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Photo Friday: Nature's icy artistry at Manistee

Summer is a great time to stroll the Riverwalk and beach at Manistee, Michigan, but the northwestern Michigan waterfront cloaks itself in some amazing natural artistry as shifting sand, snow, ice, and water creates a muted palette of ephemeral patterns for adventurous winter visitors to enjoy.

The interplay of natural elements never ceases to fascinate me, so I'm offering a few more scenes from the winter wonderland I found one overcast winter day at Manistee along Lake Michigan.

Thanks to Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby for creating and coordinating Photo Friday to link travel photos and blog posts across the Web.

Want to find out more about Manistee? Check out these Midwest Guest articles:

Manistee North Pierhead lighthouse awaits fate

Stroll from historic downtown Manistee to Lake Michigan along city Riverwalk

Photo Friday: More Manistee, Michigan, views

© Dominique King 2010 All rights reserved

Dining at The Berghoff in Chicago, Illinois

Dining at The Berghoff in downtown Chicago seems to remain comfortably the same, whether you ate there last week, ten years ago, or even a century ago.

Tim loves German cuisine, and we stumbled over The Berghoff one cold winter day about ten years ago. We had fond memories of our meal there a decade ago, and made sure we revisited the venerable restaurant when we were in Chicago this past year.

The dining room with its stained glass windows, dark wood beams, and vintage brass pendant lamps looked much the same as we remembered from our first visit. I even spotted the same lamps in several pictures of The Berghoff's early days at their Web site.

We don't have a lot of German restaurants near our home, so tucking into a mid-afternoon dinner of sauerbraten, accompanied by a Berghoff beer, was a special treat. It was a decision I made after considering several menu options that included potato pierogies, big iceberg lettuce wedge salads, and classic German entrees like wiener schnitzel and sausage plates.

As great as the ambience and the food is, the thing that always intrigues me about places like The Berghoff is the sense of history and tradition carried on in businesses like this restaurant with roots in the late 1800s.

Herman Joseph Berghoff immigrated to America in 1870 from Dortmund, German, and began brewing Berghoff Beer in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with his three brothers by 1887.

The Berghoffs brought their brew to Chicago during the famous Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and received such a warm reception that they opened the original Berghoff Cafe in 1898 at the corner of State and Adams Streets in downtown Chicago.

The Berghoff's present-day employees know the restaurant's history well. We met a Berghoff manager on our way out as we stopped to look at a large framed Berghoff menu from 1932 in the lobby, and he told us how the restaurant built a steady clientele by selling beer for a nickel and giving away sandwiches for free when it first opened in 1898.

The Berghoff even weathered Prohibition by selling near beer, Bergo Soda Pop, and expanding into a full-service restaurant. In 1933, at Prohibition's end, Chicago issued the city's liquor license No. 1 to The Berghoff.

Chicago diners mourned in 2006 as the third generation of Berghoffs to operate the restaurant decided to close it. They didn't stay in mourning long, though, as Carlyn Berghoff became the fourth generation of the family to carry on The Berghoff tradition by re-opening in the building that same year with the classic ground-level restaurant serving many of the family favorites, as well as a more casual downstairs cafe, a catering company, and a cafe at O'Hare International Airport.

Carlyn Berghoff describes her approach as "tradition with a twist", adding more modern fare while still serving her family's long-time classics. She and her mother, Jan, co-authored"The Berghoff Family Cookbook". Carlyn Berghoff's second cookbook, "The Berghoff Cafe Cookbook: Berghoff Family Recipes for Simple Satisfying Food", includes more classic recipes from the restaurant founded by her great-grandfather Herman Joseph Berghoff.

I guess we were lucky to be blissfully ignorant of the 2006 restaurant closing, arriving back in Chicago several years after the restaurant's rebirth at the hands of Carlyn Berghoff to come in for an early dinner of traditional sauerbraten and beer!

© Dominique King 2010 All rights reserved

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Where I live: World music and coffeehouse culture take center stage in Dearborn, Michigan

Get over those cabin fever blues and see a bit of the world at the Arab American National Museum (AANM) in Dearborn, Michigan, as it kicks off the winter/spring season of Global Thursdays with a performance from world-renowned multi-instrumentalist Bassam Saba on January 28.

The concert is also a release party for Saba's debut album, The Wonderful Land, described on his Web site as a mix of Arabic and gypsy Turkish music with hints of Western-style classical arrangement.

The winter/spring season of Global Thursdays continues through April with an eclectic schedule of film and concerts representing diverse cultures from around the world. Each program begins at 6:30 p.m.

"Global Thursdays is an extension of the annual Concert of Colors," says museum director of communications Kim Silarski. "Musical acts and films are selected to represent diverse cultures from around the world."

Global Thursdays, like the Concert of Colors summer festival, brings talent from around the world to metro Detroit with the idea of celebrating diversity and fostering unity through the arts.

The season kick-off for Global Thursdays coincides with the opening of "From Mocha to Latte: Coffee, the Arab World and the $4 Cup" at the AANM. This exhibit explores the history of coffee, from its origins in the Arab world as a crop first cultivated in Yemen, through the preeminence of Yemen's port city of Mocha as a major coffee marketplace, to the amazing popularity of coffee-based drinks and the rise of coffeehouse culture throughout the world.

Be sure to go to the AANM for a free opening reception at 5:30 p.m. in the Museum's Community Courtyard area and grab a complimentary Arabic coffee and sweet before the concert, where you can check out Bassam Saba's virtuosity with the nay, an open-ended cane flute.

The nay traces its origins back to antiquity in the Near East and may look deceptively simple to play, but it is one of the most difficult Arabic instruments to master. Saba's skill with Arabic instruments like the nay, oud, buxuq, saz, as well as violin and western classical flute, create high demand for him as a musician, conductor and music educator.

The other concerts scheduled for Global Thursdays also sound intriguing. You can check out the jazzy, high-energy fusion of the Chicago Afrobeat Project on February 25; enjoy a night of flamenco dancing and music with metro Detroit's La Chispa & Company featuring flamenco artists from around the country on March 25; and hear the fusion of Chinese and Western classical music with Xiao Dong Wei, featuring Yang Wei and Yuki Mack, on April 22.

Film fans will want to mark their calendars for Global Thursday programs featuring films you won't find at the local multiplex. February 11 brings the Michigan premiere of All About Dad, the story of a Vietnamese American family and their sometimes conflicting paths to each finding their own way in life. The 1983 film El Norte follows the story of Mayan Indians through a brutal civil war and the tale of two teenagers who flee to the North to escape the violence, screening on March 11. The series' films wrap with another Michigan premiere on April 8 with the showing of Children of Invention, an official selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival that tells the story of two homeless children orphaned by the disappearance of their mother.   

Global Thursday concert tickets are $10 and tickets for films in the series are $6. You can purchase tickets at the door, or order advance tickets online (online sales end at 5 p.m. the day prior to the show).

Note: "Where I live" posts are part of a series of periodic stories about special events and people in, and around, metro Detroit. "Where I live" posts are stories I'll post in addition to my regular schedule of stories about attractions around the larger Midwestern region. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.

© Dominique King 2010 All rights reserved

Restoring Warner Theater to former glory in Erie, Pennsylvania

I wasn't expecting to find a gem of architectural and motion picture history in Erie, Pennsylvania, but finding the city's Warner Theater was a pleasant surprise.

We recently traveled along Lake Erie through Ohio, with the plan to go as far as east as Ashtabula, Ohio, before turning around to come back home. We somehow ended up over Ohio's eastern border in Erie, Pennsylvania, and decided to explore downtown Erie before checking the Presque Isle and Presque Isle Pierhead lighthouses and heading back west towards Detroit.

I snapped a photo of a bright red trolley car running past the historic Boston Store and Mercantile Building on State Street, before spotting the Warner Theater as I turned around to head back towards the car.

The four Warner Brothers showed films in Pennsylvania and Ohio theaters before opening their own theater in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1903, beginning to produce films in 1918, and incorporating Warner Brothers Pictures in 1923, the studio responsible for many classic films and beloved cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Tweety Bird.

Warner Brothers commissioned Erie's Warner Theater in 1929. The opulent theater's construction cost $1.5 million, a surprising figure given the fact that it opened in 1931 during one of the country's worst economic depressions.

The theater, designed by Rapp & Rapp of Chicago in an Art Deco-style with the ancient Egyptian-influenced motifs fashionable at that time, opened as a grand movie palace and vaudeville stage.

The Warner Theater operated primarily as a movie theater until 1976. By the early 1980s, the city of Erie bought the theater and converted it into a performing arts center with hopes for it as the centerpiece of a downtown revival, and the Warner Theater earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places.

A sign I spotted in the box office window listed the varied performers who appeared at the Warner Theater over the years, including Tony Bennett, Milton Berle, Johnny Cash, Nat King Cole, Alice Cooper, Bill Cosby, Sammy Davis Jr., BB King, Jay Leno, Meatloaf, Wayne Newton, The Temptations, Mel Torme, Train, and Trisha Yearwood.

By the 1990s, the Warner Theater restoration became the highest priority for arts funding among civic leaders seeing the old movie palace as a key component of downtown Erie's revitalization.

A $7 million state appropriation in 1994 and formation of the Warner Theater Preservation Trust marked the start of a period of additional fundraising and restoration proceeding in fits and starts.

Pennsylvania released the $7 million appropriation in 1997, and the preservation group raised $3.3 million by early 1998. Today, total funding for the project stands at over $20 million.

Daniel Coffey and Associates of Chicago and Crowner/King of Erie became the project architects.

Work through the remainder of the decade and into the next decade included restoration of the theater's interior with painting and restoring or replicating some of the grand decor like gold leaf and intricate tapestries, a new roof, new seating, upgraded lighting, updated heating and cooling systems, a new entrance, building expansion, and renovated restrooms.

Work on the project awaits completion with the anticipated release of another injection of money from the state for final renovations like an expanded stage, improved dressing rooms, upgraded loading docks, and restoring or replicating the grand curtain and draperies.

Today, the 2,250-seat theater, with its expansive 65-foot by 28-foot proscenium-style stage, hosts over 150 events each year that include theater performances, programs from the Erie Philharmonic and Lake Erie Ballet, weddings, and other private receptions.

Check in with the Warner Theater at its Facebook page or learn more about its history in a book by Barbara J. Hauck. Profits from sales of the book, "A Picture Palace Transformed: How Erie's Warner Theater Survived a Changing World", benefit the restoration, expansion and maintenance of the theater.

The vintage look of the Warner Theater's exterior reminded me a bit of some of the old movie theaters still barely hanging in there as I grew up in metro Detroit. I only wish we'd been able to tour the inside of the theater, which photos remind me of the opulent movie houses the beautifully restored Fox on Woodward Avenue in Detroit.

I guess it's a good excuse for another trip along the Lake Erie shore!

© Dominique King 2010 All rights reserved

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Photo Friday: More Manistee, Michigan, views

Manistee is a great little town with a lot of history, and I found the story about the fire that coincidentally occurred on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 fascinating. Manistee's original lighthouse burned during that 1871 conflagration, but the busy port city quickly rebuilt their lighthouse and today has a pretty white light tower, along with a smaller range light, on Lake Michigan.

We've visited Manistee many times over the years and always enjoy visiting the lighthouse, especially during the warmer months when you can walk out to the north pierhead and get some nice close shots of the tower.

The winter months can bring an overcast quiet to the Manistee waterfront, but the lighthouse always offers plenty of picturesque possibilities.

Check out my story, Manistee North Pierhead Lighthouse awaits fate, for more about the lighthouse and Manistee's unique link to Chicago and its historic fire.

Planning a summer vacation Up North and looking for a family-friendly scenic trail that is also fully handicapped accessible? Check out my story about the 1 1/2 mile boardwalk along the Manistee River, Stroll from historic downtown Manistee Lake Michigan along city Riverwalk.

Thanks to Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby for creating and coordinating Photo Friday to link travel photos and blog posts across the Web.

© Dominique King 2010 All rights reserved

Stroll from historic downtown Manistee to Lake Michigan along city Riverwalk

City officials in Manistee, Michigan, realize what a gem the town has with its Riverwalk, described in recent city documents as "one of the City's crown jewels".

The mostly boardwalk trail hugs the shore of the Manistee River, wending its way from historic downtown Manistee to an expansive Lake Michigan beach and great view of the Manistee North Pierhead lighthouse.

We love the trail because it offers multiple photographic opportunities, and it is an easy walk that is a great way to stretch your legs after a lengthy car trip.

Families and visitors of all ages and abilities should especially appreciate the Riverwalk for its accessibility and many interesting places to stop along the way.

The Manistee City site has a small map showing handicapped access points along the trail. This page at Get off the Couch has detailed descriptions of the entire trail, including the location of ramps and various stops along the way where visitors can stop for a picnic, learn a bit about Manistee history, and get in a little fishing or swimming.

The Riverwalk is particularly great if you're a boat fan, as you'll see boats of all shapes and sizes along the route. There are plenty of private docks and charter fishing docks along the walk, but fans of the big Great Lakes freighters may be lucky enough to catch one of the big boats navigating the narrow river channel.

Regular Midwest Guest readers know that I'm a big fan of bridges, so it was a little disappointing that we didn't manage to catch one of the lift bridges in action during our last visit to the Riverwalk. However, the city's site has a nice photo of one of the bascule bridges in the open position, allowing a large boat to pass through the channel.

A good portion of the Riverwalk route runs along with the river to one side and a portion of the downtown business district to the other side. This makes it easy to make a quick stop for ice cream, a little shopping, or a leisurely lunch in town before continuing on the route to the Lake Michigan beach and Douglas Park.

The section of the trail nearest to downtown Manistee is lighted, making it an especially nice place for an after-dinner stroll during the warmer summer months.

History buffs should look for some of the interpretive signs placed along the route (although the City removes many of them to store during the winter) and stops like a historical recreation of a net drying shed and display of drying fishing nets.

If you're keeping track of your mileage as you walk, you don't have to bother with wearing a pedometer because there are mileage markers at every 1/10th mile along the route.

The city doesn't clear the Riverwalk during the winter, although you can always walk out along the cement walkway near the North Pierhead Lighthouse if you want to brave the cold.

The City of Manistee established a fund to address ongoing maintenance and repair issues along the trail, keeping the wooden walkway in good repair with projects like recent repairs of aging decking, power washing and sealing, and repainting the handrails.

Interested in learning more about bascule bridges? Check out my story about Point Park in Ashtabula, Ohio, where I wrote about that city's bascule bridge, talked about bascule bridge history, and managed to take some photos of that span in the open and closed positions.

Learn more about the Manistee North Pierhead Lighthouse and Manistee's link to the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 in my story, Manistee North Pierhead Lighthouse awaits fate.

© Dominique King 2010 All rights reserved

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Manistee

Where I live: Dueling Chainsaws square off at Plymouth Ice Festival January 22-24, 2010

Michigan's Plymouth Ice Festival has a new name and a new look, but it this metropolitan Detroit event should still be a spectacular show of icy artistry and winter fun.

The annual festival celebrates its 28th year January 22-24 with new events like a Dueling Chainsaws Speed Carving competition that promises to inject new excitement into one of the nation's top-ranked ice carving festivals.

The Plymouth Ice Festival showcases the talent of ice sculpture artisans that include professional ice carvers, chefs, culinary instructors, and local high school, community college, and university students. While competitions, demonstrations and seminars sanctioned by the National Ice Carving Association promote ice sculpture as an art form, the cool carvings, warm treats, and red-hot competitions provide plenty of family-friendly fun for an expected 100,000 visitors over the three-day weekend.

We look forward to visiting Plymouth late nights during festival weekends to see the ice sculptures bathed in colored lights (on the way home from Plymouth Whalers' hockey games, of course!), but making a special trip to see the festival during the day to see the ice carvers in action is also a lot of fun.

We watched carvers meticulously produce detailed sculptures when we visited the festival last year, many of them from single blocks of ice weighing as much as several hundred pounds or as more complex sculptures using as many as 100 massive blocks of ice. Some of the most intricately detailed and large sculptures took the entire three-day weekend to complete.

I have to admit that the idea of a dueling chainsaw speed carving show intrigues me. Contenders have only 15 minutes to produce a carving and have it judged by the audience. The festival site bills this event as involving "two men, two chainsaws, one winner" (What? no female chainsaw carvers are taking this challenge?), and it should be interesting to see what sort of pieces result from speedy chainsaw users.

Plymouth's ice festival originated when the son of a local hotel owner attended a similar event in Japan and saw it as a great way to lure visitors to Plymouth during the traditional post-winter holiday lull in business.

Visitors will find lots of action and excitement with a full schedule of activities and competition during the day. Some of the most popular exhibitions can attract larger crowds and a constantly moving line of spectators snaking along in front of them, which is another reason we like visiting the Sculpture Garden (with more than 100 ice sculptures on display!) at night after scheduled activities are over for the day.

January can bring pretty nippy weather, so dressing warmly and checking out the festival's Hot Spot for a snack or a little shopping are the hot tips for visitors.

Plymouth Ice Festival visitors can view the Sculpture Garden around the clock during the three-day event. Activities, events and demonstrations are 3 p.m. until 8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Sunday.

Note: "Where I live" posts are part of a series of periodic stories about special events and people in, and around, metro Detroit. "Where I live" posts are stories I'll post in addition to my regular schedule of stories about attractions around the larger Midwestern region. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.

© Dominique King 2010 All rights reserved

Manistee North Pierhead Lighthouse awaits fate

Summer sees a steady stream of fishing boats and pleasure craft parade past the Manistee North Pierhead Lighthouse and into the mouth of the Manistee River. Fishers settle in for the day along the pier or on the rocky breakwater by the small companion light just south of the pier as gulls swoop lazily overhead.

Winter brings a much quieter scene, and looking over my winter photos from Manistee makes me wonder what is happening with the city's proposed acquisition of the lighthouse.

The most recent article found about the lighthouse's fate was a November 18, 2009 story from the Ludington Daily News. At that time, the Manistee City Council agreed to seek ownership of the lighthouse and a working relationship with the Manistee Historical Museum with an eye toward possibly opening the lighthouse for public tours in the future.

The Manistee North Pierhead Lighthouse, like many Great Lakes lights, recently became available at no cost to other government agencies, non-profit corporations, educational agencies, or community development groups will to preserve and maintain the lighthouses for educational, recreational, cultural, or historic preservation programs.

Such transfers usually take a while, as anything involving one or more government entities and acquiring groups that often struggle to meet eligibility requirements or raise sufficient money to preserve, restore, and maintain the historic light towers.

Hopefully, the process is quietly moving forward behind the scenes, and new ownership will become a new chapter in this beautiful lighthouse's long history at Manistee.

Manistee, like many towns in Michigan's northern lower peninsula, grew around lumbering. The Manistee River offered a prime location near the forest with easy access to Lake Michigan, and the first lighthouse appeared at Manistee in 1870.

Many students of regional history remember 1871 as the year of a devastating fire that decimated Chicago. The Chicago fire killed at least 300, destroyed $200 million worth of property and left 100,000 people homeless. Those numbers made it one of the most spectacular disasters of the nineteenth century and sparked rumors that a cow owned by Mrs. O'Leary caused the fire by knocking over a lantern.

The Chicago fire and Mrs. O'Leary's cow became immortalized in song, parades, stories, and plays, but many seemed to forget that drought, high temperatures, and storms also caused several other fires in northeastern Wisconsin and northern Michigan, including Manistee, the same day-October 8, 1871.

The Manistee lighthouse, a wooden structure like most other buildings in town at the time, burned down to the foundation. Fire raged through Manistee, destroying $1,000,000 in property, burning many area forests, and leaving many people homeless, although there were no deaths.

Manistee began the process of rebuilding itself, erecting new structures in brick, rather than wood. Many of the city's lovely Victorian homes and other buildings date from the late 1800s, and Manistee became known as Lake Michigan's Victorian Port City.

Congress allocated money to rebuild the lighthouse at Manistee, constructing a two-story house with a light tower, nearly identical to the original structure, in 1872.

Manistee seemed to recover from the fire in relatively short order, as steadily increasing commerce in the port city led to multiple improvements and changes for the lighthouse, the piers, and the harbor in general.

By 1875, a new south pierhead light replaced the original lighthouse as a beacon, although keepers still lived in the original house and rowed out to the light to maintain it several times a day.

By 1879, an elevated walkway between the shore and the light tower offered lightkeepers a safer way to access the light to maintain it.

The remaining years of the nineteenth century saw many changes in the configuration of lights and fog signals at Manistee. The north pier became home to the main light by the 1890s, and the elevated catwalk also moved from the south pier to the north pier.

The Army Corps of Engineers constructed a breakwater on the south side of the harbor in 1914, creating a large stilling basin with the north pier in the harbor to help assure calmer water at the channel entrance.

Major improvements at Manistee in 1927 resulted in a configuration of lights familiar to today's visitors, featuring a 39-foot-tall iron tower at the end of the pier with an iron catwalk leading out to the lighthouse to replace an old wooden walkway.

I'll be watching to see if the proposed lighthouse acquisition by the city goes through in Manistee, and hopefully look forward to spending more lazy days strolling along the pier, watching the pier fishers pull in their catches, and checking out the passing nautical parade.

Does anyone know more about the proposed lighthouse acquisition?

© Dominique King 2010 All rights reserved

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Manistee

Photo Friday: Ice in Leland, Michigan, harbor

Fishtown exists to preserve a piece of northern Michigan's maritime history, but I found something a little more modern in my winter images of the icy Leland harbor.

The jagged slabs of ice juxtaposed in random patterns reminded me stark abstract paintings, so I took a few close-up shots for possible use next time I took an abstract painting class and needed some inspiration!

Meanwhile, one snoozing harbor denizen paid me no mind, finding inspiration in a gently rocking slab of ice for a mid-day nap.

Check out yesterday's story here to Catch a bit of history at Fishtown in Leland, Michigan.

Thanks to Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby for creating and coordinating Photo Friday to link travel photos and blog posts across the Web.

© Dominique King 2010 All rights reserved

Catch a bit of history at Fishtown in Leland, Michigan

We've witnessed much growth and development in Northern Michigan over the years, but a bit of Lake Michigan's commercial fishing heritage remains alive at Fishtown in Leland.

The small gaggle of fishing shacks and docks bustle with activity in the summer with tourists, shoppers, fishers, and boaters checking out the scene as they weave through racks of drying fishing nets, stop at the Cove Restaurant for chowder and beer, or check out the boats on their way out to Lake Michigan.

Quiet descends upon Fishtown during the colder months when tourist traffic tapers off and many of the dockside businesses close for the winter season.

Visitors can easily imagine themselves in an early 1900s fishing village, but they might have missed that opportunity to experience living history if not for a fishery owner who managed to purchase a cluster of weathered wood shacks in 1971 and help preserve the area before eventually selling it to an non-profit organization dedicated specifically to preserving Fishtown and its northern Michigan maritime history.

Bill Carlson, owner of Carlson Fisheries, worried that a way of northern Michigan life might simply vanish, bought a large piece of Fishtown property with several buildings on it in 1971. Carlson bought several other pieces of Fishtown properties over the years, renovated some of the buildings, and rented them out to small, mostly seasonal, businesses to help fund the project.

Carlson hoped all along to sell Fishtown to a group that would preserve it, but he had no luck over the years in gaining the interest of the National Park Service or Michigan Department of Resources for purchasing the village.

The Fishtown Preservation Society formed in 2001, and, in 2004, began negotiating with the Carlson family to purchase the village.

The non-profit group of community volunteers acquired the fishing village, with its 7 historic buildings, in early 2007. Efforts continue to raise additional money to pay off the property, continue preservation efforts, and develop educational and interpretive programs to highlight Fishtown's history.

These days, Fishtown still appears much as it did more than a century ago. It is fun to compare vintage photos of the fishing village from the preservation group's site to our own memories of Fishtown through many summertime and autumn visits, as well as our most recent wintertime trip to Leland.

We love walking around Fishtown and are grateful to the foresight of Bill Carlson in acquiring the area for preservation. Fishtown has always been one of the highlights of any visit Up North for us, and I hope the Fishtown Preservation Society sees success in their continued efforts to preserve this piece of Northern Michigan history

Interested northwestern Michigan history? Here are a couple more of my articles about historic sites in the area:

Port Oneida Rural Historic District celebrates northern Michigan's agricultural heritage

Slipping back in time at Sleder's in Traverse City, Michigan

© Dominique King 2010 All rights reserved