Lake Michigan
Visiting Pilgrim Haven Last week, I visited Pilgrim Haven Natural Area near South Haven for a day hike. The Pilgrim Haven Natural Area is part of the Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy (SWMLC), having been set aside through a generous donation by a local philanthropist Suzanne Upjohn Parish. After decades of sitting idle, this special property…
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Gerald E. Crowner Memoir of the South Manitou Island, as told from a Surfman of the South Manitou Station, 1926-1928. 87 pages, 1982 Purchase
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G. C. Furst A memoir of early boyhood on North Manitou Island as part of a lightkeepers family in the early 1900s. 113 pages, 1992 From Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear Purchase Or order by phone: (231) 334-6103 or email: phsbpark@gmail.com From Amazon Purchase
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Stacie Longwell Sadowski There is one beach, among all the Lake Michigan beaches I know, that holds special spiritual sway with me. So much that I have not visited there in nearly twenty years, for fear that it has changed. It is the property that was once the church camp I went to as a kid, Pilgrim…
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