Kurt Luedtke, who died on August 9 at age 80, wrote this tongue-and-cheek essay about 30 years ago. The Glen Arbor Sun republished it in 2011 after the Sleeping Bear Dunes was selected “The Most Beautiful Place in America” by the Good Morning America TV show. Luedtke was a former executive editor of the Detroit Free Press, wrote the screenplay Absence of Malice, and won the Academy Award for his screenplay of Out of Africa. He and his wife Eleanor lived for decades at The Homestead where they were the original owners of a condominium in the “Wilderness” neighborhood.
