Traverse Magazine’s Big 3-OH!

Traverse Magazine’s Big 3-OH!

Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine celebrates its 30th Anniversary with The Big 3-0H!, a contest for consumers with more than $6,000 in prize packages, including a family vacation. Full article...

Essay: Donating the Hildner-Bearce Nature Preserve

Essay: Donating the Hildner-Bearce Nature Preserve

Thoughts about remarkable generosity, land and family at this Little Traverse Conservancy nature preserve near Indian River. Full article...

The Legacy  of Worms

The Legacy of Worms

Ruminations on the esoteric and sentimental value of worm fishing. Full article...

Imprinted by the Northwoods

Imprinted by the Northwoods

I return to my childhood cabin in the Upper Peninsula each year, like salmon to the streams of their beginnings. Full article...

An Orchard Upbringing

An Orchard Upbringing

From there I could watch the house without my parents seeing me, to see how long it took for them to miss me and begin crying to the cherry gods for my return. Full article...

Breaking the Green

Breaking the Green

I grew up with the long-term risk it had taken to save the farm with this precarious crop from California, and with a sense of what a field—and family—can do. Full article...

Summer’s Structure

Summer’s Structure

The porch was the origin of trust, imagination and the closeness. Full article...

Asleep with Bees

Asleep with Bees

Behind the curtain of night birds, summer breezes, insect and moth patterings, I hear their hum like dark cream. It is so much a part of everything that it seems like a sound from my body. Full article...

Refusing Spring

Refusing Spring

All too often, they wait too long, and their shanties sink to become boats that must be paddled home. Full article...

In Search of Bluegills

In Search of Bluegills

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