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Lifelines: Life after the world's end
Now that the Mayan calendar has ended, I'll confess I'm weary of all these endings and beginnings. I've lived through too many of them, including growing up during The Cold War when the end was at some stranger's fingertips.
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History Center of Traverse City heads toward deadline
It's been a busy year at the History Center of Traverse City as it heads toward a 2014 self-sufficiency deadline.
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Lifelines: War affects us all
This Christmas don't forget our people serving overseas, and the ones who have come home.
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Battle lines drawn for Election Day and deer season
With Election Day tomorrow and firearms deer season opening ten days later, we'll be experiencing some of the most divisive battlesof the year; Republicans vs. Democrats, deer vs. hunters,and hunters vs. anti-hunters.
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Terry Wooten: Anniversary of mom's death approaching
My mother passed away a year ago this October 10. I don't claim to be a mystic, but I do have a big imagination. When a person I know dies, I often feel like I can sense their personality around for a while. It wasn't like that with mom.
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School bell silent reminder of earlier education
Recently I was given the bell to the old Creswell Country School. The bell is usually quiet. All the little kids it called in from recess have grown old or passed on.
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Lifelines: Warriors lean on each other during, after battle
Larry is a combat-wounded Vietnam veteran, and I stood up against the war. He's not just helping me build a garage; we're building a friendship, and telling each other our stories.
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Lifelines: Some memorable driving adventures
I drove my first motorized vehicle when I was six years old.
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Perspectives: The poetry police
I was pulled over by a carload of poetry police recently on my way home from the Kalkaska Elders Project. The authorities accused my themes of weaving all over.
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Terry Wooten: WWII soldier's story told in poems
Jack Miller, a survivor of the Bataan Death March and a POW during World War II, won't be in any Memorial Day parades today.
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Lifelines: Life from a kid's perspective
April is poetry month. I'd like to tip my hat by sharing a few poems by students I've worked with this year. I wish I had more room. I could fill a school bus with their muse.
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Local family has Titanic ties
One hundred years ago, a local woman lost her sister.
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2,000 watched Brown Bridge Dam begin
The partial draining of Brown Bridge Dam Pond last year attracted its share of onlookers, but nothing like the crowds that gathered when the earthen dam's construction began 91 years ago.
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Boardman River dams helped city grow
Dams along the Boardman River helped make Traverse City what it is today.
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The Boardman, shaped by glaciers, dams
If Grand Traverse Bay is Traverse City’s front door, then the Boardman River Valley must be its backyard. Bay and river share a long history, one that started about 16,000 years ago when the fourth and final ice-age glacier slid over what today is Michigan.
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