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Bergman Opposes Investigation of Capitol Attack On May 19, 2021, the United States House of Representatives voted on H.R. 3233 National Commission to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex Act. The legislation passed with 252 yeas and 175 nays. Only 35 Republicans voted yea. Republican Reps. Peter Meijer (3rd Michigan District) and Fred Upton (6th Michigan District) voted in favor of investigating the attack. In a floor speech, Congressman Upton said, “Nearly five months later, we still don’t have the answers to the basic questions. Who knew what, when? What did they do about it? We need the answers, not political rhetoric.”

Congressman Jack Bergman, the representative for Michigan’s 1st Congressional District, which includes all of the Upper Peninsula and northern lower Michigan, voted nay. On Dec. 10, 2020, Bergman issued the following statement: “This week, I signed onto the Amicus Brief in support of State of Texas v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al.

I didn’t come to this decision lightly or flippantly, and I didn’t make this decision based on emotion or even frustration with the election outcome. I came to this decision because trust in the very foundation of our Republic is at stake.”

Christopher W., Empire Eyes on Cole I applaud Northern Express’ decision to invite Rep. Triston Cole’s commentary on bipartisanship. Unfortunately, (not his fault) this is a case of grand platitudes being deflated with the sneaky whispers

of political reality. Rep. Cole correctly points out the ratios of the breakdown of the Michigan Senate (20 Republicans–16 Democrats) and the House (58 Republican–50 Democrats, with two seats TBD). This conveniently ignores the gerrymandering that supports these ratios.

This is despite a Michigan electorate that is basically 50/50.

Sadly, Rep. Cole’s bipartisanship aspirations don’t seem to agree with the actions of the political party he belongs to: • The Republican-dominated Michigan legislature issued a series of lame-duck laws directed at limiting the powers of Gov. Whitmer, AG Nessel, and Secretary of State Benson immediately after they were elected.

• Republican partisanship continues with lawsuits and other efforts to limit the governor’s emergency powers. She exercised these powers to save lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Republicans have even enacted workarounds to voter-supported initiatives.

Their primary trick has been to append minor spending bills to these initiatives.

This effectively places initiatives into the partisan bin when the legislature has to enact a bill — goodbye initiative.

Never mind the despicable actions of Republican legislators who signed onto the bogus lawsuit issued by the Texas attorney general to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Plus those members of Rep. Cole’s party, both state and federal (hear that, Rep. Bergman?) who continue to promote the chimera of widespread vote fraud.

I shall pay more attention to Rep. Cole. Based upon his article, he sounds reasonable. Perhaps Rep. Roth could take some notes about bipartisanship.

John G., Williamsburg For Thee But Not for Whitmer Michigan’s governor said she has followed protocols regarding restrictions, that she is sorry; she violated her restrictions because she is human. This was not the first time. She and her family have a pattern of violations. Launching the boat, travel to Florida, a trip to the bar. She has fined and jailed people for violations yet has violated her own mandates. It is clear she, as well as other “anointed” individuals believe themselves to be above the law. The laws she made are “for thee but not for me.”

Luigi D., Lake City Short-sighted Short-term Rental Bill HB 4722, a bill that aims to strip local communities of their autonomy to regulate short-term rentals, is making the rounds down in Lansing. Love ’em or hate ’em, short-term rentals are here to stay in northern Michigan. Who stands to profit most from them is a whole different question.

Make no mistake, HB 4722 will provide few opportunities for working families to invest in short-term rentals. No doubt, those reaping the greatest benefits will be rental companies and other absentee investors who will continue to gobble up

properties in the area, displacing yearround renters and driving up real estate prices to the point that the rest of us will be lucky if we can afford a first home, let alone a second property to provide supplemental income.

Moreover, deregulation of the shortterm rental industry threatens to disrupt our communities. Neighborhoods will give way to floods of tourists in the summer and become ghost towns in the winter. Our schools, infrastructure, and parks will all suffer because these properties are taxed at a lower rate than traditional hotels, and an increase in short-term rentals would lead to a decrease of year-round tax-paying residents.

The Michigan state legislature should respect the freedom of each community to decide if and how these properties will best serve their residents. The city of Frankfort, which allows for short term rentals on owner-occupied properties, proves that smart policy can be enacted at the local level to the benefit of its residents, who profit from their properties with the added assurance that the character of their small community won’t forever be altered by outside investors with little interest in such matters.

I urge you to contact your state representative and voice your opposition to HB 4722.

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Dominic G., Traverse City Kudos Congratulations to Northern Express for a delightfully diverse and informative May 24 edition! The story about the white-hot timber industry, the waterfalls, and U.P. sights, and local car-collector houses beautifully complemented the always-interesting and stimulating weekly columns. If only the local daily could do as well.

Ralph C., Traverse City Bergman Lies, Media Remains Silent Congressman Jack Bergman and his followers’ belief in the fantasy of “voter fraud” is based on a white supremacist voter-suppression mentality.This false narrative of “fraud” historically occurs after record voter turnout from people of color. This is the pattern of racist reactionaries throughout the history of the United States.

Jack Bergman has aligned himself with racists, conspiracy theorists, and extremists in the Republican Party.

Numerous Republican leaders have warned about the dangers of fellow party members attempting to discredit our electoral system without any evidence to support their claims. Bergman is now a rogue member of Congress, ignoring his oath and the commitment to tell the truth, even if faced with irrefutable evidence.

My question is: Why are our local media, civic leaders, and business promoters largely staying mute on such an important issue? Where are the voices from local leaders of corporations and institutions who boast about their diversity, inclusion, and equity programs?

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top ten Celebrate a King … or Just Feel Like One

While the rest of what seems like the world boards ferries bound for Mackinac Island’s venerable annual Lilac Festival (running June 4–13 in this, its 73rd fragrant year), you, Limey, shall embark on a far more rebellious pursuit: the June 4 celebration of King George III’s birthday at Colonial Michilimackinac. For those unfamiliar with history, King George III began ruling Great Britain and Ireland in 1760 when he was only 12. During his next 59 years, he would go on to unite those two kingdoms, oversee the British victory of the Seven Years’ War, lead his country’s successful fight against France, and … well, lose America and go insane.

Still, his birthday held a special place in the hearts of the British soldiers and civilians living at Michilimackinac in the 1700s and was feted accordingly.

In 2021, the interpretive staff at Michilimackinac will do the same — with artillery fire, drinks, treats, and other special programs, all included with your regular Colonial Michilimackinac admission price.

Can’t make that particular party? You can do lots more than blow out birthday candles if you’re lucky enough to nab the single reservation for Guns Across the Straits each day between June 5 and Oct. 7. That’s where you’ll learn about then fire off all of the fort’s black powder weapons when the fort closes each night: a short land musket, a wall gun (a BIG musket, they say), a Coehorn mortar, and — boom! — a cannon.

This first-time-ever opportunity will be available only to one Colonial Michilimackinac guest each day ($150 for non-Mackinac Associates). Search “King George” and “Guns Across the Straits” at www.mackinacparks.com to learn more or reserve your spot, Shooter.

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tastemaker Maxbauer’s Legendary Homemade Bacon

(Vegan, vegetarian, and parental advisory: The following write-up contains words, imagery, and soft-core-porn-like references to bacon.)

There’s bacon, and then there’s bacon. And then somewhere up on a pedestal of meat in heaven, we suspect, there’s Maxbauer’s Legendary Homemade Bacon ($14 per 1-pound package). It’s smoked and cured inhouse, with minimal ingredients, and if its flavor and texture could be summarized in a word, it would not be a word; it would be a soft moan punctuated with several sharp gasps followed by a cigarette.

Maxbauer’s Legendary Homemade is infinitely satisfying in both flavor and texture — a generous, not hostile, level of saltiness, with only the merest microscopic hint of tantalizing sweet; enough fat to ensure a gratifying, not explosive, bacon-crumb-in-your-eye crunch; and with exactly the consistent width of meat ribbon that’ll spare you major package-by-package scrutiny time.

We got ours at Maxbauer’s newly opened space, The Butcher’s Block, at 425 West South Airport Rd. Although Mark the butcher’s flagship Union Street location is miles closer to our home, The Butcher’s Block proved more than worth the trek. A veritable meat emporium, it’s as though the Union Street market’s humble section of hand-butchered pre-packaged meat (e.g., dinner, when you have no idea what to make for dinner) got exposed to gamma rays, burst from its downtown bricks, and became the Incredible Meat Hulk, only not green and with more spacious parking. Why so far out of town? Some point to the aforementioned parking ease; others to the prohibitive price of non-outskirts real estate. We suspect it has more to do with The Butcher’s Block’s proximity to Costco, which sits a bone’s throw east and sells both chest and upright freezers. Learn more: maxbauers.com/the-butchers-block/

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Tackle a New Trail & Picnic on National Trails Day Quit trudging up and down that same ol’ backyard trail. The North Country Trail-Grand Traverse Hiking Club is hosting a mini hike-o-Rama in Kalkaska on June 5 to celebrate National Trails Day. You can hop on a guided 7-mile hike that sets out at 8:30am or choose a 2.75-mile hike that goes at 10am. Afterward, both gangs will meet up at 12:30pm for a brief program that’ll be followed by a community picnic. It’s all free, it’s all fun, and even novice hikers will have no trouble finding the first trailhead; it’s Kalkaska’s Railroad Square, right off US-131, downtown. For more information, search “GT Hikers” on Facebook or call (231) 258-3307.

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Hey, Watch It The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad, a new 10-episode limited series from Oscar-winner Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), is an unforgettable achievement. Based on Pulitzer-Prize-winner Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel of the same name, it reimagines the metaphorical underground railroad as an actual train to freedom operating under our feet. An odyssey in the truest (and most literary) sense of the word, it follows the enslaved Cora Randall (Thuso Mbedu) as she escapes to freedom with a grudge-holding slave catcher (Joel Edgerton) on her trail.

Seamlessly blending myth and history with unparalleled craftsmanship that seems to paint with light and sound, the series brings a sense of magical realism to the brutal truths it depicts. Terrifying and thrilling, poetic and urgent, this a deeply moving experience that demands to be seen. Streaming on Amazon Prime.

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Get on the Bus, Y’all: Michigan wants more zero-emission vehicles and public transport

A new poll by Coalition Helping America Rebuild and Go Electric (CHARGE) finds that voters in five key states — Michigan being one, naturally — support common sense policies to “electrify America’s transportation and public transit system, create jobs, provide training for workers, and support a strong economy.” In collaboration with Seven Letter Insight, CHARGE fielded the survey to measure reactions to several policies designed to strengthen and support public transportation, and foster investment in charging infrastructure.

The results? Maybe not surprising: Nearly two-thirds of Michigan voters (64%) support investment to strengthen public transportation access in their communities. A majority (55%) support public investment to transition public transportation vehicles (e.g., school and commuter buses, electric-powered vehicles). A majority of Michigan voters (51%) also support public investment to expand changing infrastructure for electric vehicles.

News of the survey came as the Michigan Climate & Clean Energy Summit (www. miclimatecleanenergy.org) was underway in Traverse City last week. Among the lineup of national and regional panelists: U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Jacqueline Patterson, senior director of Environmental and Climate Justice for the NAACP. Patterson’s talk explored how transitioning our nation’s power infrastructure could impact environmental justice and bring equity to people and communities throughout Michigan. Rep. Talib joined a panel of state Republican and Democratic legislators in a conversation about whether and where agreement actually exists when it comes to moving forward toward an equitable clean-energy future. The takeaway: Some agreement exists, but we’ve got to work harder, quickly. According to Traverse City’s Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities, Michigan’s climate has warmed 33 percent more than other states in the Lower 48. To learn more about how you can support clean energy locally and in Michigan, check out www.groundworkcenter.org.

Bike Night at Boyne Mountain Start your engines! Bike Night and Car Cruise-In returns to Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls, 6pm–9pm June 1 and every Tuesday after through August. Bring your favorite roadster, hog, or coupe to The Clock Tower Lodge circle drive — aka your showplace filled with plenty of bike and car lovers that share your passion. There will also be food and drink specials, live music, a weekly raffle to benefit local charities, and giveaways. The Shifties will perform June 1. Check out Upcoming Events at www.boynemountain.com for more details.

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Three Decades of Independent Local Journalism We don’t normally like to toot our own horn, but we couldn’t let the month go by without a nod to the 30th anniversary of Northern Express. Launched in Traverse City in May 1991 by Bob Downes and George Foster, this local paper was modeled after the nation’s equally small but mighty alternative presses — among them New York City’s The Village Voice, Detroit’s Metro Times, and Minneapolis’ City Paper.

Remembers co-founder Bob Downes: “There were about 200 such papers across the country in the ’90s, and we all ran the same columns by Rob Brezsny [“Free Will Astrology], the “Advice Goddess” [Amy Alkon], cartoons by Tom Tomorrow, and other syndicated material.”

In keeping with the nature of northern Michigan, the founders included coverage of the region’s myriad opportunities for outdoor recreation, too; both were ardent runners, cyclists, and triathletes. (“We were also single,” adds Downes, “so that was helpful in covering local nightlife.”)

After more than 20 years manning this inky ship, the founders retired in 2014, passing the paper’s reins to current owner and publisher Luke Haase.

Although much has changed since Northern Express’ early days, the mission remains the same: to deliver on-the-ground stories about the people, communities, recreation, arts, culture, and businesses that call northwest Lower Michigan home.

Amy Alkon is still with us. Rob Brezsny is, too. So are several longtime staffers and freelancers, Nite Life, and (OK, a little horn tootin’ here) the North’s most popular and robust events calendar.

Today, we cover 13 counties and reach 90,000 readers each week. And (bear with us; another toot) unlike many local publications, even a pandemic couldn’t keep us from printing (though, truth be told, it did prevent us from planning a big party to celebrate this 30-year milestone).

Nevertheless, whether you’ve newly arrived on these pages or have been an Express reader from the start, we want to thank you for sticking with us. And since we can’t party with you in person this anniversary, we invite you instead to head out to your local bar, restaurant, or retailer — who very likely is an advertiser that’s helped make our three-decade commitment to independent journalism possible — and buy yourself a lil something to celebrate … and maybe, just maybe, keep this thing going another 30.

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The chill ice crystals melt a mellow and welcome sweetness over the tongue that, unlike some cider varieties, does not become tiresome to the tastebuds. Translation: One of these is not enough. Though, at 6% alcohol, two or three might be.

Cool your heels on a hot afternoon with a taste of this whole New World on Two K’s shaded porch or super-sunny hillside (seats under shady sails available there, too). Your countertops (and bathing suit manufacturers) will thank you. Find Two K Farms 10 minutes northwest of Traverse City at 3872 SW Bay Shore Dr./M-22. (231) 866-4265, www.twokfarms.com

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THE RIGHT TO EXIST

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Why are so many Republican, Democrat, and Independent community leaders avoiding these uncomfortable but essential conversations? Your silence is complicity.

Speak your voice to demand accountability from Jack Bergman and to prevent our state legislators from suppressing our rights to freely vote in Michigan.

Gerard G., Bear Lake Plain Talk Simple, basic, truthful facts: Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election by over 7 million votes. According to the National Archives and Records Administration, Joe Biden won the Electoral College vote by 74 points; 306 to 232. No substantial voter fraud has been proven. None. Those who claim otherwise have a questionable agenda. Lying about election results is dangerous and must not be tolerated.

In 2016, the Marxist liberals were so beside themselves they had to roll out their most deceptive, unlawful plan to assure their grand plan would take root with their 2020 candidate. They could not let their fellow world country comrades down, again. Regardless of what you think, if American citizens allow the current proletariat to further rule, know you are not about helping people as you think.

Current rule wants to centralize power and have power over you; not to help.

I feel sorry for the impoverished and those that do not fully realize they are equal, can make their way, and get their equity in the real America. Your poverty, lack of freedom, safety, is because your decades-returning city and state leaders have long abandoned you. A destructive and profitable drug and gun industry now reigns. Sad. Who are the real racists?

Jill R., Bellaire

Jan S., Bear Lake Wake Up, Sheeple I’m amazed and stunned how much purposeful and subversive work has been done to develop and roll out a nationwide Marxism plan in America. It is purposeful and subversive. Designed to get rid of the U.S. Constitution, to bury and prevent the return of the 45th President, to forget Martin Luther King, and to make us complete “sheeple.”

Correction: In our May 17 Now Hiring issue, the email address we received for Munson Healthcare jobs was incorrect.

The corrected address has been updated in the online version of the story at www. northernexpress.com. You also can find the latest job openings at Munson and links to apply under the Careers and Job Search tabs at www.munsonhealthcare.org.

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by Stephen Tuttle Israel and Hamas have, at least temporarily, finished one of their somewhat regular skirmishes, with predictable results.

We’ve seen this before. Hamas, the elected government in Gaza, almost wholly funded by Iran and declared a terrorist organization by the U.S. and others, finds a reason to fire a fusillade of rockets across the border into Israel. Israel, the only democracy in the region, then responds with overwhelming force, exacting what their military leaders have called a “blood cost” on those who attack them.

Then came more attempts by those countries to regain the territory they lost, including a surprise attack on Yom Kippur in 1973 that worked temporarily, but in the end, not a foot of ground had been retaken.

It’s easy to feel sorry for the residents of Gaza, whose incompetent, terrorist government has condemned them to fights they cannot win.

This time the alleged offense was an Israeli intrusion into the Al-Asqa mosque in East Jerusalem, a Muslim holy site from which they believe Muhammad ascended to heaven. Since Muslims believe East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed during the Six Day War in 1967, belongs to them, any offense there is reason enough for more rockets.

But let’s back up.

Hamas has only existed since 1987, founded to “liberate Palestine,” and establish an Islamic State. The problem is their charter does not recognize Israel’s right to exist and specifies Israel is the land to be “liberated.”

They would simply erase Israel and, presumably, the Jewish population living there. It makes it more than difficult for Israel to negotiate with them.

In the 1990s, displeased with peace accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), Hamas undertook a campaign of suicide bombings, killing dozens. Israel, which had controlled Gaza since the Six Day War, returned it to the Palestinians in 2005, calling home 9,000 Israeli settlers in the process. Hamas took control of Gaza’s embryonic government in 2006 elections.

Israel, about the size of New Jersey and with a total population of less than 9 million, is a bit touchier than most countries, and with mighty good reason: It has been under constant attack since before it officially became an independent country in 1948. The list of aggressors it’s successfully fought off represent a land mass that’s several hundred times bigger than Israel with a population of more than a billion people. But David consistently beats up Goliath.

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Then came the famous Six Day War in 1967.

Egypt, Syria, and Jordan (supplied and assisted by Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait), tried again. In less than a week, Israel had scattered their attackers and taken over the West Bank, the Golan Heights, Gaza, and the Sinai.

It started when Israel’s about-to-be new neighbors — Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria — joined forces in an attempt to prevent Israel from existing in the first place. It didn’t work. That led to a decadelong insurgency and attacks inside Israel in the 1950s in an attempt to destabilize the new government. That didn’t work, either.

Since then, there has been an endless series of attacks big and small from Hezbollah, a terrorist group in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza. Sometimes the attacks come from within; almost 21 percent of Israel’s population, more than a million people, is Arab. They’ve been elected to local offices and have been members of the Knesset, Israel’s version of Congress. (By contrast, there are perhaps a dozen Jews, total, living in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Egypt combined.)

As a result of all of this, Israel has undertaken a controversial policy of settling land it acquired in war but is now disputed. If for no other reason, it creates broader and more defensible borders for the Israelis.

Yes, it is unpleasant seeing Palestinians being removed from their homes. And, yes, it is horrific watching Israel’s overwhelming military response in Gaza after the Hamas rocket attacks. Israel listed 12 dead and dozens wounded from those rockets. The death toll in Gaza is more than 200, with hundreds more injured and thousands rendered homeless.

None of this should be a surprise. Israel’s policy responding to attacks is to inflict sufficient pain to discourage future attacks.

They make no pretense about “proportional” responses; quite the contrary. They will try to avoid the obvious — schools, hospitals, mosques — but if Hamas leaders or their weapons are being housed in those locations, they will be considered legitimate targets.

It’s easy to feel sorry for the residents of Gaza, whose incompetent, terrorist government has condemned them to fights they cannot win. But Gaza is among the world’s biggest recipients of humanitarian aid. And the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees has been spending millions annually since 1949, assisting those “displaced by Israel statehood.” No such agency has ever existed for Jews booted out of the Arab world.

If Hamas and their Iranian keepers would accept reality and recognize Israel’s right to exist, the Israelis would be happy to just leave them alone.

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Here’s why: In 2020, Cannabis revenue in Michigan hit $984 million. This year looks even more promising; the first quarter of 2021 has exceeded $360 million. The 10 % excise tax Michigan places on cannabis products generated over $31 million in 2020. A fund dedicated to handling the revenue distributed over $10 million to 38 different townships just last month, totaling roughly $28,000 per marijuana retailer to local governments.

The industry is also employing thousands of Michiganders, adding 9,000 workers in 2020, despite the pandemic and the multitude of shutdowns and layoffs it caused in so many other sectors.

The financial services industry is taking notice. Just this month, a group of Michigan banking leaders joined together to push for protections in serving Michigan cannabis facilities and pledging support for the SAFE Banking Act, four versions of which have already passed the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., but have yet to reach the Senate floor.

Cannabis production and retail offer a net good for Michigan’s economy, giving us the opportunity to build a tourist industry around cannabis production and retail — one on par with Michigan’s thriving craft beer, wine, and spirits industries.

In northern Michigan in particular, where we rely so heavily on tourism, especially between Memorial Day and Labor Day, cannabis retailers have the potential to draw tourists year-round, and in doing so, provide year-round jobs in processing and retailing in communities that need more opportunities that are reliable, secure, and professional.

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A parent, a sibling, a friend’s well-placed and sympathetic father or mother, maybe a neighbor, could intervene and reintroduce them to the legacy land of privilege.

It has become a prickly word, one I had barely noticed in the many times I have revisited this speech.

person has. I believe that most white people are well aware of this, even if they were raised in poverty.

I’ve always understood the word equality as an ideal. How in the world do we abolish privilege? I am awash in privilege.

The important difference lies in our determined effort. We each must decide whether to play blind and protect our privilege or understand our good fortune for what is and dismantle the institutionalized policies and practices that got us where we are.

I was born into my white family with two college-educated parents and four collegeeducated grandparents. My family raised me in the same suburban Detroit neighborhood where they grew up, with one of the best public school systems in the country.

Our city’s neighborhoods were almost exclusively populated by more of the same, i.e., well-educated white professionals who valued education and enjoyed prosperity, passing wealth from one generation to the next.

My little snot-nosed friends and I were very, very fortunate and, in many cases, equally oblivious to our luck in this matter.

We did nothing other than simply being born. Some went on to meet their parent’s expectations to continue the legacy of privilege, while others, for one reason or another, simply did not.

Handed every advantage, each little girl in her patent leather Mary Janes and every little boy with his fresh crew cut grew up to inevitably become their own unique person, making the most — or least — of what they’d been handed.

But to whatever degree of hard times they might have fallen upon, a helping hand was probably no more than a phone call away.

It is a choice.

As Dwight D. Eisenhower stated, “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

How secure is your faith in your neighbor to honor the principles of the common good above their privilege? Mine is shaken as I grow increasingly convinced that individual greed may have won over the common good.

I do not feel ashamed of being white or for the advantages I’ve received, but rather, hold a great sense of responsibility to cleanse what Sen. Jordan calls the public forum.

Equality in the public forum must be fought for not only by those who have been disadvantaged. The advantaged must stand with them and be willing to forfeit the expectation of their legacy by helping not only those who look like us and live like us but also for the common good of our countrymen and women.

Mary Rogers is the host of “The Experience 50 Podcast for Midlife” and an actively engaged citizen of Grand Traverse County. She lives in Traverse City.

10 Reasons the 2021 Pit Spitters Season Will Be a Home Run

By Al Parker Northern Michigan baseball fans will finally get a chance to see live games when the Traverse City Pit Spitters throw out the first pitch on May 31.

It’s been well over a year since the Pit Spitters took the field before a live audience, and the squad returns as reigning champions of the Northwoods League after winning the 2019 title.

Whether you’re an avid fan or just want to spend a fun evening at the ballpark, here are 10 outstanding reasons to visit Turtle Creek Stadium this summer:

6. A Bonus Fourth of July (& Fireworks Show!)

1. Familiar Faces

The 2021 Pit Spitters roster includes several returning faces, led by manager Josh Rebandt.

Players coming back include pitchers Evan Gates and Cade Heil, outfielders Evan Maday and Crews Taylor, along with infielders Jake Arnold and Christian Faust. Of course, team mascot Monty will be at every game bringing fun to fans. “We’re eager to have the team hit the field and welcome the northern Michigan community to Turtle Creek Stadium this summer,” says Pit Spitters General Manager, Mickey Graham.

The annual Fourth of July celebration and military appreciation night will be held July 3, when the Pit Spitters host the Kenosha Kingfish. Half-price tickets for all active and retired military, plus all fans will receive a Pit Spitters bucket hat, courtesy of 4Front Credit Union. After the game, stick around for an outstanding fireworks display seen from the comfort of your ballpark seat.

7. Spartans vs. Wolverines Rivalry Night

On July 14, it’s an in-state collegiate confrontation. The first 500 fans will receive a Pit Spitters Beach Towel, courtesy of Grand Traverse Resort and Spa. Show your allegiance and wear your team gear while watching the Pit Spitters take on the Battle Creek Bombers.

2. New Award-winning Eats 3. Trophy Time!

In the annual Fan Food Contest, two winners were named because the vote was so close. The top entries: the Cubano Dog, submitted by Matt Vail of Grand Rapids, and the Chicken and Waffle Cone, suggested by Eric Schoolmaster of Traverse City. The Cubano Dog starts with a ballpark staple, the hot dog.

It’s teamed with sliced ham, creamy swiss cheese, a crunchy dill pickle, and a swath of mustard. The other winner begins with a crunchy waffle cone that’s filled with boneless wings and drizzled with tasty maple syrup.

OK, it’s not the Stanley Cup, but on June 1, fans can take a picture with the Northwoods League Championship Trophy. The bling will be available for about three hours from when the gates open at 5:30pm for the game. The Pit Spitters will take on the Kokomo Jackrabbits.

Can’t make it June 1? No worries; the trophy will also be available on June 2 and other select dates during the season

4. Even More New Foods

8. Superhero Night

Always a fun night for children who dress as their favorite superhero — and get to walk (or fly?) in an on-field parade, Superhero Night at Turtle Creek Stadium happens July 24 this year. Captain America and Spider-Man will be on hand taking photos, spinning webs, and saving planet Earth. The fun is not for kiddos alone; fans age 50 and up get in for half price.

A staple of county fairs, festivals, and kids who like to eat like cavemen, giant turkey legs will make their ballpark debut this year. Tip: Only a select few will be made available at every game, so when these hearty treats appear, don’t dither on deciding; just grab one. If you miss your shot, meander down to the third-base-side grill, where you’ll find for the first time BBQ pork sandwiches on a brioche bun. More meat and heat is available this season by way of Monty’s Spit Fire Burgers’ debut — three burger choices, each increasing in spiciness. For a tasty dessert, you don’t have to wait til the National Cherry Festival comes around to get a Pit Spitters’ version of an elephant ear, coated with Nutella and, of course, cherry topping.

5. Drink Like a Local

The Pit Spitters are teaming up with Traverse City Whiskey and some new specialty cocktails will be featured this season, including the “Todd Marga-Reid-A” named after coach Todd Reid. Pit Spitters Cherry Tea, a TC Mule and Three Strikes Old Fashioned are all tasty options too. Craft beer choices will include Short’s Soft Parade Shandy, Bell’s Oberon, Founder’s All Day VaCay, Earthen Ales A2, and more. Pepsi products are also available.

10. One Super 9. Red Out! The final regularStadium season home game is on Aug.

Built in 2006 as Wuerfel Park, the original home of the Traverse City Beach Bums, Turtle Creek Stadium has often been listed among the nation’s finest minor league facilities. Its clean, modern design offers outstanding sightlines for fans, roomy clubhouses for players, and (in a welcome departure from so many pro stadiums these days) a fun, foodand-entertainment-filled afternoon or evening at the ballpark that the average family can actually afford.

12, and fans are urged to wear red to support the Pit Spitters as they take on the Kalamazoo Growlers. Crowds will enjoy a special presentation by PA announcer Roy Harvey and super Thirsty Thursday specials: $2 domestic beers, $2 hot dogs, and $2 16-ounce Pepsi products. Dinner, as they say, is served.

Tickets for all home games can be purchased at www.PitSpitters.com. The stadium box office is also open for in-person transactions 10am–6pm Monday through Friday.

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Land Stories The tales behind some of our favorite preserves

By Anna Faller Looking for reasons to leave your house? Consider this your open (air) invitation.

While we all have our favorite parks and hikes, as summer edges in and more tourists and townies descend, it’s worth keeping a few lesser-trod landscapes in your back pocket. Here we highlight three of our favorite protected lands, selected not only for their sheer size or slightly out-of-the-way location that offer a little extra isolation but also for the unique tales of the faces and families behind them.

ELIZABETH B. HOFFMAN NATURE PRESERVE/ DIANE AND RICHARD DENARDIS FAMILY NATURE PRESERVE COMPLEX

Land conservation is a community effort. At least, that’s the name of the game in northern Michigan. “We get quite a few donations,” says Anne Fleming of Little Traverse Conservancy. “Most of the land that we’ve protected is because somebody has come to us and said, ‘We would really like to do something with this [because] it means so much to us.’ It’s people who just love that land.” But few have been as committed to land conservation as LTC contributor, Elizabeth B. Hoffman.

Known as “Betty” to the LTC, Hoffman has helped realize more than a dozen land protection projects to date. But up until recently, she’s preferred to stay anonymous.

“She’d done a lot of lands before this one,” says Fleming, “and we’d ask, ‘Betty, can we name this one after you?’ And she’d always say no, that she didn’t need the name.”

Then an easement opportunity near her home became available. “We finally

convinced her with this one,” says Fleming.

“I think it meant a lot to her, because it’s right down the road from where she lives.”

Located along US-31 in Charlevoix County’s Inwood Community, the original 138 acres of the Elizabeth B. Hoffman Nature Preserve had previously been part of a separate conservation easement — one which Hoffman herself helped pioneer.

(A conservation easement is a legal tool that private landowners can enact to guarantee the preservation of a particular plot of land. “If they’re concerned about what will happen to it in the future,” says Fleming, “[an easement] limits the amount of development that can happen.”)

So, when the original owners were looking to sell, Hoffman was only too happy to lend a hand. In 2017, Betty Hoffman donated the funds that let the Little Traverse Conservancy acquire the original acreage; and in late 2019, she

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added another five. But the complex wasn’t quite complete.

Because the LTC monitors every parcel they protect, one of their primary criteria for conservancy is land connection. “If [a parcel] is on land that’s already protected, “says Fleming, “then you’re expanding that protection — you’re doing what’s called ‘ecosystem management.’ The bigger, the better!” In 2018, Diane and Richard DeNardis, a couple of northern Michigan lovers, funded the purchase of the 63acre parcel immediately adjacent to the Hoffman preserve.

The result? A whopping 206 total acres of pristine forest, fields, and protected farmland. Set snugly along the US-31 corridor, one of the LTC’s most significant preservation projects, the Hoffman and DeNardis Family Complex features the characteristic hills and lowlands of the region, as well as the breathtaking lake-

views they provide. The complex also includes several glacial erratics (rocks from other places deposited by glaciers as they moved through the region), and the healthy mix of meadows and hardwoods means a variety of habitats for local wildlife.

But it’s the variety that sets this complex apart. Featuring just over 1.5 miles of accessible trail on the Hoffman Preserve, visitors can enjoy a lengthy hike before breaking for a pint at Bier’s Inwood Brewery, or exploring the family’s infamous art gallery, both of which are just steps away. A real multi-tasker of an estate, this complex is a Michigan must-see.

Find it: From the intersection of M-66 and US-31 at the south end of Charlevoix, travel 5.5 miles south on US-31. Parking is on the left (east) side of the road, just north of the art gallery. www.landtrust.org

NATHAN BEEM MEMORIAL NATURE PRESERVE

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The Little Traverse Conservancy has a saying: Next to family, peoples’ land is often most important to them. “And, it’s true!” says Anne Fleming. “If you think about it, and how you feel about where you came from, or if you have family property; [that place] — your place — is really important to you.”

For Dan and Heather Beem, that place is the Upper Chain of Lakes in Charlevoix County.

“I’ve been coming to Ellsworth every year since I was born,” says Dan Beem. His father, who discovered the area in the late 1950’s, brought Beem and his brother Up North from Ohio every year — two weeks most every June and whenever they could the rest of summer, always staying at Big Fish Inn on St. Clair Lake in Ellsworth.

“We absolutely loved borthern Michigan summers,” he says.

After Dan and Heather married, they

continued the tradition with their own family.

“We began taking our children, Nathan and Kristin, there as babies, and they grew to love the area,” says Heather. “It became their special place.”

But no one loved the lakes like Nathan.

Known to many as “Nate the Fisherman,” he knew all of Ellsworth’s best spots. In fact, he was so well-acquainted with the Upper Chain of Lakes that, according to his father, he could have been a fishing guide.

Nathan excelled in all things active, and his talents ran the gamut of all seasons of sports, including kayaking, hunting — and especially — soccer. Following four years on his high school team, his soccer prowess and smarts landed Nathan an athletic and academic scholarship to Mount Vernon Nazarene University, in Ohio.

From there, he transferred to Hocking

PYATT LAKE: THE BILL CARLS NATURE PRESERVE

College, where he graduated in May 2018 with an associate degree in Natural Resources Law Enforcement. Nathan entered basic training for the U.S. Coast Guard in Cape May, New Jersey, that July, and the following month, the new seaman was assigned to the Coast Guard Station Fairport on Lake Eerie.

On August 24, 2018, little more than a month into his first tour of duty, tragedy struck when 21-year-old Nathan suddenly and unexpectedly passed away in Ellsworth, Michigan — the very place where he had often spoke of living and owning his own land.

Shortly after Nathan’s passing, Dan and Heather resolved to do something to reflect Nathan’s love for northern Michigan. “We knew we had to do something to honor him and make something good come out of this situation,” says Heather. In cooperation with

the LTC, the Beem family discovered two perfect parcels of land for sale, both about a half-mile south of the St. Clair Lake-Six Mile Lake Nature Preserve: a 53-acre plot complete with 1,800 feet of Six Mile Lake frontage, plus an adjacent 52 acres.

In conjunction with the LTC, the Beem family created a fundraising campaign to finance the now-105-acre Nathan Beem Memorial Nature Preserve. Accessible from the water and from the road, the property features direct access to an undeveloped coastline, and as of last fall, a “bat condominium,” courtesy of Petoskey High School. “[The preserve] is beautiful,” says Heather. “Nathan would love it.”

Located about halfway up the historic Old Mission Peninsula, just a half-mile inland of Bower’s Harbor, sits Pyatt Lake.

Owned and protected by the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy, Pyatt Lake is a geological gem of undisturbed landscape.

But it very nearly wasn’t.

In 1991 — the year the GTRLC began — a local land developer named Rick Meyer purchased 80 acres of land surrounding the pristine Pyatt Lake, with plans to sell it off in 10-acre parcels for the purpose of development.

But founding GTRLC Executive Director Glen Chown wasn’t about to let that happen.

By the following spring, he had convinced Meyer to give the conservancy six months to purchase a pivotal 61 acres surrounding the lake. And just like that, the GTRLC signed off on a $100,000 dollar project.

As the old adage goes, ask and you shall receive; the community members of Old Mission Peninsula certainly didn’t disappoint.

In fact, the most influential fundraising efforts came from the students of the Old Mission Peninsula School, who wrote passionate letters to the local newspaper and held drives selling T-shirts and soda, all in support of the Pyatt Lake project. And while they yielded an impressive $1,300, they also captured the attention of a man named Bill Carls.

A native of Germany and a northern Michigan transplant, Carls was an automobile-manufacturing mogul who had sold his downstate home and retired to the Old Mission Peninsula around the time of the GTRLC’s creation. After reading about the students’ involvement, he decided he could do one better.

With fewer than 50 days to go before

the deadline, Carls provided a gamechanging challenge grant of $15,000. Made possible by his charitable group, The Carls Foundation, the grant matched every dollar the campaign received.

Ten days later, the previously plateaued goal was met. Thanks to the grant, the GTRLC was able to close on its very first conservation effort in December 1992. Since then, the parcel has seen a whopping eight expansions, including a second gift from the Carls Foundation in 2011.

Now a 160-acre parcel, the Bill Carls Nature Preserve features 1.5 miles of walkable trail and remains one of only three wooded dune and swale complexes — a regionally-unique dune ridge — in northern Michigan. Comprising more than 250 individual plant species, the preserve’s distinctive “habitat mosaic” makes it one of the most ecologically diverse parcels in Grand Traverse County.

As of this month, the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy has also completed a series of improvements to the preserve’s trail infrastructure, including the replacement of damaged boardwalks and platforms with universally accessible (UA) styles. An aggregate trail, boardwalk, parking lot, and two additional decks are also planned.

Construction will begin this summer, with completion slated for early November.

Find It: The Nathan Beem Memorial Nature Preserve is located on the west side of Miles Road, south of Lake Street, in Ellsworth.

Find It: Located off of Pyatt Road, The Bill Carls Nature Preserve is just north of the Boathouse Restaurant and Bowers Harbor boat launch. From Traverse City, head northbound on Peninsula Drive. Turn left on Neahtawanta Road, and then right on Pyatt Road. The preserve is on the right as you go north.

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The Entrepreneurial Spirit When Damien Desrocher, 28, decided to “return to nature” in December, it meant leaving his job as an air force computer technician and moving to the northern French town of Wahagnies, where he started raising snails. But they’re not for eating, Reuters reported. Desrocher harvests “slime” from the snails and uses it to make bars of soap. A single snail will yield about 2 grams of slime. Desrocher needs about 80 grams of slime to make 15 100-gram soap bars. “It’s all in the dexterity of how you tickle,” he said as he demonstrated the harvesting technique. “I only touch it with my finger, you see it’s not violent, it’s simple.” Desrocher said snail mucus contains molecules of collagen and elastin, which have anti-aging and skinhealing properties.

Silent But Deadly In North Carolina, large stands of wetland forests along the coast have died, giving the areas an apocalyptic appearance, CNET reported. Salt water from rising seas and storm surges is causing the destruction of tens of thousands of acres.

Researchers at North Carolina State University are studying the “ghost forests” to measure their environmental impact, which includes emitting greenhouse gases -- carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide -- that they call “tree farts.” Graduate student Melinda Martinez acknowledged that the trees don’t emit as much as the soils, but, she said, “Even the smallest fart counts.”

Put a Ring on It Avid snorkeler Susan Prior of Norfolk Island, Australia, often sees small mullet fish with rings around their middles -usually plastic rings from juice and milk bottles, she said, according to the New York Post. “Mullet snuffle through the sand looking for food, making it so easy for a ring or a hair tie to flip over their noses and get stuck,” she wrote in a blog post. But in early May, Prior, who also takes underwater photos, captured a snap of a mullet fish sporting a gold wedding band. Prior remembered that she had seen a social media post about a lost wedding ring in the bay, but she couldn’t catch up to the fish to retrieve the item. She did, however, remind others to snip any plastic rings before putting them in the trash so that the fish aren’t “slowly strangled.”

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No Good Deed After Bryan Thayer, 34, finished up at his bar and grill in Metairie, Louisiana, on May 8, he stopped off at the City Bar, where he and a friend bought a drink for another patron, Andrew Nierman, 32. The first drink they bought spilled on Nierman, so they furnished him with a replacement.

But Nierman evidently wasn’t satisfied with that. “He grabbed my head and (bit) a chunk out of my nose,” Thayer told The Times-Picayune, then ran out and jumped in a car. Thayer, who was holding his nose together, and other witnesses ran outside and flagged down a deputy, who stopped Nierman. He admitted to biting Thayer but said he’d been “accosted” by him. Doctors patched up Thayer’s nose, but he said his

injuries will preclude him from working at his own bar for a time.

Oops Three neighbors of Cara Louise, 28, of Bedfordshire, England, became alarmed on May 12 when they noticed what appeared to be a corpse wrapped in trash bags and duct tape lying in Louise’s yard. While Louise was picking up her 5-year-old from school, seven police officers descended on her home. When she returned, she provided an explanation: “The prop in the garden was part of our theme” for Halloween, she said, but she had neglected to dispose of the fake corpse after the autumn holiday. “He” was kept behind her trash bins, but she moved him as she worked in the yard and forgot to put him away. “I have a tip for all parents who go all-out at Halloween like myself -dispose of props or put them away safely,” Louise told the Daily Mail. Laughing with officers, she wondered who might have such short legs, and an officer responded, “You might have cut them.” “I was so embarrassed I couldn’t believe people thought I was capable of it,” she said.

Bright Idea Ever stepped off a curb unexpectedly or run into a pole while looking down at your phone? Minwook Paeng, an industrial design student at London’s Royal College of Art and Imperial College, has invented a device that will alert you to obstacles in your path: the Third Eye. A small translucent case shaped something like an eye affixes to the forehead with a thin gel pad, DeZeen reported, and “the black component that looks like a pupil is an ultrasonic sensor for sensing distance,” Paeng explained. When the gyroscope senses the head angled downward, the plastic “eyelid” opens and warns the wearer of obstacles in their path with a buzzer.

Paeng believes humans are evolving into “phono sapiens,” developing “turtle neck syndrome” and a curved pinky finger from holding our phones. “I hope that the act of ironically pointing out what we are doing with our smartphones can help people take time for self-reflection,” Paeng mused.

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Ana Cardenas of El Paso, Texas, woke up around 4 a.m. on May 11 and felt something dripping on her face, KTSMTV reported. When she turned on the light, she was horrified to see that it was blood. Blood was coming in where her ceiling fan was attached to the ceiling, and the fan had spattered it all around the room. Cardenas called 911, and officers determined that the man living in the apartment above hers had died. “The firefighters knocked down his door and the body was laying exactly where my fan is underneath,” Cardenas said. “He had carpet but the blood seeped through to my ceiling.” Police said the man had died of natural causes and had been deceased for five to six days. Cardenas stayed at a hotel for a few nights but now has to replace her damaged belongings. She said she was traumatized by the incident: “It was awful, an awful impact.”

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CAR SHOWS APPROACH THE 2021 STARTING LINE

By Ross Boissoneau If summer 2020 was all about pumping the brakes, summer 2021 seems to be the season to hit the gas, squeal the tires, and barrel into at 100 miles per hour. One American summer staple in particular — car shows and cruises — are looking ready to roll Up North. Some, like the National Cherry Festivals’ Old Town Classic Car Show in Traverse City, are even making some sweet modifications. By no means an exhaustive list, here’s who’s got the green light so far; we’ll share more as we hear ’em rev up.

Back to Bricks Promo Tour June 6 Hundreds of classic cars will cruise into Boyne City when the state-famous Back to the Bricks Celebration Promo Tour rolls into town. This is the 11th year for the tour, and word is, more cars than ever are registered for this year’s event — more than a third of which are participating for the first time. The tour, which takes attendees to five different stops throughout the state, previously visited Boyne City in 2015 (as well as Petoskey in 2018 and Gaylord in 2019) and is designed to stoke gearheads’ pistons for the official Back to the Bricks week of activities and shows in August.

Boyne City’s part in the promo tour will take place on Water Street between Lake and East streets, as well as on Lake Street between Water and Main streets.

Mustang & All Ford Show & Shine June 12 Hosted by the West Michigan Mustang Club in Grand Rapids. So yeah, it’s in West Michigan, not northern Michigan, but the group boasts members from across the state, including Traverse City and Petoskey.

The 40th Annual will take place June 12 at Frontline Community Church, 4411 Plainfield Ave. NE in Grand Rapids. www. westmichiganmustangclub.com

Cruise-in Car Show June 19 The show at the Emmet County Fairgrounds takes place at 4pm; more details to come. Keep apprised at facebook.com/ events/470918800951965/ St. Ignace Cruise Weekend June 24–27 Perhaps the granddaddy of northern Michigan car shows is the St. Ignace Cruise Weekend. More than 25,000 car lovers turn out each year for the event, which this year offers different cruise routes, a downtown street show, a drive-in movie, the famed Muscle On The Mac (a sunset cruise across the mighty Mackinac Bridge to break the Record for highest horsepower on the bridge at once), a fireworks show, and, of course, the St. Ignace Cup, the only peer-judged car show competition in the country and the country’s largest cash prize for an outdoor show. www.stignace.com Old Town Classic Car Show July 4 Part of the National Cherry Festival, this Independence Day auto show, held from 11am to 3pm, will take place about a mile from its moniker this year — on the significantly more spacious grounds of The Village at Grand Traverse Commons in Traverse City. The extra room will be welcome; 200 show-condition collector vehicles will be featured, with multiple judging classes; show up to wander the rows or register (required this year in advance) beginning June 1. www.cherryfestival.org Car Show/Poker Run July 31 Classic Instruments in Boyne City, profiled in “Running Down a Dream” in last week’s issue (story available at www. northernexpress.com) hosts this annual fundraiser for the Boyne City Police Department. www.classicinstruments.com

Alden Classic Sports Car Show Aug. 8 No hot rods, motorcycles, trucks, muscle cars, or replicas allowed — this is the only car show in Michigan featuring sports cars exclusively (and you can expect more than 100 of them built in Great Britain, Japan, the USA, Germany, and France).

Now in its 22nd year, this sporting good event is sponsored by the Twin Bay British Car Club, old chap, and it takes place from 10am–3pm in the Village of Alden Park. www.twinbaybrits.org Harbor Springs Car Festival Aug. 8 Some 200 cars, trucks, and motorcycles will be on display in Zorn Park (City) Beach — many of them seldom seen rat rods, muscle cars, hot rods, sports cars, vintage and classic models. Not only is there no charge to enter your special vehicle but entry is free for those who want to wander around and drool, too. www.harborspringschamber.com Evart Car Club Cruise & Show Sept. 3–4 The Evart Car Club holds its annual car cruise and shows Friday and Saturday of Labor Day weekend. The cruise winds through the city of Evart before heading out of town to the Eight Point Lake subdivisions, while the show takes place at Evart Riverside park. www.evartcarclub.com, president@ evartcarclub.com Antique Car Show Sept. 18 The living history museum known as Wellington Farm, USA, just southwest of Grayling, will opens its 60-acre property to anyone interested in seeing cars made in or before 1932. In addition to the antique cars, the entire park will be open. Crafters Alley will be in full operation, and historic buildings will be staffed by costumed interpreters, too. www.wellingtonfarmusa.com

Everyone likes to come up north.

That’s true for Blane Kamp as much as anyone. The owner of BMW Motorcycles of Grand Rapids does so not only for his pleasure, but that of motorcycle enthusiasts in the area as well.

For the last eight years, Kamp and members of his crew have motored north to share their enthusiasm and their motorbikes with people from the north country.

“We’ve always had a good rapport with [people from] Traverse City, Harbor Springs. It’s such a nice riding area,” Kamp said.

This year the company’s Demo Days are set for June 3 and 4. Each day from 9 to 5, the company offers those so inclined the opportunity to take an hour-long ride to check out its new models. “There are a lot of neat new bikes out,” Kamp says. They include advanced technology, such as traction control, gyro systems to help the bike stay balanced, and ABS pro, which slows down the bikes when braking without bringing them to a complete halt, which could cause the bike and rider to take a tumble.

Kamp said such advancements have made riding much safer. One model even has active cruise control, which uses radar to automatically slow down if a car in front of it does.

The event is purposely scheduled on the Thursday and Friday right after Memorial Day, a time the roads are always less crowded than during the weekend, making for more fun and greater safety.

Kamp says that while he’s made three or four sales over the years from the Demo Days, it’s more about sharing the fun and enthusiasm with riders who wouldn’t necessarily make it down to Grand Rapids. It’s also more fun to ride the roads along Old Mission Peninsula than in the Grand Rapids area.

The headquarters for the event is 12372 Center Rd. Kamp suggests those interested in riding should contact him at the store to reserve a time as the slots often fill up quickly. The store’s phone number is (616) 530-6900.

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The Museum inside Lynne Rae Perkins’ Mind Newberry Award-winning author on her latest, “The Museum of Everything”

By Kathleen Stocking Lynne Rae Perkins, an award-winning Suttons Bay author and illustrator, has released a new book, “The Museum of Everything.” The book, a kind of map — or as publisher Harper Collins calls it, an invitation to go on “an imagination-fueled journey through the living museum that surrounds us all — is the museum. And the museum has in it, among other things, a cloud, a shadow, an island that could be a stone in a puddle.

How does one think of something like this? Perkins says the book started when she stood on a hill on a tiny island and could see its edges. She could see the shore, the ocean surrounding it. From that came “The Museum of Everything,” which is about ways of seeing, ways of thinking.

Why not have a museum with a cloud?

Well, no reason.

And it’s delightful to think of a museum that’s not like any museum you’ve ever seen.

The Museum of Everything is a book for young readers, but adults will like it, too. It’s like a poem with pictures.

“Most children’s books are also something adults can appreciate,” Perkins says. “Editors like that. Because they know the adults are going to be the ones reading it to the children.” Anyone who has ever read to children knows this is true. Some books get hidden in the sofa cushions and some are cherished.

Described as a “poetic sorceress” by The New York Times, Perkins has a subtle sense of humor and lovely, surprising sense of the world around her. In her book “Nuts

to You,” one of the characters is a squirrel in the park near her house, a squirrel with whom she converses. We believe this is a real conversation.

“A book doesn’t start with just one thing,” Perkins says. “It happens with something small, then I forget about it. Then something else happens and it comes together.”

Lynne Perkins is sitting on the sofa in her three-story house. Her dog, Hazel, some sweet and gentle mixed breed, is lying next to her. We’re on the second floor of this high house with high ceilings. We are in the trees. It’s mid-May, and the trees are in various stages of bud and leaf, the delicate and changing shades of green and rose that leaves hold only for a few days in the spring.

Her husband, Bill Perkins, built the house.

He makes furniture out of willow, and there’s a hand-made feel to the space. The radiators look like they came from an old school. The tiles around the hearth were a joint project; she made the tiles, and he installed them.

Lynne notices a rose-breasted grosbeak at the bird feeder off the balcony facing the back hill and says, “That’s the first one I’ve seen this year.”

Bill Perkins is in and out. He brings tunapatty-melts on toast. He says he’s going to take the dog for a walk. “No,” she says, “leave Haze. She wants to hang out for a while.”

So, this particular book, “The Museum of Everything,” started, she thinks now, upon reflection, with standing on top of that hill on Cuttyhunk Island, where she was writerin-residence for a school with one student and one teacher. The people on the island had done a community read of her book,

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“Sisters of the Salty Sea,” and had invited her to come for a week. It was November then, tall grasses, green-to-gold, and when she got back home to Suttons Bay, she tried to draw the island she had seen and now held in her mind, but the drawing didn’t satisfy her.

Then she tried to embroider a small pillowreplica of the island. That didn’t work either.

Then she made a tiny replica of the island and put it in a diorama. Finally, she felt she was getting somewhere.

A diorama is a box with things in it. This can be a model of anything, big or small — prehistoric animals in a natural history museum taking up an entire wall, or small enough to fit on a bookshelf. It comes from the Greek for di, meaning “through,” plus orama which means “that which is seen.” Relatively speaking, it’s a new word, dating to the 1800s when people would look through a small hole at a painting of a landscape in which changes in color and direction of illumination create the illusion of changes in the angle of the light and the time of day. Lynne started out as an illustrator until one day her editor asked her if she’d like to write something; now she does both illustrating and writing.

“I wonder about things like, can a rock in a puddle be an island? And think about if the rock in the puddle is on a boulder in a pond,” she writes in “The Museum of Everything,” “And what if that pond is on a small island in a lake? And what if that lake is on a bigger island, out in the ocean?”

“Once you know the one thing in your mind,” she says, “then your mind is ready to see something else. When I figure out how something fits together, I feel this ‘Ahhh,’ and it’s just the best feeling.”

Creative people need to be free to have random thoughts, and unconditional love helps with that. Perkin says she grew up with lots of unconditional love from her family, from her sister, like the one in “Sisters of the Salty Sea,” where they do “thought-sending” with each other, thinking of something and then mentally sending the thought. As Bill comes in to take Hazel for a walk, she says, “I have unconditional love from Bill.”

Hazel needed time to assess the new person in the house and, that accomplished, she’s ready for her walk.

“I had lots of unsuccessful relationships,” Lynne says. “Everyone does. I was young.

I thought it was the nature of relationships that you worked at them. Then I met Bill.”

“We were lucky,” Bill says as Hazel follows him out. Circumstances occurred to allow them to find each other and be happy together.

Her work, Lynne freely admits, has taken place in the context of a love-filled life. “If I had known my life would be OK, I would have been able to relax and enjoy it more.”

A few years ago, I was invited to Thanksgiving at the home of people in Suttons Bay, back in the hills and the woods, near where Lynne and Bill Perkins live. It was a gray and cold day, typical for that time of year; not snowing, but overcast. Lynne came through the door, gingerly carrying her Christmas card, like a cake that might fall, a small diorama with figures. She put it down carefully on a side table. She was clearly excited about the idea of the diorama. It was a new way of seeing. “She’s been doing dioramas,” Bill said, the way some other husband might say that lately his wife has been making afghans.

A book doesn’t happen overnight. It took two or three years, from first thought to the finished product, for “The Museum of Everything” to come into being. “I work on several things at the same time,” she says.

Dioramas helped her find a way to write this latest book; one of her previous books required needlework, and another cooking, for the thinking and writing to coalesce. Two of her books are dedicated to the couple’s two children, Frank and Lucy, now grown — Lucy working for NPR in Pittsburgh and Frank an engineer in Seattle.

Bill Perkins refers to himself as Lynne’s muse. He’s not exactly joking. A muse is someone who inspires and protects and gives comfort. He says he fell madly in love with his wife many years ago. The unspoken love between them fills their house, makes visitors want to be there.

“Lynne gets tuna melts,” I say to Bill when he returns with Hazel. “What do you get?”

“I come home at the end of the day,” Bill says, “and we have these amazing conversations.” These are conversations, one can imagine from reading “The Museum of Everything,” that are filled with things one hadn’t thought of before, and which are funny and fun and lead to discovery and understanding.

Before I came to talk to Lynne Rae Perkins, I looked up the word museum.

It means a place for things inspired by the muses, and her book of dioramas in her imaginary museum fits. But her museum has things in it that one does not expect: hidden things, shadows, the rock in a puddle that’s a miniature island.

“I was walking one day,” Lynne says, “and the sun was out, and it had dried out all the dew, except where the shadow of the tree’s leaves and branches had left a darker pattern created by the moisture that hadn’t evaporated yet.” And so, she put the concept of a reverse shadow into a diorama and into the book.

At the end of June Lynne Perkins will have a book celebration at Horizon Books in downtown Traverse City. “It will be outside,” she says. “There will be long tables. And supplies. And when kids come, I’ll make dioramas with them.” The event is scheduled for 1pm June 26.

To learn more about Lynn Rae Perkins, check out www.lynnrae.com. For more information about the celebration of “The Museum of Everything,” search “Horizon BooksTC” on Facebook.

“Perkins has written about a dozen books for children and young adults. “Criss Cross,” a book about teenagers who form a friendship is about their inner thoughts and their conversations and their becoming closer. It won the Newberry Award in 2006. The prestigious award, selected annually by the Association for Library Service to Children (a division of the American Library Association), is given to “authors of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.”

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may 29

saturday

WET PAINT ART SHOW: 10am-5pm, May 29-30. Village Green Park, Walloon Lake. This event will also feature a quick draw plein air competition at 5pm on Sat. in front of the Marina.

---------------------VIRTUAL 2021 BAYSHORE MARATHON: Featuring a marathon, half marathon & 10K. Register. The dates to complete this virtual event are Thurs., May 27 to Mon., May 31. bayshoremarathon.org

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STAFFORD’S TOP OF MICHIGAN FESTIVAL OF RACES: Half marathon, 10K & 5K. Half: 7:30am; 10K: 8:30am; 5K: 9am. The course is primarily run along the Little Traverse Wheelway. This year it will be run as out & backs, starting & finishing in Petoskey’s Waterfront Park. $30, $45, $65. active.com/petoskey-mi/ running/distance-running-races/top-of-michigan-festival-of-races-2021

---------------------65TH ANNUAL MANCELONA BASS FESTIVAL: May 27-31. Featuring a Classic Car Show, Grand Parade, Crafters Market, Cornhole Tournament, Mancelona Kid & Pet Parade & more. mancelonabassfest.org

---------------------FRIENDS OF INTERLOCHEN PUBLIC LIBRARY PLANT & FLOWER SALE FUNDRAISER: 9am-2pm, Ric’s Corner, Interlochen Plaza. 231-276-6767.

---------------------GREAT LAKES HUMANE SOCIETY ANNUAL BARN SALE: 9am-2pm, 7246 East Harry’s Rd., TC. Everything from yard equipment & sporting goods to antiques & books, local art & quilts. All proceeds benefit Great Lakes Humane Society. greatlakeshs.com

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HARBOR SPRINGS FARMERS MARKET W/ “MUSIC AT THE MARKET” W/ MELISSA WELKE: 9am-1pm, Main St., Downtown Harbor Springs. Held Saturdays, May 29 - Oct. 16; & Wednesdays, June 2 - Aug. 25, 9am-1pm. harborspringsfarmersmarket.org

---------------------LAKE ANN CAMP FAMILY FUN DAY: 9am, Lake Ann Camp, Lake Ann. Tour the grounds, meet the staff, & preview the various summer activities. Horse carriage rides, Zorbs Archery tag, disc golf, foot golf, pontoon boat rides & much more. Lunch available at $5 per person.

Free. lakeanncamp.com/retreats/family-fun-day

---------------------RED DRESSER VINTAGE & MAKER’S MARKET: 9am-4pm. A two-day Vintage Flea & Makers Market at the Northwestern Michigan Fairgrounds, TC. Featuring over 100 vendors, gourmet food trucks & live music. Friday ($10) entry allows for free Saturday re-entry, or $5 on Sat. only. ticketleap.com

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ANTRIM COUNTY PETOSKEY STONE FESTIVAL: 10am, Barnes Park, Eastport. Includes the 15th Annual Stone Skipping Contest, Kids’ Trout Fishing Pond, 15th Annual Petoskey Stone Hunt, Coast Guard Search & Rescue Demonstration, Antrim County K9 Unit Demonstration, 15th Annual Betty Dinger Memorial Award, a free pop-up COVID vaccination clinic for adults, & more. petoskeystonefestival.com

---------------------ELK RAPIDS ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW: 10am-4pm. Over 50 vendors on River St. in downtown Elk Rapids. elkrapidschamber.org/ arts-crafts-show

---------------------SUMMER KICK OFF: 11am-3:30pm, Downtown Gaylord. Opening Day of Downtown Gaylord Farmers Market, live music on the city streets, pop up artists on the courthouse lawn, & family sidewalk chalk activities. The Otsego Historical Society will be giving walking tours of the historical points of interest downtown beginning at noon. Visit the Gaylord Car at the Visitor’s Center.

may 30

sunday

may/june

VIRTUAL 2021 BAYSHORE MARATHON: (See Sat., May 29)

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65TH ANNUAL MANCELONA BASS FESTIVAL: (See Sat., May 29)

---------------------WET PAINT ART SHOW: (See Sat., May 29) ---------------------NORTH MITTEN HALF MARATHON, 10K & 5K: Crystal Mountain, Thompsonville. 13.1: 8am; 10K: 8:30am; 5K: 9am. A combination of paved roads, dirt roads & trails. Starts & finishes at the white slope side tent near the Crystal Clipper chairlift. It will not climb the mountain.

13.1: $85. 10K: $55. 5K: $42. Prices increase after May 25. runsignup.com/Race/MI/Thompsonville/NorthMittenHalfMarathon10K5K

send your dates to: events@traverseticker.com

---------------------CHALK YOUR WALK 2021: 12-1pm, Festival Square, Cheboygan. Join the Sidewalk Chalk Project in celebration of 10 years of chalking positive messages. Grab some chalk & leave a word or two of hope, love, peace & understanding. Free. facebook.com/ events/179062917362082

---------------------GAAC DEDICATES NEW OUTDOOR GALLERY PANELS: 1pm, Glen Arbor Arts Center.

A ceremony to dedicate the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s new Outdoor Gallery exhibition. It will celebrate the work of TC artist Pam Spicer. Five of Spicer’s paintings have been reproduced on 5-foot-square, weather-resistant aluminum panels by Image360 of TC. The panels will be installed on the GAAC’s south & west exterior walls. Spicer’s work remains in place through April 2022. The panels will be available for purchase in spring 2022. glenarborart.org/events/ outdoor-gallery-exhibit-dedication-pam-spicer

---------------------OUTDOOR OPEN JAM: 1-4pm, Heritage Village, Mackinaw City.

---------------------9TH ANNUAL “LELAND AIR”: This virtual art exhibition & sale featuring the work of more than 55 plein air painters from across Michigan opens Sun., May 30 at 6pm. Early bird tickets are available for $25 & offer the option to view & purchase paintings one hour earlier than the general public. The exhibit & sale will continue through Sun., June 13 at 6pm. Artists will donate forty percent of their sales to the Old Art Building. Artists are given one day to paint en plein air from a location of their choice, & the show is available to view not long afterwards. oldartbuilding.com

may 31

monday

TC MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE: 10am, Veterans Memorial Day Park, TC.

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MANCELONA MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE: 9am, Mancelona Township Library.

---------------------HARBOR SPRINGS MEMORIAL DAY PARADE & BREAKFAST: A Memorial Day Breakfast will be held from 7-9am at the Legion Building on the corner of State & Third streets.

The parade starts at 10am on Main Street & ends at the waterfront with a ceremony honoring those in the military who have died in the line of service. harborspringschamber.com/ events/details/memorial-day-parade-andbreakfast-2021-8148

---------------------EAST JORDAN MEMORIAL DAY PARADE: 10am. Starts on Main St. & ends at Memorial Park.

Kick off Smart Commute Week by selling and/or purchasing an unused or out-grown bicycle or bike accessory at the Recycle-A-Bicycle Bike Swap on Sat., June 5 at the Old Town Parking Garage, TC from 9am-2pm. Check in items to sell on Fri., June 4 from 6-8pm. If sold, you receive 75% of sale price. 25% supports the RecycleA-Bicycle program. recycleabicycletc.org

MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONIES - PETOSKEY: 10:30am: Carl O. Weaver Post 194 of The American Legion will start with a small ceremony at Greenwood Cemetery placing a wreath with a short prayer, an honor guard firing, & Taps. 11:15am: A stop at Mineral Well Park on Lake Street for a similar observance for those who died at sea. Noon: Main ceremony at Pennsylvania Park. Starting with the raising of the Nation’s Colors to full staff, this program will include music from the Petoskey High School Band, a reading of the names of people from the Petoskey area who died while in service to our nation, & a short speech from a guest speaker. This ceremony will end with a prayer for peace, the firing of three volleys, & Taps. There will be a luncheon for any veteran & their family at the American Legion Post building, 455 Bay St., after the Pennsylvania Park event.

---------------------ELK RAPIDS MEMORIAL DAY PARADE/ SERVICE: Parade starts at AMVETS, 410 Bridge St., at 10:45am. Parade ends at Veterans’ Memorial Park where a presentation will take place.

---------------------ALDEN MEMORIAL SERVICE: 1pm, Alden Depot Veterans/First Responders monument.

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GAYLORD MEMORIAL DAY PARADE/SERVICE: Parade starts on West Main St. at 10am.

Ceremony will be held at Otsego War Memorial at 11am.

LOCAL APPRECIATION DAY AT CASTLE FARMS: 10am-5pm. All residents with a valid driver’s license from Charlevoix, Emmet, Antrim, Otsego, or Cheboygan counties can tour Castle Farms, Charlevoix for free. All others, just $5. castlefarms.com/events/local-appreciation-day

GLEN ARBOR MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY: 10:30am, Glen Arbor Township Cemetery.

VIRTUAL 2021 BAYSHORE MARATHON: (See Sat., May 29)

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65TH ANNUAL MANCELONA BASS FESTIVAL: (See Sat., May 29)

---------------------THE JUMP: 3pm. A large crowd of people will run headlong into the icy cold waters of West Grand Traverse Bay. The Jump began as a way to remember Keegan Tarrant whose battle with depression ended in suicide when she was just 19. During her high school & college years, Keegan was known for creating spontaneous fun – including jumping into the Bay during each month of the year – & also for her passion for mission work. Donations will benefit the Keegan Mission Project, a scholarship that funds mission trips for students of Grand Traverse Area Catholic Schools. thekeeganmissionproject.com

---------------------TC PIT SPITTERS VS. KOKOMO: 5:05pm, Turtle Creek Stadium, TC. The first 500 fans, 18 years & older, in the gate will receive winter trapper hats courtesy of Turtle Creek Casino & Hotel. northwoodsleague.com/traverse-city-pitspitters

june 01

tuesday

ART BEAT: June 1-15. Featuring three award winning art galleries in Elk Rapids. Tour Blue Heron, Mullaly’s 128 & Twisted Fish galleries as many times as you like for a chance to win gift certificates & explore fine art.

Check in with the galleries for art demonstrations & the art questions of the day. twistedfishgallery.com/event/art-beat-with-blue-heronmullalys-128-twisted-fish-galleries

CHERRIES GOT TALENT VIDEO AUDITION: 10am, June 1-15. Submit your audition video by completing the form on website. cherryfestival.org/events/2021/cherries-got-talent---video-audition

---------------------4TH OF JULY PARADE: CTAC FLOAT PLANNING MEETING: 5:30pm, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Theater, Petoskey. In celebration of their 50th anniversary, CTAC will be participating in Downtown Petoskey’s 4th of July Parade. Join this brainstorming session on building a float. RSVP. crookedtree.org/event/ ctac-petoskey/4th-july-parade-ctac-float-planning-meeting

---------------------PROVIDING FOR BENEFICIAL INSECTS: 6:30pm. Gardeners interested in helping beneficial insects thrive can learn more at the virtual meeting of the Master Gardener Association of Northwest Michigan. To register, go to MGANM.org by May 30. All those who register will receive a link to the meeting via email. Free to MGANM members; $5 donation is suggested for non-members. magnum.org

CATE!: 10am. Suttons Bay Public Schools & the Suttons Bay Chamber of Commerce invite you to the “Village Collage” in downtown Suttons Bay from June 3-7. Participating Suttons Bay businesses will be displaying artwork created by students at Suttons Bay Schools. For a chance to win one of ten $50 gift certificates to downtown Suttons Bay businesses, grab a “passport” at one of the participating businesses, collect 8 stamps, & turn in at your last stop for a chance to win. For more details & a list of participating businesses, visit www.suttonsbayschools.com. Free.

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DISABILITY NETWORK PEER ADVOCACY GROUP: ZOOM MEETINGS: 2pm. disabilitynetwork.org/events

---------------------CONSERVATORY OF DANCE ANNUAL RECITAL: 5:30pm & 8pm, Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts, Manistee. “Cheers to 30 Years!” will feature 125 of Manistee County area youth & adults. ramsdelltheatre.org/ programs/#happening

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wednesday

KINGSLEY’S PLANNING TO PLAY: A COMMUNITY PARKS PROJECT: 6pm. Join the Village of Kingsley, the Civic Center South Board of Directors, & Kingsley Branch Library for three community input sessions as part of the “Kingsley’s Planning to Play: a Community Parks Project!” Each session is on a Thursday, beginning at 6pm. On May 27 meet at Civic Center South. On June 3 meet at Brownson Park. On June 10 meet at Civic Center South.

If you cannot make the meetings but would like to provide input, look for voting boards in the Library lobby beginning May 21. Info: 231-2635484. Free. facebook.com/TADLKingsley

CHERRIES GOT TALENT VIDEO AUDITION: (See Tues., June 1)

GRASS RIVER NATURAL AREA COMMUNITY PADDLE: 6:30-8:30pm, Willow Day Park, Bellaire. All ages & types of paddle crafts welcome to this slow paddle. Free.

STORY ADVENTURES: 11am. Join the Petoskey District Library & TOPOnexus for a short outdoor story time at the library labyrinth, followed by a mini walking adventure that takes you out & about town. Use your senses to explore four themes that make Petoskey special – water, rocks, trees, & town. Ages 3-5. Siblings welcome. 500 E. Mitchell St., Petoskey. Free. petoskeylibrary.evanced.info/signup/EventDet ails?EventId=9151&backTo=Calendar&startDa te=2021/05/01

RACIAL JUSTICE: 6:30pm. A virtual program presented by Title Track. In this intro conversation, Seth Bernard will cover some of the basics of understanding racial justice, including historical context, working definitions, a framework called the Five Faces of Oppression, & tools for accountable allyship. Holly T. Bird will share stories, poems & calls to action from an Indigenous perspective. Register. Free. docs.google.com/ forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1QEk1Ui6GAx97EGMtb dox-7k3Q95BFvix2C1kdsx7mmD-3A/viewform

---------------------TC PIT SPITTERS VS. KOKOMO: 6:35pm, Turtle Creek Stadium, TC. northwoodsleague. com/traverse-city-pit-spitters

---------------------GRAND TRAVERSE KENNEL CLUB MEETING: 7pm. Monthly meeting held at the Elks Club on Bay St., TC. New members welcome.

Free.

june 02

ART BEAT: (See Tues., June 1)

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---------------------LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS LEELANAU FORUM: Noon. Featuring Jenn Hill as the speaker. Along with being Mayor pro tem of Marquette, Jenn served on the governor appointed UP Energy Task Force & is a current Board member of the Citizens Utility Board of Michigan. Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QBVsD4A5Q2misy9ZKW_trg. Free.

LWVLeelanau.org

---------------------FOCUS GROUP: 5pm, Veteran’s Pavilion, 1905 S. Otsego Ave., Gaylord. A conversation about childcare in the community. There will also be cookies & prizes.

---------------------TC PIT SPITTERS VS. RIVETS: 6:35pm, Turtle Creek Stadium, TC. northwoodsleague. com/traverse-city-pit-spitters

june 03

thursday

CHERRIES GOT TALENT VIDEO AUDITION: (See Tues., June 1)

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---------------------TC PIT SPITTERS VS. RIVETS: 6:35pm, Turtle Creek Stadium, TC. northwoodsleague. com/traverse-city-pit-spitters

---------------------BMW DEMO DAYS: 9am-5pm, 12372 Center Rd., TC. Call 616-530-6900 to schedule an appointment for a demo ride.

june 04

friday

CHERRIES GOT TALENT VIDEO AUDITION: (See Tues., June 1)

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SIP & SAVOR: 10am, Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail, June 4-6. This event combines some of the region’s most incredible & uniquely crafted wines, each hand-selected by the makers themselves, paired along with locally sourced cuisine options. $45. lpwines.com/2020-trail-events

---------------------SUTTONS BAY “VILLAGE COLLAGE” - CHANCE TO WIN A $50 GIFT CERTIFICATE!: (See Thurs., June 3)

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GT RESORT & CASINO’S DRIVE-THRU CAREER FAIR: 10am-2pm, Turtle Creek Stadium, TC. Bring your résumé or email it before the career fair: GTRS.HRRecruiting@gtresort. com. gtresortcasinos.com/our-careers

VIRTUAL COFFEE @ TEN: 10am. Join Zakkiyyah Najeebah Dumas-O’neal & Juana Wil in a conversation about their work. Register. Free. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-petoskey-ctac-traverse-city-ctac-online/virtual-coffee-10-zakkiyyah-najeebah-dumas-oneal

SUTTONS BAY “VILLAGE COLLAGE” - CHANCE TO WIN A $50 GIFT CERTIFI-

CONSERVATORY OF DANCE ANNUAL RECITAL: (See Thurs., June 4)

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FAMILY MOVIE NIGHTS: 9:30pm, Friske Farm Market, Ellsworth. Featuring “Moana.”

231-599-2604. $5; 12 & under, free. friske.com

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june 05

saturday

JOB WINSLOW NSDAR ANNUAL GARAGE SALE: 8am3pm, American Legion Post 35, Hastings St., TC. Help support Job Winslow’s Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution’s annual garage sale fundraiser. Find deals on everything from housewares to linens, purses, & more.

---------------------ART BEAT: (See Tues., June 1) ---------------------CIS 5K RUN/WALK: 8:30am. Registration & check-in at Mancelona Senior Center, 122 E. State St., Mancelona between 7-8am. Race starts & finishes at Howard & Main streets (behind Mancelona Senior Center). All profits benefit Communities In Schools of Northwest Michigan. $25. cisnwmi.org/cis-5k-runwalk

---------------------NATIONAL TRAILS DAY CELEBRATION: Railroad Square, Downtown Kalkaska. This event celebrates the work of local volunteers who help maintain the North Country Trail as it crosses through northwest lower Michigan on its 4,600mile route across eight states from Vermont to North Dakota. Highlighting this year’s celebration is the official Grand Opening of 12 newly rerouted miles of the NCT leading into Kalkaska.

Guided hikes will depart & return from Railroad Square. 8:30am Departure: Hike seven miles (approximately 3 hours) from Boardman Road Trail Crossing to Island Lake Road/Snowpackers Clubhouse. 10:00am Departure: Hike 2.75 miles (approximately 1.5 hours) from S. River Road Access to Island Lake Road/Snowpackers Clubhouse.

Join after the hikes at 12:30pm for a brief program & trail dedication ceremony, followed by a free community picnic hosted by the Grand Traverse Hiking Club. facebook.com/GTHikers

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HANSON HILLS CHALLENGE TRAIL RUN: 9am, 7601 Old Lake Rd., Grayling. Featuring a 3 mile-ish trail run & 5 mile trail run. runsignup. com/Race/MI/Grayling/HansonHillsChallenge5 MileTrailRun?aflt_token=vkmwDmweQ4iCYn8 otSOOnKQ3vCO8buOw

---------------------MARITIME HERITAGE ALLIANCE 34TH ANNUAL BOAT AUCTION & GEAR SALE: Viewing, 9am; auction, 11am. All sorts of watercraft & boat gear available. Funds raised support Schooner Madeline, Cutter Champion youth programs, & promote Great Lakes Maritime history. Discovery Center, 13268 S. West Bayshore Dr., TC. maritimeheritagealliance.org/annual-boat-auction

---------------------RECYCLE-A-BICYCLE BIKE SWAP: Kick off Smart Commute Week by selling and/or purchasing an unused or out-grown bicycle or bike accessory at this event at the Old Town Parking Garage, TC from 9am-2pm. Check in items to sell on Fri., June 4 from 6-8pm. If sold, you receive 75% of sale price. 25% supports the Recycle-A-Bicycle program. recycleabicycletc.org

---------------------CHERRIES GOT TALENT VIDEO AUDITION: (See Tues., June 1)

---------------------DRIVE-IN SUMMER READING PROGRAM REGISTRATION: 10am-2pm. Park in the Bellaire Public Library parking lot & call: 231-5338814 to let the library know you are there. They will come out & register your children.

---------------------FREE BOATER EDUCATION CLINIC: 10am, Otsego County Park, Gaylord. Register on the Otsego Lake Association - Gaylord, MI Facebook page.

---------------------SIP & SAVOR: (See Fri., June 4) ---------------------SPRING INTO SUMMER MINI BARN MARKET: 10am-5pm, Lavender Hill Farm, Boyne

City. This indoor & outdoor event will feature local artisans, crafters, creators & more. There will be live music by Lavender Moon, food trucks, $5 Make-and-Take Crafts, & more. lavenderhillfarm.com

---------------------SUTTONS BAY “VILLAGE COLLAGE” - CHANCE TO WIN A $50 GIFT CERTIFICATE!: (See Thurs., June 3)

---------------------“FOOD IS ART” COMPANION PROGRAMS: 11am, Glen Arbor Arts Center, Front Porch. In conversation with Taylor Moore, program manager of Food Rescue of Northwest Michigan.

Feeding people & supply food pantries with fresh, healthy food gathered from groceries, restaurants, food processors & more. Free. glenarborart.org/ events/exhibit-food-is-art-art-is-food

---------------------CONSERVATORY OF DANCE ANNUAL RECITAL: 1pm & 7pm, Ramsdell Regional Center for the Arts, Manistee. “Cheers to 30 Years!” will feature 125 of Manistee County area youth & adults. ramsdelltheatre.org/programs/#happening

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GREAT LAKES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA AMERICANA CONCERT: 7pm, John M. Hall Auditorium, Bay View, Petoskey. With a nod to the past & a look to the future, this performance features a wide representation of American composers, including American classics, Copland & Gershwin; young African American composers, Jessie Montgomery & Tre Bryant; GLCO composer in residence Gwyneth Walker; Kenji Bunch; & local composers/arrangers, Anthony Patterson & Roger Tallman. The performance also includes a collaboration with Gerber Strings students & presents 2019 Young Artist Competition winner Helen Hanchin. 6pm Pre-Concert Talk by Libor Ondras, conductor. $30; free for 18 & under. GLCOrchestra.org

june 06

sunday

ROCK THE LIGHT 5K RUN/ WALK: Featuring a rolling start; you can start any time between 9-10am. End Time: Noon.

Price: $25 race fee. Packet pick-up: The morning of the race from 8-10am.

Event is chip-timed by Race Day Events. You may do a virtual race any time between March 29 - Dec. 1. Register. The course will start at the Leelanau State Park Trailhead.

---------------------CHERRIES GOT TALENT VIDEO AUDITION: (See Tues., June 1)

---------------------SIP & SAVOR: (See Fri., June 4) ---------------------ART BEAT: (See Tues., June 1) ---------------------SUTTONS BAY “VILLAGE COLLAGE” - CHANCE TO WIN A $50 GIFT CERTIFICATE!: (See Thurs., June 3)

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BACK TO THE BRICKS PROMOTIONAL CAR EVENT: 1-4pm, Downtown Boyne City. This event brings together classic cars & car enthusiasts. There will also be live music by Full Circle, Northern Nites, Dr. Goodhart, De Railed, Jon Archambault Band, & James Greenway Band at various locations. backtothebricks.org

---------------------GRANDMOTHER MOON DRUMMERS: 1-4pm, Heritage Village, Mackinaw City.

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BIKE NIGHT & CAR CRUISE-IN: Boyne Mountain Resort, Boyne Falls. Held on Tuesdays from June 1 - Aug. 31 from 6-9pm. Bring your favorite roadster, hog, or coupe. The Clock Tower Lodge circle drive becomes your showplace filled with plenty of bikes & car lovers that share your passion. There will also be food & drink specials, live music, weekly raffle to benefit local charities, & giveaways. The Shifties will perform June 1. boynemountain.com/ upcoming-events/bike-night-and-car-cruise-in

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YOGA IN THE PARK - THURSDAY NIGHTS: Thursdays, 6pm. Enjoy a Vinyasa Flow session in Hull Park behind the Traverse Area District Library, TC. Relax & restore your body through movement & breath. Bring your own mat or towel. eventbrite.com/e/yoga-in-the-park-thursday-nights-tickets-152132282753

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FANTASTIC FRIDAYS: A weekly celebration of students walking & rolling to school in northern Michigan. They are fun community actions to encourage elementary & middle school students to actively move themselves to school.

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TRAVERSE CITY UNCORKED: Featuring selfguided tours of more than 40 area wineries while offering incentives, hotel discounts & a chance to win prizes. The event will feature a digital passport where guests can check into Traverse Wine Coast locations throughout the month of May. With five check-ins they are eligible to choose from an Uncorked t-shirt or TC wine-related gift items. The passports can be redeemed at the TC Visitor Center. Guests staying at participating hotels will also be entered to win a wine-themed TC vacation. The winner of the TC Uncorked grand prize will be announced in early June.

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ROSÉ ALL MAY WITH LEELANAU PENINSULA WINE TRAIL: For an advance ticket purchase price of $35, ticket holders can enjoy a 3 oz. glass of rosé at each of the 21 participating wineries in an event-themed souvenir glass. mynorthtickets. com/events/ros-all-may-5-1-2021

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ACCEPTING BOAT AUCTION DONATIONS: Maritime Heritage Alliance is now accepting donations of watercraft & nautical gear for the upcoming June 5th Boat Auction & Garage Sale.

Call to schedule: 946-2647 or visit online. maritimeheritagealliance.org/annual-boat-auction

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ICEMAN COMETH VIRTUAL TRAINING CHALLENGE: Ride 500, 1,000, or 3,000 miles to prepare for the 2021 Bell’s Iceman Cometh Challenge presented by Trek. Each distance will have its own exclusive Strava Club for tips & support, with all entrants eligible for prizes each month. Runs through Oct. 30. Registration ends Sept. 30. $25. registericeman.com/ Race/Events/MI/TraverseCity/IcemanComethC hallenge#eventGroup-7424

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GENTLE YOGA CLASS: Tuesdays, 9am, Interlochen Public Library. Hosted by Leah Davis.

Bring your own mat, water bottle & towel. Donations appreciated. interlochenpubliclibrary.org

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GUIDED WALKING HISTORY TOUR OF TRAVERSE CITY: Perry Hannah Plaza, TC. A two mile, 2 1/2 hour walking tour through the historic neighborhoods & waterfront of TC. Every Sat. & Sun. at 2pm. walktchistory.com

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NORTE SUNDAY TRAIL RIDES: Sundays, 11:45am, Timber Ridge, TC. A family-friendly, weekly mountain bike group ride. All abilities welcome. elgruponorte.org/sundays/?mc_ cid=dc0ff355c0&mc_eid=df24b9efb4

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SHEBIKES: This group hosts Monday night rides starting from the TC Central High School parking lot at 6pm, from May 17 - June 28. The group will be broken into small beginner & intermediate groups & ride the Old Mission Peninsula with an emphasis on safe cycling. There is a one-time $10 fee for non-Club members.

Arrive early to sign in & have your gear ready. cherrycapitalcyclingclub.org

YARN THERAPY: GET HOOKED: Tuesdays, 11am, Interlochen Public Library, Community Room. Bring your own project. Class size is limited. 231-276-6767.

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DISABILITY NETWORK SPIRIT CLUB: Fridays, 11am. Held via Zoom. This free program will provide you with experienced, certified instructors guiding you through exercise moves that are accessible & challenging for all. disabilitynetwork.org

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DISABILITY NETWORK’S QUARANTINE COOKING: Tuesdays, 2pm. Held via Zoom.

Learn how to prepare & cook food using different adaptable tools making cooking accessible for all. disabilitynetwork.org/events

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BELLAIRE FARMER’S MARKET: Fridays, 8am-noon, ASI Community Center, front parking lot, Bellaire. facebook.com/BellaireFarmersMarket

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DOWNTOWN PETOSKEY FARMERS MARKET: Fridays, 8:30am-1pm, Howard St., between Mitchell & Michigan streets, Petoskey.

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GAYLORD’S FARMERS MARKET: Held under the Pavilion, 100 South Court St., Gaylord on Saturdays through June, & Wednesdays & Saturdays, July through Oct. from 8am-1pm.

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OUTDOOR FARMERS MARKET: Mondays, 2-6pm, The Village at GT Commons, on the piazza, in front of Left Foot Charley, TC. thevillagetc.com

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SARA HARDY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: Saturdays, 7:30am-noon. The Wednesday market begins the first Weds. in June (June 2), 8am-noon. Held in parking lot “B” at the southwest corner of Cass & Grandview Parkway in Downtown TC. The farmers market will take place on the ground floor of the Old Town Parking Deck during the National Cherry Festival. dda.downtowntc.com/farmers-market

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

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“DREAM TO REALITY: EXPLORING WHAT WE BELIEVE AND WHY”: Charlevoix Circle of Arts, April 23 - May 29. This exhibit explores the path to why we believe what we believe through the mythological illustrations & writing of Charlevoix artist Kim Richelle. charlevoixcircle.org

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CAAC’S 2021 VIRTUAL YOUTH ART SHOW: The Cheboygan Area Arts Council announces its second annual Virtual Youth Art Show. It will be hosted on the Cheboygan Opera House website & promoted online & around town. The CAAC brings work from over 100+ youth art students each year. Homeschoolers & students from Bishop Baraga, Cheboygan Area High, Middle, & Elementary schools are displaying their best work. To submit artwork, fill out this form: https://bit.ly/3aadQKX. Questions?

Email Lisa at lisa@theoperahouse.org. theoperahouse.org/2021/03/29/caacs-2021-virtualyouth-art-show-opens-may-1st

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NORTHPORT VILLAGE ARTS BUILDING MEMBERS’ EXHIBIT: Northport Village Arts Building.

Runs May 28 - July 4. Open Weds. through Sun., 12-4pm. northportartsassociation.org

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, PETOSKEY: - EGAN FRANKS HOLZHAUSEN: NEVER THOUGHT TWICE: Runs through June 26 in the Atrium Gallery. All works were made with upcycled materials, including old paintings discarded or abandoned in a community studio,

scrap wood, & leftover paint from other projects or one-off samples from big box stores. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-petoskey/eganfranks-holzhausen-never-thought-twice - A LAND’S CONSERVANCY: RECLAIMING NATURE: Runs through June 1. Over the past year, Harbor Springs photographer Raymond Gaynor has been documenting the Little Traverse Conservancy’s Offield Family Viewlands.

Gaynor’s images capture the way nature conserves itself through a process of growth & rebirth. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-petoskey/ lands-conservancy-reclaiming-nature-raymond-gaynor - GREAT: REFLECTIONS ON THE GREAT LAKES: This exhibition asks Great Lakes-area artists to share original works of art that reflect on the theme “Great.” Juried by artist Susan Moran.

Runs through June 1. crookedtree.org/event/ctacpetoskey/great-reflections-great-lakes - “KIDS ON COMMUNITY”: Youth artists were invited to submit artwork in response to the theme of “Community.” Fun, thoughtful & creative interpretations by Michigan youth (grades 3 - 12) are included in this online image gallery.

Runs through June 30, 2021. crookedtree.org/ event/ctac-petoskey-ctac-online/kids-community-online-exhibit - THE COLLECTIVE IMPULSE - ONLINE EXHIBIT: Runs through Aug. Featuring the work of artists Ruth Bardenstein, Jean Buescher & Susan Moran. The three artists met in Ann Arbor &, over time, have nurtured both personal & creative connections. They regularly share & critique one another’s work & together visit gallery & museum exhibitions. The exhibition was hosted at the Crooked Tree Arts Center Petoskey from Sept. 21 through Dec. 18, 2020.

This online publication shares work from the exhibition. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-petoskey-ctac-traverse-city-ctac-online/collectiveimpulse-online - YOUNG @ ART: Youth Art Show 2021 CTACPetoskey (Online). Runs through June 11. See the creative work of young artists working in the Char-Em ISD region. Over 1800 submissions are included. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-petoskey-ctac-online/young-art-youth-art-show2021-ctac-petoskey-online-0

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CROOKED TREE ARTS CENTER, TC: - ESSENTIAL CARGO: EXPLORATIONS IN HAND-BUILT CERAMIC: Ceramicist Scott A. Leipski creates work from recurring memories & an obsession with his own youth. He uses hand-built techniques, bold colors, & nontraditional ceramic textures. Runs May 24 - July 24. crookedtree.org/event/ctac-traverse-city/essential-cargo-explorations-hand-built-ceramic - PASSIONATE REALITY: LIFE IN FULL COLOR: Through the imaginative colors & bold brush strokes of six northern Michigan artists, Passionate Reality: Life in Full Color presents a world that is full of life, energy, vibrancy & passion. The exhibition includes work by artists Brenda Clark, Susan Glass, Debra Howard, Colleen Shull, Pam Spicer & Jennifer Tobias. Runs May 24 - July 24. crookedtree. org/event/ctac-traverse-city/passionate-realitylife-full-color

---------------------DENNOS MUSEUM CENTER, NMC, TC: - RESILIENCE: AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE: Runs June 6 Aug. 15. This exhibition honors aspects of African American history & culture & its contributions to all of America, highlighting a select group of artists who use art as an indispensable tool for social commentary & change. The artworks assembled here—paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, & sculpture—reflect an important part of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts’ collecting history.

- RUFUS SNODDY: DISAPPEARING MAN: Runs June 6 - Aug. 15. Open Weds. - Sun., 11am-4pm.

- RUSSELL PRATHER: AND THE HEART IS PLEASED BY ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER: Runs June 6 - Aug. 15. Open Weds.

- Sun., 11am-4pm. Russell Prather makes visually volatile renderings of simple forms & ordinary objects from layers of transparent & translucent media.

- TOM PARISH: AN AMERICAN IN VENICE:

Runs June 6 - Aug. 15. Open Weds. - Sun., 11am-4pm. Tom Parish (American, 1933 2018) committed his life to painting the essence of Venice. Inspired by shimmering canals & architectural beauty of Italy’s Serenissima (the old serene one), his stylized realist paintings are constructed from blocks of sturdy modernist color. dennosmuseum.org

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GLEN ARBOR ARTS CENTER, GLEN ARBOR: - FOOD IS ART / ART IS FOOD: This juried exhibition features the work of 23 exhibitors who have approached the theme of food as a way to talk about feeding mind, body & spirit.

It runs May 28 - Aug. 19. GAAC is closed on Sundays. glenarborart.org/events/exhibit-foodis-art-art-is-food - SMALL WORKS HOLIDAY EXHIBITION CALL FOR ENTRY: Through Oct. 1. A showcase of 2D + 3D work that offers small, original art at affordable prices, $150 or less. The exhibition takes place Nov. 5 – Dec. 16. Exhibition registration is now open. For more info go to GlenArborArt.org/ARTISTS, & click on the Call For Entry tab. glenarborart.org/artists/callsfor-entry/2021-small-works-holiday-exhibitionprospectus - A CELEBRATION: THE PAINTINGS OF AMY L. CLARK-CARELS: Runs May 3 - Aug. 31. Featuring many paintings of local landmarks — from Alligator Hill to interior scenes from the historic Sleeping Bear Inn. glenarborart.org - MANITOU MUSIC POSTER COMPETITION - CALL FOR ENTRY: The Glen Arbor Arts Center is accepting submissions of original paintings for its 2022 Manitou Music poster competition. The deadline for online submissions is Sept. 16. Open to all current GAAC members. Each year, the GAAC selects an original painting for this limited edition poster. It is sold through the GAAC & at selected shops & art galleries in Leelanau County. glenarborart.org/artist-opportunities/manitou-musicposter-competition - CLOTHESLINE EXHIBIT CALL-FOR-ENTRIES: The Glen Arbor Arts Center is moving art outdoors. The Clothesline Exhibit, July 24 – Aug. 27, is an open-air exhibition of small work.

This year’s theme, Wild Friends, challenges makers of all skills to create an unframed painting, drawing, photograph or collage on a single 5” x 7” sheet of paper around this theme. Each work will be placed in a sealed plastic envelope & pinned to a clothesline in front of the GAAC building at 6031 S. Lake St., Glen Arbor. The Clothesline Exhibition may be viewed 24/7, rain or shine. For info on submitting an entry to the Clothesline Exhibit, go to GlenArborArt. org/ARTISTS. Deadline for submissions is July 6. 231-334-6112. glenarborart.org/artists/callsfor-entry/clothesline-exhibit-call-for-entries - CALL-FOR-ENTRIES: EVERYDAY OBJECTS EXHIBITION: Runs Aug. 27 – Oct. 28. Online applications for this juried show may be submitted through July 15. It is open to 2D & 3D objects in a wide variety of media. The GAAC is open Mon. through Sat., 11am–2pm. glenarborart.org/artists/ calls-for-entry/everyday-objects-prospectus

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---------------------HIGHER ART GALLERY, TC: - “NATURE - SACRED & PROFANE”: A 2 person exhibit featuring gallery mainstay, Kristen Egan & her sculptures comprised of gourd, wood & clay, along with lathe-based wood sculptor, Derek Weidman. Runs May 23 - June 26.

- ALTERNATING VIEWS: 3 person show featuring local artists: Ken Scott - photography; Julie Kradel - clay sculpture; Molly Davis - mixed media paintings. The exhibit runs during open gallery hours from May 15-30.

- CALL FOR ARTISTS: Artists’ submissions will be considered for participation in “Artists for Wings of Wonder.” This exhibit/fundraiser will be comprised MAINLY of invited artists, many of whom are indigenous artists, members of Project Civilartzation & a handful of artwork from artists who submit work for consideration.

Deadline for submissions is Aug. 1. higherartgallery.com

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Grand Traverse & Kalkaska

FANTASY’S, TC DJ

TC WHISKEY CO. 6/2 -- Paul Livingston, 6-8

6/4 -- TC Knuckleheads 6/5 -- The Pocket

MAMMOTH DISTILLING, TC 5/29 -- Chris Smith, 7:30-10:30 5/30 – Chris Smith, 6-9

THE PARLOR, TC 5/29 -- Jim Hawley, 6:30-9:30 5/30 -- Drew Hale, 6:30-9:30

ROVE ESTATE VINEYARD & WINERY, TC 6/4 -- Miriam Pico, 6

THIRSTY FISH SPORTS GRILLE, TC PATIO, 6:30-9:30: 5/28-29 -- Don Swan & The 4 Horsemen

UNION STREET STATION, TC 10: 5/29 & 6/4-5 -- Soul Patch 5/30 & 6/6 -- Karaoke 6/1 -- Open Mic Comedy 6/2 -- DJ JR

Otsego, Crawford & Central BIG BUCK BREWERY, GAYLORD 5/29 -- Tyler Parkin, 6-9

No Manchild Left Behind

CRAVE, GAYLORD 5/29 -- Nelson Olstrom, 6

Manistee, Wexford & Missaukee COYOTE CROSSING RESORT, CADILLAC 5/29 -- Adam Joynt Band, 8 6/5 -- Zak Bunce & GrooveGround, 8

Emmet & Cheboygan BOYNE VALLEY VINEYARDS, PETOSKEY 5/29 -- Chris Calleja, 2-6

MAMMOTH DISTILLING, BAY HARBOR 6/2 -- Sean Bielby, 6:30-9:30 6/3 -- Atwood Green Band, 6:309:30

ODAWA CASINO RESORT, PETOSKEY VICTORIES: 5/29 – Jon Archambault Band, 9 6/4-5 -- Piano Wars!, 8

Antrim & Charlevoix BOYNE MOUNTAIN RESORT, BOYNE FALLS CLOCK TOWER LODGE CIRCLE DRIVE: 6/1 -- The Shifties - Bike Night & Car Cruise-In, 6-9

STIGGS BREWERY & KITCHEN, BOYNE CITY 7-10: 5/29 -- Crosscut Kings 6/4 -- Nelson Olstrom 6/5 -- Something Great

TORCH LAKE CAFÉ, CENTRAL LAKE Weds. – Lee Malone & Sandy, 6-8 Thurs. – Nick Vazquez, 7-10 Fri. & Sat. -- Leanna Collins & Ivan Greilick, 8-11 Sun. – Pine River Jazz, 2-5

Leelanau & Benzie BEL LAGO WINERY, CEDAR TASTING ROOM: 5/29-30 -- Grand Re-Opening Party w/ True Tones, The Duges, Larry Perkins & Kyle White, 12-6 CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN, THOMPSONVILLE LEVEL FOUR ROOFTOP BAR: 5/29-30 -- Live Music, 9-11

DICK’S POUR HOUSE, LAKE LEELANAU Sat. -- Karaoke, 10-1 LAKE ANN BREWING CO. 5/29 -- The Daydrinker Series - Chris Skellenger & Paul Koss, 3-6 6/4 -- The North Carolines, 7-10 6/5 -- Drew Hale, 7-10 ST. AMBROSE CELLARS, BEULAH 5/29 -- Ted Alan & Friends, 2:30-

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5pm; Maggie McCabe, 5:30-8:30pm 5/30 -- Jeff Bihlman, 4:30-7:30 5/31 -- Feral Cats, 5:30-8:30 6/2 -- Bill Frary, 5:30-8:30 6/3 -- Wink Solo, 5:30-8:30 6/4 -- Keith Scott, 5:30-8:30 6/5 -- Ted Alan & Friends, 2:30-5pm; Brother Bear Sister Fox, 5:30-8:30pm SUTTONS BAY CIDERS 6/4 -- Levi Britton, 7

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I started dating significantly older men (in their 40s and early 50s). I love that they’re adults and I don’t become a girlfriend-slashnanny, motivational coach, and resume editor like when I’m dating guys my age. But these older men and I are in different life stages with different goals. They want to get married way sooner than I do, or they’ve had kids and don’t want more. How can I trick my brain into wanting men my age who are less emotionally and otherwise mature?

— Elder Daterl

health. Most of us can’t have it all; we have to settle to some degree. But evolutionary psychologists David Buss and Todd Shackelford find that women who are very physically attractive and thus high in mate value wanted all four of a cluster of mate characteristics in a man — those indicating that: 1. He’ll invest. 2. He’ll be a good parent.

3. He’ll be a loving partner. 4. He has good genes to pass on (suggested by his physical health, masculinity, and sexiness).

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If you are high in mate value — physically attractive, with other qualities men want in a partner (kindness, intelligence, etc.) — you’ll probably feel less willing to settle. This makes for some challenges. Much-older men can be a bad bet for a number of reasons, including crushing alimony, sperm beyond their prime, and the possibility that you’ll be diapering both a baby and a husband in relatively short order.

These men had what might be called stability established careers in impressive, high-status fields, and they lived in civilized apartments (in contrast with my grim walkup, so tiny you could breathe or think; pick one). But, now, looking back through the lens of evolutionary psychology, the attributes that attracted me reflect the evolved female preference for men who can “invest”: provide for a woman and any children they had together.

Unfortunately, in many younger men, 30 seems to be the new 18. Financially, the trappings of an adult life (like a house and children) are out of reach for many younger people in a way they weren’t in the past. Also, because casual sex is widely available, younger dudes are in no rush to end the Tinder rando sex parade with an “I do.” Finally, many of this generation grew up helicopter-parented, without the “Be home by dark!” independence of we who grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Many got trophies just for showing up and either weren’t asked to do chores or were allowed to shrug them off. Is it really a shock when a guy doesn’t pop up at 23 brimming with adult responsibility and instead wants to play World of, um, Warcrack all day while you write his resume and cover letters?

: In my 20s, upon moving from Michigan to Manhattan, I was quite the grandpa chaser. I have a thing for the lived-in male face and a ripened mind. But back then, I felt personally and professionally adrift — unsure of who I was and what I wanted to do. Ultimately, I think I was drawn to mucholder men in the way Kate Winslet’s character was drawn to the door she clung to when The Titanic went down.

This priority by women, found across cultures and even species, surely evolved because females (save for seahorses, pipefish, and sea dragons) are the ones who get pregnant and left with babies to feed. Because the perils of single motherhood weren’t an issue for ancestral men, men evolved to prioritize physical attractiveness. This preference is sneered at as “superficial,” though it’s anything but. The features men are drawn to — smooth, unblemished skin, lustrous hair, full lips, and youth — are cues to a woman’s health and fertility. Men who instead had the hots for wrinkly 70-year-old ladies wouldn’t have left any descendants to pass on their biddy-banger genes.

Across cultures, other characteristics most widely sought in both male and female mates include kindness, intelligence, and good

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Your best bet is probably to look for guys just a bit older -- in their late 20s or early 30s — who may not be totally together in their career and finances but show potential. These are men who are ambitious, intelligent, and hardworking, with reasonable goals (that is, goals that seem realizable without the services of a wizard). Look for signs they care about more than their own immediate comfort and ease — like by noticing when you’re cold and giving you their jacket.

To be fair, there are women with much-older male partners who have happy, satisfying, and maybe even magical relationships. Still, a good general rule might be that a guy’s probably too old for you if, when he was your age, he could’ve called you “baby,” but “3-month-old fetus” would’ve been more medically accurate.

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BY ROB BREZSNY

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “All I want to be is normally

insane,” said actor Marlon Brando. Yikes! I have a different perspective. I would never want to be normally insane because that state often tends to be sullen and desperate and miserable.

My preferred goal is to be quite abnormally insane: exuberantly, robustly, creatively free of the toxic adjustments that our society tells us are necessary. I want to be cheerfully insane in the sense of not being tyrannized by conventional wisdom. I want to be proactively insane in the sense of obeying my souls’ impulses rather than conforming to people’s expectations.

I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because I believe the coming weeks will be a fruitful time for you to be my kind of insane.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet Ezra Pound had character flaws that bother me.

But he also had a quality I admire: generosity in helping his friends and colleagues. Among the writers whose work he championed and promoted with gusto were 20th-century literary icons James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Hilda Doolittle, William Butler Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Frost. Pound edited their work, arranged to get them published in periodicals and anthologies, connected them with patrons and editors, and even gave them money and clothes. In accordance with astrological omens, I encourage you to be like Ezra Pound in the coming weeks.

Make an extra effort to support and boost your allies. Assist them in doing what they do well. To do so will be in your own best interest!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Poet Tess Gallagher praises those times “when desire has strengthened our bodies.” I want you to have an abundance of those moments during the coming weeks. And I expect that cultivating them will be an excellent healing strategy. So here’s my advice: Do whatever’s necessary to summon and celebrate the strong longings that will strengthen your body. Tease them into bountiful presence. Treasure them and pay reverence to them and wield them with gleeful passion.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “To live

is so startling it leaves little time for anything else,” observed poet Emil Dickinson. That’s the truth! Given how demanding it is to adjust to the nonstop challenges, distractions, and opportunities of the daily rhythm, I’m impressed that any of us ever get any work done. According to my astrological analysis, you Capricorns are now experiencing a big outbreak of this phenomenon. It’s probably even harder than usual to get work done, simply because life keeps bringing you interesting surprises that require your ingenuity and resourcefulness. The good news is that these surges of ingenuity and resourcefulness will serve you very well when the hubbub settles down a bit and you get back to doing more work.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarius-

born August Strindberg (1849–1912) was a masterful and influential playwright. He also liked to dabble in painting and photography.

His approach in those two fields was different from the polish he cultivated in his writing. “I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way,” he testified about his approach in the visual arts. “I reject all forms of professional cleverness or virtuosity.” Just for now, Aquarius, I recommend you experiment with the latter attitude in your own field.

Your skill and earnestness will benefit from doses of playful innocence, even calculated naiveté.

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): Which of the

astrological signs feels the deepest feelings?

I say it’s you Pisceans. You’re connoisseurs of deep feelings, as well as specialists in mysterious, multi-splendored, brushes-withinfinity feelings. And right now, you’re in the Deepest Feelings Phase of your personal cycle. I won’t be surprised if you feel a bit overwhelmed with the richness of it all. But that’s mostly a good thing that you should be grateful for—a privilege and a superpower! Now here’s advice from deep-feeling author Pearl Buck: “You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “There is ecstasy in paying attention,” writes Aries author Anne Lamott. That’s always true for everyone, but it’s extra true for you Aries people. And it will be extra ultra especially true for you during the next

20 days. I hope you will dedicate yourself to celebrating and upgrading your perceptual abilities. I hope you will resolve to see and register everything just as it is in the present moment, fresh and unprecedented, not as it was in the past or will be in the future. For best results, banish all preconceptions that might interfere with your ability to notice what’s raw and real. If you practice these high arts with exhilarating diligence, you will be rewarded with influxes of ecstasy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your guiding wisdom comes from Taurus author Annie Dillard. She writes, “I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.” I suspect that Dillard’s approach will enable you to maintain a righteous rhythm and make all the right moves during the coming weeks.

If you agree with me, your crucial first step will be to identify the nature of your “one necessity.” Not two necessities. Just the single most important.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “It’s one thing to

make a mistake, it’s another to become wedded to it,” advised author Irena Karafilly. Let’s make that one of your key truths in the coming weeks.

Now is a good time to offer yourself forgiveness and to move on from any wrong turns you’ve made. Here’s a second key truth, courtesy of composer Igor Stravinsky: “I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.” Third key truth, from Sufi teacher Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan: “Don’t be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to my

analysis of the astrological omens, the number of perfect moments you will experience during the next two weeks could break all your previous records. And what do I mean by “perfect moments”? 1. Times when life brings you interesting events or feelings or thoughts that are novel and unique. 2. Pivotal points when you sense yourself undergoing a fundamental shift in attitude or a new way of understanding the world. 3. Leaping out of your own mind and into the mind of an animal or other person so as to have a pure vision of what their experience is like. 4. An absolute appreciation for yourself just the way you are right now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “There is strong

shadow where there is much light,” wrote Virgo author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749– 1832). That’s a good metaphor for you these days. Since I suspect you are currently shining as brightly as you possibly can, I will urge you to become acutely aware of the shadows you cast. In other words, try to catch glimpses of the unripe and unformed parts of your nature, which may be more easily seen than usual. Now, while you’re relatively strong and vibrant, investigate what aspects of your inner world might need improvement, care, and healing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to

physicists, it’s impossible for a human being to suck water up through a straw that’s more than 34 feet long. So please don’t even try to do that, either now or ever. If, however, you have a good reason to attempt to suck water up a 33-foot straw, now would be an excellent time to do so. Your physical strength should be at a peak, as is your capacity for succeeding at amazing, herculean tasks. How else might you direct your splendid abilities? What other ambitious feats could you pull off?

“Jonesin” Crosswords "It's Elemental"--parts of a full set. by Matt Jones

ACROSS 1 Jazz group 6 Org. that meets in schools 9 Winter Olympics vehicles 14 Without missing ___ 15 Director Howard 16 Campus town bordering Bangor 17 *”Batman & Robin” role for Uma Thurman 19 One making references 20 “Desperate Housewives” actress Hatcher 21 Three ___ match 22 Four, in France 23 *What your remote might have slipped under 26 Cartridge contents 29 Boise-to-Missoula dir.

30 Source of some pressure before photo day?

31 Airline until 1991 33 Treasure hunter’s need 34 ___ California (Mexican state) 38 What each character in the starred theme answers is (comprising a full set from the periodic table) 42 Carries out 43 Participate in crew 44 Word after zinc or iron 45 Used chairs?

46 Utter 48 “___ Tac Dough” (Wink Martindale game show) 49 *Response to “I had no idea” 55 Offers one’s views 56 Roget’s entry: Abbr.

57 Line of symmetry 61 Less than enthusiastic 62 *WWE wrestler and member of the Undisputed Era (and not the chess player) 64 Split second 65 Craft in the tabloids 66 Alphabet quintet 67 “Bellefleur” author Joyce Carol 68 Payroll deduction 69 Command that can also create a PDF

DOWN 1 1st Lieut.’s boss 2 Instrument among the reeds 3 Israeli P.M. Golda 4 Bare-bones 5 Prefix meaning “ear-related” 6 “When Doves Cry” singer 7 Actress Feldshuh who played 3-Down on Broadway 8 Indeterminate number 9 Plague member?

10 “David Copperfield” character Heep 11 Crime boss known as the “Teflon Don” 12 First month in Madrid 13 Tabitha formerly of MTV News 18 It’s definitely a thing 22 Witty remarks 24 “All Eyez ___” (1996 Tupac Shakur album) 25 Policy honcho 26 With 27-Down, Apple portable player from 2005 to 2017 27 See 26-Down 28 ACL’s locale 32 Gore and Green 33 Tiny noise at a bowl?

34 Bike race with hills 35 Kinda 36 “Harvesting the Heart” author Picoult 37 Guinness of “Star Wars” 39 Waiter’s weights 40 Cairn terrier of film 41 Toy with a string attached 45 Stockholm citizens 46 Pricey stadium seating 47 “And ___ Davis as Alice” (“The Brady Bunch” credits closer) 49 ___ voce (softly) 50 “Pagliacci,” e.g.

51 ___ in the bud 52 Preserved for later 53 Uncle Sam’s land, informally 54 Nilla cookie 58 Number not found on a clock 59 “The pressure ___” 60 Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide ___” 62 Nevertheless 63 Talk and talk and talk

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