native. another vet.

“I went to Great Lakes “My neighbor Clyde homeless.”

(Naval Station) for training and said he’d drive me and got pneumonia,” he recalled. “I pick me up,” said Peasely. was there for six months. Then “He does a Herald-Times I went to seaman school for delivery route, and I help three months, and to San Diego him with that. We help for four months before going to Guam.” each other. It’s veterans helping veterans.”

He served aboard the USS San Jose, a supply ship that was part of the U.S. Seventh 92 PERCENT SUCCESS RATE Fleet. “Mostly I painted, stripped paint, then As a Goodwill Northern Michigan painted again and again for a year,” he said. program, Patriot Place services an area Peasely served 18 months before being roughly from Saginaw to Manistee and discharged. He lived in Traverse City and north to the Mackinac Bridge. “But if a other locations in northern Michigan. A veteran from outside that region qualifies few years ago he was living in Manton and for residency, his application would be taking a bus every day to work at the Meijer considered,” said Pratt. “We’ll never turn store in Traverse City. But the bus service down someone based on location.” was unreliable, often making him late for Unlike a temporary emergency shelter, work, and eventually the store let him go. veterans at Patriot Place get the opportunity With no job but rent to pay, it wasn’t long to live independently for up to two years,

with support services. The project isn’t simply about putting a roof over veterans’ heads; it’s about trying to change the circumstances that led to homelessness in the first place.

Depending on their income, the vets pay no more than $300 a month for the program. Most of the funding to operate Patriot Place comes from the Veterans Administration, which pays about $43 per bed, per night.

“We serve veterans with physical health or mental health disorders or some sort of substance abuse,” said Pratt. “We give them whatever they may need — classes or therapy or coaching — to make sure that when they leave they won’t end up back on the street.”

Veterans live in four duplex housing units. Each of the eight homes features three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a dining room, living room, kitchen, and washer and dryer.

There’s also an attached garage for each home. A community building offers meeting space, a classroom, and offices.

“There’s room for 24 residents, and we have 20 now,” said Pratt, who worked as a parole agent in Alpena before joining Patriot Place three years ago. “The average length of stay is nine to 10 months.”

Last year, Patriot Place had a 92 percent success rate, one measured by the number of Patriot Place veterans living in a positive situation after leaving the program, according to Pratt.

“Every veteran has a unique situation,” he said. “Some may need jobs, so we try to get them a job right away. Some need to work on substance abuse issues or PTSD or mental health, so we focus on that. Whatever they need, we work with them.”

To learn more about Patriot Place, call (989) 448-2260 or contact Pratt at thomasp@ goodwillmi.org.

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THE BOATHOUSE An experience for all seasons on West Grand Traverse Bay

By Janice Binkert Bowers Harbor Marina on Old Mission Peninsula is empty now. The summer tableau of boats, sailors, and fishermen outside its windows has moved out to make way for a new show: water that some days is as smooth as glass, and other days, when dramatic storms move in, whips up whitecaps as winds send dry leaves — and soon snow — whirling through the air.

The Boathouse’s sweeping views of the seasons’ spectacles is certainly one factor that draws people to this upscale yet unpretentious restaurant just 10 minutes’ drive north of Traverse City, but what keeps them coming back again and again — year round — is its outstanding food and highly personalized service. Owner Doug Kosch and executive chef Jim Morse are of one mind in wanting to give every guest a memorable dining experience.

“Whether you’re coming in to celebrate a special occasion and looking forward to indulging in osetra caviar and Wagyu filet in the dining room, or capping off a day of wine tasting or cross-country skiing and feeling more in the mood for a Boathouse burger and poutine fries in our bar lounge, we want you to feel welcome and relaxed,” said Kosch.

Morse, a graduate of the Great Lakes Culinary Institute and former chefinstructor there, came to the Boathouse right out of school and stayed for eight years, after which he spent five years working with acclaimed area chef Michael Peterson at fish- and seafood-centric Siren Hall in Elk Rapids.

“I wanted to work with him because I knew what he was doing and what he could teach me,” said Morse. “I learned a lot from him about choosing seafood and fish and the variety of techniques that you can use to prepare them. He helped me expand and develop my repertoire, as well as refine the

skills that I already had.”

Having returned to the Boathouse four years ago, Morse now oversees a well-trained kitchen staff, including sous chef Oumar Sy, a native of Senegal. “He just moved here about a year ago from the Washington D.C. area, where he had worked with Michelin-starred chefs and later owned his own restaurant,” said Morse. “He’s great — he works harder than anybody, and he knows what it takes to do this job.” Morse and Kosch also have high praise for the rest of their staff, front and back of the house. “They are a solid core group of individuals who have been with us for a long time,” said Kosch. “They take their jobs seriously, and it shows in the body of their work. They are true professionals.”

Kosch and his family live just a stone’s throw from the Boathouse, and many of the vegetables, fruits, and herbs used in the restaurant are grown right on their 10acre farm, using environmentally friendly practices. “In late fall we really try to harvest and preserve as much as we can,” said Kosch.

“We pickle and can beans and cauliflower, make a basic sauce with the ripe tomatoes that chef can turn into other things, and make a relish from the remaining green tomatoes.” Apples are pressed for juice and then cooked down and frozen for future menu items.

When cooler weather dictates certain changes in the Boathouse menu, Morse’s mind turns to ingredients like game, root vegetables, and foraged fare. “I’m looking forward to getting some elk short ribs and racks from a farm near Gaylord soon,” he said. “Elk is so different from venison.

There’s less gaminess, more marbling, and it’s more juicy and tender.”

He braises the short ribs in red wine and serves them with celery root and potato purée. The elk racks are cold-smoked over juniper branches before being grilled to medium. To accompany them, Morse creates a chorizo hash and squash puree and makes

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a sauce out of autumn olive berries, which he said grow wild in open fields or by the side of the road, but are seldom harvested by anyone.

In addition to the Boathouse’s signature Wagyu beef, lobster tail, and organic salmon entrées, its baked Leelanau Cheese truffled raclette (with white wine, shallot and garlic, served over rosemary ham, fingerling potatoes, cornichons and garlic toast) and morel-chanterelle bisque (chateau d’orignac, cream, white truffle oil) are two popular menu choices when the temperature drops.

The combination of such serious comfort food and the cozy, cottage-style dining room, bathed in the warmth of flickering logs in its large stone fireplace, chases any thought of chills away.

The composition and presentation of Morse’s creations are very intentional. “I have a vision for each dish and plating,” he said. “Every entrée, for example, is composed of what, in my opinion, are complementary elements — flavor-wise, color-wise, and texture-wise. Take our lamb, for example. Right now the preparation is Mediterranean, with fava bean-mint purée, roasted cauliflower, eggplant caponata, and marinated feta. Last year, it was more Indian.

We’re able to appeal to a wide range of diners because, while we do the classics, we also try to push the envelope and do fun, new things. Whatever I cook, though, I focus on certain techniques and tastes. I want it to be grounded in some tradition or structure.”

Tradition is one of the things that inspired Morse to pursue a culinary career.

Growing up, he was very close to his greatgrandmother. “She was very healthy and active right up until she died at age 95. She always had a big garden and loved to cook.

It was simple food, but very good. She had that connection to fresh vegetables, and she passed it on to me. I would eat green beans and tomatoes right off the plants in her garden, and there’s still nothing better than that to me. She always made chocolate cake and drank Earl Grey tea, too, and today I make a chocolate truffle that has Earl Grey tea in the ganache — it’s a tribute to her.”

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AW(ESOME) SHUCKS (AND SUBLIME SLURPS)

Oysters are a big deal at the Boathouse and not just during the winter holidays.

The restaurant’s in-house oyster bar offers an intriguing mix of Atlantic and Pacific varieties throughout the year. A recent sampling listed Raspberry Point from Prince Edward Island (clean, briny), Wellfleet from Massachusetts (rich, buttery), and Kumaiai from California (plump, creamy), among others. Connoisseurs of these bivalvian delicacies can enjoy them in either the lounge or the dining room and choose from three different preparations: on the half shell (with mignonette, cocktail sauce, lemon, and horseradish), Rockefeller style (with bacon, spinach, pernod, parmesan, and panko), or combined with poke (yellowfin tuna, wasabi avocado, yuzu, sesame, jalapeno, radish). And now, champagne, anyone?

SAVE THE DATE FOR SANTA & CO.

“In our off-season, we really focus on events, including lots of wine dinners with local wineries and a few from California,” said Kosch. November kicks it off with a wine- and beer-pairing dinner on Nov. 10, followed by “Date Night” on Nov. 18, and the ever-popular Boathouse Thanksgiving dinner on Nov. 23. December brings brunch with Santa and Christmas Eve dinner, and February reprises the popular wild game weekend, complete with “Crabbed Aggression” on Friday night (hint: Grab your wooden mallets and get cracking). See the Boathouse website for further details on these events and more.

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By Clark Miller Gordie Howe (1928–2016) had a storied athletic career. Considered by many to be the most complete hockey player ever, the ambidextrous Canadian spent 25 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings and was a 23time All Star. Loved by fans but feared by opponents, “Mr. Hockey” (a registered trademark of Howe’s) inspired the term “The Gordie Howe Hat Trick” — a goal, an assist, and a fight.

Those who knew him off the ice, though, saw a very different man.

He was a devoted husband, father, and friend—eventempered and full of selfdeprecatory humor.

That is the side we learn about from his youngest (and arguably least athletic) son, Dr. Murray Howe, who will discuss his book, “Nine Lessons I Learned From My Father,” at the National Writers Series on Sunday, Nov. 12, at the City Opera House in Traverse City. Doors open at 6pm. The event, which will be hosted by local author and broadcaster Ron Jolly, begins at 7pm.

From the start, Murray Howe had the drive and love of the game to be a great hockey player but possessed neither the size nor skill of his brothers, Marty and Mark, both of whom went on to professional hockey careers.

His hopes of following his father’s path ended when he was cut from the University of Michigan team, an event that — seemingly to his own surprise — set him on the road to becoming a physician.

Dr. Howe now heads sports medicine imaging for Toledo Radiological Associates and is associate clinical professor at the University of Toledo Medical Center. He also serves on the University of Michigan Medical School Admissions Committee and is a sought-after speaker on the topics of sports medicine, health and wellness,

and hockey.

It might be reasonable to expect that his father, Gordie, easily one of the toughest players in the National Hockey League and a man obsessed with the sport since grade school in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, might have favored his two more athletically gifted sons. That was not the case. Instead, he understood that each child had to choose his or her own way.

As “Nine Lessons” unfolds, it becomes apparent that Gordie was more — not less — than “just” Mr. Hockey. He was a fun-loving dad whose idea of a good time (off the ice) was to be with family and friends. This was a guy you could hang out with.

Without a lot of fuss, he demonstrated to his family, teammates, and fans his own ideas about a life well spent.

Murray sums it up: • Live honorably • Live generously • Play hard, but have fun • Patience, patience, patience • Live selflessly • Be humble • Be tough • Stay positive • Friends and family are like gold — treasure them “His outlook and actions point to a profound love of live and a deep sense of community,” Murray writes. “He shunned luxury, glamour, and excess, because, frankly, he was happy with what he had.”

“He loved people enough that it simply didn’t matter to him whether you were rich or poor, famous or anonymous. Everyone was someone to him. He treated the cashier at the grocery store with the same openness with which he treated movie stars and fellow pro athletes.”

There is also a strong Grand Traverse area connection to the Howe family saga: They spent many summers on Old Mission Peninsula. Many people here directly experienced Howe’s friendliness and quirky

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‘No, my wife wants them,’ he replied.” “‘Why so many?” I asked. ‘Are you guys moving?’” “’No,’ he said with a deadpan expression.

‘I think they’re for my body parts next time she gets mad at me.’”

Tickets to the National Writers Series can be purchased online at cityoperahouse.org, by phone at (231) 941-8082. or by visiting the City Opera House box office at 106 East Front St., Traverse City.

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MOVING AHEAD - A JOURNEY INTO ADULTHOOD: 8am-1:30pm, TBAISD Career Tech Center, TC. A free informational fair & workshop for communities supporting individuals with disabilities. Featuring more than 45 organizations & agencies. Best selling author & motivational speaker Ron Sandison will talk about his life experience growing up with autism & the path that has led to his life being full. movingaheadjourney.wix.com/movingahead

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30TH ANNIVERSARY DICKENS’ CHRISTMAS BAZAAR: 9am, First Congregational Church, TC. All proceeds benefit the community.

100 artists, book signings by local authors, blacksmith demonstration, carolers & more. One piece of pearl jewelry will be given away, donated by Becky Thatcher Designs. Info: fcctc.org

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DENTAL HEALTH DAY: 9am, State Theatre, TC. Dedicated to children’s dental health. In addition to a showing of the movie “ToothFairy,” dental assistants from NMC will perform a dental-themed skit & hand out free dental care kits. Doors open at 9am; show at 10am.

995-6129. 25 cents.

-------------------ICEMAN COMETH CHALLENGE: 9am-4pm, Downtown Kalkaska. A 29-mile mountain bike race from Kalkaska to Traverse City. The Meijer Slush Cup (shorter version of this race) takes place from 9am-4pm at Timber Ridge, TC; the Meijer Sno-Cone for ages 10 & under also takes place at Timber Ridge at 3pm; Junior Iceman starts at noon at Kalkaska County Civic Center; & Sunset on the Season After Party takes place at Union Street Station, TC at 9pm. iceman.com

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PLACEMAT PALOOZA: 9:30am, TC Senior Center. A benefit for Meals on Wheels. Volunteers are needed for making placemats, walker bags. Includes a potluck lunch. Participants are asked to bring their sewing machine & basic tools. You can also help with cutting & pressing. Info: 231-276-9100 or tawni@interquilten.com. interquilten.com

-------------------AC PAW CHRISTMAS CRAFT SHOW: 10am4pm, Williamsburg Event Center, Acme. Featuring 50+ local craft vendors, pet photos with Santa Paws, pet microchipping, mega holiday bake sale & more. Free. acpaw.org

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ARTS IN ACTION: 10am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Featuring Michael Sincic, who lost his sight two decades ago due to a brain tumor, & is now a popular local artist who paints watercolors from memory or description. greatlakeskids.org

-------------------HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR: 10am-3pm, Bellaire High School. Featuring over 60 regional artisans. 231.533.6023.

-------------------INTERLOCHEN PUBLIC LIBRARY EVENTS: 10am-noon: Mason Jar Art Class. For adults.

Materials provided. Sign up: 231-276-6767.

2-4pm: Game Day at Golden Fellowship Hall.

All ages. Free. tadl.org/interlochen

-------------------LEELANAU STATE PARK TRAILS CLEAN UP DAY: 10am-2pm. Meet at the trail head off of Densmore Rd., by Woolsey Airport, north of Northport. Rake & blow leaves, trim tree limbs, & ready the trails for winter activities.

Bring your own bag lunch. Info: 231-386-5422. grandtraverselighthouse.com

-------------------TRAINING A SEARCH & RESCUE DOG: 10am, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mission Peninsula School, TC. Featuring Paula Kelly & her pup Henry. Free. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

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TREETOPS TRIFECTA: 10am, Treetops North Resort, Gaylord. Today features the 5K at 10am & Hill Climb at 4pm. greatlakesendurance.com

Don your best beard for the 4th Annual Great Beerd Run, an untimed, fun 5K at GT Resort and Spa, Pavilion Tent, Acme on Sat., Nov. 11 at 10am. You’ll enjoy on course beer tastings from Beards Brewery, Short’s Brewery and Right Brain Brewery, as well as a post-race beer tent featuring a Best Beard Contest, race grub and music. For ages 21+. thegreatbeerdrun.com

ZONTA FASHION SHOW: 11am-2pm, Odawa Casino, Petoskey. The Fashion Show, themed “Women Rock the World,” will highlight the latest fall & winter fashions from more than 30 retailers in the Petoskey-Harbor Springs area, & include an elegant lunch, entertainment by Michelle Chenard & Meg Kehoe, a silent auction & more. $60. eventbrite.com

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AUTHORS SIGNINGS: Horizon Books, TC. 122pm: Jane Sheffer will sign her book “Behind the Barn Door.” 2-4pm: David Story Allen will sign his book “Off Tom Nevers.” horizonbooks.com

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TIPS & TRICKS FOR IPHONES & IPADS: 1-3pm, Cadillac Library. Steve Stanton, Leelanau Computer Repair, will educate on iphone/ ipad techniques & apps. This is not for beginner user. Please bring fully charged device.

This class is provided by Friends of the Library.

For more info call 231-510-9047. Free.

-------------------“A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE”: 2pm & 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Phoenix Theatre. This play written by Tennessee Williams centers around the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions. $16 full, $14 senior, $11 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

Rock. Adults $10; students $8; 5 & under free.

SALDAJE IN CONCERT: 7pm, Higher Art Gallery, TC. Featuring music, dance & performance for “Shadow Song.” Donation. higherartgallery.com

-------------------“A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE”: SOLD OUT: 7:30pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Phoenix Theatre. This play written by Tennessee Williams centers around the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions. $16 full, $14 senior, $11 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

-------------------BLISSFEST CONTRA & SQUARE DANCE: 7:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Featuring music by Peacemeal with Jan Fowler & Cynthia Donahey calling. $3/person, $5/couple, $7/family. All dances taught. redskystage.com

-------------------PRESLEY, PERKINS, LEWIS & CASH: 7:30pm, Petoskey Middle School Auditorium.

Hear these rock & roll stars from the past! $10 students, $20 adults. crookedtree.org

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BEAUSOLEIL AVEC MICHAEL DOUCET: 8pm, Milliken Auditorium, NMC, TC. This Cajun group’s sound is derived from New Orleans jazz, blues rock, folk, swamp pop, Zydeco, country & bluegrass. $24-$27. mynorthtickets.com

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LAMB’S RETREAT SONGWRITERS CONCERT: 8pm, Birchwood Inn, Harbor Springs.

Featuring Pierce Pettis, Jenny Bienemann, Rod Picott, Justin Farren & Emily Rose.

Hosted by John D. Lamb. 231-526-2151. $15. springfed.org

BATA CREATE: PAINT A BATA BUS FOR CHARITY: 2-5pm, Monkey Fist Brewing Co., TC. Join Arts for All of Northern Michigan to participate in the creation of art that will adorn a BATA Bus for over a year! Led by local graffiti artist Chase Hunt. artsforallnmi.org Free.

TRIVIA NIGHT FUNDRAISER WITH QUOTA TC: 5:30pm, VFW Post 2780, 3400 Veterans Dr., TC. Join Quota of Traverse City to benefit GT Metro Fire & Life Safety + Safe Kids North Shore as they supple local in-home smoke alarms & child safety seats. The FUNdraiser ticket includes pizza, snacks, your first beverage & 8 Rounds of FUN Trivia. $30 advance/$35 at the door. facebook.com/quotatraversecity

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HARVEST BANQUET: 6pm, The Rock, Kingsley. Enjoy food, fellowship & fun. A homecooked meal is provided & all proceeds benefit The Rock’s life-skills programs planned for 2018. Tickets: 231-263-7000 or stop by The

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UNCLE KRACKER W/ JOCAINE & TOWNE: 8pm, Streeters, Ground Zero, TC. Singer, lyricist, former rapper & guitarist Uncle Kracker is known for his singles “Follow Me” & “Drift Away.” $25 + handling. groundzeroonline.com/events

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3RD ANNUAL CITY OPERA HOUSE GALA: 8:15pm, City Opera House, TC. “Broadway On Front, Musical Legends.” Enjoy a revue of music legends with performances by several of Broadway’s top performers, direct from NYC. There will be a special performance by “Take It From The Top” Class of 2017. Tickets start at $25. cityoperahouse.org/gala

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TREETOPS TRIFECTA: 9am, Treetops North Resort, Gaylord. Today features the Half Marathon at 9am. greatlakesendurance.com

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CLEAN UP & GREEN UP: 9am-3pm, TC West Senior High School. This event provides an opportunity for locals to divert, from area landfills, items that have salvageable components or further use. Info: cleanupgreenup.com

EMPTY BOWLS: 11am-2pm, Hagerty Center, TC. Presented by Food Rescue of Northwest Michigan. Every dollar raised equals five pounds of food delivered to 48 food pantries.

Featuring a soup luncheon, silent auction, entertainment & handmade bowls. Tickets: $20 per person or $75 for 4. goodwillnmi. org/2017/01/emptybowls

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FOR ANIMALS VEGAN POTLUCK & MOVIE: 1pm, Traverse Area District Library, TC. Featuring “The Champions.” Feel free to being a vegan dish & a friend. Free. foranimalstc.org

-------------------FREE VETERANS DINNER: 2-6pm, Elks Lodge, TC. Free buffet dinner for all veterans & active duty military. Non-veteran family or guests pay $10.

-------------------MAY ERLEWINE TRIO CONCERT: 3pm, The Barn at Iron Fish Distillery, Thompsonville.

General admission, $10. Children 18 & under, free. Optional donation of children’s winter gloves, hats or socks. Iron Fish Distillery will donate 10% of beverage proceeds to Benzie Area Christian Neighbors (BACN) and all winter clothing donations collected will be distributed to area families by BACN. ironfishdistillery.com/events/may-erlewine-trio

-------------------PRESENTATION ON THE BENEFIT OF PUBLIC ART TO THE COMMUNITY: 3pm, Village Arts Building, Northport. Presented by the Northport Arts Association & Executive Director of the Arts Council of Great Lansing Deborah E. Mikula. 231-386-1113. Free.

-------------------MEREDITH PARSONS MCCOMB: CLASSIC SONGS & STORIES ABOUT THEM: 4pm, Leelanau Community Cultural Center, Leland. This Metropolitan Opera artist will present a program that will include live music & storytelling from her career on stages from Traverse City to Paris and Tel Aviv. $15. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------SUNDAY SERIES: GLCO’S WOODWINDS QUINTET: 4pm, Castle Farms, Charlevoix.

(231) 487-0010. Free will donation.

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NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE CIRCLE: 4:456pm, Higher Self Bookstore, TC. Play or listen.

Free. higherselfbookstore.com

nov 06

monday

CREATING FALL FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS: 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Led by Vicki Nielson. Register: 231-3314318. Free.

-------------------OLD MISSION PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION GIVES UPDATE ON NEW SCHOOL: 6pm, Jolly Pumpkin, TC. This school will open in Sept. 2018. Featuring representatives from Grand Valley State University & the National Charter School Institute.

-------------------HOPE FOR THE HOLIDAYS: 6:30pm, Elk Rapids Public Library. Learn how to prepare for & survive the holiday blues, for those grieving the loss of a loved one. Hosted by Heartland Hospice. Free.

-------------------SINGING THE GOOD OLD SONGS AGAIN: 7pm, Peninsula Community Library, Old Mis-

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sion Peninsula School, TC. Sing along to folk songs from the 60s & 70s. peninsulacommunitylibrary.org

nov 07

tuesday

ARTFUL CONVERSATION: 10am-noon, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Peggy Hawley will present a program on Henri Mattise’s influence on Richard Diebenkorn. She will then facilitate a discussion. Free. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

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AUTHOR SIGNING: 3pm, Horizon Books, TC. With Vic Foerster, author of “Hidden in the Trees: An Isle Royale Sojourn.” horizonbooks.com

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PARKINSON’S NETWORK NORTH EVENING MEETING: 6pm, MCHC, rooms A&B, TC. Featuring Fred Goldenberg, Senior Benefits Solutions. 947-7389. gtaparkinsonsgroup.org

-------------------TCNEWTECH MEETUP: 6-8pm, City Opera House, TC. Technology professionals are invited to hear presentations from five pre-selected speakers who will each be given five minutes to showcase their technology product or business startup, & another five minutes to field questions from peers, potential partners, & investors in the audience. RSVP: https://www.meetup. com/TCNewTech/ Free. tcnewtech.org

-------------------AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN PROGRAM: 6:30pm, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, TC. “Inside Look at Interlochen Public Radio” with Executive Director of IPR Peter Payette. traversecityarea-mi.aauw.net

-------------------NW MICHIGAN NT SUPPORT PARENT GROUP MEETING: 6:30pm, TC. “TC Autism/ Employer Initiative” will be discussed. The exact TC location is provided when the neurotypical family member joins the NW Michigan NT Support private Meetup group at: www. meetup.com/NW-Michigan-NT-Support/.

-------------------AUTHOR ROBERT DOWNES SPEAKS ON “LIFE IN NATIVE AMERICA 400 YEARS AGO”: 7pm, Brilliant Books, TC. Featuring more than 100 digital slides, this talk is based on the historical research behind Downes’s new novel, “Windigo Moon,” set 400 years ago among the Ojibwe Indians of the Upper Great Lakes. Free. brilliant-books.net

nov 08

wednesday

ADAPTIVE MARTIAL ARTS: 2:30-4:30pm, The Presbyterian Church, TC. With the GT Area Stroke Club. Martial artist Bogdan Heretoiu will share how movements from the martial arts can be adapted for stroke patients & help in their recovery process. munsonhealthcare.org/strokeclub

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BRUSH STROKES FOR HOPE - PRICELESS ART SALE: 4:30-6:30pm, The Salvation Army Community Center, TC. Featuring paintings

by Leelanau County artist Donna Johnston who donated 200 paintings to the Salvation Army Traverse City. Purchasers are asked to determine price in the value they can afford & the priceless help of supporting Salvation Army programs.

-------------------GAYLORD BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5-7pm, Alpine Tavern & Eatery, Gaylord.

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-------------------“ALMOST SUNRISE”: 7pm, Milliken Auditorium, Dennos Museum Center, NMC, TC. This documentary will be followed by a Q & A with local military veterans. dennosmuseum.org

-------------------SONGWRITER’S SHOWCASE: 7pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Presented by the Artistsin-Residence of Lamb’s Retreat for Songwriters. $10 advance; $15 door. $8 students, $5 12 & under. Proceeds benefit the Blissfest Lamb’s Retreat Scholarship Program. redskystage.com

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LUNCH WITH THE MAESTRO - MOZART + MENDELSSOHN: Noon, TC Golf & Country Club. Offers an educational look into the music to be performed by the TSO. Enjoy exploring composers, repertoire & the stories behind the music with Maestro Kevin Rhodes. $25 per person, includes lunch. traversesymphony.org

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GRAND TRAVERSE MUSICALE PROGRAM: 1pm, First Congregational Church, TC. TC Sings with Heather Kingham.

-------------------MAKER AFTERNOONS: LEGO ROBOTICS: 3:30pm, Leland Township Library. Kids ages 9+ are invited to drop by & explore a S.T.E.A.M.-based activity. A healthy snack will be provided. Free. lelandlibrary.org

-------------------4TH ANNUAL TC ALE TRAIL IPA CHALLENGE: 5:30-10pm, The Little Fleet, TC. A local competition between 10 TC breweries.

Each brewery will produce their “Best IPA” & submit it. Be a judge & choose your favorite brew. All tasting will be blind. $30. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------NOVEMBER BUSINESS AFTER HOURS: 5:30pm, The Homestead, Welcome Center, Glen Arbor. Find on Facebook.

-------------------“ROBIN HOOD”: 7pm, Old Town Playhouse, MainStage, TC. Presented by the OTP Young Company. $6-$15. mynorthtickets.com

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REBECCA LOEBE: 7pm, Traverse Bay Cafe, TC. This Austin-based singer/songwriter earned a place on Alternate Root Magazine’s annual listing of The Top 10 Female Singers in America. She is touring in support of her latest album, “Blink”! 943-1755. $20 advance; $25 door.

-------------------TCAPS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS “LES MISERABLES”: 7pm, Central High School Auditorium, TC. $15-25. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------ARTISTS FROM INTERLOCHEN AT KIRKBRIDE HALL: 7:30pm, Kirkbride Hall, GT Commons, TC. Featuring Courtney KaiserSandler wsg Steve Nistor on drums, Crispin Campbell on cello & Matthew Cochran on guitar. $25 full; $11 youth. tickets.interlochen.org

-------------------JEFF DANIELS & THE BEN DANIELS BAND: 7:30pm, City Opera House, TC. Enjoy Jeff Daniels, who just released his eighth record, “Simple Truths,” & his son Ben Daniels & band who has five CDs & whose sound spans Americana, blues, jazz & rock. Tickets start at $32.50. cityoperahouse.org/jeff-daniels

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friday

DISCOVER WITH ME: 10am, Great Lakes Children’s Museum, TC. Sing and Dance with Me: Movin’ and Groovin’. Dance to the music with scarves, bubbles and rhythm band instruments. greatlakeskids.org

HOLIDAY BOOK SALE & CRAFT SHOPPE: 10am-5pm, Benzonia Public Library, Benzonia. Featuring gently used books & puzzles plus crafts. Friends members get one free book. Proceeds benefit BPL programs. 231882-4111. benzonialibrary.org

-------------------STORYTIME AT LELAND TOWNSHIP LIBRARY: 10:30am. Stories and play designed to promote joy and growth in literacy. Children ages 0-6 and their caregivers welcomed. Free. lelandlibrary.org

-------------------TC BEER WEEK: Nov. 10-18. Stop by each ‘Suds Spot’ & receive three 4 oz. brew tastes when you turn in a ticket. Suds Spots include Right Brain, Jolly Pumpkin, Blue Tractor Barbecue, The Mitten Brewing Co., Northport, North Peak, Sleder’s, The Filling Station & The Workshop Brewing Co. $25. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------VETERANS CELEBRATIONS: 11am-1pm.

Held at East Jordan Senior Center, Boyne Area Senior Center & Charlevoix Senior Center. There will also be dinner, live music, local guest “celebrity” waiters & waitresses & a Missing Man Ceremony.

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-------------------LUNCHEON LECTURE: THE HISTORY OF CASTLE FARMS: 11:30am, NCMC, Library conference room, Petoskey. This presentation will cover the Castle’s four owners, their impact on the buildings & community, & the restoration project that brought the property back from near ruin. Lunch, 11:30am; program, noon. Reservations required: 231-3486600. $12.

-------------------2ND ANNUAL MESSAGE OF THANKS HONORS LUNCHEON: 12-3pm, Eagles Club Banquet Hall, Gaylord. Recognize those who have served our country, & honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the Armed Forces. 989-350-2229 or chris@smithrealtygaylord.com Free for veterans; $5 others.

-------------------MARINERS MEMORIAL: Noon, NMC Great Lakes Campus, harborside courtyard, TC. 995-1200.

-------------------CLEARING SPACE WITH LJ GREER: 1pm, Petoskey District Library Classroom, Petoskey. Mindfully De-Clutter Your Office.

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-------------------HOLIDAY ART MARKET: 3-7pm, The Children’s House, TC. Featuring a wide array of local artisans & craftspeople. traversechildrenshouse.org

-------------------“ROBIN HOOD”: (See Thurs., Nov. 9) -------------------STORM: A MARITIME VISUAL CONCERT EXPERIENCE: 7-9pm, Charlevoix Middle/ High School. Thousands of ships, from sailing schooners to steel freighters, have vanished on the Great Lakes. Combining actual eyewitness interviews with spellbinding underwater video, Storm fuses contemporary music to create a history lesson in this concert. Free.

-------------------TCAPS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS “LES MISERABLES”: (See Thurs., Nov. 9)

-------------------BLISSFEST FOLK & ROOTS MINI-CONCERT SERIES: 7:30pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey. Robin Lee Berry Concert & Album Release Party. The band will be celebrating the release of a new album, “Weave Me a Parachute.” $10 advance, $15 door. $8 students; $5 12 & under. redskystage.com

nov 11

saturday

FREE VETERANS BREAKFAST: 8-10am, NCMC, cafeteria, Iron Horse Café, Petoskey. Held for veterans & their families. ncmich.edu

Joshua Davis

oct 31

The Way Back Home

Thursday, November 16 at 7:30pm

Join Leelanau County resident & NBC’s The Voice finalist Joshua Davis for an evening of story and song commemorating the release of his new album: The Way Back Home.

Forbidden Broadway 35th Anniversary Tour

Sunday, November 19 at 2pm and 7pm The fall-down funny musical roast of Broadway targeting over 30 shows you know – Annie, Hamilton, Pippin, Kinky Boots, Les Miz, Wicked and more.

Pete the Cat

Saturday, November 25 at 11am and 1:30pm Just $9 | Best for ages 4+ A rocking new musical based on the Pete The Cat series of books by Kimberly and James Dean.

Christmas Songs and Stories with John Berry

Sunday, November 26 at 7pm Mention John Berry’s name to just about any country music lover and the response will likely be, “What a voice!” This year marks his 21st consecutive Christmas concert series.

The Wizards of Winter Thursday, December 21 at 7:30pm The holiday rock event for the whole family featuring original members of The Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent Band and more.

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THISTLE & THREAD ART SHOW AND SALE: 8am-4pm, TC VFW Post. Free.

-------------------VASA TRAIL RUN 5K, 10K & 25K: 9am-1pm, Vasa Trail Head, Williamsburg. runvasa.com

-------------------HOLIDAY ART MARKET: 10am-4pm, The Children’s House, TC. Featuring a wide array of local artisans & craftspeople. traversechildrenshouse.org

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HOLIDAY BOOK SALE & CRAFT SHOPPE: 10am-3pm, Benzonia Public Library, Benzonia.

Featuring gently used books & puzzles plus crafts. Friends members get one free book.

Proceeds benefit BPL programs. 231-8824111. benzonialibrary.org

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HORIZON BOOKS, TC EVENTS: 10am-noon: Bill O. Smith will sign his book “4 AM December 25.” 12-2pm: Kim G. Overton will sign her book “Nathan and Father: A Walk of Wonder.”

2-4pm: Sue McVey will sign her book “A Guide to the Traverse City Area Craft Beer Scene.”

4-6pm: Book Launch Party with Karen Anderson, author of “Gradual Clearing: Weather Reports from the Heart.” horizonbooks.com

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SHOP YOUR COMMUNITY DAY: Shop Downtown TC & 15% of your purchase amount will be donated to the charity of your choice.

922-2050. downtowntc.com

-------------------THE GREAT BEERD RUN: 10am, GT Resort & Spa, Pavilion Tent, Acme. This 5K fun run features on course beer tastings from Beards Brewery, Short’s Brewery & Right Brain Brewery. There will also be a post-race beer tent featuring a Best Beard Contest, race grub & music. For ages 21+. thegreatbeerdrun.com

-------------------TRAVERSE CITY CHILDREN’S BOOK FESTIVAL: 10am-2pm, City Opera House, TC. A celebration of literacy & family. Featuring a sampling of books for the entire family from a variety of Michigan & national publishers. There will also be kid-friendly activities & crafts. Free. tcchildrensbookfestival.com

-------------------TC BEER WEEK: (See Fri., Nov. 10) -------------------FLAPJACK & FLANNEL FESTIVAL: 1-7pm, The Little Fleet, TC. Presented by Create TC. Wear your flannel & drink brews paired with flapjacks. Live music by Jack Pine and Hot N Bothered. $25. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------FESTIVE HOLIDAY TREATS-COOKING DEMO: 2pm, Mills Community House, Lower Level Home of Benzonia Public Library. With Audrey & Anna. Participants will enjoy appetizer & dessert trays following the program.

Info. & sign-up: 231-882-4111. Free. benzonialibrary.org

-------------------VETERANS DINNER: 5pm, Cheboygan Knights of Columbus Hall. Free for vets; donations will be accepted for family & friends.

-------------------“ROBIN HOOD”: (See Thurs., Nov. 9) --------------------

BACK PORCH COFFEEHOUSE SERIES: 7pm, Charlevoix Senior Center building.

Featuring Roger Brown, whose songs span the roots of American music from folk to country to blues. Brown has also written music for Ringo Starr. There will be a circle jam at 8:30pm. $10 per person suggested donation.

-------------------TCAPS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS “LES MISERABLES”: (See Thurs., Nov. 9)

Karen Mal, David Stoddard & Michael Kelsey.

Hosted by John D. Lamb. 231-526-2151. $15. springfed.org

-------------------MAY ERLEWINE: 8pm, The Elk’s, third floor, Cadillac. Presented by Gopherwood Concerts.

Although Erlewine’s music includes traditional folk roots, old time country swing, soul & rock & roll, it’s mostly about feeling & telling life’s stories. Advance tickets: $15 adults, $7 students, free for 12 & under. Door: $18; $9. gopherwoodconcerts.org

nov 12

sunday

HUNGER & HOMELESSNESS AWARENESS WEEK: FILM SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION: 11am-1pm, State Theatre, TC. The Homeless Youth Initiative & Youth Homelessness Demonstration Project are screening the film, “Wendy and Lucy,” followed by a panel discussion with the Youth Advisory Board. Free. facebook.com/fighthungerandhomelessnesstc

-------------------TC BEER WEEK: (See Fri., Nov. 10) --------------------

GREAT HOUSES & GARDENS OF YORKSHIRE: 1-3pm, The Botanic Garden at Historic Barns Park, TC. With Karen & Kurt Schmidt.

A sampling of English desserts will follow the presentation. Register. Free. thebotanicgarden. org/events

-------------------“ROBIN HOOD”: 2pm, Old Town Playhouse, MainStage, TC. Presented by the OTP Young Company. $6-$15. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------INSIGHTS ON CUBA: 2pm, Helena Township Community Center, Alden. Tom & Sarah Juntune will present this program on their recent Road Scholar trip to Cuba. 231-331-4318.

-------------------TCAPS CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS “LES MISERABLES”: 2pm, Central High School Auditorium, TC. $15-25. mynorthtickets.com

-------------------MOZART + MENDELSSOHN - TRAVERSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 3pm, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Corson Auditorium. Van Cliburn International Piano Competition gold medalist Ralph Votapek returns to the Symphony stage. Tickets start at $25.50. traversesymphony.org

ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS (ACA): Thursdays, 5:30-7pm, basement of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, TC. For those who seek to address the residual effects of having been raised in dysfunctional household. adultchildren.org

-------------------FARR FRIENDS IN ONEKAMA: Thursdays, 2:30-4:30pm, Farr Center, Onekama. Get together with friends & neighbors for an afternoon of fun, games & lectures. Onekama.info

-------------------FREE COMMUNITY CLASS: Wednesdays, 7:30pm, Bikram Yoga, TC. Find on Facebook.

-------------------FREE HEALTHY AGING WORKSHOP: Mondays, 5:30-7:30pm through Nov. 6. Area Agency on Aging of Northwest Michigan, TC. Creating Confident Caregivers Workshop: A six-session, evidence-based program that provides caregivers with information & skills for effective caregiving of their family member residing at home with memory loss. Register: 1-800-442-1713. aaanm.org

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KNITTING GROUP: Tuesdays, 1-3pm, Benzonia Public Library, Benzonia. Knit simple, fun projects or work on your own projects. benzonialibrary.org

-------------------BOYNE CITY INDOOR FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 9am-noon through April. Main lobby area of the new City Facilities Building, Boyne City. boynecitymainstreet.com/farmers-marketwelcome

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CTAC ARTISANS & FARMERS MARKET, PETOSKEY: Fridays, 10am-1pm, upper level Carnegie, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey.

This market has moved back inside. When weather permits, vendors will sell their goods out on the Bidwell Plaza, too. crookedtree.org

-------------------INDOOR FARMERS MARKET, THE MERCATO, THE VILLAGE AT GT COMMONS, TC: Saturdays, 10am-2pm, through April.

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“COLOR CATCHERS”: Jordan River Arts Council, East Jordan. Five photographers examine the wonders & mysteries of color through abstract images – compositions of shape, form, line & color. Runs through Nov. 12. jordanriverarts.com

HOLIDAY WINE MARKET SWIRL: 5-7pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center Galleries, Petoskey.

Hosted by Symons General Store. This event will pair 30 wines & appetizers. Live music

by Chris Koury. $20 advance; $25 day of. crookedtree.org NATIONAL WRITERS SERIES: 7pm, City Opera House, TC. An Evening with Murray Howe. This author of “Nine Lessons I Learned From My Father” is a son’s intimate account of all that lies behind the towering legacy of Gordie Howe. Featuring guest host WTCM’s Ron Jolly. Tickets start at $15.50; $5.50 + tickets fees for students. cityoperahouse.org/ nws-murray-howe

helping hands

HIP HOP, A NORTHERN MICHIGAN HIP HOP SHOW: 8-10pm, Red Sky Stage, Petoskey.

Featuring local hip hop artists including Dreeb, Noemad, Braedon the Faded, King RAYN, LiL Luke, Nick Spencer and Nauseous. $8. redskystage.com LAMBS RETREAT SONGWRITERS CONCERT : 8pm, Birchwood Inn, Harbor Springs.

Featuring Laurie McClain, Severin Browne,

NMC FOOD PANTRY: Available to all active students. This operates out of the basement of the Osterlin Building, NMC, TC, but students

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“BUSTED”: Michigan Artists Gallery, TC. Artist Leanne Schnepp has created a series of busts of women from famous paintings. Runs through the fall. michiganartistsgallery.com

SAFE HOME HARVEST FOOD & SUPPLY DRIVE: Help support survivors of domestic abuse & their children utilizing Safe Home services by bringing non-perishable foods, household supplies, paper products, personal care items & financial contributions to the Women’s Resource Center of Northern MI offices in Cheboygan, Gaylord & Mancelona. wrcnm.org

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don’t have to physically access the shelves.

Instead, they’ll fill out an online form stating their household size & needs. nmc.edu

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-------------------“GIVE THE GIFT OF ART HOLIDAY EXHIBIT”: Higher Art Gallery, TC. Runs through Jan. 2. higherartgallery.com

-------------------“JUST GREAT ART”: City Opera House, TC. Eight artists from the Plein Air Painters of Northwest Michigan will exhibit their oil, pastel, watercolor & acrylic paintings. Runs through Jan. 2. cityoperahouse.org

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11TH ANNUAL “ART OF RECOVERY: THE HUMAN JOURNEY”: Traverse Area District Library, McGuire Community Room, TC. Sponsored by Northern Lakes Community Mental Health, this show celebrates the resiliency & healing power of people. A community celebration & opening reception will be held on Weds., Nov. 8 from 3-6:30pm. Runs through Nov. 29.

-------------------4 DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES: Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids. Runs through Nov. 18.

The artists are connected through their work & involvement with Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. They are: Mike Coltman, Joan Gerigk, Bob Scudder & Ron Theisen. Their intro-

duction to Twisted Fish Gallery will celebrate their varied topics, techniques & treatment depicting people, places & things inspired by our northern seasons & scenery. twistedfishgallery.com

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A CHARLES CULVER RETROSPECTIVE: Runs through Nov. 4 at Charlevoix Circle of Arts, Charlevoix. Open Mon. - Sat., 11am-5pm. charlevoixcircle.com

-------------------DELBERT MICHEL, BART INGRAM & GAIL INGRAM EXHIBIT: Oliver Art Center, Frankfort. Featuring painting, sculpture & fiber art by these artists. Runs through Nov. 24. oliverartcenterfrankfort.org

-------------------ELISABETH CONDON EXHIBIT: Interlochen Center for the Arts, Dow Center for Visual Arts gallery. This painter’s works will be on display through Nov. 16. interlochen.org

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DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: Mon. - Sat., 10am-5pm. Sun., 1-5pm.: - 2017 CAPE DORSET PRINT COLLECTION: Consists of 30 images by 15 artists. Runs through Nov. 26.

- CORY TRÉPANIER’S “INTO THE ARCTIC”: The Canadian North on Canvas and Film.

Runs through Dec. - WILLIAM ADOLPHE BOUGEUREAU AND EDOUARD MANET: Visitors to the Sea Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Runs through Dec. - “MYTHS, LEGENDS AND STORIES: SCULPTURE BY ABRAHAM ANGHIK RUBEN”: Through Dec. dennosmuseum.org

-------------------CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - 2017 JURIED FINE ARTS & FRESH AIR EXHIBITIONS: Runs through Jan. 6.

- “REFRAME!: THE CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER KITCHEN PAINTERS”: Held in Atrium Gallery. Over 20 area artists were challenged to use standard picture frames as their point of departure for creating unique works of art. Runs through Nov. 20. crookedtree.org

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: ART OVER EASY: TWO TOWNS, TWO DECADES, TWENTY-TWO ARTISTS: Two distinct groups of artists that meet for breakfast in the communities of Ann Arbor & Empire come together for this exhibition. Runs through Dec. 2. crookedtree.org

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This Motor City band helmed by longtime local legend Dick Valentine has its groovy-garage hybrid well entrenched at this point, with over a dozen albums to its credit. On the band’s latest, it throws most of the audio responsibility to the guitars, with each song more dependent than the last, whether it’s a danceable number like “She’s a Forgery” or classic-rocker-to-be “The Chimes of Titus.”

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P!NK BRINGING BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA TO MICHIGAN P!nk is rocking the ’80s Madonna look on her brand new album Beautiful Trauma, which is already making its way to an outlet near you, and the singer is also prepping to kick off a major North America arena tour in March of next year.

Her Beautiful Trauma Tour, which will make two stops in Michigan — March 18 in Grand Rapids, and March 25 in Detroit — also has dates scheduled in Chicago (March 9), Indianapolis (March 17), Toronto (March 20), Boston (April 9), Philidelphia (April 13), Orlando (April 24), and Seattle (May 13) before wrapping with two big shows at Los Angeles’ Staples Center and The Forum on May 31 and June 2, respectively …

Detroit’s White Stripes and its label home, Jack White’s Third Man Records, have announced that the band will reissue its first three albums on cassette. The move, inspired by mid-October’s Cassette Store Day, will enable fans to snag 1999’s The White Stripes, 2000’s De Stijl, and 2001’s White Blood Cells on to bright white cassette versions destined to become Stripes collectors’ items …

Say farewell to Wonderland Music, the popular neighborhood music store in Dearborn set to close at the end of November after a whopping 54 years in business. Wonderland, which counted Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, and Bob Seger among its customers, is selling the last of its stock through a goingout-of-business liquidation sale. Fans will miss both its vast selection of albums and its wacky

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vintage commercials featuring the store’s coowner, “Crazy Clarence” Wayne …

The Recording Academy and CBS are set to celebrate the 60th annual Grammy Awards with a TV special called Grammys Greatest Stories: A 60th Anniversary Special, a retrospective that will include a giant stack of memories and moments from the past 59 years of Grammy Awards history. Viewers can watch the prime-time special at 9pm, Friday, Nov. 24 on CBS TV. Fans of pretty much every genre of music can expect archival footage, interviews, and special appearances by Grammy-award-winning artists including Celine Dion, Chris Martin, Bruno Mars, Keith Urban, Christina Aguilera, and Sting …

LINK OF THE WEEK Speaking of awards shows, the 2017 American Music Awards are right around the corner, with the aforementioned Bruno Mars topping the list of nominees, with eight nods in all, including Artist of the Year, Favorite Male Artist, and Video of the Year. Also in consideration for an AMA or two are The Chainsmokers, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, and more. Check out the complete list of nominees at theamas.com …

THE BUZZ Ed Sheeran, who just wrapped a big show at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, might not make it to at least part of his current world tour, having injured his arm in a bicycle accident …

Sam Smith just released his sophomore album, The Thrill of It All, on Nov. 3, and he’s hitting the road to promote it, including a stop in Detroit on June 22 …

Lady Gaga has a show booked at Little Caesars Arena November 7 …

Detroit singer-songwriter Anna Burch has signed a deal with indie record label Polyvinyl Records, which is releasing Burch’s single “2 Cool 2 Care” …

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Kyle Zemsta was so impressed by his wife’s weight loss results one year after surgery, he decided to have the procedure, too. Now they both have much more energy, stamina, and enjoy outdoor activities together.

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- Katie Zemsta, 36 and Kyle Zemsta, 34

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- Steven E. Slikkers, MD Grand Traverse Surgery PC

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Comments, questions, rants, raves, suggestions on this column? Send ’em to Kristi at modernrocker@gmail.com.

A Whole New Life

Like nothing you’ve seen before A real-time, 24/7 online feed of social media posts we love from throughout northern Michigan Incorporating Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter An endless scroll of posts, accounts, friends and hashtags we follow

And in Grand Rapids, you can check out The Chris Robinson Brotherhood (Robinson’s prior band was The Black Crowes) at The Showroom at The Intersection on Nov. 12 … and that’s the buzz for this week’s Modern Rock.

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The reel

by meg weichman

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Suburbicon is a mess, and a lazy, meandering mess at that. Directed by the increasingly scattershot George Clooney from a script written and rightly abandoned in the 1980s by Joel and Ethan Coen, it’s an insipid film that refuses to fully commit to either of its main stories, and the result is a confusing malaise. Is it a black comedy about suburban crime and the dimwits who commit it? Or is it an awkward morality fable intended to play on the current national mood? Either (if done well) are valid ideas, but the film would have been better served to stick with just one. Doing both half-assed serves neither, and it leaves you groaning with impatience by the end of the first act.

An animated brochure with a peppy voiceover introduces us to Suburbicon, the eponymous suburb outside an unnamed American metropolis in the immediate postwar era. It’s an allegorical Levittown in an unblemished America at its most uniformly prosperous and confident: Husbands commute to work in the city, wives stay home and tend the kitchen, the kids play baseball in the fields behind the church and come home when the street lights turn on.

Everything is neato and shipshape.

Eventually we meet Gardner Lodge (a wooden Matt Damon), who lives with his young son, Nicky (newcomer Noah Jupe), his wheelchair-bound wife, Rose, and her identical twin sister, Margaret (both played

by Julianne Moore), in one of Suburbicon’s neat little houses.

Lodge works as a midlevel cog at a big corporation with a Hudsucker-esque name. He’s got an office with a window and secretary on an intercom, but of course he’s also got a dark secret, which I think is supposed to be a gambling problem, but this isn’t really addressed. All we know is that he owes a lot of money to bad people. And one night Gardner calmly wakes up his son, saying that there are men in the house who will take what they want and then leave.

He leads the boy downstairs where all the Lodges are tied up around the kitchen table.

One by one the two home invaders (one played by the ominous, egg-shaped Glenn Flescher from True Detective) chloroform each into unconsciousness. Presumably this is punishment for Gardner’s inability to pay them what he owes. Nicky wakes up in the hospital, his father and aunt by his side, but his mother didn’t make it.

Not long after her funeral — where we meet the only likeable character in this entire film, Uncle Mitch (amiably played by veteran character actor Gary Basaraba) — Gardner and Margaret (who has decided to stay and live with the family) are summoned to the police station to examine a lineup of arrested men. Hopefully the thugs who

terrorized their family are among them and can be identified. Nicky is there too, though he’s kept out of the witness room. But the boy sneaks in just in time to watch the two adults pretend they don’t recognize anyone in the lineup, even though the two assailants are clearly there.

So we know something fishy is afoot, and this poor kid can’t understand why the two people charged with protecting him are seemingly blind to the truth. Of course Gardner can’t ID the two perps because he’s (I think) still in debt to them, maybe? At any rate, the whole family is still under threat, and the two men pay Gardner a visit at his office and make their intentions plainly clear.

Things get even fishier when Elizabeth dyes her red hair platinum blond, making her uncannily identical to her deceased identical twin sister.

Oh, did I forget to mention the racialintegration side plot that’s been happening this whole time? The Mayers, the first African American family to move to Suburbicon, are under siege basically right next door to the Lodges, but these two stories hardly intersect at all. Instead, what starts as a NIMBY-filled neighborhood meeting at the opening of the film (before we even meet the Lodge family) escalates to a full-on riot outside the Mayerses’ house by the end, complete with raving rednecks straining against police barricades and the family car set ablaze.

Because this story is so disconnected from the rest of the film (and completely absent from any of the promotional materials and advertising I have seen), the whole thing feels shamelessly tacked on and unnecessary.

Reportedly this racism-in-paradise plot wasn’t in the Coens’ original script; this part is a Clooney original, and the unmoored commitment to fleshing it out properly or weaving it into the main storyline makes it glaringly obvious.

Sitting through this film only made me want to rewatch 2009’s A Serious Man, an underrated film from the Coen canon about a suburban man at odds with a world he struggles to understand while forces he cannot control invade his life. Surely the idea of Suburbicon in its infant form 30 years ago grew up to be that same film, as there are echoes of it everywhere. Joel and Ethan were wise to set Suburbicon aside back in the day, and Clooney was foolhardy to think he could polish such a clearly half-finished idea.

And if the critical response and box office receipts for Suburbicon are any indication, Hollywood would be wise to set George Clooney’s directing duties aside too.

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

he Snowman is bad — like, so bad, it makes other movies I thought were bad seem good by comparison. But it’s not a how-did-this-get made situation, ’cause with and a cast and crew of A-listers and even Oscar winners, it’s more of a question of “how did it go so very wrong?” Adapted from Norwegian writer Jo Nesbo’s international bestselling crime novels, this film is clearly designed for the “The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo” audience. But unlike those films, The Snowman has no thrills, no chills, no suspense, no emotion, and copious amounts of unintentional laughter. I mean, the murder that the film’s clichéd detectives (Michael Fassbender and Rebecca Ferguson) are trying to track down leaves snowmen as the calling card outside his victims’ homes; they’re dramatically cut to, and they could not be less menacing. The scenes are stilted, the performances universally terrible, the story boring. Yet even when you have a bad movie like this, you still expect some kind of basic adherence to the rules of narrative, storytelling, and cinema, but The Snowman seems to openly defy them.

The director, Tomas Alfredson, has skills, with widely acclaimed films to his credit. In a case like this I’d then usually place the blame on the editor, but heck, freaking Thelma Schoonmaker (Raging Bull), edited the damn thing. It’s since been revealed that Alfredson blamed the fact that they didn’t have enough time filming in Europe and a lot was cut out. This does to some degree explain its convolutedness but not its ridiculousness.

blade runner 2049

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elieve the hype. The highly-anticipated, 30-years-in-themaking continuation of Ridley Scott’s absolute cult classic returns with visionary director Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) taking the helm, and the results are simply staggering. The year is now 2049, and Agent K (Ryan Gosling) works retiring (i.e., killing) older model replicants (bioengineered android slaves upon whose backs humanity has progressed and been able to thrive off). On his latest assignment, he stumbles upon something with farreaching implications that could “break the world” and is tasked with making sure this info doesn’t get out. So Agent K has his case, and each move and reveal and twist is exquisitely deliberate and endlessly captivating, eventually taking him face-to-face with Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard. So while expectations could not have been higher, Blade Runner 2049, somehow seems to exceed them, giving us a film cut from the same cloth as 1982’s Blade Runner, but entirely of its own design. This is not some reboot that cheaply trades on your nostalgia, but rather pushes the film’s universe and its ideas deeper. And you also don’t need to be a committed fan who has journeyed through all five versions of the original to enjoy this. This is a cinematic experience created for the big screen, where you get to live in its world for nearly three hours, and it still doesn’t seem like enough. Because to paraphrase Agent K, this isn’t a movie that was just made, it was born with a soul.

THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US

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he Mountain Between Us is an honest-to-god story about love and relationships and how they grow and deepen, yet this hardly came across in any of the marketing. No, they had to go and amp up the action quotient with a “thrilling” and preposterous survival story about two people who find themselves stranded following a plane crash. It results in a complete generic mess. So despite the stellar star power of actors Kate Winslet and Idris Elba, two extremely beautiful people I usually wouldn’t mind watching make goo-goo eyes at one another for a couple of hours, the film proves to be a middling waste of their talents.

Director Hany Abu-Assad has twice been nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film (Omar, Paradise Now), and I’m not quite sure exactly what brought a director of this caliber to the project, but the visuals are certainly all the better for it. Yet when working from a script as weak as this, the incline proves too steep, and Abu-Assad does not successfully summit Mount Memorable. The tonal discord between epic survival and intimate romance cannot be overcome, and this is a film destined to become filler on your at-home streaming service.

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Manistee, Wexford & Missaukee TJ'S PUB, MANISTEE 11/4 -- Cheryl Wolfram, 6-8

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MONKEY FIST BREWING CO., TC 11/4 — Brett Mitchell, 9 PARK PLACE HOTEL, BEACON LOUNGE, TC Thurs,Fri,Sat — Tom Kaufmann, 8:30 RARE BIRD BREWPUB, TC 11/8 — Stovepipe, 8:30-11 11/11 — Soul Patch, 8-11 ROVE ESTATE VINEYARD & WINERY, TC 11/12 — Dennis Palmer, 2-4 SAIL INN BAR & GRILL, TC Thurs. & Sat. -- Phattrax DJs & Karaoke, 9 STREETERS, TC GROUND ZERO: 11/4 -- Uncle Kracker w/ Jocaine & Towne, 8 11/11 -- A Family Affair w/ Tell Yo Mama, The Brothers Crunch, brotha James & Oh Brother Big Sister, 8 LOUIE LOUIE: 11/8 -- Comedy Night, 8 STUDIO ANATOMY, TC 11/4 -- Hip Hop Show, 8 11/11 -- Comedy Night, 9

THE DISH CAFE, TC 11/4 -- Matt Phend, 7-9 11/6 -- Acoustic Open Mic w/ Chris Michels, 6-8 11/8 -- Mitch McKolay, 6-8 THE WORKSHOP BREWING CO., TC 11/4 -- EMinor Trio, 8-10 11/7 -- STRUM Sing-a-Long Ukulele Night, 6 Wed -- The Workshop Live Jazz Jam, 6-10 11/11 -- BCB, 8-11

UNION STREET STATION, TC 11/4 -- Orbitsuns; Bell's Iceman After Party, 8 11/5,11/12 -- Karaoke, 10 11/6 -- Jukebox, 10 11/7 -- Open Mic w/ Host Chris Sterr, 10 11/8 -- DJ DomiNate, 10 11/9 -- DJ Prim, 10 11/10 -- Happy Hour w/ Wink, then Big Foot Buffalo, 5 11/11 -- 1000 Watt Prophets, 10 WEST BAY BEACH RESORT, TC 11/4,11/11 -- DJ Motaz, 8 11/6 -- Dueling Pianos, 7-9:30 11/9 -- Jeff Haas Trio, 7-9:30 11/10 -- Sweet Water Blues Band, 7-9:30

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ETHANOLOGY, ELK RAPIDS 11/4 -- Abigail Stauffer & Cellist Dave Haughty, 8 11/10 -- Gin & Native Botanical Workshop w/ Sierra Bigham, 8 11/11 -- Turbo Pup, 8

TORCH LAKE CAFE, EASTPORT Mon — Bob Webb, 6-9 Tues — Kenny Thompson, 7:30 Wed -- Lee Malone, 8 Thu -- Open Mic w/ Leanna Collins, 8 Fri,Sat -- Torch Lake Rock & Soul feat. Leanna Collins, 8:30 TOWNLINE CIDERWORKS, WILLIAMSBURG 11/4 — Rob Coonrod, 6-8 11/5 — Open mic, 5-8 11/10 -- Dan Babiarz, 6-8 11/11 -- James Dake, 6-8

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the ADViCE GOddESS Romancing The Grindstone

Q

: I’m a 32-year-old woman with a really intense job that I love. I work long hours every week, and I often work weekends, too — by choice. I don’t want kids, but I’d love to have a relationship. I just worry that guys will want more of me timewise and energywise than I can give -- which is basically some nights (into mornings) during the week and on weekends — and will feel neglected and resentful.

— Work First

A

: Understandably, not everyone is into the sort of relationship where a sleepover entails setting up a yurt inside their partner’s office.

Like you, I’m pretty fiercely “work first.”

Because of that, I don’t cook; I heat. I’m annoyed by my body’s demands for sleep.

Every night! And my home seems less like a home than…well, as my boyfriend said — stepping over the endocrinology research papers and corresponding Post-its laid out all over my bathroom floor: “It looks like an academic crime scene.”

You and I are actually somewhat unusual as women who see a “healthy career-life balance” as a threatening crimp in the work that means so much to us. In fact, it turns out that there are some pretty strong sex differences in ambition.

(Ladies, please put down the pitchforks!) This isn’t to say women aren’t ambitious. Plenty of women are; it’s just that women, in general, more often want “normal” lives — with, say, a job they enjoy but go home from before the owls start pouring each other nightcaps.

There’s a great deal of research that reflects this.

In a 2015 study, economists Ghazala Azmat and Rosa Ferrer surveyed young lawyers on their level of ambition: “When asked to rate, on a scale from 1 to 10, their aspirations to become an equity partner in their firm, 60 percent of male lawyers answered with 8 or more, compared to only 32 percent of female lawyers.”

However, there’s an assumption that women should want to join the cutthroat race to the corner office. Psychologist Susan Pinker criticizes this as the “male standard” being forced on women. In her 2008 book, “The Sexual Paradox,” Pinker points to countless studies that find that women tend to be more motivated by “intrinsic rewards” -- wanting to be happy more than they want to be on top.

As an example, she profiles “Donna,” who quit

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her prestigious job as a tenured professor in a computer science department for a lower-status job (tutoring faculty at another university) that allowed her more one-on-one engagement with people. Pinker explains, “Donna decided to opt for what was meaningful for her over status and money.”

Like you, I don’t want kids. (I describe them as “loud, sticky, and expensive.”) However, Pinker notes that there’s “plenty of evidence that many more women than men” — including women at the top of their game — put family before career advancement. She tracked down “Elaine,” the author of an op-ed titled “My glass ceiling is self-imposed,” about why she’d declined a promotion that would have put her third from the top in a company with 12,000plus employees in more than 60 countries.

The president of the company was dumbfounded. But Elaine wrote that she was happily married, with children (and grandparents nearby). The promotion would have required relocating, and that would have destabilized her family. She concluded her piece with the observation that “many companies … would like nothing more than to have more senior female executives, but not all females are willing to give up what it might take to get there.”

These sex differences in ambition make evolutionary sense. Because women evolved to prioritize finding high-status “providers,” mateseeking men evolved to duke it out to occupy the spot of Ye Olde Big Man On Campus. Sure, these days, mover-and-shaker men typically seek women on a par with them in intellect and education. However, men are still vastly more likely than women to date the hot barista — probably because, over evolutionary history, men evolved to prioritize signs of health and fertility in women (or, to put it another way: “Ye Olde Big Perky Breastesses”).

Getting back to you, though guys are likely to be surprised that a woman would be so job-obsessed, there are those who’ll be good with the limited amount of girlfriendhood you have to provide. Zeroing in on them just takes disclosure -- on your online dating profile and when you go on dates. Giving clear forewarning is the right thing to do for anyone with any unusual or obsessive pursuit — whether it’s a sex fetish, spending all one’s time and disposable income tracking Sasquatch, or building a nuclear reactor in the basement. As for you, sure, you do eventually see yourself leaving the office -- but probably in a vintage Japanese cloisonne urn.

“Jonesin” Crosswords "Drive" --gear up for solving. by Matt Jones

ACROSS

DOWN

1 “Stay” singer Lisa 5 Actor Kaplan of “Welcome Back, Kotter” 9 Dallas’s nickname 13 Salicylic acid target 14 Canonized women of France, for short 15 Goober’s cousin on “The Andy Griffith Show” 16 They might be mixed 18 ___ Crag (climbing challenge on Nickelodeon’s “Guts”) 19 Some Yosemite employees 21 He, in Paris 22 “Hooked ___ Feeling” 23 Important age 24 On higher ground 26 Barnyard noise 28 Moves lumberingly 31 Lottery commission’s calculation 32 Pearly shell layer 34 Naughty way to live 36 Boxing ring area 41 Play fragment 42 2004 Britney Spears single 44 Arrange in order 47 Beneath 50 Plastic surgeon’s offering, for short 51 Hunt, in the wild 53 Unopened bloom 55 Co. that introduced Dungeons & Dragons 56 DDE beat him twice 57 Deceptive tennis tactic 61 Stick (together) 63 Very quickly 64 Magazine piece, maybe 65 Drink in a red can, usually 66 Saxophone that’s smaller than a tenor 67 PD investigators 68 “Before ___ you go Ö” 69 Place to post online

1 Parody 2 From Fiji or New Zealand, more broadly 3 Way in 4 Nuthatch’s nose 5 A flat’s equivalent 6 Like some 20th-century compositions 7 Titanic hazard 8 In ___ (in actuality) 9 Marshy area 10 “That’s good news!”

11 Verb functioning as a noun 12 “These aren’t the ___ you’re looking for” 15 “Not that!” sound 17 School opening?

20 Surname of “Captain America: Civil War” directors Anthony and Joe 25 1970s Cambodian leader with a palindromic name 27 Sideshow Bob’s former boss 29 Fixed a squeak 30 Org. with leaked emails 33 “... and more” 35 Old NYC subway inits.

37 Get back together 38 Former “Today” co-anchor Curry 39 Election day survey 40 Excoriates 43 Fairground food on a stick 44 Lost concentration 45 Ultimatum phrase 46 Put up a struggle 48 It keeps your car in place, slangily 49 Apple or potato variety 52 Wild party 54 Twisted Sister frontman Snider 58 “Veni, vidi, ___” 59 Hydroxyl compound 60 Non-striking worker 62 “Illmatic” and “Stillmatic” rapper

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aSTRO

lOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Remember the time, all

those years ago, when the angels appeared to you on the playground and showed you how and why to kiss the sky?

I predict that a comparable visitation will arrive soon. And do you recall the dreamy sequence in adolescence when you first plumbed the sublime mysteries of sex? You’re as ripe as you were then, primed to unlock more of nature’s wild secrets. Maybe at no other time in many years, in fact, have you been in quite so favorable a position to explore paradise right here on earth.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20):

I’m falling in love with the way you have been falling in love with exciting possibilities that you once thought were impossible. Oh, baby. Please go further.

Thrilling chills surge through me whenever you get that ravenous glint in your mind’s eye. I can almost hear you thinking, “Maybe those dreams aren’t so impossible, after all.

Maybe I can heal myself and change myself enough to pursue them in earnest. Maybe I can learn success strategies that were previously beyond my power to imagine.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Adriana Martinez

and Octavio Guillen got engaged to be married when they were both 15 years old. But they kept delaying a more complete unification for 67 years. At last, when they were 82, they celebrated their wedding and pledged their vows to each other.

Are there comparable situations in your life, Aries? The coming months will be a favorable time to make deeper commitments.

At least some of your reasons for harboring ambivalence will become irrelevant. You’ll grow in your ability to thrive on the creative challenges that come from intriguing collaborations and highly focused togetherness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): ): I had pimples

when I was a teenager. They’re gone now, although I still have a few pockmarks on my face as souvenirs. In retrospect, I feel gratitude for them. They ensured that in my early years of dating and seeking romance, I would never be able to attract women solely on the basis of my physical appearance. I was compelled to cultivate a wide variety of masculine wiles. I swear that at least half of my motivation to get smarter and become a good listener came from my desire for love. Do you have comparable stories to tell, Taurus? Now is an excellent time to give thanks for what once may have seemed to be a liability or problem.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The next two

weeks will be one of the best times ever to ask provocative, probing questions. In fact, I invite you to be as curious and receptive as you’ve been since you were four years old. When you talk with people, express curiosity more often than you make assertions. Be focused on finding out what you’ve been missing, what you’ve been numb to. When you wake up each morning, use a felt-tip marker to draw a question mark on your forearm. To get you in the mood for this fun project, here are sample queries from poet Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions: “Who ordered me to tear down the doors of my own pride? Did I finally find myself in the place where they lost me? Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Is it true our desires must be watered with dew? What did the rubies say standing before the juice of the pomegranates?”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Things to say

when in love,” according to Zimbabwe poet Tapiwa Mugabe: “I will put the galaxy in your hair. Your kisses are a mouthful of firewater. I have never seen a more beautiful horizon than when you close your eyes. I have never seen a more beautiful dawn than when you open your eyes.” I hope these words inspire you to improvise further outpourings of adoration. You’re in a phase when expressing your sweet reverence and tender respect for the people you care about will boost you physical health, your emotional wealth, and your spiritual resiience.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you working on solving

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the right problem? Or are you being distracted by a lesser dilemma, perhaps consumed in dealing with an issue that’s mostly irrelevant to your longterm goals? I honestly don’t know the answers to those questions, but I am quite sure it’s important that you meditate on them. Everything good that can unfold for you in

2018 will require you to focus on what matters most -- and not get sidetracked by peripheral issues or vague wishes. Now is an excellent time to set your unshakable intentions.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Every one of us experiences loneliness. We all go through periods when we feel isolated and misunderstood and unappreciated. That’s the bad news, Virgo. The good news is that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to make loneliness less of a problem. I urge you to brainstorm and meditate about how to do that. Here are some crazy ideas to get you started. 1. Nurture ongoing connections with the spirits of beloved people who have died. 2. Imagine having conversations with your guardian angel or spirit guide. 3. Make a deal with a “partner in loneliness”: a person you pray or sing with whenever either of you feels bereft. 4. Write messages to your Future Self or Past Self. 5. Communicate with animals.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The drive for absolute perfection could undermine your ability to create what’s very good and just right. Please don’t make that mistake in the coming weeks.

Likewise, refrain from demanding utter purity, pristine precision, or immaculate virtue. To learn the lessons you need to know and launch the trends you can capitalize on in 2018, all that’s necessary is to give your best.

You don’t have to hit the bull’s eye with every arrow you shoot -- or even any arrow you shoot. Simply hitting the target will be fine in the early going.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As a

courtesy to your mental health, I minimize your exposure to meaningless trivia. In fact, I generally try to keep you focused instead on enlightening explorations. But in this horoscope, in accordance with astrological omens, I’m giving you a temporary, short-term license to go slumming. What shenanigans is your ex up to lately, anyway? Would your old friend the bankrupt coke addict like to party with you? Just for laughs, should you revisit the dead-end fantasy that always makes you crazy? There is a good possibility that exposing yourself to bad influences like those I just named could have a tonic effect on you, Sagittarius.

You might get so thoroughly disgusted by them that you’ll never again allow them to corrupt your devotion to the righteous groove, to the path with heart.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the

coming months it will be crucial to carefully monitor the effects you’re having on the world.

Your personal actions will rarely be merely personal; they may have consequences for people you don’t know as well as those you’re close to. The ripples you send out in all directions won’t always look dramatic, but you shouldn’t let that delude you about the influence you’re having. If I had to give 2018 a title with you in mind, it might be “The Year of Maximum Social Impact.” And it all starts soon.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The punk

ethic is rebellious. It transgresses conventional wisdom through “a cynical absurdity that’s redeemed by being hilarious.” So says author Brian Doherty. In the hippie approach, on the other hand, the prevailing belief is “love is all you need.” It seeks a “manic togetherness and all-encompassing acceptance that are all sweet and no sour -- inspiring but also soft and gelatinous.” Ah, but what happens when punk and hippie merge? Doherty says that each moderates the extreme of the other, yielding a tough-minded lust for life that’s both skeptical and celebratory. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because the punk-plus-hippie blend is a perfect attitude for you to cultivate in the coming weeks.

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