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The opportunity for the performance came about because of another one of Eric’s passions – the library. “I go to the library. I’m a patron,” Eric said. “I have a friendship with Chuck Harpst. He came up to me and said, ‘Would you like to do a Christmas concert for the library?’” Eric said yes to Chuck’s request without hesitation.

For Eric, the pandemic has interrupted a life focused on music and band work. His last public performance was last March when he played at the Eagles in Adrian. “In the past, I might play with ten different groups over the course of a year,” he said. However, the pandemic has changed Eric’s musical focus. He now works virtually with both musicians and students. His only real band work has been as part of Covenant Church. “We were doing online services,” says Eric. “Now we are in-person.”

During the pandemic, Eric has also virtually recorded music with different bands. These virtual opportunities have added a different twist to Eric’s musical life. “It’s interesting how it has opened up things,” he says. “There’s a lot more online stuff that goes on. There are even lessons online. I’ve worked online with music students in California.” Eric believes that the opportunity to take online music classes from talented professional musicians is one of the positive aspects of the altered world of the pandemic. “James Taylor does a master class,” he says. “You can get lessons from James Taylor.”

As an experienced musician who has played with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and on Conan O’Brien with Max Weinberg’s band,

Eric could have focused on the loss of both income and opportunity over the past months. Instead he has connected with music in a different way. “When we first did the lockdown, I was like, ‘Wow, I have a lot of time on my hands,’” he said. “I practiced more. I spent more time researching music from the Sixties and Seventies.”

He discovered something that different groups like The Beach Boys, The Fifth Dimension and Simon and Garfunkel all had in common. “They all played different music, but the band was all the same – they were these studio musicians out on California that played all those different types of music,” he said. “They were called the Wrecking Crew. I didn’t really know too much about them. I always thought it was all the Beach Boys playing on their records, but it was actually just them singing.”

At that time, the studio musicians were vital to the music industry because recording was done on tape. This was an expensive way to record and needed to be done right on the first take. According to Eric, there is more flexibility in today’s digital recording, as it is less expensive and doesn’t require first-take perfection.

While he is quick to point out the positives within the difficult time we are in, Eric does have concerns about the loss in local music opportunities for students during the pandemic. As a former band booster president for Tecumseh School District, Eric is worried about the pandemic’s effect on music funding for Tecumseh schools.

The many fundraisers done by the band boosters and students can’t happen in the pandemic. No money coming in means that many of the music needs may not be filled, including creating funds for scholarships so Tecumseh music students can attend Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and Interlochen Center for the Arts. “They are working really hard to give students a music experience,” said Eric. “They still have needs, so if anyone is so inclined, they can send a check to the school district because the band boosters can use any funds.”

The live-streamed holiday concert will include Eric on his saxophone along with Dan Hare on guitar, and Stacia Serafin and Kimberly Stephens on vocals. Eric says there might be a few surprise guests as well. “It’s going to be fun,” he said. “For us musicians, doing a concert this way is kind of out of our comfort zone. Who knows, there might be some quirky things that happen.” Yet, despite the new format, the goal for Eric and his friends is to create holiday cheer with the magic of music. n

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In 1788, the Bounty, made famous by a book written

by James Norman Hall and two motion pictures – one starring Clark Gable and the other featuring Marlon Brando as acting mate Fletcher Christian – sailed to the Tahitian island Tofua, landing at Matavai Bay. The crew spent six months gathering bread fruit trees to transplant to the West Indies as cheap food for slaves.

The pristine tropical island teemed with friendly natives and beautiful women and the crew became accustomed to an easy lifestyle. When Captain William Bligh summoned the crew to set sail, the crew revolted. On April 28, 1789, Christian and other mutineers forced Bligh and 18 loyal men into a launch where they were given navigational tools, food, water and some weapons. Miraculously, they sailed 3,618 nautical miles over 41 days to Timor and not one man was lost.

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Meanwhile, the mutineers returned to Tofua. Knowing a search party would come after them, Christian and eight of his crew mates along with six native men, 12 native women and a little girl, boarded the Bounty and sailed 1,300 miles southeast to the uninhabited Pitcairn Island, where the Bounty was stripped and burned. Christian was right about the search parties. While two of them died within the year-and-a-half before they were found, the 14 mutineers who remained on Tofua were later captured and transported back to England. Some died at sea, some were executed on a long arm for mutiny and others were pardoned.

Back at Pitcairn, a wave of violence, drunkenness and debauchery touched off over a woman, led the American ship Topaz, which arrived in 1808, to find only one of the mutineers still alive. Yet in the nine years before that, the mutineers produced several children with the Tahitian women. Using the Bounty’s Bibles, the natives converted to Christianity and were taught to read by the last surviving mutineer, Aleck Smith, who went by John Adams to disguise his identity to avoid capture from visiting voyagers.

THE HAYDENS

The Hayden brothers – William, Henry and Levi – went their separate ways after being orphaned in Connecticut. William landed in Tecumseh. Henry surveyed railroads from nearby Jackson where he eventually became mayor and later, a member of the Michigan legislature.

Levi became a ship’s carpenter, which was such a vital position that the carpenters’ cabin was placed directly next to the captains’ quarters. He later worked as an engineer and captain for a submarine company during the Civil War and was lauded by General Ambrose Burnside for his work.

William purchased the Globe Mill on the east end of town. Good business practices and sales contracts throughout the United States and Ireland put Tecumseh on the global map.

William’s son, Levi – named for his brother – took over after his father died in 1896. Levi’s son, Perry, began running the mill in the 1920s after graduating from University of Michigan.

He began the Dynamic Kernels tithing experiment, which was documented by a book and documentary called God Is My Landlord. Perry’s daughter, Martha Hayden Woodward, has always been fascinated by the story of her great-great uncle Levi. A series of fateful incidents makes the story even more fascinating.

LEVI AND THE BIBLES

While on the American whaling ship Cyrus near Pitcairn Island in 1839, the ship had run out of charcoal which was used to melt blubber off the whales. Levi took a crew ashore where he encountered some of its inhabitants. “Memory, at this late day, presents before me, in all its loveliness, my first morning on the shore. Rising as the sun was just gilding the Eastern sea, the simple inhabitants were already engaged to their sincere and heartfelt worship, using the forms of the Church of England, as the well-worn pages of that portion of this old book indicate,” wrote Levi in his journal, dated January 1883. The only survivor of the original mutineers when Levi landed was Christian’s Tahitian wife. She relayed many tales about visits from early navigators including Captain Cook.

Before departing, John Adams, grandson of the last surviving mutineer, gave Levi the Bounty Bible — and Levi gave him his personal bible. Mary Christian, daughter of the chief mutineer, gave him the Pitcairn Bible. In 1840, Levi gave the Pitcairn Bible to his pastor, the Rev. Daniel Lord and it is now under lock and key at the New York Public Library’s Rare Book Room.

The Bounty Bible was given to his cousin Hezekiah Hayden before Levi died in 1888. It was presented to the Connecticut Historical Society in 1896, put away and almost forgotten.

After years of inquiries from residents on Pitcairn, the Bible was located, returned to London, repaired and rebound. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were reported to have inspected and shown a great deal of interest in it. Finally, in February 1950, the Bounty Bible was returned to Pitcairn Island.

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Martha remembers her father becoming interested in the Bounty Bibles after he heard about them from Lowell Thomas on WJR. Martha has his binder of handwritten notes, letters, newspaper clippings, artwork and even a postage stamp bearing the image of the Bible from Pitcairn Island commemorating its return.

Years passed without giving the Bibles much thought until one day Martha noticed an article about the

Levi’s great-great niece, Martha Hayden Woodward

Bibles in the Smithsonian magazine sitting on her coffee table. “I never read the Smithsonian,” Martha laughed. “But I just happened to glance.”

The magazine also had a letter to the editor from Mrs. Lord, the great-granddaughter of Levi’s minister, to whom he gifted the Pitcairn Bible.

In a turn of fate, her cousin excitedly told her she knew Mrs. Lord and after that they connected and began corresponding.

Sometime in the 1990s, Bill Waldrop called Martha. He had been researching the submarine company Levi helped to operate during the Civil War. He had researched her uncle extensively, had seen the Pitcairn Bible and had copied some of Levi’s journals from the Library of Congress and the New York Library.

“God kept putting information about it in my lap,” Martha said of the Bibles. “I love learning about my family’s roots, geography and history.”

Sadly, when Martha went to see the Bible in New York, they wouldn’t bring it out for her to view because of its condition.

“That’s okay. God blessed me in so many other ways throughout this journey,” Martha said.

“I felt this was such a fascinating story and that it would be interesting to people in Tecumseh.” n 11

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“Winters were made for warm blankets and thick books,” said Tecumseh District Library director Susan Bach when asked about winter reading. As the snow and cold cover the earth there is no better time to cocoon ourselves inside and experience the metamorphosis of a fantastic read.

Find these winter reads at the Tecumseh District Library

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While Tecumseh District Library is brimming with books, here are a few of Bach’s favorite winter companions:

The Pillars of the Earth

by Ken Follett This is the story of Philip, Prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known. It is also the story of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect—a man divided in his soul. It is the story of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame. It is the story of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state and brother against brother.

Pillars of the Earth is a spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England.

Wolf Hall

by Hilary Mantel England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster.

If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war.

Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of 20 years

and marry Anne Boleyn.

The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition.

But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous.

Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

Marriage of Opposites

by Alice Hoffman Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel’s salvation is their maid Adelle’s belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle’s daughter.

But Rachel’s life is not her

own. She is married off to a widower with three children to save her father’s business.

When her older husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frédérick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France.

Rebecca

by Daphne DuMaurier Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel. It concerns an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, only to discover that he and his household are haunted by the memory of his late first wife, the title character.

The Snow Child

by Eowyn Ivey Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack

and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart—he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair.

In a moment of levity during the season’s first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone, but they glimpse a young, blondehaired girl running through the trees.

This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness.

As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

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‘YELLOWSTONE’ A novel for youth featuring fantasy and adventure

Dragons Don’t Dance...unless it is a Jenn Carson dragon.

Clinton author and Homefront writer has a new book dancing onto the scene.

Esmeralda Dragon works the spotlight at the Metropolitan Ballet, but what she really wants to do is dance. Encouraged by her friend Harold to audition, Esmeralda takes a leap of faith only to discover that she doesn’t quite fit in with the other ballerinas. But Esmeralda isn’t ready to give up — and neither is Harold! Dragons Don’t Dance Ballet is a whimsical picture book that challenges body image expectations and encourages little ones to go for their dreams.

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For Chad-Michael Simon, last year, the publication of “Yellowstone: The Bears of Caldera” was the culmination of a decades-long idea. The 497page fantasy adventure novel, set in Yellowstone National Park and the alternate world of Caldera where three siblings befriend and communicate with telepathic animals, was a labor of love for the artist, who wrote and illustrated the book.

He is now working on a

second book of the “The Dark Matter Spectrum” series featuring the same main characters. The second book has a character with a prosthetic leg, and in his research he heard inspiring stories about children who have lost limbs and “bounced back like champions,” he said.

At first he wrote characters without flaws. “Over the course of the years as I revised it, it really became important to me to humanize them,” he said of the characters’ quirks. Each of the children in the novel goes through his or her own emotional journey and learns how to develop new strengths. Because both sisters are role models in their own way,

the book has an empowering theme for young female readers.

The novel includes a fantasy map of Yellowstone National Park and Caldera, chapter drawings, an illustrated glossary of place names, and a French phrasebook used by Arthur, a tarantula with a French accent, a quirky sense of humor, and a heart of gold.

Themes include facing adversity, how to be a leader, the importance of home and family, teamwork, learning to trust, recognizing strengths in others, and the importance of critical thinking.

Simon, who has worked for 20 years as a concept artist for Root, Inc., a consulting firm in Sylvania, Ohio, moved with his family to Tecumseh in 2017.

His wife, Natalia, was one of the first to read his drafts, share encouragement, and suggest edits, and his daughter and two stepsons have been supportive, as well.

He has received praise from readers, ages eight to adult, and works with independent bookstores and libraries to promote the book. “I sold through the Quincy Book Haven enough

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for them to request more copies for last Christmas,” Simon said.

“Online, I produced a steady flow of artwork, samples, and videos across social media to attract followers. The response has been wonderful.”

He especially enjoys seeing the book in the hands of young readers. “One of my favorite reviews came from a nine-yearold girl who said, ‘Awesome! It’s even better than Harry Potter, and that means a lot coming from me!’” he said.

According to the novel’s Sebastian, a bear, “Some people believe everything happens for a reason, but too many bad things happen for that to be true. I believe we take what happens to us and give it meaning. That’s what makes us strong. That’s what makes us powerful.” n

“Yellowstone: The Bears of Caldera” is available for sale on amazon.com in paperback or for Kindle. Simon is available for speaking engagements and may be contacted at chadmichaelsimon@gmail.com.

“Some people believe everything happens for a reason, but too many bad things happen for that to be true. I believe we take what happens to us and give it meaning.

That’s what makes us strong.

That’s what makes us powerful.”

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“I’ve had enough of this.”

Shoeboxes

of handwritten letters.

Journals and diaries.

Postcards.

These are the surviving words of everyday life, the documents that chronicle love and loss, grief and healing, passion and longing, and even the most mundane.

Here are a few local letters of interest from the past...

On February 26, 1945, Mr. and Mrs. John Walden of Tecumseh were notified that their son, Pfc. Henry Walden was killed in action in Luxemburg, Germany. Henry was just 20 years old when he died. In 1945, excerpts from his letters home were published in the Tecumseh Herald for the community to read. Once again, ink pressed to paper gave a young man a voice, even after he was gone. His words and his tone reveal both sides of the coin of war — pride and despair. In his letters, we see a young man who is ready to die for something in which he believes. We also see the weary homesickness of a young man telling his mom that he has seen enough. “In regard to your question about a furlough,” he writes, “it’s not impossible, but improbable. I doubt if I ever get a chance to go home.”

“Mom, if you want to make me happy, please don’t worry about me. You are the only thing in the world that matters to me; you and my family. So please try to forget about me and the war. If anything happens to me just take it like a dream. I at least will have died for something that is worthwhile. Until a person has been over here he wont know what we have in the United States.

In fact, he will never know the meaning of the words liberty and freedom.

will be finished tomorrow. Then I’ll go back to the front with the boys and I know they’ll be glad to see me.

February 20, 1945

The cake you sent me was very good and I gave it to the cook for all of the boys. When they get anything they do the same. Boy did I get a scare today. Some other fellow got his foot blown off and it still lays there. I hope I’m this lucky the rest of my life. n

“Papa Papa is Sick ”

“Papa is sick,” wrote Tecumseh’s Perry Hayden in his journal on Oct 11, 1918.

“Think it might possibly be from influenza. That is the epidemic in our country at present. Thousands of cases in the concentration camps. Gov. Sleeper issued a proclamation asking all public meetings to be stopped.”

From 1914 to 1952, Tecumseh resident Perry Hayden recorded his daily life in journals. In 2005 his daughter, Martha Woodward, donated the journals to the Tecumseh District Library, where they serve, in one sense, as an eyewitness account to history. But there is something more when you see his penciled handwriting sprawled across each page. There are days of normalcy. “Worked at the bank.”

And there are moments of emphatic anger, the irate pressure of the pencil on the page. “THE SONS of Bitches” he writes and then furiously underlines eight times when Germans fire on passenger ships. However, throughout the fall and winter of 1918, there is a problem. His papa is sick.

October 12, 1918

Papa is a little better but still enough under the weather to stay in bed nearly all day. Great epidemic of Spanish Influence prevalent.

October 14, 1918

School was closed today because of the Spanish influenza. Five teachers and dozens of pupils being taken with it.

October 20, 1918

that there still was a little hope. While in the hospital I was taken with cold chills. (remarkable, eh? You’d think chills would be warm?) Had a hard drive home, no lights and rotten roads so that I was pretty nearly all in when we arrived home. Mother gave me some ginger tea and a whiskey sling and bundled me off to bed. Papa is too weak to get upstairs so they brought the bed down.

No church. Closed by state order to prevent epidemic of Spanish flu from spreading.

December 13, 1918

December 11, 1918 Papa in bed all day.

I get better every day and papa gets weaker.

December 12, 1918

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I left the bank at 11 o'clock to take papa to Ann Arbor in the car to see a specialist…. Papa is very very weak.

I asked the Dr. if there was any hope.

He said papa was a very sick man but

I have the 'Flu' stayed in bed all day.

December 20, 1918

February 10, 1945

Well, Mom, I guess there isn’t any news that you don’t already know about, probably you know more about it than we do up here.

I think I told you that I am in the Third Army. Ole Blood and Guts Patton. What a man. I’ve got to make this one short, I’m taking a load of fellows to a movie tonight.

February 16, 1945

Well, Mom a lot has happened since I wrote you last. We crossed into Germany in one day and the same day I shot down another plane. It was an ME109. We were sitting there along side the road and here she came, going like a bat out of hell. So I jumped in our [blocked out] and one burst and she started to fall.

I hope this thing is over with soon because I’m getting spring fever. I want to come home. I’ve had enough of this. I’ve seen all that I want to see. Our truck is in ordance getting repaired and 17

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December 21, 1918

This morning about 7:30 Dr. Conklin came up to my room and while administering to me said that papa was very very low and that he probably wouldn’t live much longer. I was prepared for these words, but when mother came up a few minutes later with tears streaming down her cheeks and told me that I was the man of the house now, I gave up and just bawled like a baby.

Papa had passed away at about 7 o'clock.

December 25, 1918

The flu epidemic is right now at it’s worst stage. n

“I I feel the soft touch of thy lips” lips

“In my sleep, your form appears in my imagination. In my dreams I see you, and I hear your voice. I feel the soft touch of thy lips as they meet, in my dreams, mine. I awake to the reality that I am far distant from Maria and what is more heart wrenching that she loves not me.”

1837 Letter to Maria from Consider Alphonzo Stacy

“She loves not me.” Separated by many miles, young Consider Alphonzo Stacy must convince Maria that despite his lack of wealth, there would be “no more sincere lover” for her than him.

Yet the distance between them is a vast and unsettled land, and all he can do to convince Maria to love him back is to take ink and press his longings onto paper.

Consider Alphonzo Stacy left New York for Tecumseh in 1836 to study law under a mentor.

He went on to become a judge, a newspaper editor, an abolitionist, and one of the most wellknown and iconic figures of Tecumseh history. He is remembered for his accomplishments and as the aging man in black and white photos. We have dates of birth, marriage, death — the lifeless hashtag-like markers of the dead. Yet, the same ink pressed to paper that voided the distance between himself and Maria, also voids the distance of time and death. In one letter, this stoic icon of history becomes alive to us by his own words, ink pressed to paper resurrects a whole man, a man longing for the woman he loves.

“I can say with truth Maria, oh that I could see you that I could talk with you. You say I may stay in Michigan for years. Maria I had calculated to come back next summer. I could not bare to think of longer separation from Maria. But I then had hoped. Now I have nothing to call me back. I shall not probably return for years, perhaps never.”

It is from what he calls “a land full of strangers,” that he finally bids farewell. “Adieus dearest to me though I to thy arms naught.” The letter is folded and sealed with wax, and he sends his ink pressed to paper across the void. He sends his heartbroken and passionate love to a woman who loves him not, to the very woman he would marry in 1838. n

Unlike history books, ink pressed to paper chronicles the firsthand, the whole, the flesh and blood stories of those who went before us, and remind us that from century to century, generation to generation, we are the same.

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Friday is Scone Day. While on the surface, Scone Day might sound like a day of baking and eating, (which, in part, it is) for Barb Vallieu, the creator of Scone Day, it is actually a day of contagious kindness.

Barb moved to Tecumseh a little less than two years ago. During her first year, she made gestures to get to know her neighbors. Last January, she invited a few for brunch in her home. “They didn’t actually know each other very well either,” she said. “It was fun to have a chance to be with each other. To me, neighbors are important.” During her first year, she found her neighbors to be kind, offering her advice about how the city operates and even an important notice of the overwhelming number of trick or treaters to expect.

However, just a little over a year after moving to Tecumseh, everything changed. “I was just getting acquainted with the community, and then the pandemic started,” she said. Yet faced with restrictions and fears and shutdowns, Barb was still Barb, and she still believed that neighbors were important. A friend had given her a recipe for scones. “To eat a scone seems less guilty than eating a cookie,” she laughed. So Barb set out to

perfect the scone. She tweaked the recipe and tried adding different chips and extras until she felt that she had perfected her very own cinnamon scone recipe. Yet there was a problem. “I’ve always enjoyed baking,” she said. “But when you bake it, someone needs to eat it.” Barb needed scone eaters.

So Friday became Scone Day. Every Friday, Barb bakes two batches of scones, and she shares them with her neighbors.

“It’s just been a day of friendly kindness,” she said. “I see their positive reaction. It’s a diversion to everything that’s going on.

I just want to be a positive energy in the neighborhood.”

While Barb didn’t create Scone Day to get anything in return, since its inception, a few of her neighbors have brought her food or helped out in her yard. For Barb, Scone Day is not about people helping her. She simply feels joy when she sees her neighbors interacting in neighborly ways with one another. “I’m so grateful for my neighbors,” she said. “I truly want to be a good neighbor. What I’ve found in life is that this type of thing is typically contagious. You just start one on one, and there is a contagion of kindness. That is what we need in the world.” The world needs Scone Day. n

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“It’s fun to scavenge,”

says 16-year-old Emma Powell as she searches the racks of Tecumseh’s Second Chance Consignment. Powell finds a good quality dress for only five dollars. This is a steal considering the prices of dresses in retail stores, like Forever21, can be five times that price.

Thrifting, which is shopping for vintage or used clothing and other items, has gained an immense popularity over the years due to its eco-friendly, money saving, and fun, scavenging aspects. While thrift stores have always had a diverse crowd, as more and more teenagers become aware of social issues, there is a heavy draw for this age group to support thrift stores. “I like to thrift because of the positive impact that it has on the environment,” said Emma. According to some EPA estimates, the average American throws away at least 81 pounds of clothing each year. Thrift stores can greatly come in handy when trying to solve problems like these. Tammy Drouillard, owner of Second Chance Consignment in Tecumseh says, “It's always a plus to buy items at a secondhand store because you are reducing and reusing items, and you’re keeping it from going to the landfill. So you are doing a lot for the environment.” For eco-conscious teens, there is a draw to the idea of shopping in a way that has a positive impact on the world.

For other teens, the draw to thrifting is as simple as a draw to affordable clothing. For instance, Second Chance Consignment carries a variety of different styles, ranging from Hot Topic to American Eagle, at a small fraction of the retail price.

This gives teens like Emma, who have limited spending cash, the ability to buy fashion and clothing that would normally be out of their financial reach.

Some thrift stores, like The Copper Nail Resale Shop in Grass Lake, work to raise money for other causes. The Copper Nail is a community non-profit resale shop, which means items are donated to the shop and then sold. Since opening for business in 2007, The Copper Nail has been able to use profits from the store to donate more than $311,000 to other Grass Lake non-profits. In this way, the very act of thrifting becomes a way to fund organizations that help the community.

Finally, while the feel-good aspects of having a positive impact on the world and the money-saving aspects of thrifting certainly draw in many teens, many simply love the treasure-hunting feel of combing shops for one-of-a-kind items. Edie Moyer, the owner of The Copper Nail says that she sees that type of excitement on people’s faces all the time. “People walk around and say, ‘Oh, I’ve never seen this before.’ And people find things they never thought they’d find.”

For Powell, there is a feeling when she walks into a thrift store that she might discover something incredible. “There is an excitement to finding an amazing shirt or a vintage painting,” she said. “It’s different than going to the mall. The search is possibly one of the best aspects of thrifting.” n

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It’s all about the fruitcake, but at the same time, it’s really not about the fruitcake at all.

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In November of 1878, Fidelia Bates Ford baked a fruitcake. At the time, fruitcakes were traditionally baked and stored for a year before being eaten. So this cake, baked in 1878 was intended to be eaten on Thanksgiving Day of 1879. One might say that the fruitcake was a forethought to celebration, it was about positivity and hope.

Yet, that wasn’t to be. On May 21, 1879, Fidelia passed away. Months later, when Thanksgiving arrived, the family didn’t have Fidelia to celebrate with them, but they had her fruitcake. “For whatever reason, they decided not to cut the cake,” said Julie Ford Ruttinger, Fidelia’s great great granddaughter. “And for some reason they decided not to throw it away either.” Instead, Fidelia’s son Lucius Leroy Ford held onto the cake. It was never cut. It was never eaten.

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When Lucius passed away, the fruitcake went to his son, Lyman Hezekiah Ford, who kept it. It was never cut. It was never eaten. Then when Lyman passed away, the cake traveled to Tecumseh to live with Lyman’s son, Morgan Lyman Ford. There, the fruitcake, sitting on a plate with a glass covering, was set on a high shelf in the china cabinet.

Julie is Morgan Lyman Ford’s daughter, and for her entire life, there has been an old, rock hard fruitcake perched on a plate in her mother’s china cabinet. There has always been a fruitcake in Julie’s life.

However, while the story is about the fruitcake, its not really about the fruitcake. “My dad was a great storyteller,” she said. “When I was a kid, I thought it was a funny story he would tell. He used to love to tell the story of his Uncle Amos who came to our house in 1964 to see the cake. Uncle Amos asked my dad if he’d ever tasted the cake.

My dad said no. Uncle Amos asked my dad if he could take a bite. My dad said, ‘Well, it’s the family cake. It’s just as much your cake as it is mine, go ahead.’ So Uncle Amos got out his pocket knife and whittled off a little chunk and tasted a piece of 86-year-old cake. That always made my dad laugh.”

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Julie tells her father’s stories she laughs as well. Since her dad passed away seven years ago, she has become what she jokingly says is the fruitcake’s spokesperson. Which isn’t so much of a joke when one considers that this cake has been featured in stories all over the world. Her family and the fruitcake were featured in People Magazine, on the Discovery Channel, and in major newspapers and morning shows. In 2003, Julie wrote to the Jay Leno Show. “At the time, the show regularly featured a funny elderly woman known as the Fruitcake Lady,” she said. “I sent an email that said, you might have the old Fruitcake Lady, but I have the old fruitcake and the old fruitcake man.” The Jay Leno show responded within 24 hours, and her parents and the fruitcake flew to California to be on the show.

“Why do I think there is so much curiosity about it?” asked Julie.

“I think one, it’s fruitcake and most people don’t enjoy fruitcake. But it’s also so old. I mean other than Twinkies, who knew a baked good could last 142 years,” she laughs. “The fruitcake gave my dad a lot of fun. As a family we are proud of it. It’s unusual and funny. But I think for my dad, it was a tradition. It was about legacy, something he had from past generations. Those things were very important to dad. He was a fabulous family man.”

As Julie continues to giggle through silly fruitcake stories, it becomes evident that while Fidelia never got to celebrate the fruitcake with her family, her forethought to celebration has become more than she ever could have imagined—it has become a forethought to a celebration that has endured for 142 years.

“Yes,

it’s a fun and goofy thing, but I think for me, like my dad, it is about family and tradition and legacy,” said Julie.

“Society is getting away from the importance of family. Things like this, this fruitcake, even though it is silly, it works as the connective tissue that keeps newer generations connected to their lineage. It’s connection, that’s what the fruitcake is.”

It’s all about the fruitcake, but at the same time, it’s really not about the fruitcake at all. n

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Working on the Railroad Story by Sara Hilton | Photos by Nanci Heiney

Through the doors of a nondescript building in Blissfield is a miniature world of wonder. Trains whirl around the Appalachian Mountains, through tiny quaint towns and stop at industrial steel mills. There are bridges over rivers, shipping yards, schools and churches, and for the holidays, there is of course, a Christmas train.

This is the Blissfield Model Railroad Club, a group of model railroaders from across the southeast Michigan and Northwest Ohio area who build and operate a large HO scale model railroad based on the Chesapeake & Ohio and Clinchfield railroads in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee.

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just have the most amazing artistic talent,” said Joe Watts, who serves as the club’s treasurer. “For instance, the Appalachian Mountains take a lot of trees. We developed a way of making HO scale trees from a weed.

"We import the weed, cut off the stem, and it leaves a three-to-fiveinch tuff of greenery that we put together and paint to make realisticlooking trees"

The Blissfield Model Railroad Club started in 1992 with a group of enthusiasts who wanted to create a portable layout that could be entered in contests. Within two years, the club was showing in Indiana, Ohio, and in Michigan, and was constantly winning first place awards for their layout. With the goal in mind to set up a permanent layout, the group made arrangements to rent the

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The renovation work to turn this space into what they imagined was intense. With only a 2 x 4 ladder leading to that second floor space that hadn’t been used in years, there was much to be done. However, over the next 15 years, the group constructed a multi level railroad with about 1,500 feet of main line track.

In 2013, the group was finally able to purchase their own building, where they are currently located. A never-ending quest to build scenes and operate trains has transformed the space into its current state of wonder. Although the pandemic has greatly altered their ability to share their creation with the public, in the past they have regularly held two-day open houses from September through April, along with special holiday-themed open houses in December. These events typically draw as many as 200 visitors over the course of a weekend.

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There is something for everyone. The train enthusiasts, the artistic aspects of the scenery, and of course, the little kids just love to see the trains running.” n

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Kristiana views spaces and chats with her clients about their design preferences and ideas. Once the consultations are over, Hayden puts together a Pinterest-inspired board for her clients, as well as a list of where each recommended item can be purchased. “I love making it simple for people,” she said. “I do all the backend research and all you have to do is worry about the purchase.”

While many consider interior decorating services to be out of their price reach. It was important to Hayden to create a service that was accessible to a wide variety of people. “I’m from Tecumseh, and I know how much I’m willing to spend,” she said.

“I also understand that not everyone has a huge budget for decorating. I love helping

people create places in their homes that they love, for not a lot of money.” Hayden believes that it is possible to find creative and inexpensive ways to decorate that don’t look cheap, but rather give the impression of having come from a high end store.

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ince the start of the coronavirus pandemic, scores of bridesand grooms-to-be have been forced to downsize, postpone, and even cancel their dream wedding plans. In an effort to help, Faythe Emens, proprietor of Your Big Day Weddings and Events, developed a “MiniMonies” program last summer that was well-received by brides. However, with the pandemic surging, she knew there would be little opportunity to move forward with her annual bridal expo, traditionally held in January.

In response, she decided to go virtual.

Your Big Day Virtual Wedding Expo will be held online Jan. 9 and Jan. 10 from 1-3p.m.

“Nearly everything is online now since the pandemic hit,” Emens said. “With the way the virus continued to spread, I decided that an in-person expo probably wasn’t going to be able to happen in 2021.”

Emens said she had been exploring bridal shows in larger areas to learn what others in the wedding industry had done during the pandemic. “I discovered the virtual expo concept,” she said. “I casually mentioned an online expo to my web designer, Kathleen Kelly, and we began to brainstorm ideas about how my vendors and brides could benefit from full access to one another without physical contact.”

Kelly, owner of K. Kelly Graphics in DeWitt, and Emens have been working on their expo for months. So far, things have been going smoothly. “I haven’t faced any real challenges with the virtual expo yet, but I’m sure there will be some, as there always are with any event,” she said.

A virtual expo means the vendors are going to spend less than if they were face-toface in a venue. “I just want this experience to be easy for those who have been hard hit in the wedding industry,” Emens said.

“This will be affordable for them and easy to participate.”

Brides will be able to log onto Emens’ expo website and virtually visit all of the vendors from the privacy of their own homes. “I picture them with their moms, bridesmaids, and friends sipping mimosas and chatting with vendors and asking questions about their big day.”

Emens said some brides can be easily overwhelmed by the large crowds at a typical expo, as well as the many vendors vying for their attention. “With a virtual expo, brides and grooms will be able to set up appointments with their favorite vendors for sampling cake and food, trying on dresses, touring venues and booking their wedding services,” Emens said. “All of this without having to get dressed and go out into the cold, January weather.”

She said it will be easy for vendors to set up a virtual “booth” in their home offices or shops to showcase their services. “The sky is the limit,” she said.

The format also will provide better opportunities for one-on-one interactions with brides, and, with the virtual format, vendors can record a video with an overview to introduce brides to their services, allowing brides to jot down questions and comments and then have a chance to learn more.

“Each vendor will be encouraged to send me information for a brochure that may be downloaded by the bride for review later, as well,” Emens said. “Vendors also will receive a list of registered brides for follow up contact.”

Emens is excited to work with brides and vendors in this virtual format. “A wedding can be the most important day of a couple’s lives; it should not be stressful or overly complicated,” she said. “I have the gift of helping and love to use it to facilitate a smooth, stress-free wedding day.” n

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Out to change the world Last May, Doll n’ Burger, burst onto the Tecumseh scene during the middle of a pandemic and state-wide shut down. Despite the obstacles of the time, customers lined up in their cars and waited for hours to get their first taste of what the owners describe as a “ridiculously good burger.”

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owever, behind their goofy-eyed cow logo is a group of business partners who set out not only to make a ridiculously good burger, but to do so while making change in the communities they serve.

Doll n’ Burger is the brainchild of Justin Dalenberg.

One needs only to say his last name five times fast to understand the origins of the Doll n’ Burger name. “I was made fun of my whole life,” he said. “As soon as people heard my last name, they’d yell, ‘hey doll n’ burger!’ I never took offence, but I thought, I’m gonna make money off that some day. It just flows.”

In 2019, Dalenberg, who

is a partner along with John Burtka with Veritas Vineyard LLC, a Jackson-based company doing business as Grand River Brewery, joined forces with Ken Heers, president and CEO of Lenawee Fuels. The team purchased the historic HaydenFord Mill with hopes to turn it into a restaurant and brewery.

While the brewery plans were set into motion, a true trifecta of events conspired to bring about an additional venture. First, Taco Bell decided to move out of Heers’ Perky Pantry location.

“I had this space, and I thought it would be really cool to have a great burger joint in Tecumseh,” said Heers. “I mentioned my burger joint idea to Justin and he said, ‘Have you ever heard

of Doll n’ Burger?’”

Doll n’ Burger — the long-imagined manifestation of Dalenberg’s last name. What Heers didn’t know was that for 10 years, Dalenberg, who has worked as a restaurant consultant and a chef, had been working on a business plan for a burger joint named Doll n’ Burger. “I had it in my back pocket and was just waiting for the right time,” he said.

While the brewery was still in the works, the team believed that as restaurants across the state grappled with pandemic shut downs and restrictions, the timing was perfect for a fast food format. Doll n’ Burger was a chance to nourish people by offering a ridiculously good

burger through a business plan that changed communities and lives.

Since that opening day, Doll n’ Burger has already expanded to a location in Jackson and most recently, the team purchased the vacant grocery store in Manchester.

This Manchester Market location is set to open in late winter of 2021, with a butcher shop, a bakery, grocery items, gelato, coffee, and year round produce from local farmers.

We sat down with Dalenberg and Heers to let them tell us in their own words what makes a burger ridiculously good, and how a burger joint can impact the world.

HOMEFRONT: Other than your name, what made you want to open a burger joint?

DALENBERG: I spent 12 years in five star, five diamond restaurants. This is the highest echelon of food service you can be in. It’s so strict and, at the end of the day, after working in that world, all you want is a burger. To me, one of the most rewarding meals I can eat is a perfectly executed burger and fries. To me there is no better meal in the world. I’ve cooked nine course meals for people like Prince Bandar from Saudi Arabia and other crazy meals for people, and none of them brought me as much joy as when I make burger.

HOMEFRONT: You had this business model in your back pocket for 10 years.

What are some of the highlights of your model?

DALENBERG: The model is simple. I had the name, the menu, the product.

I didn’t want to buy buns or fries or burger meat or sauce. I wanted to be able to have the infrastructure to make our own buns every day, to grind our beef from whole animals that are locally sourced, every day. I wanted to buy fries from people that I’ve developed a relationship with. I’m very specific about the kind of potato we buy and who we buy it from and how they ethically manage the earth.

HOMEFRONT: So by supporting suppliers you believe in, your business plan becomes bigger than just Doll n’ Burger?

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DALENBERG: Yes. Now I’m supporting the farmer’s passion to grow great potatoes. It’s a perpetuation of great food, but also of dreams. Take our beef, for example. There is a butcher named, Afrim, that I used to work with. He’s from Kosovo and the nicest guy you’ve ever met. Great father. Great man. He told me eight years ago that his dream was to have a butcher shop where he could cut steaks from an animal where he knew the person who raised it, and then he could get to know the people who he sold meat to. That was his dream. When we got to the point in the business where we needed a butcher, I said, “Afrim, you gotta come work here.” He asked me if we were going to let him build his own butcher shop. I was so excited for him. I said, “Yes, and oh man, it’s gonna be epic.”

He currently has relationships with four or five local farmers. Just like his dream, he knows the farmers. We buy whole steers from them, and he butchers the whole animal. Right now he provides for our restaurants, but when the Manchester Market opens, he is going to be able to have his full dream of not only providing meat to our restaurants, but he will be able to sell to the public the steaks and burger meat that he lovingly crafts every day.

It’s the same thing with our bakery.

Our baker Sharon has been with us for seven years. Her dream was to have her own bakery. And at the Manchester Market she will finally have her own place where she gets to do her own craft and do her own thing and sell it to people directly. The whole thing just

perpetuates great food and sees great dreams realized.

We want you to have the best burger and fries you’ve ever had, and on top of that, great service. But our mission is also to have sustainable jobs that pay people well with retirement built in. We want our general managers to make more money than any other general manager in the fast food world, and to give them equity stakes. We treat them like a 10 percent owner.

Is it grandiose? Yeah, but who cares, you only live once.

HOMEFRONT: A lot of businesses focus only on money and bottom line.

What’s your “why” for running your business in this way?

DALENBERG: I worked for the Amway hotel corporation. They were the most amazing people I’ve ever worked for. I saw the generosity that the DeVos and VanAndel families had. Mr. [Richard] DeVos was probably one of the most genuinely kind people I have ever met in my entire life. When I learned about how he built his company and learned how giving he is, that inspired me. I knew that when I built a company, I wanted to do it like that. I want people to look back on the company and see what it’s done for so many people.

My goal in life is to build something great that helps people. We want to be somebody that we respect.

We want to build a foundation for the next generation to take over and do better than us. It’s not about us. It’s what we are building for the future.

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It’s about community, about growing something. We just wanted to create something that is going to help make people’s lives better, and to help make communities better.

DALENBERG: And that’s the goal of our company. Build, build, build, grow, grow, grow, and share, share, share. We are active in every community we are in. On our first day in Tecumseh we donated $2 of every Double Deluxe order to Community Learning Center. In Jackson $2 will go to a shelter. That’s what we will do with every place we open. The first day will be about giving, because that sets a precedent for what our business is really about. There is a lot of bad in the world right now. We just want to be something great in it.

HOMEFRONT: It seems that it would be a lot more work to have a vision this big. Is it worth it?

HEERS: We love what we do because we have a vision and goals that are whole. It’s not just about making money. Yes, we provide a product that people want, but it’s more whole than that. We are growing people and communities. And working for that is actually a lot of fun. We work really hard, but we also have a blast. we have a lot to be thankful for.

DALENBERG: It’s easy to be good, but it’s not fun. Dare to be great. You gotta have something to work for, and we are working for people, all of them. Even our dishwashers. My favorite people to work for and grow are people who haven’t had a great chance in life and who have had it hard, and maybe the only job they can get is a dishwashing job because it’s their second or third felony.

Second chancers are my favorite people because less than half of them actually get out of the funk they were in. But when they do, that’s grace.

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“A few years ago,” added Cathi, “we began offering events to invite people to gather together to experience the land.

From overnight retreats to contemplative photography, we’ve hosted a wide variety of educational, spiritual, culinary and

peace in a stressful time,” Cathi said.

Although they’ve hosted church events with people from First Presbyterian, Lindisfarne is a separate entity. “This is our homestead not connected with the church,” said Cathi. “When we do a Lindisfarne event it is open to the community.”

They named their farm Lindisfarne, inspired by a local artist who introduced Cathi and Andy to the Lindisfarne Gospels, a pictorial representation used to teach the Bible to a mostly illiterate world in the eighth century. Lindisfarne is also a tidal island off the coast of England connected by a land bridge during low tide. The Kings liked the idea of their homestead being a bridge from a busy world to the healing and refreshing quality of nature. “Lindisfarne had a lot of connections to what we were trying to be here,” Andy said.

“We began to build on the natural beauty,” said Cathi. They placed benches

every item that crosses his path and ask the question, “What can be done with this? It’s fun to be creative and repurpose items that might otherwise be thrown away. In nature, there’s no such thing as waste; everything is recycled.”

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Andy and Cathi use the same area to build a vegetable garden, using the fence to keep deer out. A wood-burning boiler system heats the house, completely sourced with wood from the land. Additionally, the Kings installed a solar array to provide 100% of their electricity needs. “We are more and more living off the grid,” said Cathi. “We are attentive to eating what we grow and what is seasonably available. We’re learning older practices that are less energy intensive on the planet and more satisfying personally.”

“I had no farming experience in my the land. What this place is for me is different than what it is for him. For me, it is a place of peace and renewal.

Like the tide, whenever I drive up the driveway it’s an exhale. When I drive down the driveway it’s an inhale.”

What’s next? “We plan to offer another Winter Solstice outdoor event this December and possibly a black and white contemplative photography walk in January,” said Cathi. “Additionally, through the pandemic, we hope to offer opportunities for people to get out and walk or snowshoe or do some cross-country skiing.” The Kings are also looking to collaborate with other farmers in the area interested in teaching small backyard vegetable gardening to increase self-sufficiency, connection to the land and local food sourcing.

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artistic events.” Last December they hosted a winter solstice event. “We created a candlelit walk through the woods after dark and a gathering around a bonfire with mulled drinks,” she said.

Some of the educational activities they’ve offered are food-oriented, as a way to connect people to how they can eat what is grown locally. The Kings have introduced people to foraging for native edible food, like autumn olive berries. They hosted a garlic festival, teaching visitors how to plant and harvest it. “We got creative during the pandemic, offering self-guided meditative walks, marked with signs to offer visitors

alongside three existing man-made ponds, added several new walking trails through the woods, created a 400-foot diameter path in the shape of a peace sign through one of the meadows, and installed a labyrinth with a gazebo for spiritual reflection. “It’s always been important to us to enhance the sacredness of this place and to offer it to others.”

“We also transformed elements of the existing infrastructure,” said Andy. From old deck boards to an old trailer in the woods, the Kings find a way to use nearly everything. Observing nature and seeking to mimic how it operates, Andy looks at

family at all,” said Andy. “Living here is definitely a confidence builder. You try different things. You never know what you are going to learn,” he said. “Often something totally different happens that you didn’t consider. It forces you to be more comfortable with the unknown.”

Cathi sees a change in Andy’s attitude and outlook from when they first arrived.

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Story by Renee Lapham Collins

Photos by Renee Lapham Collins and Maria Lindsey

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G A M M O

For Ray Gammo, the story of immigrants is the story of struggle, perseverance, and food. His earliest memories are of a mule, a cart, and bread baking in the Chaldean village of Tel Kaif in northern Iraq, where his mother ran a family farm and small factory until she was forced to flee with her family at the start of the Iraq-Iran war in 1979, when Saddam Hussein was coming to power.

Gammo opened Riverside Deli in Dundee this past March, more than 40 years after his family left Iraq with little more than the clothes on their backs and a few dollars. Gammo’s memories of the village are as fleeting as the trip from Iraq to Italy and later to the United States. Yet the story of the family’s escape reads like the script from a movie.

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“My mother had to travel to Turkey to get visas and while she was gone, the babysitter she had left me with kidnapped me,” Gammo said. “She had to spend all of her cash as a ransom.” Fortunately, his mother was able to secure visas for herself and her family, and they escaped Baghdad two days before the embassies closed. “She was only able to get six visas for the U.S. and six for Italy,” Gammo explained. “She also got one for Australia for my uncle.

She left everything behind, her gold, her possessions, everything. We escaped with just a little money and the clothes on our backs.”

Gammo, and five of his family members, went to Ostellato on Italy’s eastern coast while his mother took the rest of the family to the United States. Gammo remained in Italy until 1983 when the family was reunited in Toledo. His brothers Mike (Mouyad) and Steve (Zuhair) had started markets there in 1979 and were wellestablished by the time the rest of the family arrived. Gammo started school in East Toledo at Good Shepherd Catholic School.

By 1990, the Gammo family was living in Southfield at 13 Mile and Southfield Road, in the heart of the Chaldean community.

“Life was good,” Gammo remembers.

“I was going to public school at Southfield Lathrup, and it was pretty diverse there, but segregated. We had four wings — A, B, C, and D — we had the Jewish Wing, the Chaldean Wing, the Black Wing, and the Jock Wing. I had a beautiful high school experience. I finally learned what my own people were like, who they were. I made good friends and went on to Wayne State.”

Gammo married a Muslim girl and had four children before the religious and cultural differences became insurmountable.

“I grew up in a world of diversity, but our families wouldn’t let us be different,” he said. “We just couldn’t make it work. Now, we have shared custody and it’s better for all of us.”

Gammo is active in St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Saline where he has been a parishioner for many years. His faith is vital to his life. He has taught religious education and volunteers in various roles in his parish. He also travels frequently to the Chaldean Catholic Church in Southfield, where he grew up.

In 1992, tragedy struck the Gammo family. Mike was shot and killed in an attempted robbery at his Collingwood Avenue store in Toledo. The gunman was a crack addict recently paroled from the Ohio prison system. “Mike was the second oldest

child,” Gammo said. “It’s ironic. My mom tried to figure out a way to protect her son from going to war, and then he was killed in a robbery gone wrong.”

Gammo’s mother spent her life as an entrepreneur, in her village, in Baghdad, and in the United States. Her sons have followed in her footsteps. Gammo’s brother, Ronny runs a family market at Stony Creek and Willis roads while brother Andy manages the Village Party Store in Saline. Gammo has a successful career with Sprint, selling mobile devices and phone plans in a number of communities including Tecumseh and Adrian under the Alpha Wireless banner. He also has a Radio Shack franchise in Saline and in his new Dundee store, he has a mini Radio Shack tucked away in the rear of the building.

Riverside Deli has the ambience of a tiny European market. Coolers line one wall, bracketed every few feet with tables of freshly baked breads and pastries, boxes of pastas, and jars of sauces. The coolers are stocked with dairy products like premium cheeses, as well as beer and soda. A modest wine closet features shelves of reds, whites, and sparkling wines and behind the counter is a deli with meats and cheeses. There are specialty foods, candies, and other confections along the front counter. The deli case is compact and not a single inch of

space is wasted. It’s a concept he hopes to take into all of the family’s stores.

“The idea is to use and sell baked goods from the families who have landed in America,” he explains. “We are using their pre-made products in our markets for our sandwiches, selling their breads, cheeses, wines, jarred goods, anything that we can find that Italian families have made. “His

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life in Italy, although short, has made an impact on the type of foods and beverages he wants to feature in Riverside Deli. “I’d like to bring that to our markets and partner with those folks, pairing it up with Michigan craft beers and wines, pastas and sauces and cheeses and meats, with a theme of ‘Let’s make it together tonight.’”

He currently stocks a variety of made in Michigan products, including Green Barn and Cherry Creek wines, Blue Collar Hot Sauce and others. “We try to help our fellow Michiganders at any given time by sourcing their products,” he said. “We’re always adding local partnerships and local Italian families to the mix.” He puts photos up on social media with recipes, with a goal of “sharing food and making happy memories.”

On the second floor, Gammo has been busy with renovations, including a space where he hopes to open a European-style cafe featuring gelato. He has done all of the work himself.

“When we opened this store, we got a lot of hate calls telling us to go home,” Gammo said. “We still deal with a lot of that, but we have an amazing base that absolutely love us. Still, you sometimes feel you’re not from here, that this is not where you belong.”

Gammo has put down roots in the Dundee community with his store, and he has been happy with the reception he’s received from patrons of the deli. He enjoys the community.

“We have phenomenal people here that patronize us, that support us,” he said. “They have held my hand, and we’ve broken down and had tears together.”

His life experiences so far have helped him weather the little squalls of hate, and he’s found a silver lining. “I don’t blame anybody. They just don’t know me. And, until they get to know me, they’re going to hate me.” He shrugged. “This is part of life,”

he said. “But once they get to know me, they’re going to love me. They will have nothing but love. When you come into my stores, I show you love with the products that my family made, because they put all their love into that. All the love my mother, grandmas, aunts. This is the immigrant’s story. They fought, they persevered, and they came.”

Ray Gammo continued...

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Ray Gammo continued...

Success, he said, is measured by the products that tell the stories of these immigrants, of all immigrants. Their products tell their stories. “I see people’s products telling their family stories, and I want to capture that, I want to tell more of that story,” Gammo said. “I want to tell where people came from and what their struggle was to get here.” This place, this country, he said, “became all of us because we all came. We all made it something greater than what it was, we added our uniqueness, our flair, our recipes, our heritage and that’s why we are the greatest country on earth,” Gammo said. “That’s why everybody comes here. The diversity makes us better. It’s made my family better.”

Gammo’s passion for food, and the way it tells the story of the immigrant, stands as his philosophy of life. “As we open these stores, we want a product that we loved, that we lived with, to make it to your kitchen so you can experience the same amazing goodness that we lived with,” he said. “I love going to my mom’s house or my aunt’s. There’s bread baking, and I can smell that and it takes me back to the village where I could smell that as a child.

“That’s why food makes so much sense.

Because we gather around the table, and we tell our most amazing stories — the things that make our hearts the most happy.” n

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I think this on most winter days as I tote sloshing pails of warm water to the barn. Twice a day I leave my woodstovewarmed home to tend to my sheep and goats and chickens. In the winter, I never want to go. Opening the door means facing the bitter wind that never seems to stop blowing across the empty fields. And as I pull on my snow pants and boots, I often think that maybe I don’t want to do this after all. Maybe I built a life that I don’t really want. Why would I want a life that has so much cold?

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