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fall/winter 2019 — $3.95 Ohio Fripp Island Michigan Carnival Mardi Gras New Jersey Panama City Florida India’s Temples Southwestern Ontario Shanghai 1 - CROSSINGS find your story here S ome vacations become part of us. The beauty and Shop for one-of-a-kind Join us in January for the 6th Annual Comfort Food Cruise. experiences come home with us and beckon us back. Ohio’s holiday gifts during the The self-guided Cruise provides a tasty tour of the Hocking Hills Hocking Hills in winter is such a place. Breathtaking scenery, 5th Annual Hocking with more than a dozen locally owned eateries offering up their outdoor adventures, prehistoric caves, frozen waterfalls, Hills Holiday Treasure classic comfort specialties. and cozy cabins, take root and call you back again and Hunt and enter to win again. Bring your sense of adventure and your heart to the one of more than 25 To get your free visitor’s guide and find out more about Hocking Hills and you’ll count the days until you can return. prizes and a Grand the Comfort Food Cruise and Treasure Hunt call or click: Explore the Hocking Hills, Ohio’s Natural Crown Jewels. Prize Getaway for 4. 1-800-Hocking | ExploreHockingHills.com find your story here S ome vacations become part of us. The beauty and Shop for one-of-a-kind Join us in January for the 6th Annual Comfort Food Cruise. experiences come home with us and beckon us back. Ohio’s holiday gifts during the The self-guided Cruise provides a tasty tour of the Hocking Hills Hocking Hills in winter is such a place. Breathtaking scenery, 5th Annual Hocking with more than a dozen locally owned eateries offering up their outdoor adventures, prehistoric caves, frozen waterfalls, Hills Holiday Treasure classic comfort specialties. and cozy cabins, take root and call you back again and Hunt and enter to win again. Bring your sense of adventure and your heart to the one of more than 25 To get your free visitor’s guide and find out more about Hocking Hills and you’ll count the days until you can return. prizes and a Grand the Comfort Food Cruise and Treasure Hunt call or click: Explore the Hocking Hills, Ohio’s Natural Crown Jewels. Prize Getaway for 4. 1-800-Hocking | ExploreHockingHills.com Volume 20, Number 3, Fall/Winter 2019 Life & Style 28 traverse city Winter isn’t a sleepy season in beautiful Traverse City! 39 fripp island Kick back at the Fripp Island Golf & Beach Resort. 48 for ladies only A girlfriends getaway in Chatham-Kent. 52 The Windsor riverfront decorated for the season Travel 8 42 the garden state let the good times roll New Jersey has so many great places Carnival Cruises is bringing the Mardi to explore. Gras to Europe. 18 44 it’s some kind of wonderful this is a real fun beach Michigan seems like a dream this Panama City Beach is the place where fall and winter. summer never ends. 18 30 46 an ohio winter break land of a thousand temples Chilling out in the Buckeye State These inspiring temples are the soul of Free Wheeling this winter. South India. 15 40 52 double your pleasure sleepless in shanghai a change of seasons It’s two for the money in Erie The Paris of the East is the showplace When temperatures cool down, & Grove City PA. of modern China. Southwestern Ontario warms up. 16 lighten up Holland Michigan’s homage to Frank Baum’s classic tale, the Cowardly Lion statue from the Wizard of Oz. Everything is merry and bright Found along the iconic road in both Centennial Park in Southwestern Michigan. and the grounds of the Herrick District Library 50 the glasshouse nursery It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmasland. Cover: Ash Cave, Hocking Hills, Ohio 4 - CROSSINGS EDITORIAL { LIGHTEN UP } Publisher AJR Publishing Managing Editor Renu Saggar Art Director Wayne Mansfield Assistant Editor Adelina Irvine Contributing Editors Parker Zone Gail Mero-O’Neil ADVERTISING National Sales Renu Saggar 1455 Normandy LaSalle, ON N9J 3N1 Phone: 519-969-7646 Fax: 519-969-1066 Email: [email protected] AJR PUBLISHING INC. President Renu Saggar Office Manager Adelina Irvine Email: [email protected] Crossings Magazine is published by AJR Pub- lishing Inc. Editorial and advertising offices: 1455 Normandy, LaSalle, Ontario, Canada, N9J 3N1. Annual subscription rate is $17.85 plus HST. Published three times a year in Spring- Summer, Summer, and Fall/Winter. The infor- mation in this magazine has been published in Relax this winter good faith and every effort has been made to insure accuracy. Manuscripts and photographs by the one Great submitted for editorial consideration must be Lake you can’t see accompanied by a self-addressed envelope from Ontario’s shores and return postage. Copyright © 2019. The publisher will not be held responsible for loss — beautiful Lake or destruction of unsolicited material. Adver- Michigan. Be awed tising agencies and advertisers assume full and complete liability for all content (includ- by nature’s stunning ing text, representation and illustrations) of ice formations … and advertisements and also assume responsibility artist-made ones, too. for any claims arising thereof made against the publisher. Reproduction in whole or in Find inspiration in our part without the written permission of the galleries and shops. publisher is strictly prohibited. Ski glistening trails. Try our award-winning www.CrossingsMagazine.ca wines, beers and spirits. Stay awhile. Copyright © 2019 All rights reserved. Southwest Michigan’s PRINTED IN CANADA winter sunsets are like no other. 6 - CROSSINGS SM90754 Crossings Magazine-Nov2019.indd 1 8/14/19 4:55 PM { LIGHTEN UP } Relax this winter by the one Great Lake you can’t see from Ontario’s shores — beautiful Lake Michigan. Be awed by nature’s stunning ice formations … and artist-made ones, too. Find inspiration in our galleries and shops. 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