Being a Bean Babe

By Jen Semanco Sun contributor Each morning around 400 million cups of coffee are consumed in the United States, making it the world’s largest consumer of coffee drinks. While many people still choose to fire up the “Mr. Coffee,” countless others seek out the gourmet coffee drinks offered by their local cafe. In Glen Arbor, […]

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Help for Willie is Ripe in the Land of the Sleeping Bear

By Norm Wheeler Sun editor “It’s just amazing,” says Ken Hurlin. “We thought if a couple hundred came it would be great!” But around 800 people from the Glen Lake area showed up on the deck at Boondocks on Wednesday, June 23, to raise funds to support the care of Willie Hurlin. Willie (the son […]

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“Eine Lebenserfahrung”: Exchange student’s view on her stay in northern Michigan

By Kate McCarty Sun contributor Every few years the Glen Lake student body has the opportunity to get to know a student from another country. During the course of the second semester of the 2003-04 school year at Glen Lake, fellow students came to know the beautiful, intelligent Theresa Holverscheid, a German student who came […]

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Glen Arbor remembers World War II pilot, best-selling author

By Fred Tasker Sun contributor In a study overlooking the peaceful Crystal River in Glen Arbor, Frank Robert Westie sat for five years writing some of the most horrific air combat scenes of World War II — as part of a searing, anti-war novel called Ash Wednesday ’45. The best-selling novel, built around the firebombing […]

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Suzanne’s van: the gift that keeps on giving

By Jacob R. Wheeler Sun editor It began with a simple proposition: “If you can get her running, she’s yours,” were the words the late Suzanne Wilson offered Crispin Campbell, setting the stage for his memorable west coast road trip 11 years ago in her 1979 Dodge Extended MaxiVan — affectionately known around northern Michigan […]

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State of the Arts: Suzanne Wilson was a visionary and pioneer

By Jacob R. Wheeler Sun editor Taped to my refrigerator, in an apartment far from northern Michigan, is a postcard-sized Suzanne Wilson watercolor of the lighthouse on South Manitou Island. The old white tower looks down on a serene beach setting. Spruce trees creep up to the water’s edge, and I can almost visualize Suzanne […]

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Living up to her name: Grace Cochran was a pillar of the church

By Jacob R. Wheeler Sun editor As the sparkplug behind community events, the eternal optimist and the spiritual aid at any time of day or night, Grace Cochran left an indelible mark on the local community as well as on Christian Scientists all over the country. Grace passed away on December 29 in her home […]

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Sabine’s bowls – a chance encounter of the Glen Arbor kind

By Joanne Bender Sun contributor It was serendipity. And also fortuitous, that I should meet Raku ceramic artist Sabine Rodatz just as I was reading Sue Bender’s Everyday Sacred, A Woman’s Journey Home.

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Local wild man raises Santa Claus’ helpers

By Forest Mullins Sun investigative reporter Can Reindeer fly? “Well Duh. That’s why we live so close to the Empire Airport,” says Kevin Kelly, who shakes his head in disbelief at my foolish question. “You skeptics. We have to cover the local district for the Big Man (i.e. Santa Claus).”

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Heart of a hobo beats inside 90 year-old Honor Man

By Jane Greiner Sun staff writer Almost as soon as I met Clive Haswell, 90, of Honor, he quoted a little poem. I had asked him about his hobo days and he said it brought this to mind: The skunks they have in Wyoming Smell just as bad as ours. The odor sneaks into the […]

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