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Volume XXV, Issue III OUR 25TH YEAR June 17, 2020 www.GlenArbor.com FREE! Black Like Me: Growing up a person of color in Leelanau County By Marshall Collins, Jr. Inspired by the #BlackLivesMatter As told to Sun editor Jacob Wheeler movement—which is provoking con- versations nationwide about racial Northport native and Traverse Bay inequities and the need for police re- Area Intermediate School District form—the Glen Arbor Sun will publish educator Marshall Collins, Jr., has a series of stories by, and about, people a unique story to tell as an African- of color in Leelanau County, and how American in Leelanau County. Col- their skin color affects how they are lins was the only black member of his treated here. graduating class in 1995, and despite struggling with being one of very few Growing up here, there weren’t people of color, he returned to the many people I could tell my story to, County after college to be near his who could understand what I was go- family and out of love for this region. ing through. So I want to make sure Following the gruesome murder of I give people that opportunity. Many George Floyd by Minneapolis police times since the June 6 Black Lives on Memorial Day, Collins helped Matter rally, people have reached out organize a couple Black Lives Matter wanting to have a conversation, even demonstrations in Traverse City, in- some of my [white] buddies. cluding an upbeat and peaceful rally at I grew up in Northport in a black the Open Space on June 6 that drew a family. My dad, Marshall Collins, Sr., Photos by Lisa Wamsley diverse crowd of approximately 2,000 was a pastor, and we were migrant Marshall Collins, Jr., shared his personal experiences with a crowd of 2,000 at mask-wearing and social distancing the June 6 Black Lives Matter demonstration at the Open Space in Traverse City. activists and allies. See BLACK LIKE ME on page 10 Leelanau County is alive (once again) with the sound of music By Norm Wheeler to isolate the sound,” he recalls. Drum Sun editor kits and bass amps rocked the middle of town, and neighbors up and down The restaurants are open for outside the streets could hear it, like it or not. dining, the visitors are returning, and Owner Bob Ewing worked with Ni- around Leelanau the dunes are alive emisto to set up speakers around the with the sound of music. Several venues, deck and in the big round bar all point- from restaurants to bars to wineries, ing toward the tables and customers, are offering live music in our area this so they could control the volume and summer. They include, in Glen Arbor, minimize the spill over (unless an idiot Boonedocks, Cherry Public House, M22 with a trumpet shows up!). And there Wine, Glen Arbor Wines, and Whiskers are no more drum kits. Now the musical at The Homestead, and elsewhere in experience is focused and part of the the County, Hop Lot, Rove Estate, and fabric of the corner. Little Traverse Inn. Here are some of Even with the new normal of so- the wheres, whats, and who’s playins’. cial distancing, Niemisto reports that, Boonedocks: “This’ll be my 21st “The stage is comfortable, the spacing year of coordinating the music schedule of tables is pretty good, and everyone at Boonedocks,” says local producer, is wearing masks and following the teacher, and picker extraordinaire Pat- protocols.” Boonedocks has adhered rick Niemisto. When it all started back to the 50 percent capacity rule by clos- in the ‘90s, “we had to figure out how Photo by Raquel Jackson See MUSIC on page 11 New Third Coast jams on the deck at Boonedocks in Glen Arbor. Field trip brings cemetery research to life for Glen Lake eighth graders By Linda Alice Dewey perform a ceremony sometime near Sun contributor Memorial Day. She liked it, because the four Civil War veterans buried A series of coincidences culminated there, the timetable, and community in an unexpected field trip for two partnership all dovetail with Oker- Glen Lake eighth graders on June 9. lund’s curriculum. The boys had been researching Civil “It’s such a great project. It directly War veteran Edmund Trumbull, who relates to state standards in Social is buried at the Glen Arbor Township Studies, whole idea of civic participa- Cemetery. In late May, they learned tion being a goal, and the time period that the veteran’s home is currently is directly connected to that eighth owned by Lakers basketball coach grade curriculum” said Melissa Oker- Don Miller and his wife, Sandy. The lund. “They were learning about the two are students of Melissa Okerlund, homestead act, civil war, economic who teaches history in Miller’s old opportunities in our area. And learn- classroom. Okerlund arranged for ing about expansion and settlement them to visit the house in early June, and immigration. These are things that where they met Trumbull descendant are part of the curriculum and it just Dede DeWitt deManigold, a former made it so much more real and more From staff reports Photo by Isaac Dedenbach student of Miller’s. personal, I think. It brought it down to For two years, Okerlund and I have the level of a family.” Fishtown Leland is open, even as doesn’t expect them to drop until been working on a plan, which was We had been waiting for the cem- seiches from Lake Michigan occa- July. Heavy rainfall this Spring hasn’t coordinated with the Sleeping Bear etery to be cleared of the downed trees sionally submerge walkways of the helped matters. Climate Change has Dunes National Lakeshore and lo- from the August 2015 storm. When historic shanty village, as they did on meant far wetter weather and dumped cal historians, where students might that happened in November, the way Wednesday, June 10. Lake Michigan more water into a Great Lakes basin adopt-a-grave at the old Glen Arbor opened for us to begin the school water levels are at an all-time high this that’s already swamped and struggling Township Cemetery, research their project. year, and the Army Corps of Engineers to stay dry. individual, clean up the grave, and See CEMETERY on page 8 Page 2 • June 17, 2020 Glen Arbor Sun Versatile learning: Leelanau Essentials Bruce and Laura Hood By Norm Wheeler Sun editor Have you ever dissected a baby goat? Ever had a music teacher tell you to get your instrument ready and then to hit the mute button? Then you missed this spring’s virtual zoom lessons at the Leelanau School, the private boarding school located just north of Glen Arbor. Two of its teach- ers, Bruce (science and pottery) and Laura (music and senior seminar) Hood used their resilience as long time hands-on experiential educators to do the sudden switcheroo required of all teachers in March to teach on a screen. “Leelanau School is about establish- ing a relationship with each student,” Bruce explains. “So thank goodness we had already done that throughout the year and had that to build on,” Laura adds. They figure the vast majority of their stu- led the Warnaar Big Band, while her sing whatever. This year we even had a dents were served well. “We met every mother played oboe and made reeds harp player!” They perform frequently single class,” she says, “structured in a for woodwind instruments. After two for everyone in morning meetings, and rotation, with four hours a day of zoom years at Hope College, and after riding they regularly bring music to local class, tutorial time in the afternoons, her bicycle from Michigan to Califor- schools like Greenspire, Glen Lake and with the Residential Life staff sup- nia for a gap semester in 1983, Laura and Pathfinder. Each year they take plying evening activities almost as if spent two years at Michigan State, part in the 9/11 ceremony at the Glen the students were here in the dorms.” finishing with a double major in guitar Arbor fire hall, and they finish every “We kept our all-school meeting and French horn. At Interlochen Arts school year with a concert at Cherry to start each day,” Bruce says, “to Academy they worked for the Resi- Republic in Glen Arbor followed by keep the community feel, with an- dential Life staff in the dorms. a big Coffeehouse performance at nouncements, mindfulness exercises, After falling in love, they hit the Leelanau School as part of graduation birthdays, history factoids, and the road: Australia and New Zealand, weekend. There is also a progressive whole school’s favorite part of morn- Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, India, guitar program, along with classes in ing meeting, headmaster Rob Han- trekking in Nepal, and finally Western music theory, the physics of sound, We’re moving! But will remain in sen’s teaching tales and stories.” The Europe. In 1992 Bruce and Laura end- the history of rock and roll, and a our current location until June 27. Leelanau School’s virtual COVID ed up in Marquette, Michigan, where winter term class in song writing. And Doors closed June 28-July 12 “new normal” reached students at their Bruce worked on a teaching certificate Laura plays music around the area as a as we move down the street to homes in China, Thailand, Columbia, in multiple sciences while Laura put French horn player in the Benzie Area 220 N St. Joseph Street. Washington State, Minneapolis, West him through school by being a nanny Symphony and as a founding member Virginia, and also Leland and Maple and teaching horn, guitar, and piano. of the Manitou Winds ensemble. They We continue to take orders by phone and City right here in Leelanau County. On the winter solstice of 1992 the have two CDs for sale locally: First through social media. We also deliver, “I think we were really successful,” ship and offer porchside delivery. Hoods visited old friends the Chamber- Flight (including Laura’s composition We appreciate you! Laura says. Sometimes, if a student lains and the Randalls in Interlochen. of that name), and A Celtic Summer was not in their zoom square at the I met them at that party, and told them Tide, Live at the Garden Theater. Call us (231-944-6809), email us beginning of class, the learning center the Leelanau School was looking for For Laura, this is just the half of it. ([email protected]) or check us staff (with whom they also connected talented teachers. Bruce finished his Upon her arrival in ’93 she also took out on Facebook or Instagram. for daily work) would call the parents degree in May of ‘93 and came to teach over the outdoor education and senior to get help with a nudge. Biology in Leelanau’s summer school exploratory program. It is a tradition at 419 N Saint Joseph Street, Suttons Bay “It allowed some parents and stu- program right away. Laura joined him Leelanau School that the seniors begin dents to also ‘work on some things,’” in the fall. “There had been no music the year with an orientation camping Bruce laughs, with air quotes. program,” Laura recalled. “So my first trip that includes group initiatives, The Hoods are such seasoned and year at Leelanau I had one class and team building, leadership training, interesting teachers because their lives one student: Akari Rokumoto, a four- and goal setting. Using her experience are so interesting. They first met at In- year senior from Japan. I taught her with these kinds of outdoor activities, terlochen Arts Academy in 1986. Bruce how to play the guitar, and she played Laura teamed up with the folks at Camp was the son of Interlochen headmaster and sang in Japanese during her Vale- Kohahna (just up the road at Pyramid Jack Hood and, having grown up there, dictory address at Graduation.” Point) and with the Bay Area Adventure returned home after graduating from Laura pretty much created the School and made the program school the University of New Hampshire in Leelanau School music program from wide. Now each class goes through an 1985 with a degree in Botany and Al- scratch. It now includes the school initial orientation to start the year, and ssbankmi.com pine Plant Ecology. Laura was raised band, Mighty Snappy, with different in those days each class also took an in Grand Haven where her father was Member FDIC instruments and varying skill levels Exploratory Week trip as part of spring band director, played trumpet, and every year, depending on “what the break, including hiking in the Smoky students play or want to play.” She Mountains, visiting Washington, D.C., welcomes all instruments and all sing- or caving, rock climbing, and raft- ers. “Every year we manage to put ing in the Big South Fork Recreation together a pretty good rhythm section, Area in Tennessee (many students and then we just see who can play or See HOODS on page 3

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The Leelanau County Road Commission hired Gosling Czubak Engineering Services at a June 2 meeting to pro- Margo Burian’s painting of Bohemian Road Beach. vide construction engineering support. ing and awarding bids, and hiring the possible because this area is a sensitive Bohemian Road will be closed from contractor to perform the work, ac- fish hatchery,” said Nedow. “We had approximately June 21, or shortly there- cording to Road Commission finance hoped MDOT would have awarded after, until August 16. For 7 weeks at the manager Joe Nedow. the contract this spring which would height of summer, beach goers will have “Our role in all this is rather limited have minimized the impact on our to avoid the beach and look elsewhere. in paying for any cost over-runs and short tourist season, but the COVID The project is under the jurisdic- in providing engineering support,” shutdown and restrictions imposed tion of MDOT, because the culvert said Nedow, who added that the Road by the Governor delayed the project.” replacement will be funded by a fed- Commission has no input as to the Nedow said the Road Commission eral grant. Because of the federal grant construction schedule. will know more about the exact time guidelines, MDOT is charged with “Like many, we had originally of the closure on Wednesday once a administering the project, including planned for this work to be done last pre-construction meeting is held with approval of the design plans, advertis- fall, but learned that this would not be MDOT and the contractors. Chairman of the Board emeritus of tend a big garden, so they provide most Hoods the Leelanau School. Tim Nichols, the of the food for their dining table. They continues from page 2 pizza man at Riverfront, also used to live on the Telford Farm north of Ce- join trips now during a week of winter run that race every year. dar, an intentional community of nine break.) The seniors always go to South And let’s not forget the wisdom partners purchased in 1998. The group Manitou Island for orientation to start and versatility of Bruce Hood. He has agreed to cluster their houses in one the year, paddle a Michigan river in the taught AP Chemistry, Biology (includ- area in order to preserve in common school’s voyageur canoes in the fall, ing Advanced Bio), Earth Science, ownership the pastures, vineyard, big and finish their senior year camping Ecology, Anatomy & Physiology, and barn, and outbuildings. There are eight on North Manitou Island. “I have been he has been chairman of the science houses now, and one lot still un-built. doing this for 26 years now,” Laura department for many years. He also Bruce and Laura are the proud mused. “The first year out to South started the Pottery program in 2010, parents of two star children as well. Manitou I was pregnant with Ian and adhering to the Bernard Leach/Shoji Ian is 25, he graduated from Glen puked the whole time!” Hamada tradition. Over the years, Lake in 2013, finished a degree in Laura also took charge of the Bruce managed to get his masters in Microbiology at Northern Michigan NEW TAKEOUT after-school physical activity program Ethology (the study of animal behav- University, and now works in Billings, MENU called Footsteps, a non-competitive ior) at Central Michigan University. In Montana, in the hospital laboratory but self-competitive program includ- summer Bruce has worked with Rob there. Daughter Jessie is a Glen Lake ing canoeing, kayaking, biking, and Karner and fellow Leelanau teacher graduate from 2015. She graduated CURBSIDE hiking in the Sleeping Bear Dunes Na- Joe Blondia for the Glen Lake As- from the University of Findlay with PICKUP tional Lakeshore. In winter Footsteps sociation’s swimmer’s itch mitigation a degree in Equine business manage- LUNCH | DINNER | ICE CREAM becomes a ski club, and as Laura and program. “We’ve probably caught ment and hunter jumpers, or dressage, Bruce are avid skiers, they take inter- 500-600 mergansers over three years and she now travels as a groom with BEER | WINE ested students to Crystal Mountain in Glen Lake, as well as Lime Lake the Olympic rider Kent Farrington. Open noon to 8 | 231-226-3033 almost daily in January and February. and North Lake Leelanau,” Bruce ex- The Leelanau School treasures In spring Laura heads up the Leelanau plained. “This is a long-term ongoing the dedication, accumulated wisdom, 6026 South Lake St. | CherryRepublic.com Outdoor Challenge, a triathlon for stu- research project to protect the lakes creativity, and resilience of Bruce and dents that includes paddling, biking, from swimmer’s itch.” Laura Hood, and Leelanau County is and running. This used to be a tradi- Bruce is also a dedicated hunter, fortunate to have them and families tional 18-mile running race around the with a freezer full of woodcock, ruffed like them choose to live here. These, Glen Lakes, which was won in 1955 grouse, and whitetail deer meat every too, are Leelanau essentials! by Glen Arbor resident Bob McNutt, autumn. Together Bruce and Laura Glen Arbor Sun Here to enlighten you

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Northern Harvest: Twenty Michi- gan Women in Food and Farming Northern Harvest: Twenty Michi- gan Women in Food and Farming looks at the female culinary pioneers who have put northern Michigan on the map for food, drink, and farming. Emita Brady Hill interviews women who share their own stories of be- coming the cooks, bakers, chefs, and farmers that they are today—each even sharing a delicious recipe or two. These stories are as important to tracing the gastronomic landscape in When Truth Mattered: The Kent America as they are to honoring the State Shootings 50 Years Later history, agriculture, and community When Truth Mattered, by journalist of Michigan. They include Leelanau and Northport resident Robert Giles, County residents and business own- is a gripping, authoritative account of ers Nancy Krcek Allen, Jody Dotson a young editor and his staff painstak- ingly pursuing the truth of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970—a tragedy that has haunted the nation for 50 years and significantly changed the debate about the Vietnam War. The editor, Giles, takes you inside the turmoil and drama of the Akron Beacon Journal newsroom on that fateful day, and on campus at Kent State University, a Midwestern college under siege. The heart-pounding story Glen Arbor Sun June 17, 2020 • Page 5 captures the flash of National Guard area—its land and people—from rifles, the bloody aftermath of four prehistoric to modern times. Blend- one gesture. . . . In that moment we students killed and nine wounded, and ing art, history, and science, the book are bound together with these elements the stress of reporters hurrying to sort contains vivid pictures, fascinating and with this place, the circle around fact from fiction for a horrified world facts, and helpful graphics and maps the fire on the shores of a Great Lake wanting to know “what” and “why.” to provide a rich and colorful tour of closes, complete.” The essays ap- The Beacon Journal’s Pulitzer Prize- this precious and well-loved area. To proach Michigan at the atomic level. winning coverage created a truthful celebrate the Sleeping Bear Dunes This is a place where weather patterns narrative that has stood unchallenged National Lakeshores’ 50th birthday in and ecology matter. Farmers, miners, and unchanged for five decades. It also 2020, this compilation of photographs shippers, and loggers have built (or provides an urgent lesson for today: and information is shared for the first lost) their livelihood on Michigan’s What is the role of truth in media? Can time, in one 152-page, full-color book. nature—what could and could not you trust the news that you’re hearing “You’ve covered miles and miles be made out of our elements. From and seeing? If not, how do you equip and hundreds of years in one excel- freshwater lakes that have shaped the yourself? When Truth Mattered shows lent book,” writes Cherry Republic ground beneath our feet to the indus- how journalism was done right … and president Bob Sutherland. trial ebb and flow of iron ore and wind how those standards must still be ap- “It’s a gem of a book sure to answer power—ours is a state of survival and plied today. all of the questions about the area, as transformation. In the first section well as delight anyone interested in of the book, “Earth,” Jerry Dennis The Less Than Spectacular Times of this magical place,” says Sue Boucher, remembers working construction in Henry Milch owner of the Cottage Book Shop. northern Michigan. “Water” includes Three-time Lambda Award-winner, a piece from Jessica Mesman, who Marshall Thornton released The Less From the Place of the Gathering writes of the appearance of snow in Than Spectacular Times of Henry Light, by Kathleen Stocking different iterations throughout her life. Milch on April 28 at Bay Books in “If you haven’t read Kathleen The section “Wind” houses essays Suttons Bay. The book is the first in a Stocking, you don’t know Leelanau,” about the ungraspable nature of death new series called the Wyandot County wrote P.J. Grath, owner of Dog Ears from Toi Dericotte and Keith Taylor. Mysteries. Set in a mythical county in Books in Northport. So it is a great gift “Fire” includes a piece by Mardi Jo norther lower Michigan (hint: it’s actu- she gives us with her book, Gathering Link, who recollects the unfortunate ally Leelanau), the series begins in the Light—another collection of essays series of circumstances surrounding spring of 2003. Things have not been focused on the Leelanau but informed one of her family members. going well for Henry Milch. After a by almost 30 additional years of ob- Saturday night clubbing in his beloved serving nature, participating in com- West Hollywood, he took one pill too munity, reading voraciously, traveling many and ended up banished to live bravely, and endlessly pondering life on a farm with his ultra-conservative on earth—from our little Up North grandmother. It was that or rehab. paradise as it evolved through time While working a part-time job for the to our place in the universe. Kathleen local land conservancy he stumbles Stocking’s essays, while personal, are across a dead body in the snow—as about much more than her own life, if things couldn’t get worse. But then rich and overflowingly full as that life things take a turn for the better, there’s always has and continues to be. Es- a reward for information leading the says in the new book are divided into man’s killer. All Henry has to do is find seasonal sections, and over and over the murderer, claim the reward, and we are reminded that our brief time is he can go back to his real life in L.A. but the thinnest of glazes atop the rich layer cake (she uses the image in one The Sisters of the Lake (due in July) section) of geologic time. Award-winning author Linda Hughes has a dozen books in publica- A Port Oneida Collection, by histo- tion, including her historic trilogy set rian Tom Van Zoeren in Michigan: Secrets of the Summer, Those who are interested in the Port Secrets of the Island, and Secrets of Oneida historic district of Sleeping the Asylum. She has spent most of her Bear Dunes National Lakeshore might adult life living in Georgia. So she’s a be interested to know that a new book Yankee and a Southerner. Learn more about the place is now available. Tom Bookstores throughout Leelanau about Hughes on her website. Van Zoeren’s A Port Oneida Collec- County tion: Images, Oral History, Maps pres- These books are available at area ents the story of each of the farms of bookstores: the Cottage Bookshop Port Oneida, based mainly, as the title in Glen Arbor (231-334-4223), Bay suggests, on oral history interviews Books in Suttons Bay (231-944-6809), conducted with residents of the com- Leelanau Books in Leland (231-649- munity, and on photographs collected 6798), and Dog Ears Books in North- from them. It is illustrated with a de- port (231-386-1033). tailed map of each farm. A Port Oneida Collection is available at the Cottage Essays, poetry, rhymes and Bookshop and at VZOralHistory.org. more at GlenArbor.com Elemental: A Collection of Michi- gan Creative Nonfiction Elemental: A Collection of Michi- gan Creative Nonfiction comes to us from 23 of Michigan’s most well- Why choose Bonek? For 85 years, Bonek Insurance has provided known essayists. A celebration of the agency inc. 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Page 6 • June 17, 2020 Glen Arbor Sun Glen Arbor Art moves six feet apart with pop-up events From staff reports In addition to the Outdoor The Glen Arbor Arts Center Gallery and the (GAAC) is moving art outdoors as part Clothesline Ex- of its “6ft Apart Art” series of creative, hibit, this year’s pop-up events. The first event is the 6ft Apart Art Clothesline Exhibit, July 24-August series of exhibi- 27. Open to the public, the challenge tions includes: is to create an unframed painting, Pop-Up Exhi- drawing, photograph or collage on a bitions + Demos: single sheet of paper that creatively The GAAC park- interprets northern Michigan’s land- ing lot becomes scape and woodlands. Each work will an artists’ work be pinned to a clothesline in front of space and fair the GAAC building at 6031 S. Lake on July 25 and St., Glen Arbor. August 8. Each To read more about participating in of the pop-up the Clothesline Exhibit, visit GlenA- shows will fea- rborArt.org. ture three visual Inspiration for this exhibition came artists working from the GAAC’s new Outdoor Gal- in a variety of lery. In May, the GAAC installed on media including two exterior walls five, 5ft X 5ft panels paint, printmak- with reproductions of paintings by ing, mixed me- Empire artist Mark Mehaffey. Me- dia, metal and haffey’s work interprets and celebrates clay. In addition the northern Michigan landscape and to showing their woodlands and will be exhibited until work, the exhibi- April 2021. tors will set up “During this unusual time, when fresh-air work we’ve had to temporarily close the spaces and dem- building to the public, this outdoor onstrate. Hours: exhibition is an unexpected joy and 11 am – 3 pm. uplifting gift,” said GAAC executive Rain dates: July director Sarah Kime. “We can bring 26 and August 9. so much creativity outside. And, make Mini Master- local art accessible to anyone, every pieces Art Walk. day, just by walking by the building.” Forty 3” x 3” canvases were distributed The 6ft Apart Art series was de- to Leelanau County families to craft a veloped in response to the challenges personal, creative expression. These posed by COVID-19. Practices such tiny works will be hung on trees along as social distancing will be built into the GAAC’s gravel walkway from 6ft Apart Art events, and offer a safe Lake Street and in the GAAC grove alternative to traditional indoor art behind the building. This self-guided activities, gallery exhibitions and per- experience begins July 24 and runs formance. The series will take place through the summer. at the GAAC and turn the front- and In July, the GAAC begins a pro- backyards, and parking area into arts cess of slowly re-opening its doors to venues. the public. To mark the occasion, the GAAC opens the 2020 Members Cre- ate exhibition on July 24. Featuring the Gil/Betsy Webb - Rob Serbin - Ron Raymond - TJ Shimek - Nick Vanden Belt work of 25 local, regional and outstate artists, this show is an annual showcase of work by current GAAC members. The Members Create show is in the gallery through August 27. Hours are Monday – Friday 11 am – 2 pm; and Saturday and Sunday 11 am – 2 pm during the exhibition. Members Create and FLOW [For Love Of Water], a 6675 W. Western Ave may also be viewed online. Traverse City advocacy and policy Glen Arbor, MI 49636 “And, if all the planets align, we’ll group focused on water protection. 231.334.2758 round out the 6ft Apart Art series with Participating poets and writers will www.serbinrealestate.com an outdoor poetry slam late in July,” read a short, original poem that answers said Sarah Bearup-Neal, GAAC gallery Tree House on the Hill this question: Who Owns The Water? Which properly describes this one of a kind 4 BR / 3.5 BA manager. Words For Water is a col- More information about participating home, with over 3,000 square feet of beautifully finished living laborative project between the GAAC in Words for Water can be found on the space. Gourmet kitchen, 4 levels of living area, rustic but contemporary, views of Lake Michigan, and a walking path GAAC website, GlenArborArt.org, and to the beach. Highly desired neighborhood of Storm Hill, in Facebook page/Events. the VIllage of Empire. A must see! $1,265,000 MLS 1875212 Belanger runs M-22—all of it!

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Cemetery continues from page 1 Project continues despite pandemic When the coronavirus pandemic Students Tyler Bixby and Dylan hit, and school was dismissed to dis- Cundiff were among the 49 eighth tance learning, classwork was offered graders to whom we presented the but not required. Even so, more than situation, namely: 1) the cemetery half of Okerlund’s students continued would soon be cleared, but the records their research, and, at the end of the had been lost; 2) the only map we had school year, 28 turned in projects. was hand-drawn by Glen Lake Middle “It’s kind of like that sweet spot, as School students in 1977 of standing an educator, when what you’re asking headstones; 3) more were buried in the students to do with their learning unmarked graves that had once been has a relevance to them and a richness marked by wooden shingles and cross- to it that gets them genuinely excited es long since decayed. The question about it,” she said. “And in this case, was: would Glen Lake Middle School that was demonstrated by the follow- eighth graders help research and find through [in spite of] these conditions.” the stories of who was buried there? Several more might have, but did not The answer was, yes. The kids loved have internet, which was essential. the idea that their research might mean Glen Lake superintendent Jon something, that they might discover Hoover believes Okerlund’s teaching things no one really knows today. skills have a lot to do with these results. Photo by Aubry Healy They chose their individuals to “For many years, Melissa Okerlund Glen Arbor painter Greg Sobran captures Sonny Swanson’s farmstand on M-22 research from a list and files prepared has engendered a love for learning in near Sugar Loaf. by historian Andrew White of Tra- her students,” he said. “This was never this gentleman and his family,” said “These community partnerships verse City. One of the first things they more evident than her students carry- her mother, Alicia Romzek, “but she help bring the curriculum that the learned was how to ferret out vital ing on with the Glen Arbor Township used the information she learned to students learn about in the classroom information from census and death Cemetery Project even after the pan- educate herself about suicide and how to life,” said secondary principal records. Rather than being “sad or demic hit, and teaching and learning it affects others.” Stephanie Long in her June 10 board Dylan and Tyler, who met on Face- meeting comments that commended Time three times a week during the Okerlund. “They help bring relevance pandemic, were dismayed to discover to the curriculum.” that Edmund was discharged nine The boys’ mothers echo that. “I feel months after he enlisted, because he like it makes it way more real when contracted typhoid fever. Rather than they see what they’re studying and joining Sherman’s army, he and his where they walked and where they’re son, John, came to Leelanau County, buried,” said Jennifer Cundiff. The where John filed homestead papers, Cundiff family’s first place of busi- which they also learned about—free ness when they moved to Glen Arbor land, if you worked and lived on it! (Dylan was 2) was in the old Glen Edmund died in 1885 of complications Arbor schoolhouse deManigold’s from that typhoid fever. grandmother once attended. The In May, Edmund’s descendant, Cundiffs live just the other side of Dede deManigold contacted us and Trumbull Hill. agreed to meet Dylan and Tyler via Next year, a new group of eighth Zoom, where they exchanged infor- graders will hopefully each adopt-a- mation. She told stories about the house, and Okerlund men- tioned that Miller owns it now. She contacted Miller, who was open to our friendly invasion. The outing The June evening was warm and summery as our small group, wearing face coverings and endeavoring to socially distance, gathered on the long gravel drive next to the ram- Photos by Linda Dewey gruesome,” Okerlund remarks, “the had to occur primarily at home. Mrs. bling, white, two-story white focus of the research was on how Okerlund kept fueling the passion for home on Trumbull Road. De- these individuals were connected in this project with her students and they Manigold hadn’t been there the community, [what] their lives were responded with a like passion that kept since she was 3 and pointed like, and how they contributed and them digging into the backgrounds of out what was once a large veg- developed.” those buried at the cemetery.” etable and flower garden, now Working together, Tyler and Dylan Okerlund, who herself donated a field dotted with yellow iris chose Civil War veteran Edmund over 100 hours of her own time to the and purple lilacs. Her grand- Trumbull, a father and widower living project, likes that students were able to father had sold the vegetables and flowers to folks on the road. grave. Their research will begin where in Owosso, who enlisted in Company follow their noses as they discovered Tyler, Dylan, and their classmates left E of the 14th Michigan Infantry in new lines of investigation, from ship- We walked far back to a massive old stone foundation where the barn off, bringing more stories from little 1861 at the age of 44. Tracking his wrecks to farmers to lumberjacks to cemetery in the woods to life. Michigan regiment, they were excited housewives to children. Bella Romzek once stood at the base of “Trumbull Hill.” The boys, excited over a rusty Linda Alice Dewey is an artist and to learn it eventually joined General chose an individual who committed the author of Aaron’s Crossing: an in- Sherman in his March to the Sea. suicide. “She not only learned about old horse-drawn plow they found up in the trees, wondered what else might be spiring true ghost story, and The Ghost back there. Miller invited them to re- Who Would Not Die: a runaway slave, turn with metal detectors and find out. a brutal murder, a mysterious haunting.

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Image courtesey of Linda Keller www.oldartbuilding.com ~ 231- 256 - 2131 Glen Arbor Sun June 17, 2020 • Page 9 Sleeping Bear Dunes to open Visitor Center, campgrounds. But Manitou Transit ferry service to Manitou Islands canceled for 2020 From staff reports While these facilities will again be Photo by Raquel Jackson accessible for visitors to enjoy, a return Beginning Tuesday, June 23, Sleep- to full operations will continue to be ing Bear Dunes National Lakeshore phased and services may be limited. At will reopen access to the Philip A. Hart present, entrance fees to the National Visitor Center in Empire, and all camp- Lakeshore continue to be suspended. grounds and camping. New camping reservations and modifications to exist- High water, need for dredging docks ing reservations can be made beginning Manitou Island transit for 2020 June 23 by visiting Recreation.gov or While the opening of the visitor calling 1-877-444-6777. center and campgrounds is good news, The National Lakeshore is follow- the National Lakeshore received notice ing guidance from the White House, that the Manitou Island Transit ferry Centers for Disease Control and Pre- will not run service to the Manitou vention (CDC), and state and local Islands this year. High water in Lake public health authorities, a press re- Michigan has damaged the dock at lease stated. The National Park Service South Manitou Island, making it un- is working servicewide with federal, safe for disembarking passengers until state, and local public health authori- it can be repaired. At North Manitou ties to closely monitor the COVID-19 Island, sand movement over the winter pandemic and using a phased approach has made dock access nearly impossi- to increase access on a park-by-park ble until a previously planned dredging High water, damage to the Manitou Island docks, the pandemic, and the National basis. The National Lakeshore will ap- contract can be carried out in late July. Lakeshore’s lack of funds to dredge, conspired to wipe out the Manitou Island ply measures in the visitor center and Facing the prospect of such a late Transit company’s season for the first time in more than a century. campgrounds to prevent the spread of start to their season, the Leland-based COVID-19, similar to those in retail ferry service made the very difficult of the 103-year-old, fourth generation In the interim, both islands will be businesses across the region. business decision to cancel opera- family business, posted on Facebook. open for visitors who are able to ac- “The health and safety of our tions for the year. Their concession “We appreciate your loyalty and cess them via private boat or charter visitors, employees, volunteers, and contract with the NPS will be modi- patience with us as we navigate this services. Manitou Island Transit will partners continues to be paramount,” fied to accommodate this temporary challenging time.” run charter trips on smaller boats. But said superintendent Scott Tucker. “Our suspension of visitor services. Manitou Superintendent Tucker acknowl- the trips will charge more than the $42 operational approach will be to exam- Island Transit encouraged the public to edged the difficult position the ferry it costs to ride the Mishe-Mokwa. Call ine each facility function and service contact Sleeping Bear Dunes National company is in. “They want very badly 231-256-9061 for information. provided to ensure we comply with Lakeshore officials and elected leaders to serve visitors to the islands they Camping on the islands will be per- current public health guidance. It is in Washington, D.C., and encourage love, but we just could not get the mitted once camping resumes through- very important for everyone to follow them to prioritize dredging on the docks fully operational in time for out the National Lakeshore on June 23. CDC guidance for physical distancing islands and fixing the docks. them to salvage their season. Both the Water and restrooms will be available and face coverings in order to continue “We desperately want to get up and National Lakeshore and Manitou Is- on the islands, but there will be no the progress that has been made so we running again, but we need your help,” land Transit look forward to resuming lighthouse or farm tours this year. can keep these facilities open.” Megan Grosvenor Munoz, co-owner ferry service to the islands in 2021.”

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Black Like Me I’m like, if that’s the way you judge continues from page 1 me, that’s your problem. If you don’t workers. I picked in the fields until I want to get to know me, that’s on you. was 14. My parents would come back In my family we’re loud, fun, we and forth between here and Mount play with one another, jab with one Dora, Florida, 30 miles north of Or- another. Up here people sometimes lando, until my freshman year of high say, “You hurt my feelings.” I had to school when I was 15. I’m the young- adjust to the sensitivity level. It still is est of eight kids. We would come up hard. If you rag on me, I’m gonna rag in mid-May after school in Florida on you, and expect you to rag on me got out early, then leave at the end of back so we can laugh together. I’m just September. Sometimes we’d stay for joking with you, just messing with you. apple season. Our whole family was High school wasn’t good, wasn’t picking. And my dad would pastor on bad. At first I was a B and C student. I Sundays. We also had the Petoskey was disruptive in class, but I toed the stone rock shop in Northport. line. After my sophomore year I real- Mount Dora, Florida, was way more ized I had to get my act together. I did diverse than here. It was segregated on a 180. I worked on myself. its own. Black people lived here, lower I started reading a lot of James class white people lived there, upper Baldwin’s books and Black Like Me class people lived by the water. The when I was in the 10th grade. I started trips back and forth changed me. After connecting more to my culture, because we had been here for 4-5 months, I’d I missed it. I loved hip hop, rhythm and have a northern tone. In Florida they’d blues, and gospel music. To keep up Marshall Collins, Jr.’s senior class at Northport High School in 1995. with the times, I watched the TV show ask “Why you talk so proper?” It’s not we played soccer against Forest Area I “In Living Color” or I’d go to the Grand Michigan, even his brother with the acceptable for a black man to speak was walking to my car. A kid walked Traverse Mall and I’d look at the top 10 Confederate flag. I’ve never seen him proper English there. When I came by me and said “bucket of chicken, R&B albums. There was a little section fly that on his truck. Maybe knowing back here I’d have a southern drawl and KFC”. I got on the opposing team’s bus in the Northport high school library for me stopped him from flying it. people would ask “Why you sound like and said “Be a man! Who said it?” My black history books. That’s where it all After Concordia I came right back a country boy?” In Florida, my friends teammates pulled me off the bus. No started. I started doing well in school, up here. I wanted to be up near my par- were all African-American. I felt more one owned up to it. … Things like that almost straight A’s. They were offer- ents. I love this area. My Dad was up in accepted. Friends there listened to the always happen, and we’re labeled as ing Advanced Placement classes. The age. I wanted to be around him and my same music, wore the same clothes, “the angry black man”. Yeah, I’ll turn teacher said, “They’re offered in the mom. Even as the only black person, had the same culture. If something hap- into an angry black man if you say that. morning. Good luck getting here.” … I love this community, and I wanted pened racially toned, they’d understand. As for subtle racism, adults say My mom made sure I was there every to be around my parents because you When I was young, my sister Crys- “Well, I’m not racist.” I’d ask, “How day before anyone else. never know. My dad, Marshall Collins, tal and I were home. My brother Ron- would you feel if I came home with Sr., passed away in 2012. My Mom, nie got word that the Ku Klux Klan By the time I graduated, my class had become like my family. They still your daughter?” No answer. And I Mary, has dementia, she’s at Traverse was marching through Mount Dora. say, “Exactly.” That’s the silent racism City MediLodge. I haven’t seen her My other sister was at a track meet. are. But there are certain things you need that that family couldn’t give you. that I’m talking about. I was dating since March 12 [due to COVID-19]. My other brother was into ninja and a [white] girl in high school, and her At Northport High School I was karate. He put on all the stuff that he We had one Hispanic girl, and one Na- tive American. I’m easy to pick out in parents wanted her to stop dating me. a tutor with the Native American had collected, and he said, “You guys They liked me, but I overheard the dad community. Then I got the teaching get under the bed and don’t come out our senior picture, and they shot it in black & white. talking with her about finding a good position at the Intermediate School until I get home! I’m going to get your Norwegian person. My girlfriend said District, where I’ve been for 9 years. sister.” We both hid until he got back. I did encounter some overt racism during those years. A couple times she was thinking, “If we had kids I’d In Northport there were a few people When we decided to stay in North- never have kids that had blonde hair and of color, some biracial students, many port year-round I was initially heart- coaches would say things about me to other people. I’d hear about them blue eyes.” I remember it to this day. Native American students, more His- broken. He told me he had just been We had been dating going on two years. panic students. They could talk to me offered the church position full time. from teammates. I’d bring them up to the coaches, and they’d deny they said I went to college at Concordia Uni- easier. They know if someone’s being “I’m gonna accept it and we’re gonna versity Ann Arbor, a small Lutheran prejudiced toward them, I step in. I stay,” he said. We’ve been here ever it. On the soccer field and basketball courts, I’d hear things from other school with a lot of white people there, taught a class at Northport I put togeth- since. I only went back to Mount Dora but I wasn’t the only black person. er about cultural awareness, for juniors when I was 16. One of my buddies was teams. When I first started playing basketball up here, I could jump but I They put me in the basketball dorm and seniors. My push to the school like, “Marshall, is that you? … Let me where I made a lot of friends. My board was that “We have to better pre- give you a hint of advice. Never come couldn’t shoot. I could barely make a layup, but I could grab a rebound. My roommate was white, and we became pare our students for the real world.” back.” The town was a drug trafficking best friends. When he first came into Some students hadn’t been outside area. “You got out, don’t come back,” freshman year, the opposing side was like “Oh man, they’ve got a brother our dorm room he put up a picture of the area other than playing sports. We my buddy said. I took that to heart. his brother with a blue truck and a read The Autobiography of Malcolm But I was upset we were staying. on their team. We’re in trouble!” At the layup line during warm-ups I’d Confederate flag. I said “You know X. I wanted the students to learn how I was deflated. I wanted my people, what, I’m not sure we can have that in Malcolm X changed over time, how my culture, people that listened to the jump as high as I could to show off. Then we’d get on the court, and I had here. That’s offensive.” He looked me what happened to him growing up gave same music, wore the same clothes. dead in the eye and said, “I’m sorry. him the tenacity he had, and the anger I don’t like tight clothing. My pants no jump shot or anything. My coaches worked with me to improve. I’ll take it down.” A lot of people that he had against white people. would be a little baggy, and my Dad wave [the rebel flag] think it’s just a The racism I experience is when I said, “You need to pull your pants up.” The N word was said on the field at least once. That happened in Frankfort. style, a way of life. They don’t think see someone just looking at me, looking He was strict about not giving people about slavery. I became good friends at my [white] wife Tricia, just staring. the wrong impression. I’m different. I turned around and said, “Who said it?” It was in the crowd. One time after with my roommate’s family in Ida, See MARSHALL on page 11

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Marshall saw the picture, but I couldn’t watch Music continues from page 10 the video. When I finally watched it continues from page 1 last week on CNN, I lost it mentally. I stare back. I haven’t said anything. I don’t know how anyone can watch ing the inside of the You can feel the stare. It happens often. that and not see anything wrong with restaurant and only Honestly, I may have become numb to it it. Close your eyes for a minute and serving outside on by now. My kids— Trae, 15, and Jaiden, think, “How would you feel if this the deck. Tables are 13— are starting to notice. I hate to say was me [suffocating under the police spaced at least six feet it, but you get used to it. When I walk officer’s boot]?” apart all over the deck, around Traverse City, I shouldn’t have Grand Traverse County commis- and the cocktail tables to worry about looking different. sioner Betsy Coffia organized a few (for folks waiting for The one that gets me all the time of us through a Zoom call the next a table or just having is when people ask, “Where are you Friday. I told them to count on me for a drink and listening from? Detroit?” I’m like, “No, actu- whatever. Our big #BlackLivesMatter to the music) are down ally, I’m from Northport, Michigan, rally on June 6 in Traverse City was along the sidewalk. It Photo by Raquel Jackson which is 30 miles further north [from pretty amazing. I’m still overwhelmed. is important this year Dennis Palmer plays the M-22 Wine patio. Traverse City].” I have a shirt that says I woke up the next day with a big smile for folks who are enjoying a meal to 22 and 27, then July 25-Aug. 29). “No, I’m not from Detroit,” with the on my face. But reality kicked in that not linger too long just to listen to the Glen Arbor Wines features Music Leelanau peninsula on it and a star our work isn’t done yet. We gotta get music when they have finished eating. in the Backyard Series. Bring your own where Northport is. I had that shirt right back to work. The pessimism Because of the more limited capacity, chairs and picnic food. There’s plenty of made just for me. going forward is that it could just die there are lots of folks waiting for each room to social distance. Sundays, June My dad used what God gave him off again. The civil rights movement table, and in order to pay the staff and 28-July 26, from noon-2 pm: Music to get across to people. If you were to was huge for our nation and for the the musicians who are playing, it is and Mimosas with the mellow sounds say something to him, he’d talk to you world. We got the right to vote. We incumbent on everyone to keep turn- of singer/songwriter Clint Weaner. to help you get through it. Once at the got complacent. Things are still going ing the tables. After you feast on the Sunday, June 28, from 5-7 pm, and church in Northport one of the mem- on against people of color. People see grub please move on out to the cocktail Wednesday, July 1, from 7-9 pm, rock bers came up to him mad and yelling. this is still going on. tables in the grass and keep listening, out with Don Savoie, the professor of She yelled out “You’re a N---” three or As for my teenage boys, I try to let and please be sensitive to the unusual blues! four times. Then my dad said one of the them find their own way, just like my situation this summer. (“Tip well, live Whiskers Bar & Grill at The most powerful things that you could say dad gave me space. Trey just watched well!”) Homestead also has live weekend music to anybody. He turned around and said the movie The Hate U Give. There’s Boonedocks’ line-up of talent brings outside by the big bonfire. Brett Mitch- “You know what, I’m gonna pray for a scene about a dad teaching his kids back many long-time favorites: the Cabin ell plays on Friday, June 19; Rhett & you.” And he walked away. She was how to act when you’re black and you Fever Band (bluegrass) has been here John on Saturday, June 20; Craig Jolly in church the next Sunday: she would get pulled over by a cop. Sure, I got since the beginning and is one of the lon- on Friday, June 26, and Brett Mitchell always go. I saw that he was pretty an- pulled over in Northport when I was gest running bands in northwestern lower on Saturday, June 27. gry, pretty hurt. But he had to be more 23. The cop said he saw my vehicle Michigan. New Third Coast (Leelanau Hop Lot: music on weekends featur- than that for me. Because he looked too many times around town. He took County power folk) has a big following ing Mike Moran on Fridays, 5-7:30 pm; right at me before he turned around my license and registration and ran it. for their fine originals and consummate Chris Smith on Saturdays noon-3; and and said to her, “I’ll pray for you”. He “Lucky for you, it came back clean,” covers, along with Goodboy! (with origi- Drew Hale on Saturdays 4:30-7. could see that I was getting worked up he told me. “But I could have given nals, folk & spoken word), Uncle Z (clas- Rove Estate Vineyards & Winery about it. I was probably 17. Then we you a ticket for having a crystal prism sics of rock that few others play), and the (west of Traverse City on M-72) also drove home. We didn’t talk about what hanging from your windshield.” I Stray Doggies (Jimmy Buffet and classic has music featuring Drew Hale on had happened. We didn’t need to. I saw responded, “I need your name and rock favorites.) You can hear music at Wednesdays at 4, and Chris Smith on what I needed to see from my Dad. badge number. I’m gonna call [then Boonedocks seven nights a week start- Fridays at 6. In November 2016 at a Traverse Leelanau sheriff] Oltersdorf.” But my ing this week and going until Labor Day. Little Traverse Inn: The big beer City protest against Trump just after dad wouldn’t let me call the sheriff. He Cherry Public House: The first mu- garden in front of the Little Traverse Inn the election, an off-duty city cop was like, “Don’t rock the boat.” I got sic gig, June 19, will consist of Patrick is already rocking with live music. Every showed up at the demonstration sport- pulled over in my 30s on Woodmere Niemisto, Chris Skellenger, and Paul Monday at 4 (until Aug. 31) is Industry ing a Confederate flag. That triggered in Traverse City. The cop said I was Koss. That night Cherry Republic will Happy Hour (everybody who works in bad memories from growing up in speeding—going 45 in a 35. He let release their new wine “Sunset Blush”, a the hospitality world receives a 10% dis- Mount Dora. Down there trucks with me off without a ticket. The next day cherry rosé that is pretty sweet. This will count on everything) with the Bourdains that flag flying would try to run you off I made the same drive and rechecked be an early release because the stores (Skellenger, Villoch, & friends). There is the road. When my sister Crystal heard the signs. The speed limit there was 45. will not be selling it until the next day. also music every Friday night (6-9 pm) the guy revving his engines and she I respect the American flag. My So for that “Sunset Release Party” you and every Sunday afternoon (4-7) with saw the Confederate flag, she broke dad was in the Navy. My father in get half-off shareables from 7-9—a fun a rotation of bands including Blind Dog down. She said, “Marshall, I thought law was in Vietnam. But if you can’t and festive night! At some point in July, Hank, Jazz North, Goodboy!, The Wild we had escaped that stuff.” … That’s understand why [NFL quarterback] hopefully the 4th, Cherry Republic will Sullys, Ol’ Microtones, The True Falset- when I said “no more”. I had to say Colin Kaepernick is kneeling [during open up the new outdoor bar. So far the tos, Liz Landry & Blake Elliott, Luke something. We learned later that he the national anthem], then the problem line-up for July is: July 3, Patrick, Chris Woltanski, Uncle Z, and on Friday, July was an off-duty city cop [who was is you. We need systemic change. I’m and Andre Villoch; July 17, Andre; July 24, Chloe Wagenhauser from Toledo. fired within days]. That was a turning proud we have people working in our 31, Patrick, Chris and Andre. And more All of these schedules are subject to point in me speaking out against rac- community for it. I say to my Leelanau will be added to this list. change depending on weather, health ism. It was the first time in front of a County community, “Stop acting like Crystal River Outfitters Recre- directives, illness, and the vicissitudes crowd that I called someone out on racism doesn’t exist. Stop acting like ational District: Out on the M22 Wine of life in a pandemic world. This list is it. I was mad, frustrated. My family you don’t look at people and judge Patio there is music three afternoons per not exhaustive, there are surely other moved up here to escape that hate. … them.” You can be for Trump or against week at 5 pm, featuring Andre Villoch venues also offering music, and when But sometimes it feels like Michigan Trump, but that doesn’t stop you from on Tuesdays (June 30-Oct. 24), Blake we find out where and when we’ll hap- is becoming the new South. being a nice person. It’s hard for people Elliott on Thursdays (July 2-Sept. 3), pily share the news. Rock on! When George Floyd was killed, I to just be nice. and Dennis Palmer on Saturdays (June Check out our advertising rates at GlenArborSun.com

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