Who: The Thatcher sisters, Becky and Cookie. What: Rescue a lost girl. Where: Alligator Hill in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, a.k.a. the Park. When: Summer 2013. Why: It was their job. For now, though, suffice it to say there are a million stories in The Park. This is just one of them.
Cookie Thatcher prefers to think of her blends of lavender soaps as “flavors,” and that makes her the new chemist in town. At her shop, Bay Lavender, next to Becky Thatcher Designs on Lake Street in Glen Arbor, she uses only essential oils, free of man-made perfumes, and mixes them with honey, herbs, locally-grown spices […]