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Volume 21, Number 33 Thursday, August 25, 2005
Count Your Carbs at Rag Tops Auto Museum by Paula McHugh
time than the other gender looking around in fascination. This writer can vouch for that. Looking around in fascination at the objects unrelated to cars is what female visitors do, Harry explained. Because, how do women really know that dual carbs aren’t two slices of bread? How many women gave themselves permission in the 50’s (and possibly the 60’s) to look under the hood of a car? We had service station attendants to do that for us, remember? They also pumped gas, so we could concentrate on doing our nails instead of knowing where the gas tank was. So, the point is this: whatever women know or don’t know about cars isn’t the point about visiting Rag Tops. Leave the automobile displays and jargon to the guys, if that is your desire. There are copious amounts of other stuff to divert a mind away from the here and now.
Ready to take a stroll down memory lane? Then cruise on over to Rag Tops at the northwest corner of Washington and U.S. 12 in Michigan City. Rag Tops Auto Museum opened a little over two years ago, and its collection keeps changing—and growing. Beacher writer Charles McElvy was there for the grand opening in 2003, when readers sampled a male perspective of the city’s newest family-friendly attraction. This time around, readers get a female writer’s perspective. And that’s a good thing, because when some women hear the words “auto museum,” they often assume that such a place is exclusively a “guy thing.” Women not in the know want to drop off their husbands at Rag Tops and head down the street to marathon shop. Talk about missed opportunities. So listen up, ladies! Museum director Harry Anderson says that once inside, women spend considerably more
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Next comes the “garage,” an L-shaped expanse where presently 65 rad old rods, if they could talk, would be shouting something like “let’s race!” Whoever would have thought, long ago, that such fancy wheels that once burned up plenty of asphalt would ever replace the equipment that kept the former Jaymar-Ruby factory’s wheels spinning? While the guys who visit Rag Tops might start inspecting the cams and carbs and cylinders and what-have-you under the raised hoods of these nostalgic power cars, women like me might be more attracted to design: the fins, the chrome, the protruding taillights, the hood ornaments and such.
Several parked pedal wagons prod the parts of the brain that turn us into children once again.
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An alley of clown and circus paraphernalia first greets the Rag Tops visitor, and several parked pedal wagons prod the parts of the brain that turn us into children once again. The clowns—smiling, of course—set a jolly mood for the rest of the stroll through yesterday’s memories. The Lionel train room displays a layout that’s a touch above the ordinary. It isn’t often you see a scale model United Airlines prop plane capable of twirling above a whistling locomotive, for example. An impressive bridge flanked by pretend masonry arches, which Harry calls “Hell’s Gate” is worth noting, too.
The Lionel train room displays a layout that’s a touch above the ordinary. An impressive bridge flanked by pretend masonry arches is one such accessory.
Carbs, cams and vintage cars—are they a “guy” thing?
Or, their eyes might wander over to the periphery of the cavernous room, where all sorts of mechanical gizmos stir up thoughts of past visits to places like the Enchanted Forest in Porter or even Riverview. Golly. There is a lot of stuff here to jog memories of carefree days past. A foot massage machine, a fortune teller encased in a glass booth, talking robots, and jukeboxes— several of them. Back in the clown and circus hallway, one of the first pieces a visitor encounters is a 1939 Seeberg Symphonola, whose tunes offered up Hoagy Carmichael, Woody Herman, Glenn Miller, Spike Jones, and Sinatra. In the diner--yes, the museum has replicated a diner where you’ll spot Elvis semi-alive and well—a mint-condition Wurlitzer plays to the 45rpm generation. Artifacts, if we dare call them that in 2005, include signs and equipment from Hotel Gary’s old coffee shop. Rag Tops
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All sorts of mechanical gizmos stir up thoughts of past visits to places like the Enchanted Forest in Porter or even Riverview.
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August 25, 2005 “We’re working on setting up the theater to (continuously) run old-time movies,” Harry said, adding that a room behind the Old Towne facade will be equipped with vintage movie house seats, too. Just when you think that everything at Rag Tops is geared to memories past, you’ll head up the stairs to find a complete, 18-hole miniature golf course, along with a party room designed for birthday or other celebrations. The miniature golf course is the latest addition to Rag Tops, and the neat thing is that miniature golfers can play indoors year ‘round. Oversized, comical cartoon character animals— mechanically powered by air-- straddle the course to make the atmosphere a fun place for the younger set. Next door to the miniature golf course, an antiques and collectibles shop will appeal to collectors.
One very timely draw to the museum is the screaming-orange General Lee from The Dukes of Hazard.
Rag Tops Continued from Page 3 One very timely draw to the museum is the screaming-orange General Lee from The Dukes of Hazard. Minus Jessica Simpson in her Daisy Dukes. According to Harry, 300 Dodge Chargers were put in use over the lifespan of the television show, and Rag Tops owns one of the 17 that remain. Nearby, the most contemporary piece in the exhibit, the 2001 National Champion Dragster sponsored by the New York Yankees stretches across the concrete floor like a starched snake. Yankee players’ autographs grace the windshield and mannequin-modeled racing suit. A doo-wop theme generally dominates the museum. The recent opening of Ragtop’s Expo Hall provides room for parties, meetings, wedding receptions, reunions and more. (The museum’s classy Dusenberg is available, along with a chauffer, for weddings and other special occasions, too). Harry said that a Doo Wop Show is scheduled in November, and the LaPorte Symphony has plans to use the banquet-sized space. One side of the room is flanked by a lineup of more power cars, and at the other end, an Olde Towne Hall features George Balady’s former barber shop, a replica of the Lido Theater marquee, a hot dog stand, and more.
The miniature golf course is the latest addition to Rag Tops, and the neat thing is that miniature golfers can play indoors year ‘round.
The recent opening of Ragtop’s Expo Hall provides room for parties, meetings, wedding receptions, reunions and more.
Olde Towne Hall features George Balady’s former barber shop.
Rag Tops is a non-profit museum with a 16-member Board of Directors. Harry told us that much of the collection of items (cars and collectibles) came from Dennis Moran and Dan Scheetz. The cars on display were bought at auctions, and several of the cars on display at the museum are offered for sale. To see what is currently available, and to learn more about the museum, log on to Rag Tops’ website at www.Rag Topsmuseum.com. Rag Tops is open Sunday through Saturday from 10-7 p.m. Suggested donations are $6, adults; $5 seniors, and $4 for children over 3. For more information, phone 219.878.1514.
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The Kelly Miller Circus is coming to Three Oaks on Aug. 28 as a fitting end to summer. School starts for River Valley students the next day. You can just imagine the colorful conversations, the animated performances on the monkey bars, and the subject matter for the first writing assignments of the year. That’s what a visit to the circus can do for your child. Sponsored by the Three Oaks Business Association, there will be two performances at 2 & 4:30 p.m. (MI time). The circus will set up in the grassy field across from St. Mary’s Church on Linden Street. Presale tickets are $5/children and $8/adults and are available from the following TOBA members: 5/3 Bank, New Buffalo Savings Bank, Harding’s, Three Oaks Township Library, Penny’s Little People, Three Oaks Pharmacy, Balich’s Restaurant, Dawning Art the Gift, Village of Three Oaks, Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce, Sawyer Garden Center, Milda’s Corner Market, and New Buffalo Pharmacy. Day of the circus ticket prices are $6/children and $10/adults. One of the most fascinating aspects of the circus is the raising of the big top tent by the elephants. Everyone is invited to come and watch the animals being unloaded and fed the morning of the circus. Activities start at 7:30 a.m. The tent will be raised between 8:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. Sunday morning. Guides will be furnished for anyone attending. Questions call 269/756-3121 or 269/469-5409.
The Presbyterian Church of LaPorte, 307 Kingsbury Ave., will present a carillon concert Sun., Aug. 28 at 4 p.m. There is no admission charge. The carillonneur will be Tim Sleep — a student of Wylie Crawford and John Gouwens — who became a carillonneur member of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North Tim Sleep, carillonneur American (GCNA) in 2004. Sleep performs regularly on the Millennium Carillon in Naperville, Ill., and at the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel in Chicago. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from North Central College, Naperville and a master’s degree in educational administration from Northern Illinois University. A retired band director and middle school principal and longtime church musician, Sleep serves as organist for Our Savior’s Lutheran Church and Knox Presbyterian Church, both in Naperville. Concertgoers are encouraged to bring a lawn chair or blanket for the outdoor concert.
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“The Little Mermaid” at CTG
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CTG’s Chicago Street Theatre announces the opening of “An Underwater Adventure: The Little Mermaid.” By William Glennon from the Hans Christian Andersen story, this Community Theatre Guild production will run Aug. 26-Sept. 9 at the Chicago Street Theatre, 154 W. Chicago St., Valparaiso. Directed by Becky Fox and Deb Porter, this wonderfully funny retelling of the classic children’s story will enchant audiences of all ages, as the Little Mermaid reaches her 16th birthday and longs to learn about life at the Top of the Sea. Along the way she encounters a goofy Prince, a scheming Sea Witch, and myriad magical denizens of the deep! Tickets are $10/Adults, $8/Students and Seniors. New this year for Family Productions only: With the purchase of each full price adult ticket, you will receive one student ticket free. Reservations at the Chicago Street Theatre box office, 219-464-1636 or visit their website at www.ctgonline.org. Performances: Fri, Aug 26 at 7 p.m.; Sat, Aug 27 at 2:30 p.m.; Sun, Aug 28 at 2:30 p.m.; Fri, Sept 2 at 7 p.m.; Sat, Sept 3 at 2:30 p.m.; Sun., Sept. 4 at 2:30 p.m.; Thur, Sept 8 at 7 p.m.; Fri, Sept 9 at 8 p.m. Cast: Little Mermaid: Kaitlyn Staton (DeMotte); King Neptune/Teacher: Dave Cox (Valparaiso); Minnowmaid/Teacher: Stephanie Rudakis (Valparaiso); Granny: Vicki Cash (Burns Harbor); Urchin/ Sea Captain: Jeremy Duling (Chesterton); Sea Witch: Carla Staton (DeMotte); Turt: Brendan Scannell (Valparaiso); Tort: Kat Lutze (Valparaiso); Torthie: Ali Nye (Valparaiso); Ollie: Nathan Felton (Valparaiso); Neptune’s Servants: Shaun Perez (Chesterton), Nicholas Rooker (Valparaiso), Chaz Steeves (Valparaiso); Mermaid/Minnowmaid/Granny Servants: Mary-Kate Rooker (Valparaiso), Cassy Santner (Valparaiso), Sabrina Pierotti (Valparaiso), Madeline Blaney (Valparaiso), Jordan Kwiatkowski (Portage), and Kelsey Reinhart (Valparaiso). CTG is supported, in part, by a grant from Northern Indiana Arts Association, the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
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Beach Garden Club Visits Shakespeare Garden at PNC On a partly cloudy, yet comfortable day, members of the Beach Garden Club paid a visit to the Purdue North Central campus to view the Shakespeare Garden. The ladies were met by Rita Dagys, Director of Development, and her assistant who had prepared a wonderful continental breakfast. After a brief informational introduction, the ladies were escorted to waiting golf carts and driven to the Shakespeare Garden. The inspiration, construction, and planting of the garden came from Professor Emeritus Barbara Lootens. Barbara and her husband Bernie with help from English Department students created the garden. Plantings in the garden all relate to Shakespeare’s plays. Prof. Lootens described the projects inception, the work that was involved and the support of many private donors. Funds for the garden are continually needed to sustain the plantings and maintenance. A special fund has been created for the garden. This fund is maintained by the English Department.
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The final production of the 2005 Canterbury Summer Theatre Season is a special presentation of A. R. Gurney’s “Love Letters,” Fri. & Sat., Aug. 26 & 27, at 8 p.m., and Sat., Aug. 26 at 5 p.m.. Performances are at Michigan City’s Mainstreet Theatre, 807 Franklin Street. Presented in cooperation with Bossier Parish Community College, the production will feature Canterbury’s Artistic Director, Ray Scott Crawford, as Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. This will mark the first time in five years that he has appeared on the Mainstreet Theatre’s stage as a performer. Although no stranger to the stage, Crawford in recent years has confined his talents to directing. Appearing as Melissa Gardner is Rona Leber, Associate Profession of Speech at Bossier Parish Community College. At BPCC Leber teaches public speaking, interpersonal communications, costume design and construction and make-up for the stage. Director of the production is Stephen Slaughter, Professor of Speech and Theatre and Director of the Theatre Arts Program. He is an instructor in scenic design, lighting design, Humanities for Theatre, stagecraft, scene painting and public speaking. A touching, imaginative theatre piece, Love Letters traces the lives of Melissa and Andrew through their correspondence from early birthday party thank you notes and summer camp postcard through their boarding school and college years and into their adult years. Tickets for the production are $13/adults, $12/senior citizens and $6.50/high school age students and younger. Current Canterbury Summer Theatre Season ticket holders can purchase tickets for $10. All seats are reserved; phone (219) 874-4269. The productions of the Festival Players Guild are presented with support from the Northern Indiana Arts Association, the Indiana Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Barker Welfare Foundation and the Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation.
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Scott Covert has come back to Harbor Country for awhile, to show his recent paintings and to regroup, before setting out on another tour of cemeteries. Scott is a 1971 graduate of New Buffalo High School, a successful artist who has shown at galleries from New York to California, with Texas in between. He started doing tombstone rubbings twenty years ago, and what became an obsession started out by happenstance. Scott had gone to Warren, Michigan, to visit the grave of performer Florence Glenda Chapman, his favorite Supreme, and he had forgotten his camera. “So I did a tombstone rubbing,” he said. Thus began a series.
“The Dead Supreme” Daniel, “who created moonshine in Tennessee.” Scott’s list is selective, but curiously inclusive. In arranging the current show, Lakeside Gallery owner John Wilson, Jr., compared the artist’s work to “cocktail parties for the dead, in which he puts together the guest list.”
At the opening reception, artist Scott Covert (left) stands before a silverglittered “Houdini” with John Wilson, Jr., owner of Lakeside Gallery.
The series of tombstone rubbings began with Scott’s visit to the grave of his favorite Supreme, Florence Glenda Chapman ( lettering shown at center.)
Many of his subjects had careers in show business, and pursuing their final resting places has taken Scott to cemeteries all over the country -Louisville, KY for D.W. Griffith; Hartford, CN for Sophie Tucker; Pittsburgh, PA for Andy Warhol; Hartsdale, NY for Judy Garland; Peru, IN for Cole Porter; New Jersey for Sassy Sarah Vaughan; California for Louis B. Mayer and scores of others. And then there are the stars of other realms -- Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, “father of modern architecture,” George Balanchine, “father of modern dance,” and Jack
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Despite the concentration on dead celebrities and burial grounds, Scott’s paintings hint just barely at the macabre or the surreal. In style, they stand at the opposite pole of artistic expression, deriving from lettrisme and other attenuated forms of “word art” from the 1960s. Think of it: the lettering on tombstones is uniform, symmetrical, chiseled out of stone, running in a straight line. An artist focusing on such subject matter would be challenged to avoid repetitiveness and boredom. To this end, Scott’s imagination comes into play -- also his considerable wit and playfulness. Sergei Rachmaninoff and Marilyn Monroe are paired on one piece, “because she taught me who Rachmaninoff was. In The Seven Year Itch, somebody was playing his concerto in the background.” Another paint-
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ing combines Rose Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, and is done in shades of rose and red. A Knute Rockne piece has the Notre Dame school colors, blue and gold. Black musicians are black-on-black. Sometimes, as with Houdini, glitter is scattered on the canvas. In one case, numbers played a part in the combination, as did a personal reaction to official bungling: “Three of the Four Students Killed at Kent State with Five of the Six Three Stooges.”
Scott Covent is pictured at work in a cemetery, doing a rubbing of the gravestone of Hollywood designer Edith Head.
In his temporary studio above a Michigan City caviar business, Scott Covent poses with a rubbing from Mies Van der Roh’s tombstone.
Scott’s usual way of working is to apply thin layers of vari-colored oil paints to a canvas, up to fourteen layers, achieving richness of color but retaining the flexibility. After the canvases are dry, he rolls them up and takes off on a cemetery tour. He travels with about seventy canvases and keeps adding to them, doing one rubbing after another, as inspiration dictates. The
Rosalind Russell piece has been in the works for ten years. Next he wants to do a painting with all the U.S. Presidents. Another with architects. Another with baseball players. “I always wanted to put Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis together with Baudelaire, Diaghilev and Oscar Wilde. Did you know she entered an essay contest at Vogue Magazine, selecting those as the three persons she’d like to have dinner with? She won the contest.” No, I didn’t know that. John Wilson, Jr., didn’t know Scott Covert, even though both had studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, knew many of the same people, and had deep roots in Harbor Country. Scott’s father used to be mayor of New Buffalo, and his ancestry goes back to Benjamin and Jacob Covert, who were among the early settlers of Lakeside. John Wilson first saw the paintings when they were displayed at the New Buffalo Sub Shop owned by Scott’s mother Shirley Covert. “I liked the paintings,” John said, “and I thought they deserved to be shown someplace else, besides a sandwich shop.” The paintings will be at Lakeside Gallery, 15486 Red Arrow Highway, through September.
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On August 20 & 21, the Southern Shore Art Association celebrated the first weekend of its “Upstairs Gallery” inaugural, with more to come Sat. & Sun., Aug. 27-28. While the inaugural exhibit goes on, so does a second exhibition of member’s work in the Clubroom. Also open are the studios of several of the artists who rent spaces there. The inaugural show itself was titled “More Real Than Real.” Jimmy Duke Johnston and Robert Stanley showed paintings and prints. Although they have very different styles, both artists’ works are about more than naturalism. Rather, they are about seeing more than what things look like. One of the features of the inaugural days was the level of lively conversations among viewers and between viewers and artists. Anyone interested in being in on the fun is invited to refreshments and art at the finale of this inaugural, from noon-4 p.m., Aug. 2728, at 722 Franklin St. Information: 219-210-1935.
Open Auditions For Symphony Chorus Auditions/Re-auditions for the Northwest Indiana Symphony Chorus’s 2005-2006 concert season will take place on August 26 from 4-8 p.m. at the Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana. Previous choral experience is recommended. Vocal range, aural abilities, rhythmic comprehension and sight reading will be tested; no prepared vocal selection is required. The 120-voice chorus, under the direction of Dr. Nancy Menk, performs regularly with the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra. Weekly rehearsals are on Tuesday evenings, 7:30-10 p.m., at the Center for Visual and Performing Arts, and will begin on Tues., Sept. 6. Call the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra office (219) 836-0525 to set up an audition.
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Take a trip back to bee-hives, bubble gum, and motorcycles when the vocal trio Foiled Again present “Hit Factory: Songs of the Brill Building,” a fun evening of blasts from the past at The Acorn Theater, Three Oaks, MI, on Sat., Aug. 27. After Perry Como and before the Beatles, pop music was cranked out of New York’s Brill Building in assembly line fashion by some amazing song-writing duos that will be saluted in this show. The four song-writing teams to be touched on in this evening hailed as “non-stop entertainment” will be Burt Bacharach and Hal David who wrote “Look of Love” and “Planes and Boats and Trains;” Carole King and Garry Goffin who teamed up on “One Fine Day” and “Up on the Roof;” Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller who composed “Smokey Joe’s Café” and “Pearl’s a Singer;” and Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry whose song include “Leader of the Pack” and “Chapel of Love.” Members of Foiled Again are After-Dark Award winners Allison Bazarko, Rob Lindley and Anne Sheridan Smith. The tight harmonies of Foiled Again are perfectly suited to their musical selections, whether working together or when two of the members lend support to the solo lead. The Brill Building was once a world unto itself, according to David Fink co-owner of The Acorn. The songs crafted there filled the airwaves and made the 45 single the format of choice for the teenage record buyers in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Often within a week’s time, a song could go from idea to marketable product. Everything that was needed to make that happen was right there: the writers, the producers, the singers, the studios. Given the number of songwriters who worked in the Brill Building over the years, Foiled Again decided to concentrate on only four songwriting teams. The show starts at 8 p.m. EDT. Tickets are $15; reserve at 269/756-3879 or purchase at the door. The Acorn Theater is located in the historic Featherbone Factory at 107 Generations Dr. For maps, directions and other upcoming programs at The Acorn Theater, visit www.acorntheater.com.
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REMEMBER WHEN A COTTAGE WAS A COTTAGE? Karen Conner does. It’s what drew her to New Buffalo 20 years ago. And what she’s building again, for people who think a nice little place in the country should be just that. Simple and rustic on the outside. Airy and elegant on the inside. Out in the woods, on a private drive 5 minutes from the lake. Without the pool, the playgrounds, and everything else you want to get away from. That’s Karen’s idea of a perfect vacation home. If it’s yours, give her a call to find out how to get one of your own.
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“Springstock” is coming to Three Oaks, Aug. 27. Now there’s no cause for alarm, thinking that a hundred thousand peace-loving citizens will be descending upon the quaint little village, but a couple of thousand have already been invited. As part of the Music in the Park series, the public is invited as well to the day of free music. You can never really gauge the turnout for an event that’s heralded as “one day of birch and maple.” Huh? That doesn’t mean much of anything, unless of course you’re a collector of Heywood-Wakefield furniture similar to that sold by Springdale, the main sponsor of this event. Springdale owners Jim Toler and Richard Ginger have been throwing an annual party for their customers. “Last year we just opened it up to the public with a block party,” said Jayson Sites who co-manages the store with Brandon Nelson. “This year we took the concept one step farther and created a whole day of nothing but fun and music.” With the new moniker “Springstock,” the day of music starts at noon with the Acoustic Music Festival featuring many of the folk legends of Michiana. Jim St. James has organized this aspect of the Music in the Park series for the past three years. The afternoon will include the following performers: Riley O’Connor, noon; Al Kniola, 12:25; Venetia Sekema, 12:50; Larry Platz, 1:15; Miranda Hansen, 1:40; Jim St. James, 2:05; Steve Foresman, 2:30; Jeremy Williams, 2:55; AJ Draper, 3:20; and Stage Fright Remedy at 3:45. (All times are Michigan times.) After a brief intermission, three bands will entertain the evening crowd. Starting at 6 p.m. will be the contemporary rock of The Sunday Runners. They’ll be followed by Chicago-based singer Nicholas Tremulis at 7:30. Jump (formerly known as Jump, Little Children), takes to the stage at 9 p.m. The South Carolina-based group has been bringing their eclectic blend of acoustic music, rock and fantastic vocals to crowds across the country for over ten years. Jump features Jay Clifford as lead vocalist and guitarist. Evan Bivins on percussion also performs with The Borrowed Angels, Bill Carson and His Checkered Past, The Dole and Biv. Matt Bivins is a multi-instrumentalist who shares the singing duties with Clifford and plays the harmonica, tin whistle and accordion. Ward Williams plays strings and is into insight meditation, a Buddhist form of prayer. Bass player Jonathan Gray says that being part of Jump has given him the opportunity to “live unbelievably well.” The Music in the Park series is supported by Three Oaks Village, Harbor Arts, Harbor Country Chamber of Commerce, the Three Oaks Business Association and many private contributors. The Aug. 27 venue will be South Elm Street, if street construction allows, or Linden Street. Plenty of free village parking is available (follow the signs from U.S. 12 and north Elm). Admission is free. Food will be available.
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Sept. 1-Oct. 16 Sculptor’s Drawings and Sculptures from the permanent collection of the Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame (Gallery One) The Snite Museum has a special interest in collecting sculptor’s drawings, as well as their maquettes and finished sculptures. Some drawings are preparatory sketches for future sculptures, while others are autonomous works of art representing separate, distinct lines of inquiry. This exhibit features drawings or sculptures by Joseph Cornell, Richard Chamberlain, Alberto Giacommeti, Daive Hayes, Richard Hunt, Ivan Mestrovic, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Louise Nevelson, Martin Puryear, George Rickey, Theodor Roszak and Peter Voulkos. David Hayes Sculpture (Gallery Two) David Hayes’ work has been seen in over 300 exhibitions and is included in more than 100 collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibition includes a selection of drawings for sculptures with related small maquettes or models. Of his work, Hayes says, “My art is made from an amalgam of what I see every day, passing by, fleeting images that arrest me and etch their silhouettes in my brain.” Hayes’ welded steel sculptures combine painted shapes cut from sheets of steel. This exhibition displays Hayes’ fascination with physical gestures and organic forms. Handicrafts of Nepal from the Women’s Development Center of Janakpur (Gallery Three and Lobby) The Janakpur Women’s Development Center is a cooperative organization comprised of women artists from Janakpur and surrounding villages in southeastern Nepal. The artists associated with the group have earned their niches as some of the finest contemporary artists in Nepal. To date, their work has been exhibited in the U.S., U.K., The Federal Republic of Germany and Belgium. These women continue to illustrate Maithil rituals as well as define a new horizon for Maithil women. This includes marriages or festivals where they paint designs of elephants, peacocks or tigers to depict wealth and prosperity. For the most part these were painted mud walls on their homes and in monsoon season the paintings faded or washed away. Opening Reception The public is invited to an opening reception on Fri., Sept. 9, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. (MI time) for both exhibitions. There is no admission fee.
Great Books at the Library This month’s meeting of Great Books discussion group at Michigan City Public Library is Wed., Aug. 31, at 6 p.m. The selection for August is This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. You can confirm next month’s reading material at the Circulation Desk. New members are invited to attend.
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Friendship Gardens Hosts Hans Christian On Sunday afternoon, August 14, Hans Christian Anderson (Rolf Kristian Stang) appeared as the guest speaker at International Friendship Gardens’ Annual Tea to a crowd of 150 guests. This year marks the 200th birthday of the beloved Danish children’s author, which is being celebrated all over the world.
beside them. Tammy said, “Working in the Gardens has been a wonderful experience for me since it’s become a family affair. My mom, my sister, my two daughters, and my nieces have all joined me here. We take the dishes home and spend many hours washing them.” I found a place to sit at a table with Greta and Dr. Jack La Fountain and their guest, Marilyn Rasmussen. Others who joined us were Carol Petrie and Nancy Ryding from Munster and Aulis Lind, who has lived in North Carolina but is happy to be moving to Valparaiso. Carol commented, “What a beautiful day! I have never seen a stuffed strawberry, but it looks good!” Another guest said, “I love cucumber sandwiches!” Emily Blitstein performs on her harp.
Romona Hay welcomes Jeannie Gallory and Ceil Brinckman of Michigan City to the Sun. afternoon tea.
Inside the gardens, Romona Hay welcomed guests who signed in at the table. Coming from Michigan City were Jeannie Galloy and Ceil Brinckman, who wore their red hats and purple outfits as members of “The Firecracker Fillies.” They, like some of the other guests, had an umbrella in case of rain. Tim Wixted, who told me he was “an adjunct volunteer for the first time,” drove the cart offering rides to the area where the tea would be held (the wedding area). “My wife, Ana Vincenti, volunteers all the time,” he said. I rode in the cart as did others, but many people chose to walk through the woods to the afternoon event.
(l to r) Melissa Deutscher, Marque Steinhagen, and Tammy Steinhagen at the lemonade table.
Melissa Deutscher and Marque Steinhagen served lemonade at a table while Tammy Steinhagen stood
Emily Blitstein from Michigan City performed music on her harp. She plays piano and bells also and has performed at Main Street Theater as the intermission entertainment. I photographed a table of Michigan guests who included: Molly Reipchneider from Baroda; Genevieve Schuh from Buchanan; Gerry Burandt, Leanna Friesen, & Ann Tabor of St. Joseph; and Ruth Kelsey & Lorraine Vytiska of New Buffalo. Some of them have been at the teas many times. Nearby were first-time visitor Elly Richmond from Valpo, Gerry Werniche of Crown Point, and Mary Witt & Pamela Bayer from Plymouth. Pamela said, “The tea is always outstanding and definitely worth the time!” Volunteer Debbie Reason was one of the volunteers pouring tea for the guests. Another table held some return guests. Jacob Casper, grandson & his grandfather, David Albertin (who’s been a minister for “years & years & years!”) sat with Luella Ensign, Ann Berg, and John & Jean Vail. The sumptuous afternoon tea included various sandwiches, cinnamon scones, mini quiche, stuffed straw-
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Anderson for Its 2005 Summer Tea by Jan Van Ausdal
Michigan guests are: (l to r) Molly Reipchneider, Gerry Burandt, Leanna Friesen, Genevieve Schuh, Lorraine Vytiska, Ann Tabor, & Ruth Kelsey.
Volunteer Debbie Reason pours tea for the guests.
(l to r) Jacob Casper, David Albertein, Luella Ensign, Ann Berg, John and Jean Vail enjoy their afternoon tea.
berries, fresh fruit, cream puffs & chocolate truffle tartlets, with Earl Gray tea and lemonade. Dr. Richard Houck served as the Master of Ceremonies for the Friendship Gardens tea. He mentioned that, “Since the early part of June, we’ve been doing various rain dances, but now we’re trying to settle it down. During a wedding here yesterday, we had to pretend that it wasn’t raining.” He gave a history of the Gardens Dr. Richard Houck serves as and their development Master of Ceremonies. through the years. Then Jean Houck, Director Emerita of the Gardens, made a presentation of a plaque to Tammy Steinhagen for her outstanding contribution and enthusiastic dedication to Friendship Gardens during her 13 years as a volunteer and the last more than 5-1/2 years as Executive Director. Mrs. Houck complimented Tammy on her ability to lead the volunteers as they work to restore the Gardens, her passion for creating beautiful weddings, and community events & ethnic festivals. She said, “Tammy has performed almost every task done in the Gardens and created an increased awareness of the Gardens so that thousands of visitors come to visit. The Board of Friendship Gardens presents Tammy with a lifetime membership, and will welcome her advice and help as they continue their mission of creating a wonderful garden in this, our Paradise Valley!” Tammy, who is leaving to pursue her college degree, said, “My heart will always be in the Gardens and you’ll see me around!” Next, Dr. Houck presented Tammy with a bouquet of red roses. Dr. Houck recognized all the volunteers who helped with the afternoon event. Summer Tea Continued on Page 28
Jean Houck (Garden Director Emerita) recognizes Tammy Steinhagen for her outstanding contributions as a 13- year Garden volunteer.
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Summer Tea Continued from Page 27 Then he introduced Rolf Kristian Stang, who resides in New York and has performed throughout our country. Rolf graduated from Augustana College in Illinois and Columbia University. Also he studied at the Juillard School in New York and in Hamburg, Germany.
king, “I’m sorry to tell you this, but you don’t have any clothes on!” Hans said, “Be careful how you tell the truth to people; do it with a little bit of nuance.” Songs, which were incorporated into the program, were from Danny Kaye’s Hans Christian Anderson. There were “Wonderful Copenhagen,” “There Once Was an Ugly Duckling,” “Thumbelina,” and “The Inchworm.” Hans delightedly related the tale of “Thumbelina,” which tells about how difficult it is to be the smallest or different from everyone else. Hans (Rolf) was a masterful performer who held his audience captive during the afternoon, which was not too hot and without rain except for only a few large drops before the tea and program began. Rolf visited with tea guests before and after his program.
Hans Christian Anderson (Rolf Kristian Stang) gives the afternoon program.
Jean Houck and Esther Fox speak with Hans Christian Anderson.
Rolf Stang said he’s been performing for “11 years or so to about 60,000 young people.” His first presentation of the afternoon, as Hans Christian Anderson, was the story of “The Ugly Duckling.” Jennifer from Chesterton sat on a chair on the stage to help him with this part of his program. Also, the audience became a part of the storytelling. Hans asked questions of the audience during this story and referred to it as “the tyranny of teasing.” He said that, “I think this story makes us understand ourselves better.” Another story he told was “The Emperor’s (King’s) New Clothes.” Dawn, 22, came up on the stage as his assistant during this story. She said she would tell the
Tea guests are very attentive to the afternoon program.
Dr. Houck mentioned that on September 3rd, the Gardens will hold a Romanian ethnic fest with dancers and other entertainment. He invited the guests to stay and walk the Gardens if they’d like to, and “We’ll see you again next year!
Guests make their way to the Tea site.
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Artists of Provence Present Display As part of this summer’s Provence events, an "Artists in Residence" exhibition will be on display until Sept. 15 at the Purdue University North Central Library-Student-Faculty (LSF) Building Assembly Hall 02. The exhibition is part of “Find Provence Here! A Celebration of Arts, Culture and the Good Life along Lake Michigan’s Riviera! and is free and open to the public. Artists in Residence include: Laurel Izard, Connie and George Kassal, Bruce Seidelberg, Robert Stanley, Valerie Taglieri, Ron Wennekes & Mike Zieve. Laurel Izard is a Michigan City artist whose work is inspired by the spiritual and natural world. Laurel has a background in ceramics and also works in acrylic, watercolor and collage. Connie Kassal, from Long Beach, creates representational oil paintings that evoke a sense of spirit, telling a story of imagery and form. Connie explores the relationship of life, death and the body, primarily focusing on the human figure and water birds. George Kassal, also from Long Beach, manipulates his photographs to offer the viewer the quality of a shared dream. His imagery in this exhibition focuses on the water and surf at the beach. Bruce Seidelberg, an artist living near Fish Lake, works in colored pencil and crayon. A recent Provence Art Workshop rekindled his creativity. His work was recently selected for the recent Regional Juried Art Exhibition at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, and subsequently sold. Valerie Taglieri’s iconic sky paintings will be on display. Her compositions are both representational and abstract. Thin layers of pigment form a “glaze” with a luminescent result. Valerie lives in Beverly Shores. Ron Wennekes, paints landscapes in the vicinity of Beverly Shores where he lives. His passion for painting is evident in the use of form and light to describe the range of natural forms among the dunes. Mike Zieve, a landscape painter from LaPorte, Indiana, has paintings in numerous collections and has exhibited extensively. His colorful works capture the spirit of the region. A recent commercial project was creating the mural at the Rolling Prairie Post Office. Any questions about the artists or this exhibition can be directed to Edwin Shelton at the Lubeznik Center (219-874-4900).
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Animals from B to Z (bears to zebras) take command of the Chesterton Art Center’s exhibit space beginning August 27 through September 29. Captured on canvas by ten members of Nature Art International, nature’s four-legged, winged, and even petaled life forms come to life in a variety of mediums, including watercolors, pastels, and oils. The opening reception for Nature Art International is Sat., Aug. 27 from 6-8 p.m. at the Chesterton Art Center. Five of the ten exhibiting members of the artists’ consortium will be on hand to greet guests and talk about their work. The reception, which should appeal to all nature lovers, is open to all. Nature Art International, whose selected Indiana member is Michelle Gladish of Munster, came into being through the efforts of online networking. The Internetbased, all-women’s group boasts 18 members from seven countries. The artists whose works will be appearing at the Chesterton Art Center include: Holly Boruck and Patricia Carlson of California; Cindy Crawford, Vermont; Lesley Ann Hartman, United Kingdom; Judy Schrader, Pennsylvania; Carolyn Mock, Oklahoma, Linda Rossin, New Jersey; Marilyn Marsh, Iowa; and Ria Winters, the Netherlands. Gladish, a Signature Member of Women Artists of the West, has had several of her works featured in magazines such as Southwest Art, Equine Image, and Art of the West. Many of the members of Nature Art International have been recognized nationally by such groups as the Society of Animal Artists, Oil Painters of America, the National Drawing Society, and Who’s Who Among North American Artists. Log on to www.natureartinternational.com for more information about the organization. The Chesterton Art Center is located at 115 South Fourth Street, one-half block south of the stoplight at Broadway and Fourth in Chesterton. For more information, phone 219.926.4711 or log on to www.chestertonart.com.
Infinite River Intuitive Painting Workshop Mike Zieve will be offering this painting workshop on Sat., Aug. 27, noon-3:30 p.m. It will be held at Silver Creek Farm, 10373 N 215E, LaPorte, near Heston. Cost of the workshop is $45 and all materials will be included. All adults are welcome, artists and non-artists. For more information or to reserve a space, contact Mike Zieve at 219-871-2094. Of his workshop, Mike says, “In this workshop you will be guided deep into your body/mind and intuitive self, using gentle exercise and tempera paints. The workshop gives you the opportunity to go to the heart of creativity, increasing your ability to let go, reaffirming your unique ability to be vibrant, joyful, and connected.”
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Vietnam Memorial Wall Draws Tears, Memories by Mary Fox
Chris Crafton reads names to, from the left, Noah Crafton, E lvester Moore, Jonah Crafton and Pearl Moore.
Andrew Larson looks over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Directory of Names.
Andrea and Fred Bojrab and the Rev. David Kime study names on The Moving Wall.
Not long after the erection of The Moving Wall at Washington Park, Westville resident Neal Hagenow was looking at the panels. Wearing a 173rd Airborne Bridgade cap and shirt, Neal located a chunk of about 50 names. Names of men he knew while serving in the Vietnam War. “I saw this one die. I saw this one die. I saw this one die,” he said. Pointing to the name “James Fabrizio,” he noted, “This was my best friend. We were going up the hill. He was the point man on the right field. I was the point man on the left. I stood there and watched him go down. And about two seconds later, a round went through my helmet. I was wounded twice that day – once on my arm and once on my leg.” Neal came to The Moving Wall with fellow Vietnam veteran Ron Chance to be with those he knew decades ago. “You just need to,” he said, “as I say, to visit old friends and give them the honor and respect that they deserve. As Ron says, my name could have been in there.” The Moving Wall, a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is being displayed in Fedder’s Alley until the closing ceremony at 11 a.m. Aug. 26. Members of the Wall Gang, a Michigan City group that supports veterans, brought The Moving Wall to Michigan City. Members of The Wall Gang give credit for the exhibit also to Mayor Oberlie, the Parks and Recreation Department, Tonn & Blank, veterans groups throughout the area and others. Besides for providing a place to build and store the boardwalk alongside the wall, Tonn & Blank has donated the use of the crane that displays a POW/MIA flag. About $4,800 in construction materials was supplied by 84 Lumber. “This isn’t just The Wall Gang. The whole community has jumped in,” said Wall Gang President Steve “Head Dog” Moore. Standing next to a panel on The Moving Wall, Mayor Chuck Oberlie pointed to the name of his wife’s cousin, Greg Tuholski. “I’m so tickled with the way our community responded to the request for assistance. I think we can be proud of the way this was put together.” Steve said that the organization brought The Moving Wall to Michigan City as a healing experience for veterans and to educate youth. “You talk to some young people about Vietnam, and they don’t even know what you’re talking about,” he explained. People arrived at The Moving Wall on the first day of its display for varied reasons. Michigan City resident Larry Silvestri knew a number of men on The Moving Wall from his days in the U.S. Marine Corps boot camp. He was pleased not to find the name of a man he never found after the war. “Fortunately, he’s somewhere else,” Larry said. Fort Wayne resident Andrea Bojrab remembered
the draft’s starting during her high school days. “It’s like the least we can do is look at all the names of all these men who died for our freedom,” she said. As she came to the first panels, Westville resident Chris Crafton read the names to the children she brought. She said it was important for the youngsters to “get a visual of how many people fought for our country, for our freedom.” Not far from the quilt, Sandy Postawa, Morocco, and Sharon Degner, Potterville, displayed The Agent Orange Quilts. “My husband had 48 days of exposure,” Sandy said. “He had dioxin poisoning.” Her husband, Ronald, is memorialized on the quilt with other Vietnam veterans. “Before my husband passed away, he asked that I continue fighting for his rights and the rights of our children,” she said. “It’s led into the fighting for all of the others.” On another quilt is the name of a Korean War Veteran, as well as veterans from the Gulf War. Sandy said that she is spreading the news about the dangers of Agent Orange and other dioxins. “Since we started this, the younger guys have been saying we were exposed to Agent Orange in the Gulf War,” she said. Michigan City resident Andrew Larson is volunteering his time at The Moving Wall to tell fellow veterans about assistance they may receive through Veterans Administration Hospitals. The Moving Wall, he said, is important. “It’s a memorial,” he said. “We need to remember the fallen. I believe in prayers and thoughts.”
Mayor Chuck Oberlie points to the name of Greg Tuholski, his wife’s cousin.
Vietnam Veterans Ron Chance and Neal Hagenow look over friends’ names.
Sandy Postawa and Sharon Degner hold an Agent Orange Quilt that memorializes those who have suffered from dioxins.
With the help of Samantha Beans, Howard Clarks does a rubbing from the wall.
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I visited the Garden Discussion Group recently. They meet at 10:00 every other Wednesday at the Michigan City Senior Center with leader Dave Fennell. Discussions cover things like soil composition and bed preparation, among many other topics. This time it was mostly about my own faves, tomatoes. As a thank you, I carried in a tomato tart (recipe below). Dave had hoped to supply tomatoes from his garden for my recipe (he grows Striped Roma, Burpee Early Girl, Polish, Marion, Homestead, Roma Plum, Oregon Spring, plus an adopted cherry tomato plant in his alley). Like most home gardeners, his tomatoes are maturing slowly this hot dry summer of ours, so I drove to the Old Schoolhouse’s outdoor market on route 20, near Chesterton. There, I picked up a bunch of Marilyn Kolosci’s heirloom tomatoes – she told me their names: Purple Ball, Carbon, Green Zebra, Orange Banana. Yes, tomatoes have fascinating names – and make a handsome, delicious and colorful tart.
Judy and Dave Fennell, ready to show us pictures of Al’s garden
Instructor Dave Fennell, Walter Creutzburg, Al Kolodiej and Gail Collins
den?) Al’s farmers’ market-worth of vegetables include Burpee tomatoes - Better Boys and Big Boys. Dave’s film strip of his visit to Al’s farm began with a row of lovely zinnias, then went on to squash of various types, zucchini, a soy bean field, green beans, Italian beans, beets, peppers. And told us things like, “Prepare the ground properly in the Spring, stay one step ahead of the weeks in the early summer, and water at least twice a week as the temperature rises. You can’t let the weeds have their own way.” Then Al told us all about pumpkins. “Don’t leave them in the soil - they’ll rot.” “A few years ago, my smallest pumpkin weighted 90 pounds; the largest was 150 pounds!” “Watch out - pumpkins like to crawl all over the garden.” But back to tomatoes. An heirloom is not an antique, but derived from tomato seeds. A recent article in the Chicago Tribune tells us, “Heirloom tomatoes are grown more for taste, their strong point, than for yields, uniformity, durability, storage and ship-abil-
Are those senior citizens? Oh no. Tara’s nieces are just visiting on tomato day Janice L. Geltz and Esther Fox, watching a tomato film
Dave Fennell told us about one of the group member’s farm he’d visited, and showed us some nice shots of Al Kolodiej’s large garden. (Maybe every member of this gardening group has a large gar-
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August 25, 2005 ity.” Hybrid tomatoes are those “bred for these latter qualitites.” The taste of heirlooms takes you back to childhood. Farmers markets now carry them; groceries do not. The tomatoes are generally thin-skinned, fragile – take car when transporting them. Never put them in a refrigerator – keep them on the kitchen counter. If unripe, place them in a brown paper bag to ripen, or just leave them on the counter or in a sunny spot. Eat within a few days. Enjoy. I certainly enjoy the hanging tomato plant (from Ergot’s in Stephensville) on my balcony. Growth is skimpy this hot summer, the tomato skins kinda thick, but I’ve never been 100% disappointed in a homegrown tomato. Happy 2005 tomatoes to you, too.
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RAINBOW TOMATO TART 2 each red, yellow and orange tomatoes (mine, from Marilyn Kolosci’s stand, included about ten small, more colorful ones) 4 oz goat cheese 1/2 cup shredded fresh basil (that was from Fennell’s garden) 1/4 tsp each salt and pepper Crust: 30 melba toasts 1/4 cup butter, melted 2 T grated Parmesan cheese 2 egg whites Crust: In food processor, chop melba toasts to make 1-1/4 cups fine crumbs. Add melted butter, Parmesan and egg whites. Pulse until moistened. Press into bottom and halfway up side of 9" tart pan. Bake in center of 350 degree oven until golden and firm to the touch, about 20 minutes. Let cool on rack. Make ahead, cover and store at room temp for up to 24 hours. Cut tomatoes into 1/8" thick slices. Arrange goat cheese over prepared crust. Sprinkle with one-third of the basil. Top with concentric circles of tomatoes, overlapping slightly and sprinkling salt, pepper and remaining basil between rows.
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CyberScribbles by Paula McHugh
Starts Friday, August 26
Senior Sites/Internet Security Issues It’s been a long time since I visited some of the Seniors’ sites that I reviewed in this column eons ago. For seniors just getting started with computers and the Internet, a few of these Web offerings are wonderful places to learn—and overcome—any fear of the latest technology. Plus, peer discussion boards help ease any anxiety newbie surfers may have. Seniornet (www.seniornet.org). Visit this website first (among those listed here). You may decide that you don’t need to sample any other of the senior sites, because you’ll find a large community of friendly and helpful “neighbors” here. In addition to easyto-follow Internet tutorials, you’ll find information and discussions about selected books and culture, health, money, hobbies, travel, recreation, shopping and technology. In the “Health” category, you can learn how to search the Web for trustworthy medical information, for example. The “Money” category covers estate planning, eBay for Seniors, Medicare rights, and consumer tips. In the “Books & Culture” category, free classes in Greek or Latin have been posted recently, but the cutoff date for enrolling was August 15. I guess it would pay to surf over to the website often to see what upcoming free classes might spark your interest. As far as I know, the free lecture on Walt Whitman is still online at the website. You can learn to create your own website too, thanks to the instructions a member provides. There appears to be something for everyone in the 50-or-better age bracket, so have a look around. Members need to register, which is free. Or, you can “lurk,” meaning doing what I did—just have a look around to see what Seniornet has to offer. Wired Seniors (www.wiredseniors.com). Calling itself a “portal” of seniors’ sites, Wired Seniors offers similar fare as Seniornet. The selling point, if there is one, is that it’s a resource for seniors helping seniors. This website has computer tutorials as well, and other categories on its menu include a senior match (dating and penpal) service, a home exchange, home maintenance tips, a discount mall and cooking tips and discussions. I browsed through the discount mall and found Seniorstore (www.seniorstore.com), a place specializing in products to ease age-related issues, as well as an online gift store selling presents for grandparents, etc. If you don’t like Seniornet for some reason, perhaps Wired Seniors will appeal to you. Third Age (www.thirdage.com). The way I understand it, Third Age was created to appeal to “active” seniors, meaning those who believe that retiring to a rocking chair is not an option. The menu of categories here are titled “Health, Relationships, Fun, Money, Food, etc.” For example, Third Age links to the eHarmony online dating service, where you fill out a personality profile quiz to help find a compatible companion. This website provides computer tips, too.
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1st Annual Jerry Karstens Run/Walk The Jerry Karstens Athletic Scholarship Board has announced the 1st Annual Jerry Karstens Athletic Scholarship 5K Lakeshore Run/Walk Race will take place on Sun., Sept. 4 in Washington Park as part of the Labor Dayz Festival. This promises to be a popular event that will grow each year as it is for a great cause in memory of a great man, and it will be one of the most unique races in the entire Midwest. The course is on the beach and throughout Washington Park including a stretch through the Zoo offering beauty with a challenge to benefit a great cause. Participation categories in both male and female (separate) divisions are: Ages 10 and younger Ages 11-20 – Ages 21-30 – Ages 31-40 – Ages 41-50 – Ages 51-60 – Ages 61-69 – Ages 70 and older The race is a timed event, and there will also be a “walk” category for those that wish to help the cause but walk it. Awards will be presented to the top three male and female finishers in each category, and awards will be presented to the Top 5 overall finishers for both male and female, and there will be other “mid-pack” awards and give-a-ways. Participants and Sponsors will receive a free Washington Park parking pass good for the day as well. This event is sponsored in part by Labor Dayz and Runners World. For registration information and form, visit michigancityparks.com or phone the Park Office at 219-8731506. Pre-registration will run through 4 p.m. on Wed., Aug. 31st. After this cut-off, participants that sign-up will be considered “Race Day” signups, which will run through race day and end at 7:15 a.m. sharp. The fee for pre-registration participants is $20, and the fee thereafter is $25. All racers will receive “race shorts” in tribute to Jerry Karstens.
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I’m caught with the movement of women going back to the earth, putting their muscle where their mouth is and getting the food value back into foods, enriching the soil, preserving native plants. The rise in women owning small farms producing organic foods that I wrote about a few weeks, 27% of all agricultural production, intrigued me even more when I read another article in Branches, a magazine out of Indianapolis that keeps its fingers on the pulse of new age movements. There were a pair of women, the Bradley sisters, who have put their efforts in the most basic of land reclamation movements. It’s called the Bradley Method and is circling the globe from its beginnings as a way of regenerating the native bush in Australia. The man who wrote the article, John Seed, founder and director of the Rainforest Information Center in Australia, has found the Bradley Method cropping up in India, Bhopal, Russia, and the United States. It’s deep, deep ecology that seems to rise independently in disparate places, rising in what he feels is an innate need of man.
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What the Bradley sisters did was to take a piece of land and slowly, carefully, over a period of years, weed out every plant that was an exotic, a plant that had been introduced in some way to the area, and let the natives be. Slowly, over many years, the native plants would come back, some from seeds set deep that hadn’t sprouted in years. Deep scars on the land, erosion gullies could be restored to native bush, an accelerating as (and I love this phrasing) “the native intelligence of the place emerges and the life-force quickens.” The process of removing exotics to let the native plants come back could happen anywhere, the Bradleys said, in an inner-city park. In a spot where the mower
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August 25, 2005 couldn’t reach, dormant seeds could be activated again with climax species emerging that hadn’t been seen for 100 years. The thing is, you have to give it a little time. Nature replenishes in spurts; first come the plants that make way for the next plants that provide their ecology supports, then on and on, in an accelerating advance that integrates and slowly bring it all back to harmony. Just planting new trees on a hillside where mudslides have wiped away houses isn’t the answer. There are places all over the world where answers have to be found to heal the earth where catastrophic events of nature have occurred. The good news is that it can happen. John Seed writes of a place in Bhopal where a professor of forestry was granted several thousand acres for a new school, thorny desert ground that had been denuded by goats and the fires of goat herders. He and his students inventoried what was there, fenced it in and where just a few sticks of chewed-bark shrubbery remained, over 80 species re-emerged in just four years. Saving trees is just one aspect of conservation; saving the land from desolation so new ones in a complete ecology of life is another thing all together. As others do, I can find that pros and cons of ecology movements exist; in this case, where did the goat herders go? Would they eventually co-exist again? Pasture lands in our own West have found some of the answers to questions like this, not often easy. But this I know, if only from my little garden plot. Nature moves in swiftly to fill in the gaps. Nature is a force deep within every atom of our planet and has a wisdom of its own. There is another intriguing force that John Seed offered in his article. He likens this force of Nature to a force within our own psyche. He wrote: “Techniques that facilitate the return of native vegetation may also help us understand how wild common sense can return to the human mind. . .The spontaneous emergence of the Bradley Method in different places around the world can then be seen as an expression of the return of a trust in Nature after centuries and millennia of human arrogance.” It’s a metaphor for clearing out the layers that have isolated and alienated us from a force deep within us; a native intelligence then can spring forth. We don’t need to plant new ideas in each other’s minds, just let what has been there evolving for 4000 million years of organic life take hold. Take an inventory of alien ideas, he suggests, and learn to recognize those that block us from being what we were meant to be all along. That’s a pretty Wow idea. Could be the inner being knows the answers; they’ve been there all the time. In protecting the earth you start with strength, he says, those already feel an empathy in conservation-minded communities. It’s like growing a plant. . . or raising a child. You encourage, support and applaud the good and productive and more good evolves, growing stronger every year. All it takes is time. And so it is.
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On the first Wednesday of each month, the Northern Indiana Center for History offers a program for senior citizens called “Insights in History for Seniors.” The next program in this series is Wed., Sept. 7 when IUSB Professor of History Les Lamon will talk about the sites of the Underground Railroad with his talk “Exploring Traces of the Underground Railroad.” During the 1800s, over 100,000 fugitive slaves attempted to reach freedom through the Underground Railroad, many traveling through Indiana on their way to Canada. Quakers, Free Blacks, and other abolitionists used their homes and businesses as places where slaves could rest, eat and receive other assistance as they took the difficult and dangerous path toward freedom. Dr. Lamon will also preview a trip he is leading on Oct. 7-9 to towns in southern Indiana, Ohio and northern Kentucky. The trip, offered by IU South Bend and the Center for History, will include stops at former sites of the Underground Railroad and a tour of the home of Levi Coffin, often referred to as the President of the Underground Railroad. Admission is $3. Refreshments will be served. Reservations needed by Sept. 6. Information at 574/235-9664 or www.centerforhistory.org
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Sheridan Beach Homeowners Association FRIDAY, AUGUST 26 7:30-9 p.m. END OF THE SUMMER BEACH PARTY. As summer comes to a close take a trip out to the beach to watch the sunset over Lake Michigan. After the sunset, enjoy songs and stories around the campfire. Park at Dunbar parking lot and join the party on the beach. SATURDAY, AUGUST 27 7:30-8:30 p.m. GAME FISH OF THE DUNES. Join a ranger to take a look at the fresh water game fish of Northwest Indiana. Learn about their habits and the habitats they live in. You will also explore their life cycles and what they eat. Learn where and how to catch the big ones. Held at Dunewood Campground Amphitheater. For more information, phone 219/926-7561, ext. 225.
Corn Maize at Guse Christmas Trees Guse Christmas Trees, in Wanatah, Indiana, has produced a seven-acre “Corn Maize” to add to the experience people can have at the Christmas tree farm. The maze is a challenging course with over three miles of paths, and the main shape forming Santa’s sleigh and a reindeer, with Christmas trees in the backround. Guse Christmas Trees will have its grand opening Sept. 3rd-5th, and will mark the first weekend the maze will be open to the public. Besides the new maze and u-pick trees and pumpkins, family activities take place every weekend, which include two smaller corn mazes, water balloon throwing contests, mini-train and hay rides, duck races, and concessions with the ability for families to sit at picnic tables around bonfires. Guse Christmas Trees is open Fri. 4-8 pm, Sat. 10 am-8 pm, and Sun. 10 am-6 pm. Weekdays are by appointment only. For more information, visit www.gusechristmastrees.com or call 219-733-9346.
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The Gardens of Barker Mansion Enjoy a perfect summer afternoon with a glass of lemonade in Barker Mansion’s turn of the century architectural style garden. Lemonade is served Mon.- Fri., between 2 pm and 3 pm. The garden is based on a design by Jens Jensen, noted landscape architect, as commissioned by Mrs. John Barker in 1909. It includes a pool in the center with four walkways leading to it and contains statuary that was purchased by the Barkers. Flanking the entrance to the garden are two guardian lions and across the garden a pair of 19th century garden herms, Priapus and Flora, are featured. A griffin bench and sundial are under a one hundred year old lilac tree. Two Jugenstiel lamps with opalescent glass globes provide decorative lighting for the teahouse. Plantings today include roses, annuals, perennials and a yew hedge. The brick walkways and brick areas under the pergolas have recently been restored to their original design. The garden is the setting for weddings during the summer months. It’s not too late to see Barker Mansion’s summer display “Party Dresses and Pretty Hats’’. Regular guided tours are 10 am, 11:30 am, and 1 pm Mon.-Fri., and 12 pm and 2 pm Sat. and Sun. This display includes designer gowns of vintage fabrics belonging to Mrs. John H. Barker, her daughter Catherine, and other individuals. A black lace and velvet French gown, a Charles Wright designed gown, flapper dresses, and a Jackie Kennedy styled gown are among those displayed. These fashions may be seen through Sept. 30. Barker Mansion is a 1905 house museum and was the home of railroad industrialist John H. Barker. The Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places and includes original furnishings, art objects, and garden sculpture. Barker Mansion is located at 631 Washington St., Michigan City, Indiana. For additional information phone 219-873-1520.
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“O Canada” of the Delightfully Light Heart by William F. Keefe
Canada’s a gas–again. With the hazards and inconveniences of the huge blackout of ‘03 a touchy memory, the smiles have returned. Especially, it seems, for visitors from the United States. Picture the interior of an IGA grocery store. It’s so close to closing time that many of the lights are out. Yet no one seems to be hurrying. The handful of patrons dropping food items into their wheeled baskets are studies in deliberate motion. They include wife Carol. She’s trying to find a suitable beverage to take back to the Swan Motel. Ahead of her in the single operative checkout line are two short, white-haired ladies. Surprise: to speed Carol’s passage through the line, the second of the two ladies makes a thoughtful offer. “Put yer bottle in my cart,” she says. “We can check out together. No need to carry it.” Carol accepts. I have gone on ahead and am near the front door, studying the front page of the Toronto Star. As the two little ladies come off the checkout line, one of them begins to laugh up a Florida hurricane. Approaching, she says to me, “You was standin’ so still I thought you was a cardboard cutout.” The laughter spreads. I explain that I often work part-time in grocery stores as a cardboard cutout. Four of us are laughing and the last lights are going out. Similar things happen again and again. Entering Canada, on the Canadian side of the Blue Water Bridge linking the United States and Ontario, the customs agent in his little booth seems almost apologetic. He asks where we are going, what we will be doing. The answers are easy, “To Stratford. We’ll be seeing three plays.” Any liquor? “No.” He waves us on, saying “Enjoy.” He forgot, or didn’t need, to ask us whether we had any firearms in the car. That question, encountered on previous visits, would have received a negative answer.
Not even the hassle of crossing into Canada seemed unnecessarily time-consuming or offensive. The cars are waiting to drive over the Blue Water Bridge. (Keefe photos)
There’s some advantage to getting buddy-buddy with a grossly oversized Santa Claus in July.
At a restaurant in Sarnia later, we absorb another lesson in Canadian informality and candor. The waitress serving dinner in Smitty’s, hardly two blocks from the Blue Water Bridge, asks for our drink orders. It has been a long, thirst-building drive from Stratford, and I ask for a glass of wine. The waitress pretends that she’s imparting the secret of relativity. “They only fill the glass half full,” she whispers. “It’s not worth what you’ll pay.” I thank her and order one anyway. She was, it turns out, right on both counts. The Rush for Tickets Time- and nerve-saving help came to us in Canada in all kinds of places under all kinds of circumstances. At Stratford’s Festival Theatre, expecting as in 2004 to be able to buy tickets on the day of the “Hello Dolly” performance, we appeared at the box office at 7:30 a.m. Last year the practice had been to open the ticket window at 8:00 a.m. and at that time to begin sales of “rush” tickets that were still available for the day’s show. Eight-thirty came and went. No one could tell us why the rush sales weren’t taking place. We were giving it a few more minutes when a gentleman approached and asked whether we were, indeed, waiting for the box office to open. Yes, we were. He listened to our explanations that we had bought same-day ducats last year at 8:00 a.m. “You can’t do that any more,” he said gently. “Everything has changed. No rush sales before noon on the day of the performance. I can’t explain why. But you won’t have a problem getting tickets if you come back here at noon.” We were back there at noon. “Hello Dolly” that afternoon was a rollicking, captivating success.
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Heeding various warnings about overstaying your parking limit, wife Carol feeds a meter with a Canadian quarter.
“We’ll be very careful,” we promise. Whereupon the young lady tells about the city lot, only a couple of blocks away, where visitors can park free all day.
A river-tour boat rides at anchor on the Avon River at Stratford as naturelovers feed the birds. Dominating the feathered crowd are two of the river’s many swans.
Page 49 The impression that Canadians want travelers to feel at home becomes indelible after a couple of days. Buy postcards in a stationery/gift shop and the lady at the counter will offer to provide the stamps needed to carry the cards to the States. Entering a branch bank to exchange American greenbacks for Canadian bills and change, the lady teller greets us as if we are her long-missed relatives from the Old Country. As the transaction proceeds, she says, “We usually charge $2.50 for this type of exchange, but I can ignore that this time.” No reason given, she peeled off that Canadian currency and wished us a happy stay in Ontario. She added a smile that would melt a heart of obsidian.
The drought-reduced Avon River still, apparently, contains enough fish to make angling worth it. Proof lies in the efforts of the young fisherman (center, in hat).
There’s always humor, it seems. In the Black Angus coffee shop the elderly lady waiting on us hears us talking about the weather. “Oh yes,” she says, “it’s going to be 33 today. That’s the forecast.” Carol asks what I was thinking of asking: “What’s 33 in Fahrenheit terms?” The question sends the waitress to another breakfaster who is presumably familiar with our strange United Stated States standards and systems of measurement. One or two others become involved. Returning to us the waitress says, “That gentleman says it means about the middle 90s. He thinks it’s the middle 90s.” Having done her detective-darndest, she returns to work. Once again we have encountered the sense of accommodation that appears to run through the entire society. We will go back. We will stop again at the Boar’s Head tavern, a replica of an English pub that feels more publike than any of the English models that I have seen. At the Boar’s Head you can pick and choose from the menu, combine parts of different dishes, probably order an empty plate if that suits your mood. We will go back. We may learn to sing “O Canada” before we do.
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In the Local Area: August 25— Michigan City Municipal Band Concert at the Guy Foreman Amphitheater in Washington Park, Michigan City. Free. 8 pm. August 25-29 — “Me You and Everyone We Know.” Thurs & Fri. 6:30 pm; Sat & Sun 4 & 6:30 pm; Mon 6:30 pm. (MI times). Rated R. Winner Cannes, Sundance & Philadelphia Film Festivals. Also showing: “March of the Penguins.” Rated G. 9 pm only. Vickers Theatre, 6 N. Elm St., Three Oaks, MI. 269/7563522 or www.vickerstheatre.com August 26 — Opening reception for “Theodore Prescott and Catherine Prescott: Image and Substance,” and “Robert Sirko: Digital Prints.” 7 pm at the Brauer Museum of Art on the campus of Valparaiso University. Free & open to the public. Info: 219/464-5114. August 26-27 — Farmer’s Market at the Schoolhouse Shop, Furnessville, IN. 10 am-4 pm each day. August 26-27 — “Love Letters.” Canterbury Summer Theatre production by the Festival Players Guild. Last production of the season. Curtain Fri, 8 pm; Sat, 5 & 8 pm. Mainstreet Theatre, 807 Franklin St., MC. Tix $13/adults, $12/sen. cit. & $6.50/high school age & younger. Current season ticket holders can purchase tickets for $10. Phone 219/874-4269. August 25-28 — “Amadeus.” Presented by the 4th Street Theatre, 125 N. Fourth St., Chesterton. Curtain 8 pm Thurs-Sat; 3 pm Sun. Tix $10; 219/926-7875. August 25-28 — In-Water Boat Show at Michigan City’s Washington Park Marina. August 26-28, September 2-4 — “Starbright!” A musical comedy. A production of Dunes Summer Theatre, Michiana Shores, IN. Curtain Fri & Sat 8 pm; Sun 7 pm. Tix $15/adults, $12/sen. cit. & students. Reserve: 219-879-7509. www/dunessummertheatre.com. August 26-28, September 2-4, 8-9 — “The Little Mermaid.” Community Theatre Guild production at Chicago Street Theatre, 154 W. Chicago St., Valparaiso, IN. Curtain Fri 7 pm; Sat 2:30 & 7 pm; Sun 2:30 pm. Fri, Sept. 9, 8 pm. Tix $10/adults, $8/students & sen. Thru August 26 — Vietnam Memorial Moving Wall at Washington Park, Michigan City. Free adm.; open for viewing 24 hrs. a day. Closes Fri. at 6 pm. August 26-28 — Carousel Organ Assoc. of America Rally in St. Joseph, MI. On the bluff overlooking Lake Michigan and throughout the downtown area. Story this issue. August 27 — Farmer’s Market. 8th & Washington streets, Michigan City. 8 am-noon. August 27 — Music in the Park, Three Oaks, MI. “Springstock” starts at noon Mi time at South Elm St. (if construction allows) or Linden St. Adm. free. Story this issue gives lineup of performers. August 27 — Opening for Nature Art International at Chesterton Art Center, 115 S. 4th St., Chesterton, IN. 6-8 pm. Public invited to attend. The exhibit continues through Sept. 29. Info: 219/926-4711. August 27 — “Hit Factory: Songs of the Brill
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An inside look at the Outsiders Outside Fair by Charles McKelvy
Just when you think Judith Racht is going to run out of steam and stop staging the wildly popular Outsiders Outside Fair at her Harbert gallery on Labor Day weekend, she rallies and goes for another lap. Hence, the widely anticipated eleventh — yes — eleventh annual Outsiders Outside Fair, aka: OO11, returns to Judith Racht Gallery over Labor Day weekend, September 2-4, with 48 booth featuring the work of nationally known, as well as undiscovered, untrained, visionary, and folk artists. Judith took a break recently from organizing the Outsiders Fair to suggest that perhaps she has lost her mind for continuing to sponsor it. “But you know,” she said, “so many people call me in the winter and say their cousin just called and wants to know when the Outsiders is going to be, because they’re doing their vacation around it. I had one person who said: ‘they’re coming from London to see the show,’ and I said we’re not doing it anymore, and they said: ‘but you have to do it!’” And so, of course, Judith Racht is soldiering on with an Outsiders Outside Art Fair that can be truly described as one of the most anticipated summer events in all of Harbor Country. She really has no choice but to persist in putting up the most amazing art fair anywhere because, as
Mariann Meegan and her faithful dog Charley stopped by Judith Racht Gallery to help their friend Judith plan for the eleventh annual Outsiders Outside Art Fair scheduled for September 2-4.
she said, “On opening night, I look out there, and all the kids are dancing in front of (the band) Patent Medicine, and everybody’s laughing and smiling and talking. It’s such a happy way to end the summer.” And, yes, Judith will display work in the gallery to complement that shown outside in the tents and this year you can look forward to seeing, and perhaps purchasing, portraits of the first 35 presidents by school girls. Plus, OO11 opens with a Preview Party on Friday, September 2, from 6 to 9 p.m. EDT. A $50 admission ($5 for children 12 and under) purchases a delightful dinner from Cafe Gulistan, music by Patent Medicine, and a full weekend pass to enjoy the art and shopping. “Cafe Gulistan has done the food for our opening for a number of years, but this year, more than ever, featuring their foods will help keep Ibrahim and Hussein Parlak from being pushed to the border. We want to remind people that it is an ongoing battle for them, and ask everyone to continue to support their cause,” Judith said. She would also remind you that a portion of ticket sales benefit the Stenn Fund for Ovarian Cancer Research. So you not only get a chance to see and buy baseball images by untrained artist William Rich, but you will be supporting some worthy causes with your mere presence at THE event of the summer. As for this year’s show, she said “there will be a lot of the same people, but a lot of new people too. I try to keep new blood in it for the people who come back every year. But I still have a core group that includes: the Angela Usrey Gallery in Tennessee, The Pardee Collection from Iowa, Casey McGlynn and company from Toronto. Yes, the Canadians are coming in their minivan gallery! The Canadians are coming!!”
Portraits of the first 35 presidents will be featured at the Outsiders Outside Art Fair at Judith Racht Gallery on September 2-4.
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Catch this antiqu3e chest with fish at the Outsiders Outside Art Fair on September 2-4 at Judith Racht Gallery in Harbert.
Other returning exhibitors will be Paul Hart with his menagerie of fanciful sculptures, Dewey Blocksma’s windmills, Bob Betley’s vintage photos and tramp art, Connie Covent’s incredible folk art, and much more. “One year someone discovered a wood sculpture valued at $25,000, and last year drawings by Jacques de DuGlass were first exhibited here. His pen-and-ink drawing of turn-of-the-century Indiana towns were later praised by The New York Times as one of the highlights of the Puck Show in New York. Come to 0011 and see it here first,” Judith said. Among exhibits Judith is adding to this year’s line-up are: T-Marie Nolan’s glass tiles and Hoke Robert’s paintings from HoodooMo Studio, Joel Pinkerton with his found-object sculptures and lamps, and Artistic Spirit Gallery’s collection. The weekend continues on Saturday, September 3 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. EDT, and Sunday, September 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Regular admission prices are $7 for on day, or $10 for a two-day pass. Children 12 and under are free. Judith Racht Gallery is located at 13707 Prairie Road just south of Red Arrow Highway. For more information, please call: 269/469-1080 or visit the gallery’s website at: http://www.judithrachtgallery.net.
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HOUSE FOR RENT IN LONG BEACH 3/BR. Across from lake. Great view & beach. Call 219/874-8692. MICHIANA SHORES-ORIGINAL 1930’S MICHIANA LOG CABIN Want to go back to camp? Just renovated, along the creek. Sleeping loft and 4 bunk beds, frpl, screen porch, deck, gas grill, A/C. Close to playground and 2-1/2 blk. to beach. Off-season rates avail. 7/1-7/31, $600/wk; 8/1-8/31, $700/wk or $1,800/mo. Negotiable. Call Judy 1-866-400-6800 or email
[email protected] LONG BEACH EXECUTIVE HOUSE LONG TERM RENTAL. Stop 29. Overlooking lake. Fantastic decks/views. 3BR, 2BA, A/C, W/D, cable TV, WIFI High spd Internet, and more. NO PETS/NO SMOKING. $2,050/mo. plus utilities. Call 630-337-6220. LONG BEACH SINGLE FAMILY YEAR ROUND ON DOUBLE LOT 2 BLKS. FROM STOP 28. Well maintained open flr. plan with gorgeous hrdw. flrs. & frpl. Comfortably sleeps 12. New separate basement guest suite with full bath, laundry & bunk beds. The best and biggest beach in Long Beach. Call 847-251-7494 or visit http://vrbo.com/57932 SUMMER RENTALS ARE HERE! ••4-5BR w/panoramic Lake Michigan view rents for $2,500/wk. 2 huge screen porches & quick lake access! ••3BR, 2BA w/2 sleeping lofts is just 1 door from Lake. $1,700/wk. ••Sheridan Beach 3-4BR cottage on Lake Michigan beach w/huge deck. $2,500/wk. ••3BR Michiana cottage available $950/wk. ••4BR, 2BA home at Michiana & Lake Shore Dr. has gorgeous views. Avai. For July $2,500/wk. ••5BR, 4.5BA. 200 Hilltop in Sheridan Beach. $3,500/wk. Great Lake Michigan views. Merrion & Associates, Realtor 219-872-4000 www.merrionrealty.com SHERIDAN BEACH SUMMER RENTAL. Lg. modern luxury 3BR, 1-1/2BA across from beach. A/C, W/D. $1,250/wk. Disc. for longer stays. Call 219-872-4446. SHERIDAN BEACH SUMMER RENTALS •3BR, 2Bath. Fully furn. On beach. $2,500/wk.. •STUDIO - 1BR, fully furn. On beach. $800/wk. 312-560-5122. LOVELY LONG BEACH executive home for rent. Stop 29. Just one short block from fantastic beach. Newly remodeled home is great summer base for caring family. Cable, A/C, new appliances & beds. Leave the family at the beach and commute to work via the South Shore RR. Treat your family to fun, sun, sand and Lake Michigan from a great family home. Four week minimum rental. Call 330-668-7246 or 330-606-7059 for rates and availability. 2BR CONDO IN LONG BEACH POINTE. Water/gas/heat. $815/month plus electric. Call Merrion & Associates Realtors at 219-872-4000. ESCAPE TO BEAUTIFUL SANDY BEACHES at this 3BR lakefront with coach house. Sleeps 12. $3,200/wk or just main house $2,500/wk. Call Lake Effect Vacation Rentals Realty at 269/469-9813. LONG BEACH HOUSE FOR RENT ON LAKE SHORE DRIVE 3/BR. A/C. Fpl. Furn. Summer wkly. rentals avail. Also avail Sept thru May. $750/mo + util. Call 708/424-8756, or 219/874-8428. LONG BEACH HOUSE FOR RENT - Great location, very close to beach and park. 4/BR, 2/Bath. A/C. W/D. New kitchen w/DW. Deck w/BBQ. Cable TV. – Avail. for winter rental through 6/15/06. Call 312-9539570. SHERIDAN BEACH RUSTIC 3BR LAKE COTTAGE. Private, wooded setting. Weekends, weekly, seasonal or yr. round. $135/day, $875/wk. Call 219-879-9319. LONG BEACH WINTER RENTAL. 3BR, 2BA FURNISHED. Clean. Nicely decorated. Lg.deck. 100 yards. to beach. W/D. A/C. Avail. Sept. $740/mo. Call 219-874-6476. YEARLY RENTAL. Newer 2BR, 2BA. All appliances. No pets. 3 blocks to beach. Credit check. $750/mo. + util. Call 219-363-6818. CHARMING LONG BEACH TWO STORY HOME Stop 20 - Newly redone - 4/BR, 2/Bath. Furnished - No Pets. Washer/dryer. 1/4 Block to beach. $850/mo + utilities. Avail Sept’05 - June ‘06 - Call 708/717-8883. SHORELAND HILLS 10 MONTH RENTAL. 3BR, 2BA, furnished, W/D. 2 blks. to lake. Avail. 9/1/05 to 6/30/06. $725 per month includes lawn/leaf maint., but not utilities. No pets. Call Bob N. at (800)899-2699 or Clare N. at (708) 579-1193. Recently remodeled. “Must see to appreciate.” FABULOUS SHABBY CHIC POOLHOUSE. Long Beach Stop 31. Close to beach. 5BR, 4.5BA. Newly remodeled. A/C. Large yard and decks. Avail. for summer rentals. Call 312-404-4457.
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August 25, 2005 LAKEFRONT 2BR or 4BR HOUSE. Deck, fireplace, hardwood floors. Furn. or unfurn. 1214 Lake Shore Drive. Call 773-559-3563. FALL RENTAL — CHARMING COUNTRY HOME - STOP 33 Sept. thru May 31. 2 blks. from lake. Fully furnished, well decorated. 3BR, 2BA. Family room w/fireplace. Sun room. 2 car garage. A/C. W/D. Patio & deck. No pets, no smoking. $950/mo. Call 708-784-9866. THE PERFECT BEACH HOUSE IN SHERIDAN BEACH 3BR, 2.5BA. 1 blk. to beach. Great big eat-in kitchen. Pool table. Fireplace, 2 decks w/gas grill. Satellite TV w/DVR, DVD, VCR. W/D. A/C. REALLY COMFY BEDS! Sleeps 10. Rates negotiable. Contact Stacy, 312-282-1535 or email
[email protected] for pictures and more info. WANT YOUR OWN VACATION HOME ALL YEAR? Brand new townhouse right on shores of Pine Lake in LaPorte, IN. Unbeatable view. 2BR, 2BA, pool, boat slip. Water ski, fish, ice boating, swim. Year long lease. $1,400/mo. 70 mins. from Chicago. Call 219-324-5910, leave message. HOME IN OGDEN DUNES. Portage school system. Walking distance to South Shore station. 3 possibly 4BR, 3BA. 2 car garage. Spacious yard. $1500/mo. + util. Avail Sept. 1. Call 219-762-9194. HAVE IT ALL – NEAR IT ALL. 2 lg. fully restored vacation apts. In the Carsten Mansion, Michigan City. Walk to South Shore, Amtrack, bus, downtown restaurants & theatre, Washington Park, lake/beach, harbor, Yacht Club, zoo and the Lighthouse Mall. (Sailboat ride optional). $600/wk. or $2,100/mo. thru October. Call 815-693-2625. 2 POSH APARTMENTS FOR RENT. Walk to Lake. Long Term. Very Reasonable. Call 815-693-2625. STOP 31 WINTER RENTAL. Fully furnished. 3BR, W/D, A/C, D/W. Close to beach. Deck w/BBQ. Screened porch. No smoking or pets. Available monthly Sept 05 to May 06. $700/mo. + util. Includes lawn and leaf maintenance. Call Jim at 219-878-2393 or 574-247-1427. “MICHIANA COTTAGES” VACATION RENTALS –Choose the Red or Cocoa Cottage which comfortably sleep 6/10. Privately wooded, charmingly appointed, just a short walk to the beach. Gas grill, great deck and yard, screen porch, cable, Internet, DVD, W/D, A/C, etc at both. Pet and family friendly. Come for a visit! $995 - $1,495/wk. Year round availability. 773-871-2256 or www.michianacottages.com LONG BEACH WINTER RENTAL. 3BR, furnished. A/C. W/D. Deck. Available Aug.-June 2006. $750/mo. + util. Call 317-716-7321. ENDLESS SUMMER – Beach Living All Year Long. Shoreland Hills – Stop 31. Off-season rental. Sept-May. Charming rehabbed cottage. 1 blk. to beach. Sleeps 6-10. New kitchen, 2 new baths, LR, FR, huge screened porch. $700/mo. + util. Call 847-696-0878 or 847-323-8456. NEWLY RENOVATED homes avail. for Monthly or Long-Term Rental. 3BR, 2BA house—314 Lake Shore Drive. This classis Sheridan Beach house has been updated and renovated in many ways: brand new living room, new appliances, new front and rear decks, restored hardwood flrs., and freshly painted and updated. Steps to the beach and coffee shop. 4BR, 2BA house—1813 Ridgemoor. This Long Beach tri-level home has brand new hardwood flrs. On every level, new appliances, and newly updated. 1blk. to the beach. See these homes by going to www.mickygallasproperties.com — click on “rental” and go see the houses. Call Bob at 219-879-9544. End of Summer Vacation Rental still available. Charming Country Home- Stop 33 for Aug./Sept. rental (2 blks. from lake). Fully furnished, 4BR, 2BA. Family room w/fireplace. Sun porch. 2 car garage. A/C. W/D. Patio Deck. $1,500/week or long weekend avail. Call 708-784-9866. 1BR, 1BA CONDO WITH BOAT SLIP. Furnished or unfurnished. $800/mo. Call Debbie Burke @ Merrion & Associates 219-872-4000. BRIGHT, FURNISHED 2BR APARTMENT overlooking Lake Michigan. $900/MO + util. Call Century 21-Long Beach Realty, 219-874-5209.
RENTALS MICHIGAN MICHIANA, MI. 3BR, 2 BA, compl. Furn. A/C, 2-1/2 blks. to lake. $750/wk. or $2,800/mo. Avail. July thru Aug. Call 219-872-7336. MICHIGAN, NEW BUFFALO, GRAND BEACH. Lakefront home, just 42 steps down to a private beach on Lake Michigan. Enjoy magnificent sunsets from this lake-front deck. Golf course and tennis courts are within walking distance. This cozy 3BR, is air-conditioned and equipped with a washer and dryer. Avail. July & Aug. for $1,800/wk. Or June & Sept. for $975/wk. Call 708-848-1025 for a viewing appointment. AUTHENTIC LOG HOMES FOR RENT. Long or short term available. Call 269-469-1555 or email grandbeachmotel.com
Page 65 ON LAKE MICHIGAN, NEW BUFFALO. 2BR condo Warwick Shores. Also cottages. Private beach, pool, tennis, summer or year round rental. Call 269-469-0300-wkdays, 269-469-2943-even. & wk. ends. BEAUTIFUL VINTAGE MICHIANA COTTAGE FOR RENTAL One block from beautiful Lake Michigan Beach at Stop 39. Fully furnished—Charming Deco decor. Air conditioned, forty windows to catch lake breezes. Sleeps up to eight persons. Three bedrooms. Two full baths. Two woodburning fireplaces. New kitchen. Secluded forty oak tree landscape with Adirondack chairs and hammocks. TVs with cable and movie channels. BBQ grill. Pets welcome. Call [773] 528-0825 or [773] 281-7100, or 773-454-2200. BEACH HOUSE ON CREST OF DUNE. New Buffalo. 2BR, 2-1/2BA. Terrific views of lake, Chicago skyline, sunsets. Private woods w/trails, tennis pool, beach. Frplc, DSL, deck, balc. Summer: $1600/wk. Off-season: $1000/mo. Call 773-947-9182 or 269-469-6579. MICHIANA, MI 4300 sq. ft. home. 5BR, 4BA. 2-1/2 blks. to beach. By month or longer/by week in summer. Call 269-469-0219 for a viewing appointment.
FLORIDA RENTALS NAPLES, FLORIDA CONDO ON THE BEACH. 2BR, 2BA. Available Oct. thru Dec. 30 day minimum. Call Sean at 312-403-9715.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BEAUTIFUL LONG BEACH POINTE CONDO - 1BR lower level with new berber carpet & ceramic floors. All appliances stay. Private patio. Close to beach and Notre Dame School. Community pool. Call 219-872-0465. NEW BUFFALO ALTERNATIVE (Rural Michigan City). Furn. home on wooded, well landscaped 1-1/4 acres in private country subdivision with low taxes. 9 rms. 3-4BR, 2.5BA. Frpl, maple kit. cabinets, Jacuzzi, sun rm., rec. rm. with wet bar. Alarm system with cameras. 2.5 car finished garage. 25K generator, fenced yard with sprinkler system and much more. A perfect second home that can almost take care of itself. $249,500. A must see! 3.2 mi.east of exit 34B on I-94 off 400N at Sunset. Century-21 1st Team, 2 N. Whittaker St., New Buffalo, MI. Call 269-469-2121. LAND FOR SALE Beverly Shores, Indiana 3 separate buildable lots for sale. $170,000 – 3 blks. To Lake Michigan $250,000 – Lake Michigan glimpses $390,000 – Spectacular Lake Michigan views (219) 878-1724 NEW BUFFALO IS HOT! #1 - DOWNTOWN NB BUILDING right on Whittaker St. is only 2 blks to beach. Trendy & upscale inside & out but still offers a vintage flair. Bottom level is currently 1,800 sq.ft. of retail w/original 10’ tin ceilings & hardwood flrs. Top level has private entrance leading to an updated 3BR apt. Rent for a fantastic investment or live in top, set up shop downstairs. OR…how about adding a beautiful staircase inside connecting the top & bottom levels for a one of a kind, fun, downtown NB home! Comes w/parking spaces. $749,000. #2 - SOUTH COVE BOAT HOUSE on NB’s Harbor Isle Drive. Exceptionally placed end unit literally sits in the waters of NB’s top notch marina. Views of harbor & Lake Michigan along w/loads of amenities. 3BR, 3BA, central air, decks, 2 car garage, patio…w/2,100 sq.ft. of living space, the Boat House units are one of South Cove’s best kept secrets. PLUS unit comes with 46’ boat slip just outside the kitchen AND an extra 46’ slip next door for your water toys or visiting boating friends. $559,000 Call Jan Adamec or Deb DeVos at Nadra K Real Estate * 16678 Red Arrow Highway * New Buffalo, MI 1-888-594-7767 *** www.nadrak.com LAKE AREA MEGA LOFT CONDO. 1860 sq.ft. + 2-car garage. 2BR, 21/2BA + den. End unit; quiet. Ceramic tile in living areas, BRs carpet. Wired surround sound, fireplace ready. 12x18 brick patio, all appliances including up-graded stove. Laundry room; dog friendly. $195,000. Call 219-874-4666 or 219-872-9888. MICHIANA MI FOR SALE BY OWNER This beautiful home on 3 lots has everything. $359,000. Call 269-469-4295.
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Off the Book Shelf by Sally Carpenter
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova When a book remains on the top ten best seller list for weeks on end, I get curious. This book has remained on that list almost since the first week of its release. Although at 642 pages it is by no means a quick read, I had to do it, because it sounded just that good. The Historian is a rather bland and maybe boring title at first glance, especially when put up against other top ten books by the likes of James Patterson and other mainstream authors. Although this is author Kostova’s first novel, I want to be the first to predict this as a potential candidate for the National Book Award. It’s that good. If you love words, history and a darn good yarn, this is the book for you. Having said that, and hoping I have your undivided attention, let me tell you the tale of the search for the historical Dracula, a.k.a. Vlad the Impaler… I must give you the background in order to understand the whole scope of the story, but the details are for you to read. They are the meat of the story and there is so much to digest here that I feel I’m about to dish out a multi-course dinner to you! First course: The story starts out with a man, an American diplomat and former historian, and his teenaged daughter, seventeen and precocious. It is 1972 and the pair are living in Amsterdam. A very well read young lady, the daughter, whose name you never learn because she is the narrator, finds herself one night in her father’s study and pulls down an old book and a pile of letters she has never seen before. The letters are addressed to “My dear and unfortunate successor.” It takes the girl a while to get up the nerve to ask her father about the book and letters, but he finally decides to “tell all.” And thus begins course two in this banquet of the mind. It seems the book just showed up among his papers when he was a university graduate student. He didn’t know where it came from. The book was old and all the pages were blank except for the middle two: “Across those two pages I saw a great woodcut of a dragon with spread wings and a long looped tail, a beast unfurled and raging, claws outstretched. In the dragon’s claws hung a banner on which ran a single word in Gothic lettering: Drakulya.” Shades of Bela Lugosi and mist shrouded nights in a crypt? Nope. Being the scholar he was, the man remembers the word Drakulya is from the Latin root for dragon or devil, which just happened to be the title bestowed on Vlad Tepes of Wallachia in the Transylvanian region of Romania (1431-1476). He had a nasty habit of torturing his subjects and prisoners alike and especially was fond of impaling them on stakes. The man takes the book to his advisor, Professor Rossi, and is astounded to find out that he has a
similar book. The professor has studied Vlad, wandered Europe and found out more than he wanted to… “Dracula — He paused. Dracula — Vlad Tepes — is still alive.” Just as our man is beginning to find out more about Rossi’s investigation, the good professor disappears one night under very suspicious circumstances. Course three is the man’s (finally referred to as Paul) search for his professor which takes him from Istanbul to Romania to Hungary to Greece. Remember he’s telling this story to his daughter until one day, he too, disappears. This leads his daughter into course four, following the leads of Paul’s research and into the steps of him and Professor Rossi. But what does an ancient tale have to do with the 20th century world? Oh, but you’ll be surprised… Parts of this book read like a Conde Nast travel guide, descriptions of ancient cities, communist countries and dusty monestaries are custom made for the armchair traveler (like me). The dessert that comes with this story is the full, rich and satisfying prose that melts in your brain like fine chocolate on your palate. There are so many levels to this story — both historical and personal — that sweep you along like a jet ski on a hot summer’s day. And yes, there is love within these pages; love that leads to commitment and, ultimately, loss. I can’t praise this book enough. I have to admit this book is not for everyone; you must be a true bibliophile and lover of language and history to fully appreciate The Historian. But if you fall into that category, you will be well rewarded and like me, find it hard to let the story go and get on to the next book. Two enthusiastic thumbs up! Till next time, happy reading!
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872-4000 MERRION & ASSOCIATES REALTORS Debbie Burke
FAX (219) 872-4182 Specializing in Distinctive Properties Indiana and Michigan
707 Washington Street, Michigan City, IN
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Ed Merrion Broker
GREAT VALUES OUTSIDE OUR BEACH AREA!
IT’S TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE! This very sharp, beautifully maintained home in Trail Creek needs absolutely nothing but you! Newer or brand new roof, siding, downspouts, drapes, carpeting, garage door, ceramic baths, AC, water heater & more. 4 bedroom, 1.5 bath home on a quiet street has lots of room, with a newly screened porch plus a main level office. Ask for Ed Merrion. $ 164,500
CONSIDERING A SMALLER LAKE? This 4 bedroom, 4 bath, 1.5 story home enjoys 99' of frontage on the south half of Pine Lake in LaPorte. The water views are gorgeous, but the home will knock your socks off! The Great Room combines living, dining & kitchen in a 33' x 24' area with cathedral ceiling and a wall of windows overlooking the lake. A fabulous sun room, sun deck, 4 car garage w/room for your boat, ramp to the water. There’s $ more, but you’ll have to call Ed Merrion to hear about it! 549,000
IT’S A DOLL HOUSE! This 2 bedroom Cape Cod is as cute on the inside as it looks from the outside! New windows, roof, siding, central air & fencing give an indication of the care which makes this home stand out. A large living room has a fireplace and leads to a covered patio. The dining room has French doors to the deck. The kitchen has been updated and the price is right! Call $ 99,900 Fran Merrion to take a peek!
OUT IN THE COUNTRY you can enjoy peace, quiet and a bit of Mother Nature’s glory in this spacious 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath raised ranch. A huge deck wraps around the west end of the home, linking the living area with the kitchen. The 3/4 acre yard rests at the end of a cul-de-sac, surrounded by woods. This home is also in move-in condition, with new carpeting and hardwood floors. $ 179,000
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Almost 12 Private Acres enhanced by tall tree, streams, paths and trails with custom built ranch. Road side land has over 75 roses and pines to add to the privacy of the home. 3 bedrooms, 21⁄2 baths, balcony. Sliding doors from lower level family room open to woods and patio. 3 car garage. $ $5000 allowance to purchaser at closing. 475,000
Light, Bright, and Spacious brick and stone ranch with exposed lower level expanding living space to over 3500 square feet. Huge great room on 1st level has fireplace, family kitchen. Master suite plus 3 additional bedrooms, 3 baths. Easy care nature landscaping. Walk to stop 31 pri$ vate beach. 359,000
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3003 Mayfield Wa y Cozy yet Gracious redwood sided home 1 block from Lake Michigan, stone fireplace in living room; sliding doors in dining room open to deck and woods on large lot. Walls of glass include 3 seasons porch. 3 bedrooms include 14 foot master. $ 410,000 Directions: Lake Shore Drive to Stop 30, Loma Portal, turn left to Mayfield Way. June Livinghouse*, Broker Associate, ABR, GRI 800-957-1248 Sylvia Hook*, Broker Associate, CRS, GRI 800-518-5778 Phyllis Waters*, Owner/Broker, CRB, CRS, GRI Doug Waters*, Managing Broker 219-877-7290 Debbie Chism*, Broker Associate 874-9093 Beverly Bullis*, CRS, GRI 800-518-6149 Phyllis T. Waters* CRB, CRS, GRI Broker/ Owner
An Island of Serenity with charming chalet and winter views of Lake Michigan only 1 block away. Floor to ceiling stone fireplace, beamed ceilings, hardwood floors. Separate din$ ing room. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, garage. 499,000
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