The winter of 1957-58 was a doozie. I was in fourth grade. Snowbanks were higher than school bus windows along sections of the back roads.
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The winter of 1957-58 was a doozie. I was in fourth grade. Snowbanks were higher than school bus windows along sections of the back roads.
An award-winning teacher, Glenn Ruggles’ magnum opus has been collecting oral histories around the state and Elk Rapids area. I met Glenn in 1983 when Stone Circle was just getting started. He became our advocate.
The Traverse City Film Festival is coming back to town next week. Let’s celebrate with three folk poems about early movie venues, theaters and promotional gimmicks in the 1930′s.
The Traverse City Film Festival is coming back to town next week. Let’s celebrate with three folk poems about early movie venues, theaters and promotional gimmicks in the 1930′s.
I’d like you to meet Mary Joseph, 97, from Onekama. Mrs. Joseph participated in the Brethren Elders Project, and was interviewed by Alexis Forsyth, 12. Mary Joseph was 12 years old 85 years ago. Listening to these two girls sharing experiences…
Trains, airplanes, art and love; it’s like a poetry salad for a Memorial Day picnic. In early March some Brethren students and I finished up another Elders Project sponsored by SEEDS. Since then I’ve been polishing up the kids’ poems and writi…
All we know about people who lived 2,000 years ago is through their art; their writing, songs, paintings and architecture. Art is how the future is going to remember us.
There was a lot of laughter coming from the room off the library. Betty Pearl Beeby was being interviewed by two students, Gabrielle Gualtiere and Ashlee Marshall. They seemed to be having too much fun.
Stanley Holzhauer, of Elk Rapids, almost didn't make it to the Iwo Jima "Beach Party." A shell ripped through the armored plates of his landing tank and exploded in the water behind. This month marked the 66th anniversary of the battle and flag raising.