Greetings, Bonedale and Valley folks, from (so far) a pretty steamy summer here on the southeastern shore of what Illinois Gov. Jay Pritzker recently proclaimed as “Lake Illinois” (humorously responding to Donald Trump’s renaming the Gulf of Mexico). Nomenclature issues aside, our beach is vast, the water is beautiful and the blueberries are ripe. These […]
Letter from Michigan
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Letter from Michigan, 2023
Greetings again, Sunscribers et al, from our little corner of southwestern Michigan! During our years of coming here, we have gotten to know some of the communities around us. One nearby is the charming little village of Three Oaks. I came to realize that it has a lot of similarities to Carbondale, despite having only […]