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Flood my Mornings: Service

Notes from Mod Bonnie:

This story takes place in an AU in which Jamie travels through the stones two years after Culloden and finds Claire and his child in 1950 Boston.

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Previous installment:  Thanks (Thanksgiving and Bree’s Birthday)

Late November, 1950

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“Bath time, little smudge!”

Bree squealed and, like a shot, went barreling toward the bathroom. Turning two years old seemed to have turned on a tap of perpetual energy from on high: energy to throw tantrums, energy to hate going to bed, energy to form VERY strong opinions about what she did and did not plan to eat, and so on, and so forth for all time. 

However, she had also decided she loved baths, and by the time I arrived at the tub myself, she was already standing on the bathmat, triumphantly nude and brimming with expectation with her toys in hand. I laughed and kissed the top of her head. “One minute, you goofy girl.” 

I poked my head briefly into the living room. “Do you want bath duty or bedtime duty tonight?”

“I’ll take bed, if it’s all the same to you, Sassenach,” Jamie said, looking up from the rolltop. “I’d like to get the rest of the bills paid and ready for tomorrow’s Post.”

“Fine by me,“ I said, taking the chance to stretch my back, already thinking of plopping into bed as soon as humanly possible. “Thank you for handling those, sweetheart.”

“’Course,” he said with feeling, rising and kissing my forehead. “How are ye feeling?” 

“Pretty well, at the moment,” I said, pleasantly surprised, now that I thought about it. “Like death, this morning, but I haven’t vomited once since lunch!” 

“Victory, indeed,” he grinned, kissing me, long and sweetly. 

“MaMAAAA?” bellowed Bree, her voice bouncing ghoulishly around the bathroom walls. “Come’on do insee’pyder, please!”

“I’m being summoned,” I murmured against his lips. 

“Go,” he whispered. “Heaven forbid ‘insee’pyder’ have to wait.” 

“Oh,” I called when I was halfway back down the corridor, “I think the electric bill came today. It’s on the counter by the phone with the rest of today’s mail.”

“Thank you, mo ghraidh,” he called back. 

Tub filled, baby inserted, bubbles abundant, I knelt beside the tub and swirled my hands in the warm water. Bree beamed up at me, ready: “GO! Insee’pyder, Mama!”

“Alright,” I said dramatically, reaching for the green plastic sandbox bucket and scooping up water as I sang: “Theeeeeeee ITS-Y-bit-sy spiiiiiider went UP the water spout ….”

I raised the bucket theatrically. “Down came the raaaaaain AND—”

The payload released on, “WASHED the spider out,” dousing Bree with warm, soapy water. 

Fizzy giggles emerged through the waterfall pouring down her scrunched-up face as I sang on. “Out came the suuuun and dried up all the rain, and the ITS-Y-bit-sy spiiiiider went UP the spout—?”

“—AGAIN!!!” Bree finished, knowing the drill and LOVING it.

We had just finished washing the shampoo-spider from her hair and ANOTHER rendition was demanded, when Jamie’s voice came from the doorway. “Sassenach?” 

“Yes, darling?” I said absently, reaching for the bar of soap Bree had just knocked into the water. 

“What is the ‘selective service?’”

My blood froze absolutely cold. I whirled on my knees to gape at him, praying that it was a newspaper clipping in his hand, or one of his library books, or—

But it was a letter bearing the words ‘Department of Defense’ across the top. The truth was written on his face, the tightness of his voice, the rigid set of his jaw. “Tis the forced conscription for the war in the east, aye?”

“Jamie—” I staggered to my feet, praying in blind panic. Please, God, no. “Jamie—Please tell me—you haven’t been—?”

“To Mr. James Fraser,” he read, 

“According to our records, you have not yet registered with the Selective Service, as is required of all permanent residents of the United States. 

Please report no later than December 15th, 1950 to the enlistment station named below for registration, or risk revocation of your residency status with the Department of Immigration. 

Sincerely…”

Jamie trailed off, his face a mask of control I hadn’t seen in many years. The sight terrified me to my core—his face of duty, of danger, of great burdens to be borne.  

My hands were shaking as I reached for the letter, as I scanned it wildly for some salvation. “But you’re—you’re not even a citizen! They can’t just force you to go off and fight in their wars!”

“Apparently they can,” he said stiffly. “’All permanent residents,’ it says.”

“Jesus…” There was no way out. “Jesus—fucking—”

“FUN-KING!” Bree squeaked from the tub, sounding immensely pleased. Normally, that would have incited riotous laughter, then stern admonishment and promises between Jamie and I to guard our words more carefully. But we barely noticed. 

My blood pounded so loudly in my ears I could barely hear myself blurting, "We could go to Canada." 

He cocked his head in question. “They dinna fight wars there?”

I gave a jerking shrug. “They don’t usually start them, at least.”

“That’s the coward’s way,” he whispered, his face still stone. “I canna just run.”

“And why not?” I demanded, my voice treacherously close to both tears and shouting.

“Why can I no’ take the coward’s way?” The mask wavered, showing his scorn. “Christ, Claire, do ye no’ ken me at all?” 

“And do YOU not know me?” I shouted. “Do you not have the faintest idea what it DID to me to—” It took only the cracking of my voice for the panic to overtake me completely in wracking sobs as my hands went feral. “ —to let you go to your death? For a cause you—shouldn’t even have been dragged into in the first place?? I w—” I choked. I was mere inches from his face, but I could barely see him through the tears. I wrenched a breath from my throat. “—WON’T, do it—again—do you—hear m—?”

Jamie suddenly snatched me hard against him, his voice a cracked moan of despair through his own sobs. “I know, mo chridhe...I know....”

I buried my face in his chest, and could only croak, “Jamie—”

He tried to say something, but couldn’t get a word out. 

We clung to one another with every ounce of strength, swaying and weeping for a long time, until —

“I’m scairt of this, Sassenach.” 

His breath was hot and gasping in my hair. “God, I—dinna want any part of it.... The thought of leaving ye....the—” He let out a sob, and I could feel his tears against my temple, the resonance of his words in my chest. “—Christ, the bairns—” 

He buried his face in my shoulder. “I’m so scairt, Claire.”

“What’s you scairt, Daddy?”

We turned to see Bree standing in the tub, still naked as you please, looking up, stricken.

With a small sound that broke my heart, Jamie released me and crossed to the tub. He lifted his daughter up into his arms and pressed her against his chest, not seeming to notice that his shirt was instantly soaked.

“Daddy? What’s you scairt?” she repeated. 

I had to clamp my hand over my mouth. He clutched her tighter, rocking her, focusing his entire being on love of her. 

“Use-r words, Daddy.” 

Despite everything, he choked out a laugh at that. 

“I’m scairt,” he answered hoarsely after a moment, “of having to leave you and Mama, a chuisle.”  

“Oh…” 

I came and wrapped my arms around them both, trying so very hard not to slip into panic. This—this was my home, these three people I held—That it might be ripped from—

“Dinna leave though’kay?” Bree demanded, glaring sternly at him. “Okayyyy, Daddy?”

“Okay?” I seconded in a feeble whisper.

He let out another weak, broken laugh and leaned down to kiss us both. I could feel his chest shuddering with the sobs he was suppressing. 

The words were in Gaelic, breathtakingly quiet, and he repeated them over and over.

 "I won’t...I won't.”

When he drew back a long, long time later, his eyes were dry. “Now,” he said, kissing Bree and wrapping a towel around her shivering back, “let’s get ye ready for bed, wee cub. Which storybook shall we have, tonight?”

[JF]

Jamie resolved never to let Claire or Brianna see his fear of this ever again. 

“I’ll go tomorrow to register my name,” he said firmly to Claire as he held her in their bed that night, “but it willna come to anything, Sassenach.” There are millions of folk they’ll call up before me.” 

“You don’t — ” 

“Dinna fash, mo nighean donn,” he crooned, kissing and soothing away her fears. “I’m staying right here—We’ll no’ be parted—I’m right here—”

But he lay awake far into the night and most nights to follow, praying with all his soul.

Please, God….

Please….

Dinna take me from them.

Please….

Please…..

[more to come]

From the prompts: 

@dlouise2016​ said: This may not be appropriate for FMM but in response to your request for Jamie “firsts” & since he is only about 27-28, there was a military draft going on at the time for the Cold War & the Korean War. Since Jamie was certainly a warrior, he must have some strong feelings about war & Claire definitely would with her WWII experience  

@chechzooo suggested: Staying out of the draft

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Fenrir and Greyback: a liiiiiiitle digression about werewolves - Part 1: the Harry Potter books

Warning: This is NOT going to be a piece about weird US versions of the characters Loki or Odin or Fenrir. But this MIGHT (-coughs-) be a bit of a long piece about werewolves in different cultures (mainly European, though…) and what is common to those tales and both Fenrir and Greyback.

Fenrir Greyback is a werewolf, in the Harry Potter series. He’s a rather particular one, because he’s not exactly acting according to the usual pattern of werewolves in European tales. I’d like to discuss the traits that Greyback shares with werewolves throughout European mythology (or others if I can find any with werewolves), and also maybe have a look at Lupin and Bill while going through all that.

Wizarding communities have had the same sort of debates about the sanity of werewolves than the Muggle ones, the difference being that the wizarding community didn’t put the fault on the guy making a pact with the Devil or being ill due to a mushroom or not having fulfilled all his sexual instincts. They just knew werewolves existed.

Werewolves in the Wizarding World

Newt Scamander, in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, says the werewolves probably stem from Northern Europe. I believe he’s referring to the Norse Berserker warriors (to be described in another part of this bit of research). He says humans turn into werewolves when bitten, and that can happen only at full moon, when the human turns into the beast. The beast is of course classified XXXXX by the MoM (Ministry of Magic) but the human is as harmless as a human can be, apart from Greyback. We know that in the second half of the twentieth century the wizarding community have developed a potion known to ‘tame’ the werewolf during his transformation, meaning he can ‘curl up in [his] office, a harmless wolf, and wait for the moon to wane again’ (Professor Lupin in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, chapter 18). It’s the Wolfsbane Potion. Many potions were devised, but this was the most successful. According to Scamander, werewolves are special among magical creatures because they are the only ones who seek human preys actively and over other species. That’s actually how werewolves reproduce (you can’t speak of breeding in that instance, biologically speaking).

Breeding

There are known occurrences of werewolves having babies, though. According to Rowling, werewolves haven’t been keen on marrying and bearing offspring because of the condition itself being an obstacle, and of the fear of passing the lycanthropy further to the next generation, which is understandable. However, the evidence in the wizarding world is that werewolves marrying ‘normal’ humans and having children doesn’t spread the lycanthropy down to them. It sort of makes sense because lycanthropy is not a gene, so how would it pass to the next generation through reproduction? Lycanthropy is more of a disease, and as said before, it needs contact between the saliva and the blood, and how would that happen in the mother’s womb? Now we also know that the blood of the bearer is contaminated. If the werewolf is the father, no worries, apparently. But what happens if the mother is contaminated? Then, biologically speaking, she can be in contact with the baby’s blood at birth, and thus contaminate the baby, who otherwise would be perfectly sane given it’s making its own blood. That’s how Rhesus factor can affect both mother and child and be rather dangerous. So to me, there’s a risk of having werewolf cubs rather than human babies if the mother is a werewolf. Though the question of the full moon and of the presence of saliva is to be asked. If the baby is born at full moon from a werewolf mother and the bloods make contact, then it’s likely that the baby would be werewolfish, right, because blood contaminates blood? If it’s not full moon then he would have some wolfish traits, a bit like Bill, yet that seems highly unlikely, because of the sheer biology of reproduction. There’s always some blood in mating, because minor scratches and stuff, so that means that if Lupin and Tonks were to take that into account, they would be taking a double risk in mating: contaminating both the mother and the baby. So, the only logical way to see that so that the story can exist is that werewolf blood is ‘safe’ between full moons, and only saliva is able to curse wounds. (This is, biologically speaking, a total and complete heresy. However, the rational explanation is that the author didn’t think that through - again :P ) The condition of the werewolf regarding to having offspring is similar to that of bearing children when you are infected by any blood-related disease, like AIDS. And the taboos around it, the reactions of people, are similar to those encountered by werewolves. There are two types of instances we know from the wizarding world, of werewolves having children: Lupin and Tonks, who are a Werewolf and a Witch, who give birth to Teddy, a totally ‘normal’ wizard, apart from the Metamorphmagus symptoms. In this case, the werewolf is the daddy. In the other instance, reported by Rowling in her writings on Pottermore, if two werewolves mate at full moon, the cubs will be totally normal too, but they will be unusually intelligent wolves (wolves are already rather clever so…) . Rowling tells that such a litter was released under high secrecy into the Forbidden Forest, and those cubs being left in peace they grew up and from them would stem the stories of werewolves haunting the Forest.

Beings or Beasts?

According to Rowling in her writings for Pottermore, the contamination is successful when the werewolf’s saliva mixes with the victim’s blood. She also says the symptoms before and after transformation are palour and ill-health during a few days. Lupin indeed looked worn out and shabby rather often. Rowling adds that the wizarding community has never been able to make up their minds about werewolves: beings or beasts? To me, the mere fact that you separate beings from beasts is an acknowledgement that beasts aren’t alive, and that’s wrong. However, since we have this in the wizarding world, let’s use it. Now not only wizards have had trouble classifying werewolves. Muggles have been struggling for millenia about what to do with them: human or animal? No one made up their minds in a satisfactory way. All the greatest philosophers of Ancient Greece and Rome have tried, but no way. There’s always something that doesn’t fit. They all agree to say that werewolves are monsters in the sense that they are different. And well, that’s sort of true.

Rowling also says that according to wizarding researches, notably by Professor Marlowe Forfang, the English authority about werewolves, werewolves are mainly wizards and witches who have been bitten. The proportion of Muggles is feeble. These comparisons are in accordance with Forfang’s deep studies of the subject at the end of the nineteenth century. Forfang also learnt that Muggles sort of taste different than wizards, and also that they are more likely to die of their wounds than wizards (which would explain the lack of Muggles in the werewolf population). That’s 120 years ago, and there’s not a shred of evidence that any wizard has undertaken any deeper study since. Of course, Scamander mentioned werewolves in his book, but nothing is known clearly about how much he actually studied them. The only recent pieces of evidence we have about werewolves are those provided by Lupin and Greyback (and Bill Weasley).

Werewolves and the Ministry of Magic

Unsurprisingly, any attempt by the MoM to register or regulate or track or do whatever to Werewolves was unsuccessful. I mean come on. You get bitten, and what. The next morning you just get up and walk down to the visitor’s entrance to the MoM with a new spring in your step, thinking YAY I’M GOING TO REGISTER AS A WEREWOLF, I’M GOING TO BE MONITORED AND TRACKED ALL MY LIFE AND I’LL NEVER HAVE A PROPER JOB AND UNFORTUNATELY THERE’S NO UNEMPLOYMENT SCHEMES IN THE WIZARDING WORLD. SO BLOODY COOL! -happy dance- and when the voice in the phone box asks who is coming you say, with a burst of uncontrolled happiness and glee ‘IT IS I, GWENOG MUSHYPEA, JUST TURNED INTO A WEREWOLF YESTERNIGHT AND COME TO REGISTER, BE READY TO SHAKE MY HAND’ LOL. No panic down in the Atrium. The badge comes out reading ‘GWENOG MUSHYPEA, NEWBORN WEREWOLF, REGISTRATION’. Yeh. Very likely. All right. Sorry for the sarcasms but well… er… let’s get going.

Honestly though. The Code of Conduct edicted in 1637 and the later-devised Werewolf-Registry or even the Werewolf Support Services of the MoM only prove how man-centered society is, and how misunderstood the condition of a werewolf is, as a beast I mean. What is apparently commonly forgotten, is that when the human transforms into the werewolf, he completely loses the sense of right and wrong he had before, if he had any, that is. I can’t imagine a Voldy-werewolf being worse than Voldemort, for instance. When returning to their human form, though, they usually get their values back. There are some known exceptions to that rule, namely Greyback.

Extra info

Usually, werewolves are solitary beings, but apparently in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, they’ve been forming sort of communities, gathering around Voldemort of course, but not in the open, stealing or sometimes killing for subsistence (Lupin in HBP, chapter 16). That sounds new to me in the pattern of werewolf behaviour. The fact that they gather in packs may also mean that more than one has developed the will or liking to bite out of ‘regular’ time.  

In the wizarding world, werewolves can be male or female, whereas in Muggle history, it’s commonly admitted -or reported- that there were only male werewolves. So much so that at some point Werewolf-trials were considered the counterpart of Witch-trials.

There are three named figures of werewolves in the Harry Potter series, yet there are more altogether, since we know Voldemort was recruiting them and Lupin was spying on them during the final war. The three mentioned here are of course Remus Lupin and Fenrir Greyback, but also Bill Weasley. I’ll remind you shortly of their stories here.

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?

Lupin is the ‘common’ werewolf. He was born on 10th March 1960 to a wizard called Llyan Lupin and a Muggle called Hope Howell. He was bitten by none other than Fenrir Greyback when he was a small child, shortly before his turning five, and at the time there was no cure (PoA, Chapter 18). The very name Remus refers to one of the two mythical founders of Rome, Romulus and his twin brother Remus, who were rescued and fed by a she-wolf after the twins were abandoned near the Tiber river, thus the feeding she-wolf became the symbol of the Eternal City. (We all know of course that Romulus killed his brother Remus and founded Rome all alone, but that’s another tale.) His surname Lupin is Latin for ‘from wolf’. As if Rowling had wanted to say that he was bitten by a wolf thus had some characteristics of a wolf.

In spite of a clear danger, Dumbledore accepted Lupin at Hogwarts, planting the Whomping Willow on the entrance of the tunnel to the Shrieking Shack to allow Lupin to hide during his transformation and keep anybody from trying to follow him. The Wolfsbane Potion hadn’t been invented yet at the time. That hiding in the Shack provided Hogsmeade with the tales of it being haunted, spread without restraint by the Hogwarts staff to prevent anybody from getting too close. Dumbledore had probably defied the law, taking Lupin in.

Lupin talks about his transformation, saying it was painful, and that instead of biting other humans, since there wasn’t any in the Shack, he bit himself. Until of course, his three friends discovered his secret and decided to become Animagi… but that again is another tale. Lupin also says he hasn’t had a proper job apart from teaching at Hogwarts. He always has to quit when the monthly illness becomes too much noticed. He still had a ‘normal’ bit of life after Tonks publicly declared her love and he was forced to admit his. Married and with child (yet another tale), he was happy. However, he died with his wife at the Battle of Hogwarts, at the hand of Antonin Dolohov. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class. This and the story of his life did a lot to change the wizarding community’s attitude towards werewolves.

Lupin is the classic werewolf. Innocent human being being bitten and transforming into a cruel deadly beast once a month. Duality of man. He doesn’t like it but can’t escape.

On the other hand, since Rowling acknowledges her comparing lycanthropy in the wizarding world with HIV for instance (or other retroviruses) in the Muggle world, she explores the way people can overcome the fear (or not) and live with it. Remus has to get over not only his fear of himself, but the fear he has of the others constantly judging him for what he is (what all people who are sick with something serious must do all the time as well) and not accepting him. That’s why it took him so much time to accept that Tonks actually loved him and wanted him as a husband. She had to trick him into accepting her, nearly. Later Remus actually flees from his duties out of sheer fear. When he learns Tonks is pregnant, he gets bonkers and buggers off, only to be told off by Harry and going back home. Another obstacle to overcome: the fear of transmitting to his offspring. It’s totally legit, but it’s hard to do. And I don’t know if wizards have healers for such situations, to be honest. Is there a psychiatry department at St Mungo’s?

Who’s Afraid of the Big Really Bad Werewolf?

Fenrir Greyback bears a name that refers to Norse mythology. Fenrir is the son of Loki and a giantess, and he’s a really powerful wolf that the gods try to overcome (full story later). Greyback might refer simply to the colour of the wolf’s fur, but also to the fact that Berserker warriors wore wolf skins on their backs. Which made them Greybacks.

Fenrir has a peculiar story, and much of it is unknown. We don’t know when Greyback was born, nor when he was bitten. I can imagine, from Lupin’s story, that he was an adult when he bit Lupin, in 1965. He hadn’t yet developed that gory sense and lust of biting whatever the moon phase, but was aware enough of what he did to be able to plan attacks. However, I’m wondering how a werewolf can open a window. Rowling tells that Greyback forced open the window to Remus’s bedroom and attacked the child. That seems too far-fetched while on the other hand we know werewolves lose all conscience of humanity and their neocortex seems not to be working while they are in the beast form. Maybe Greyback had already taken control of his werewolfish self by the time. The only thing we know is that by the time Lupin talks about Greyback with Harry (HBP), Greyback has already developed that capacity to position himself near potential preys at full moon, so that when he transforms he can bite straightaway.

By the time we meet Greyback in person in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, he has already developed that disgusting taste for biting within the interval between full moons, meaning as a human. He retains some of his wolfish traits while not transformed. He has a hairy face, for instance. This is a disease that actually exists, being hairy in the face, but that’s nothing to do with Greyback. He was not always like that. He made himself into it. He also grew nails to be pointed so as to be able to use them as claws. Also, he seems to have developed cannibalistic traits, if we read the Astronomy Tower encounter between him and Dumbledore closely. Greyback speaks of ‘throats to be ripped out … delicious’ and of ‘doing [Dumbledore] for afters’. How much of this is only speculation, I don’t know. However, it remains that it’s my impression at reading this.

Greyback’s aim in life is to create a world of werewolves. He wants to overthrow wizards. That’s what Lupin tells Harry at Christmas at the Burrow (HBP, chapter 16): ‘Fenrir Greyback is perhaps the most savage werewolf alive today. He regards it as his mission in life to bite and to contaminate as many people as possible; he wants to create enough werewolves to overcome the wizards. Voldemort promised prey in return for his services. Greyback specialises in children… bite them young, he says, and raise them away from their parents, raise them to hate normal wizards.’ Reminds me a bit of Mary Lou Barebone in Fantastic Beasts. Same idea: remove the kids from their natural habitat and brainwash them into one thought, hatred for one part of mankind.

Greyback is monstrous. Not only in the sense that he’s different, but in the sense that he’s disgusting, and acting so much against nature that it’s not understandable. So much so that he’s not branded with the Dark Mark yet he’s acting with Death Eaters. Either Voldemort thought he and his fellow werewolves were too disgusting even to him (this is most unlikely), or Voldy simply used the werewolves like he used everyone else, but them being more beastly than human in this case, he didn’t deem them worthy enough of that supreme honour. To me, Greyback is the personification of the most twisted fantasms of mankind. His greed for human flesh and kids is lust, it’s almost sexual, it’s deviant in a way I can’t understand nor accept. Maybe even more than Voldy. Voldemort is just pure evil. Easier to tackle, sort of.

Who’s Afraid of the Big Not So Bad Weirdwolf?

Bill Weasley’s case is strange, and probably not less strange than the case of the man who made him what he is.

As you all know, Bill is the eldest of the seven Weasley children. He works as a curse breaker for Gringotts, took a desk job at Gringotts London during the second War and was engaged to be married to Fleur Delacour (the Barbie-part-Veela from Goblet of Fire, remember?) when Fenrir Greyback bit him during the battle at the end of Half-Blood Prince, and Bill ended up with wounds. However, since Greyback hadn’t transformed, Bill didn’t become a werewolf. He developed some wolfish traits, like eating raw meat, but nothing more. Yet the wounds were no ordinary ones. Usually, wizards can cure any such mundane thing as a cut, using essence of Dittany and spells, or Skele-Gro when it comes to bones. Bill’s face was slashed by a non-transformed werewolf. As such, they bear the curse of the kind, and cannot be treated fully. Thus, Bill keeps scars from those wounds.

Bill’s situation is a rare one (no joke meant lol) and a curious one, since it’s the only one of its kind to be reported by Rowling in her series. Yet, if we read what she says about how she imagined to compare werewolfism with AIDS or other similar blood-borne diseases, the fact that Bill carries the curse but is not really infected can easily and safely be compared to the way some retroviruses can be carried by people and never actually developed into the real thing. That happens with HIV, but also with mononucleosis for instance. Rowling said openly that making werewolves appear in the story was a way for her to explore the social relationships between sick and sane people over such diseases as HIV. And indeed, the first reaction is often fear and some kind of disgust. Mrs Weasley won’t feel that as a mother, but she is afraid - or hoping, as Fleur puts it justly - that said Fleur won’t want to marry her son anymore now he’s been disfigured and cursed by Greyback. However, Fleur shows some will and ferocity in claiming Bill at that moment, whatever the injuries he has sustained, and that settles the deal between the two women, showing, again, in a Dumbledoreish way, that fears can be overcome.

Sources for part 1:

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Kronzek Allan Zola, Kronzek Elizabeth, The Sorcerer’s Companion - A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter, Broadway books, New York, 2001

Rowling, Joanne K., Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Bloomsbury, London, 1999

Rowling, Joanne K., Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Bloomsbury, London, 2005

Scamander Newt, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Obscurus Books, Diagon Alley, London, 2001

Pottermore, Illnesses and Disability : https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/illness-and-disability

Pottermore, Remus Lupin: https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/remus-lupin

Pottermore, Werewolves:  https://www.pottermore.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/werewolves

Time-Life: Verzauberte Welten - Nachtgeschöpfe 1986

Time-Life: Geheimnisse des Unbekannten - Wesensverwandlungen 1990

[grelickscollection]

Back to our Cub series: What we have here is NC92708 (the full registration is seen in another photo of it I got at the same time), c/n 12-142, built in 1946 and most probably still around, which apparently at some point did (or intended to do) a Latin American Goodwill Tour. This is in fact a Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser, a somewhat larger and more powerful 3-seat version of the basic 2-seat Piper Cub. Could this fly across Latin America? Of course it could: in fact, in 1947, two PA-12s named City of Washington and City of Angels flew around the world, and the worst mechanical failure they suffered was a cracked tailwheel... (eBay purchase, Grelicks collection.) P.S. Spot the cat...

[laughingblue12]

Today’s post should probably be titled with “raspberries” rather than “strawberries” because of the alternative meaning of strawberries being a red abrasion or scrape instead of the double meaning I actually need.  But I had strawberries from Walmart to serve for breakfast, not raspberries, so that totally ruined the potential metaphor.

I tend to like to watch the news while I cook breakfast for the kids.  Hence the need for raspberries.  I mean, the angry orangutan in charge of my news-related happiness or horror is on a real tear about now because he can feel the law and the news media zeroing in on every crime and criminal thought he has been playing with for decades, intending to prosecute both him and those who support him.  Like several of the speakers at Senator John McCain’s funeral, I have no need to directly blow raspberries at him.  The oblique and carefully worded ones will do fine.  But I do have nothing but raspberries for him.  The things he is doing to health care, education, the environment, and international relationships have either undone the good the government has previously done or made the made the matter much worse.

Of course, the Pumpkinhead in Chief is not the only evil, bloodsucking monster in the news that makes me blow raspberries at the TV screen during breakfast.  I will specifically try to sort out my voter registration problems so that I can register a vote against Grandpa Munster… err… I mean, the Zodiac Killer… err… well, you know, that guy whose name I do not wish to invoke at the moment to protect my children and virgins everywhere.  It is a problem because I let my voter registration lapse as a Jehovah’s Witness, and now the State of Texas won’t let me renew it by mail.  I have to find the proper registration office to sit in for hours being glared at by Republican officials who see on the paperwork that I was a registered Democrat more than two decades ago.

I also blow raspberries at Republican hard-heartedness that still hasn’t reunited children with their immigrant asylum-seeking parents out of fear of letting too many brown people into their “white” country.  Raspberries also for conservatives that talk about Democrats being violent and chaotic people as they post threats of shooting deaths for liberals on social media.

I’m sure you have probably already concluded that having the TV on during breakfast makes for rather rootie-tootie-fruity breakfasts around our house.  And you wouldn’t be wrong.

I also have raspberries to give the Chicago Cubs this time of year as they try to beat my Cardinals out of the playoffs once again.  They deserve lots of fruit.  Particularly pineapples thrown at their prissy blue helmets during late innings of games they are winning.

But, fear not.  My dietary health is safe for now.  I am getting fresh fruits.  I am fortified with vitamin C.  It happens that we are eating STRAWBERRIES, not raspberries for breakfast.  And strawberries are good for you, even if the morning news is not.

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An airplane unlike any I’ve ever seen before – flying the AN-2

It takes 90 minutes, with two changes of train, to travel by rail from Munich westward through the low, rolling foothills of the Bavarian Alps to Bad Wörishofen. For a century and a half, tourists have trekked to this tidy and colorful town of 16,000 for its thermal baths and naturopathic hydrotherapy treatments.

But I was not going there for hydrotherapy. Alone in a second-class coach compartment on the train, I pulled a piece of paper out of my pocket to re-read my reservation for a flight that afternoon in a fascinating airplane.

When planning this Bavarian vacation, I wanted to include some flying, perhaps an hour of dual with an instructor at a local flying club. Searching online, I came across the website of a company called Classic Wings Bavaria, offering scenic flights in a 1957 Soviet-built Antonov An-2 biplane. Here was the unique flying opportunity I was looking for, even if it did not involve actual stick time.

The An-2 may be a single engine biplane, but it’s huge.

Aside from fuzzy Cold War-era photos, I had never seen an An-2 before. More than 18,000 of them were built in the Soviet Union, in Poland, and in China, and many remain in service, mostly in former Eastern Bloc countries. About two dozen An-2s are registered in the US, but the FAA has not seen fit to certify them, so they are relegated to the “Experimental-Exhibition” category here.

Classic Wings Bavaria’s website offered two routes, one over the pastoral Fünfseenland (Five Lakes region) south of Munich, the other further south into the Alps over the famous Neuschwanstein castle. The former covered some of my favorite areas of Germany, and better suited my schedule, so I picked the date and signed up, several months in advance.

The last leg of the rail journey is a quick 5 km from the connection at Türkheim south to the end of the line at Bad Wörishofen. From the small railway station in the center of town, I backtracked on foot about a kilometer and a half, then turned east a short distance to the airfield.

The town itself is quiet, but on this sunny August Sunday, Flugplatz Bad Wörishofen (EDNH) was alive with a festive, airshow-like vibe. Microlight aircraft buzzed this way and that in the air and on the ground. Over here skydivers gathered to await their turn in the Cessna Caravan jump plane, and over there a student and instructor tried to start a recalcitrant Reims-Cessna F172. A trim MBB Bo.209 taxied by, its vertical tail decorated in the blue-and-white lozengy emblematic of Bavaria. A mirror-polished Cessna 195 landed on the 2650 ft. x 100 ft. grass runway, followed by a Japanese-built Fuji Aero-Subaru, and a Klemm Kl.35D trainer, one of only eleven survivors of that classic pre-war type. Overhead a yellow Super Cub towed a banner, “Willst du mich heiraten [Will you marry me]?” There was even a German-language version of the old “weather forecasting stone” gag by the fence. The open-air café bustled with diners enjoying the show, and nearby, passengers queued for the next trip in the Antonov.

A good aviation joke, no matter what the language is.

But “Tante Anna” (Auntie Anna), as the An-2 is affectionately known, is nowhere to be seen. Presently, however, a small biplane appeared on short final to runway 26. No, look again: it was a large biplane, a very large biplane, on a long straight-in, and it just kept getting larger as it approached. Finally it touched down on the grass at what seemed a slow walk in the 15-knot breeze, and waddled toward the fuel pump, dwarfing every other aircraft on the field.

The bright blue four-blade propeller spun to a stop, and the door on the airplane’s left flank opened. Out stepped sandy-haired Andreas Wild, pilot and keeper of this prodigious machine. He assisted his ten passengers out onto the turf, then enlisted their help to push the beast to the proper spot for fueling.

Andreas and his ground crew, consisting of his wife, Martina, and son, Robin, began preparing the An-2 for her next flight. Martina and Robin scampered up the kick-in steps in the fuselage side, to the top of the upper wing.  There Martina pumped fuel into the tanks, while young Robin surveyed the scene from his perch atop the flight deck.

Tante Anna has been part of the Wild household since 2004. Prior to that, she had earned her keep flying safari tours in Namibia, in southwestern Africa. Andreas flew the An-2 home from Windhoek, Namibia, via Victoria Falls, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Egypt, Crete and the Balkans—60 flying hours, at a true airspeed of under 100 knots. Along the way he faced headwinds, violent equatorial weather, political unrest, avgas unavailability, exorbitant landing fees, and inscrutable local regulations. On arrival in Bavaria at Oberpfaffenhofen, Tante Anna and Andreas were surrounded by cheering family, friends, the press and Bavarian television.

The airplane is old, but it is loved and in great shape.

Andreas is passionate about all manner of flying, but especially the Antonov. With justifiable pride he showed off features of the airplane—the 1,000 hp nine-cylinder Shvetsov ASh-62 engine (Russian-built derivative of a Wright R-1820); the full-span flaps on the lower wings and ailerons on the upper wings that droop with the flaps; and the leading-edge slats on the upper wings that automatically deploy on takeoff and just before landing. The airplane is stout, well-suited for short, unimproved runways, inhospitable environments and primitive maintenance. She is rough-hewn, but immaculate inside and out. Obviously, Tante Anna is loved.

There is a lot to love—almost 60 feet between the tips of the upper wings, 42 feet long, and almost 14 feet to the top of the tail. Wing area is 770 square feet, four and a half times that of a Cessna 172.

She wears the 1950s-era livery of the defunct East German state airline, Deutsche Lufthansa, which operated An-2s from 1957 to 1962. The faux East German registration mark “DM-SKK” is mere decoration; the actual Federal German registration is in small letters in the shadow of the horizontal stabilizer.

The instrument panel is a smorgasbord of Russian, German, and English labels and markings. Some instruments are in metric units, others Imperial. And characteristic of Russian transports right up to the giant An-225, the An-2 sports two small electric fans mounted on the windshield frame next to the sun visors.

Nine paying passengers took their places in the three rows of plain brown leather chairs in the main cabin, plus one more passenger in the co-pilot seat. The engine started quickly, and Tante Anna trundled to the runway. Regardless of wind, the larger airplanes on the field (the An-2 and the Caravan) are required to take off to the east and land to the west for noise abatement, so our takeoff would be downwind. Despite the full cabin load, grass surface and the 15-knot wind on the tail, the airplane broke ground just as we passed the yellow “1/2” marker beside the runway.

The cockpit of the An-2 is a smorgasbord of Russian, German, and English labels.

The large picture windows in the main cabin provided a panoramic view of the muscles and sinews of flight—wings, struts, flying wires, ailerons, flaps, and slats—and some of the scenic countryside below. It was odd to look outside from such a large cabin and see biplane wings. The noise level was not at all disagreeable.

Up front, the left-hand sliding cockpit window was open, and Andreas let the stable, ponderous An-2 have her head in cruise. The instrument panel basked in an indigo glow from the dark blue tint of the upper cockpit windows.

At 4,200 ft. MSL, or 680 meters AGL, depending on which altimeter is consulted, we cruised over the town of Diessen, on the west shore of the Ammersee. The lake’s blue water was speckled with dozens of sailboats. Across the lake is Andreas’ home town of Herrsching, and on the forested hill above it is the Andechs monastery, where Benedictine monks have been brewing great beer since the 15th century.

Andreas coaxed Tante Anna into a 30-degree left bank over Herrsching to reverse course back to Bad Wörishofen. All too soon the flaps and ailerons were down, the upper-wing slats popped out, and the wheels settled onto the grass of EDNH. There were odd clicking and hissing sounds during the rollout, from the An-2’s pneumatic brake system.

A unique wing view!

Once the passengers were offloaded from the last flight of the day, Andreas and his family/ground crew got Tante Anna ready for bed. Andreas removed spark plugs and drained oil from the engine’s bottom cylinders. The airplane was tied down, and huge, blue padded covers were spread over the cockpit windows, cowl, and tires. Wind complicated the process, but with Martina and Robin on top of the airplane, and Andreas below, it was all efficiently choreographed. The rubber chicken which serves as a pitot cover was in place, and the job was done.

The Wilds graciously drove me back to Herrsching, where we joined their friends and shared beer and spare ribs at a lakeside community festival. Later they delivered me to Herrsching’s S-Bahn platform where I caught the S8 commuter train for the 45-minute ride back to Munich.

It had been a full day—seeing gorgeous scenery from the ground and from the air; a taste of general aviation in a foreign country; a flight in an airplane unlike any I’ve ever seen before; and meeting new friends. A very good day indeed.

Watch a video of the day here

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Castle Hills is a town located in Bexar County, Texas, United States. The town has a population of around 4,500 people and is located in the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical area. Castle Hills is located at 29°31’18” North, 98°30’60” West (29.521762, -98.516601). Castle Hills is an unincorporated town and borders San Antonio’s upper West side. It is about a 10-minute drive from downtown San Antonio. It is around 2.5 square miles and is an independent municipality which is completely surrounded by the city of San Antonio. The town of Castle Hills is split into northern and southern parts by interstate highway I-410. The city is part of the North East Independent School District and has two elementary schools, Castle Hills Elementary and Jackson Keller Elementary school. The middle schools in Castle Hills are Jackson Keller Middle School and Nimitz Middle School. Lee High School is the only high school serving Castle Hills and also provides on its grounds, the International School of The Americas (ISA), North East School of The Arts (NESA), and the STEM Academy, grades 6-12.

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Mc Gimsey Scout Park, Castle Hill's Most Popular Landmark

Castle Hills Texas has many amazing places and parks to visit and spend time with your friends and family. One of the most amazing spots in Castle Hills Texas is Mc Gimsey Scout Park, which if you drive through the town, you can’t help but see the facilities. Mc Gimsey Scout Park is a 140-acre park in Castle Hills Texas at 10810 Wedgewood, in the 78230 zip code. The grounds host Cub Scout Day Camps and Spring and Fall Day Camps, Tiger Cub Fun Days and numerous other youth and adult training programs that are provided through the Scouting programs.

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The park also includes a C.O.P.E course with a zip-line and a climbing tower for use by the scouts and other groups for training. The sites and facilities are also available for use by the families of the Boy Scouts of America, for unit camping and events by registration. Mc Gimsey Scout Park is an integral part of the Castle Hills community and continues to provide value to the Boy scouts and their families as the town grows.

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Sheep Gestation and Slumber Parties: It’s Lambing Season At Owens Farm

By Caroline Owens – Lambing-time preparations on our farm have a unique twist. We do stock up on the traditional sheep gestation support products such as milk replacer, calcium gluconate, CDT vaccine, etc., for our flock of 100 ewes. But gallons of spaghetti sauce and pounds of pancake powder also pile into our shopping cart, along with massive quantities of human support essentials like coffee and hot chocolate.

That’s because lambing season on Owens Farm also means Lambing-Time Slumber Parties: Groups of adventurous guests aged seven to 70 will join us during that magical time of year when sheep gestation ends and lambs are popping out left and right.

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A lambing-time slumber party is an overnight event for groups of 10 to 16 people. The guests arrive in time for evening chores on the first day. We start right in the lambing barn, processing newborns. The guests help weigh, ear-tag, give BoSe shots, check teeth and eyelids and determine the sex of the new lambs.

Asked to guess the weight of this lamb, the kids’ suggestions ranged from one pound to one hundred.

We tour the lambing pens, pointing out which ewes and lambs are doing fine, and which need assistance. Sheep gestation, nursing behavior, temperature, colostrum, mothering instinct: These topics are discussed in depth.

We walk through the paddock containing the older lambs and still-pregnant ewes, stressing the importance of quiet voices and calm movements.

The guests learn that we keep two breeds of sheep: Coopworths and Katahdins, under different sheep gestation management protocols. The Coopworths lamb in a paddock adjacent to a central barn with access to traditional lambing pens. The Katahdins are in more of a pasture-based situation, with shelter and restraint as needed.

Then it’s time to meet the rest of the animals.

Besides sheep, we also raise Tamworth pigs, maintain a flock of laying hens, and keep several riding horses. The border collies and barn cats are also part of the scene.

With the animals taken care of and dinner underway, the guests bring in their luggage and get settled. They stay in a carpeted and heated overnight lodging facility just steps away from the lambing barn. By the time everyone has laid out their sleeping bags and checked their e-mail, a hearty spaghetti dinner is on the table.

With dessert comes a discussion of “What to Expect When Your Sheep is Expecting.” We study posters of lambing problems like dystocia and how we would save the lamb. We paw through the lambing equipment box and explain the purpose of every item from iodine dip to shoulder-length gloves. The number of emergency supplies really drives home the point of why it’s important to pay close attention at lambing. The last step before bedtime is, of course, to check the barn again. The group is a bit more serious at this point, having a deeper understanding of what can go wrong with sheep giving birth.

The evening entertainment is “Shaun the Sheep,” those clever “claymation” movie shorts that cross all generation gaps. I excuse myself at that point to grab some sleep, with promises to wake everyone in the middle of the night.

There’s a dreamlike quality to the midnight barn check. I flick on the lights, and the guests follow me sleepily downstairs. Boots and coats are pulled on over pajamas and we head out the door. I ask the group to follow me quietly and in single file among the sleeping sheep.

Sleepy smiles at the beginning of what became an “eighteen lamb night.”

We beam our flashlights on hidden corners and behind hayracks, where ewes may be in labor or in trouble. Lambs or no lambs, it’s an unforgettable experience to crunch through the snow, under a veil of stars and a bright winter moon, watching the ewes and lambs snuggle together in contented coziness.

First light finds us back in the barn. Dawn is my flock’s favorite time to drop lambs, so we often see newborns. Once all time-sensitive tasks are taken care of, we enjoy a pancake breakfast and swap stories. The last step for the guests is processing any new lambs, and feeding the other livestock.

Adventure-Seekers Ages 7 To 70

We offer two sheep gestation Slumber Party formats: Public and Private.

The public events are set dates, for which guests can sign up individually. A private date requires a minimum of 10 people. The ages and interests vary widely.

For the Adopt-A-Sheep families (a subject to be covered in a future issue of Sheep!), lambing is the highlight of their “Sheep Year.”

Home-school families use the lambing experience as a rich unit study on Sheep Gestation and Farming, Reproductive Physiology, and Animal Science career exploration.

We often also host adults who plan to raise sheep in the future and want the full experience.

A Lambing Slumber Party also makes a great trip for Girl Scouts and Cub/Boy Scouts.

We have had church youth groups focus the entire event around Psalm 23. One year, we were honored to be the chosen destination of an adult group that specializes in finding unusual adventures.

In The Beginning

It was our Adopt-A-Sheep families who gave us the idea for the Slumber Parties.

Through letters and e-mails, they experienced the preparations for sheep gestation and lambing: They read our stories of lives lost, lives saved, lucky breaks and silly sheep behavior. They saw photos of 150 young lambs playing together.

“We wish we could see this,” they sighed. “We wish we could go on those midnight barn checks.”

It finally dawned on us that this might be one of those crazy ideas worth running up the flagpole.

Hosting an event was familiar ground for us. We are well known for our summer Sheep Camp for Kids. We also hold educational programs for farmers and consumer events to showcase our meats. Reaching potential customers is easy with our website and e-mail newsletters.

The Lambing-Time Slumber Parties were an instant hit. We gave our Adopt-A-Sheep families a priority registration period, then opened it up to the general public. Every date sold out, and requests poured in for private dates. Needless to say, these events are now a standard offering on our calendar and somewhat of a cult among our customer base.

Unplanned Excitement

There is one factor that sets the Lambing Slumber Party apart from any other event: I can’t plan every detail. And that’s exactly what lends unparalleled authenticity to this program. Cold lambs are revived and fed. Tangled triplets are sorted out and pulled. The apparently lifeless lamb is rubbed and swung until it sneezes and “baas.” (And the children cheer!) And yes, occasionally there is death.

I have found that if we’re honest and transparent about the sheep gestation losses, the guests take it in stride. They understand that we’re doing our best to keep everyone alive, but sometimes our best is simply not good enough.

We’ve certainly shared dramatic events over the years.

I remember leading the midnight check one frigid night, with sleepy children asking what we were looking for.

As we swung a flashlight beam across the barnyard, something struck me as odd: A set of eyes was in the wrong place.

It turned out to be a laboring ewe stuck on her back. With one guest holding her head and another handing me towels, we rolled her over and delivered a set of triplets.

No one asked again why we braved the midnight cold.

Saving Timmy: This lamb was revived from a “lamb popsicle” (too cold to register on a thermometer) to a vigorous bottle baby during a Slumber Party.

Another unforgettable night was the bedtime convoy to the vet.

A laboring ewe had a problem I couldn’t solve. I am blessed to have a vet who lives just six miles away and raises sheep herself. I drove the ewe to Jackie’s house, followed by three mini-vans. The ewe turned out to have a dead lamb tangled up with a live one and a cervix needing manual dilation. Jackie allowed interested children to don a glove, feel the lambs, and help maintain the pressure on the cervix until it was time for delivery.

Frequently Asked Questions

There are five questions that always come up when I speak to other producers about these events:

What about insurance? We are already insured up to the eyeballs because of our many farm enterprises which involve people and food.

Is it profitable? Yes. The $35 per head fee is calculated to cover expenses while contributing to farm profitability.

How can you focus on the sheep while supervising children? It’s clearly understood that my priority is the livestock. Guests are required to have at least one supervising adult for every three children and are completely responsible for them. I will disappear at a moment’s notice if I must.

What are the guests like? Without exception, our guests have been courteous, respectful, flexible, and appreciative of the opportunity.

How can you stand having additional responsibilities during lambing? That has been the greatest surprise of all: The energy and enthusiasm of our guests actually makes sheep gestation and lambing time more fun. There is nothing more rewarding than seeing a child’s eyes light up with the experiences that we shepherds tend to take for granted: Holding a lamb, saving a life, watching a ewe help her newborn to its feet. Our guests help my family appreciate how lucky we are to live on a farm and raise sheep.

  Caroline and David Owens raise Coopworth and Katahdin sheep in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. Their sheep support the farm through traditional means (such as freezer lambs, breeding stock, and fleeces) but also through educational programs like Sheep Camp, Adopt-A-Sheep, and Lambing-Time Slumber Parties. For more about Owens Farm, visit www.owensfarm.com

Originally published in Sheep! May/June 2016 and regularly vetted for accuracy.

Sheep Gestation and Slumber Parties: It’s Lambing Season At Owens Farm was originally posted by All About Chickens

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Letters to the Editor (Nov. 28, 2018)

How can you help ignite spark for next generation?

Grade school teachers are always looking for community leaders to visit their classes in order to stimulate childhood interests. I have made presentations about coin collecting to third and fourth grade students.

If every coin club sent speakers to their local schools, could a new generation of collectors be raised? Think of the possibilities.

At the beginning of the school year, the guest speaker could give each child a penny folder from 1959 to present and invite all of them to fill up the folder from circulating pennies. At the end of the semester, the speaker could return and award a 1909 cent to the best collection. Or prizes could be awarded to several children.

When I give a talk at a local school, I take a large container of foreign coins and let each child select and keep what he or she has selected. Then, I explain where the coin originated and encourage the child to learn more about the country and the coin. While some children are disinterested, some quickly become enthusiastic.

If you think back to when you first became interested in coin collecting, what was the spark that ignited your interest? As a representative of the hobby, do you think that you could create some sparks that will ignite the interest of the younger generation?

If you do introduce children to the hobby, please give them some tools to get started. The best tool might be information on when and where your coin club meets. The primary purpose of most clubs is to educate. Our local club enthusiastically welcomes all children.

Bruce Frohman Modesto, Calif.

  Surprise find a reminder that good ones are still out there

I want to report to all collectors that unusual finds are out there. Recently, while making a transaction at my bank, I asked the teller if she had any half dollars. She had two, but the teller next to her said he had $10 worth, counted them, but did not inspect them.

At home before putting them away, I did inspect them. To my surprise and delight, they were all Bicentennial half dollars, all in excellent condition. Happy hunting to all.

J.L. Rossbach Ambler, Pa.

  EAC member offers up perspective on Net Grading

Dear Michael (Fazzari),

In your column in the Oct. 17 Numismatic News, you write that you will address the “folly” (not your term) of EAC Net Grading in a future column. If you think it appropriate to have an EAC voice represented, I’d be pleased to contribute my comments.

Denis Loring Former National Secretary, EAC cc: Bill Eckberg President, EAC

  Great location, great success for Hawaii show

The 54th Annual Hawaii State Numismatic Association and Honolulu Coin Club (https://hawaiicollectibles.org) Convention was held at the Honolulu, Hawaii, Convention Center on Oct. 20-22. The bourse area is well-lit and carpeted. The theme for the show was the 70th Anniversary of the First Aloha Week Celebration. Special elongated sets were produced for the anniversary and can be viewed at www.facebook.com/historichawaiielongatedpennies. For availability, contact Michael Mochizuki at mmochizuki@hawaii.rr.com . General and Bourse Chair Marian Kendrick, also known as Mr. K., along with the dedicated and hardworking members of both local coin clubs all did a masterful job of promoting, organizing (setting up and breaking down), registration and running this important coin convention. Before the show started, the clubs once again placed into local Honolulu circulation 100 $1 FRNs. We don’t know if any were redeemed at the show.

The show featured 85 tables, which included exhibits, club tables and a Young Numismatist area. Sixty dealers had tables at the show, with about a third coming from the mainland. Attendance was 1,148, which includes the 104 Scouts, along with their leaders, friends and family members. The show featured hourly door prizes that are always very popular for those who attend the convention.

Security for the show was organized by Greg Hunt and handled by the Honolulu Police Department. The convention also featured exhibits that were located throughout the bourse area. Admission is always free at this event and parking is only $10. Coffee was provided daily and the pages distributed donuts to the dealers and show workers on Saturday and Sunday. We spoke to several dealers who said they had an excellent show. Many of the dealers were still doing business after the show closed on Sunday.

We want to thank Marion Kendrick, along with the officers and members of both coin clubs, for providing the American Numismatic Association (www.money.org) with a free table. It was a very successful show for the association. We were able to sign up and renew 24 members. Several others took copies of The Numismatist and said they were going to join later. We also gave out free woods, elongates, stock certificates and other collectibles to visitors who stopped by the table. We especially want to thank Brenda Reichel of Carats & Karates Fine Jewelry Antiques and Collectibles, Honolulu, Hawaii, for making a 501c(3) donation of $50 to the ANA for the shipment of the coin show kit.

On Saturday and Sunday, past ANA vice president Patti Finner handled the Boy Scout Coin Collecting Merit Badge Clinic. Over the two-day clinic, 97 Boy Scouts registered, along with seven Cub Scouts. Five of the Scouts came from Maui. Attending the clinic were five leaders, families and other guests of the Scouts. All the Scouts passed the 10 requirements and received their merit badges. All the scouts also received bags of coins, tokens, medals and currency. The items were donated by dealer Coleman Foster, Joe Kaminski and Aikahi Aloha Coins, Stamps, Jewelry and Collectibles. This was the 21st Scout clinic at the Hawaii State Numismatic Association Convention. Over the many years Patti has been doing the Scout clinics at many different coin shows, she has certified over 10,000 scouts. She also handled the Young Numismatists table at this show, and every YN who attended walked home with a bag of numismatic items.

We have attended many Hawaii State Numismatic Association Conventions over the years and are always amazed at the dedication and work of the members of both coin clubs. At least 15 members are there on a daily basis from the start to finish of the show, registering attendees, helping dealers with their needs and assisting at the club table. For the three-day convention, at least three pages helped the dealers with their food needs at nearby restaurants, cleaning cases or other jobs. A tip jar for them was at the entrance of the show, and they could contribute any amount they wanted.

Besides the great weather, Honolulu has a lot of things to do for the families of the dealers. Nearby Waikiki beach, the three-level Ala Moana Shopping Center, the local zoo, Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head, the Polynesian Village and museums. Honolulu also has lots of nearby hotels and restaurants. The bus in Honolulu is also very reasonable especially if you are on Medicare – cost is $1. Not only can you take it to the places mentioned, you can also take it back and forth to the Honolulu Airport, and actually all the way around the island.

Thanks again to the local clubs for the ANA table. Next year’s location and show dates are yet to be determined.

John and Nancy Wilson ANA National Volunteers Ocala, Fla.

  Seized ‘Liberty Dollars’ returned to owners

Wow! Can you imagine that one of the most hated and feared governments on the planet is actually returning the wrongfully seized property to its owners? This is amazing! And it is not the dollar value that is being returned, but actual gold and silver Liberty Dollars that I was convicted of having that are being returned. Amazing!

Did you file a petition to recover your wrongfully seized Liberty Dollar? If so, I am very pleased to report that many Liberty Dollar supporters have already received their Liberty Dollars. If you filed a petition and you have been informed that it was approved, you should receive your gold and silver Liberty Dollars shortly. Please contact me via Bernard@LibertyDollarNews.org if you have not received your property within the next 45 days.

If you are one of the dedicated Liberty Dollar petitioners who filed and are getting your actual Liberty Dollar property back, I would greatly appreciate a quick email via Bernard@LibertyDollarNews.org when you get your property. It’s been a very long, hard battle, and I am very pleased that you will have your property very soon. Bernard von Nothaus www.libertydollar.org

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 *****Bill Murray has been singing at Carnegie Hall promoting the new album with Jan Vogler and friends.

*****A beautiful eastern black rhino was born on October 2nd. There are only a few hundred left in Africa.

*****NASA just found 20 new habitable planets.

*****Loving , loving ,loving At Home with Amy Sedaris. Great guest stars and Von Mueller’s: The official maple syrup of the Third Reich and other humor of that ilk. It is like Pee Wees playhouse, Mister Rogers, Martha Stewart, local DIY shows, SNL and SCTV all rolled into one. Go Amy!!

*****The World Series did not include the Cubs. Astros V Dodgers.

*****The first African American full time Nascar driver since 1971, Darrell Wallace Jr. will drive for Richard Petty.

*****Some drunks at a wedding reception in Illinois jumped the fence at Wildlife Prairie Park to chase bison. The newlyweds had already left.

*****San Juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz called out Scary clown for his slow response to the Puerto Rico disaster.

*****Coming to Broadway this fall: The Cher Show!!

*****Robin Thede has a new show on BET called The Rundown.

*****So, Tim Allen was whining on Norm Macdonald’s program about Last Man Standing being cancelled. Allen said, ”There is nothing more dangerous to Hollywood than a funny likeable conservative.” What?? I could not even get thru one episode of that show. I think he was damn lucky that thing stayed on the air as long as it did. Friends and I were shocked whenever we would notice the show was still going.

***** Trump released demands to overhaul the green card system by hiring 10 thousand more immigration officers and more money to build the wall.

*****OJ Simpson is out of prison and his first meal was at McDonald’s. That is so fucking American.** Speaking of the arches: Mulan sauce.. that was a thing?

*****On the great new show White Famous, I believe I saw Jamie Foxx’s balls under that skirt!!

*****Stephen Colbert and Ted Danson share an ancestor. The same is true of Mary Steenburgen and William H. Macy.

*****Ines Rau, a French model is Playboys first transgender playmate.

*****Things sure exploded on The View because of the phone call Trump made about a fallen soldier. Rep. Frederica Wilson claims that he did not mention La David Johnson’s name and told his widow that he knew what he was getting into. **He seems to have no sensitivity but then we knew that. He is the Greg Stillson of 2017!

*****What a great couple of weeks on the late night shows. Thank you for Conan and his horse story on Colbert. Thanks for Paul and Dave and Biff on Kimmel. ** Kimmel’s son Billy is getting ready for a second surgery and there will be some guest hosts with Shaq, Dave Grohl, Channing Tatum and Jennifer Lawrence.

*****David S. Pumpkins now has an animated show and has really become a thing.

*****Dale Earnhardt Jr. and wife are having a baby.

*****It looks like the Czech Republic now elected a leader just like Trump in their choice of Andrej Babis.

*****Russian sanctions have still not been implemented and the deadline was October 1. Hey scary clown: Just signing the measure means nothing!!

*****Diane Lake, a young former member of Manson’s family wrote a book about letting go of Charlie. She promoted ‘One of the Family’ on Dr. Phil.

*****So.. It seems that the prototypes of the wall are near the Mexican border and it is drawing gawkers from across the border. So.. The wall to prevent illegals is actually drawing them to the site to check it out. Priceless.

*****Judas Priest is going on tour.

*****Mark Wahlberg hopes God will forgive him for Boogie Nights. C’mon own your fucking art.. You were lucky to be in suck a brilliant film.

*****Dave Letterman received his Mark Twain prize for American humor on October 22. He now claims, “I’m now the most humorous person in the world.”

*****East Peoria’s Joe Girardi is out as the NY Yankees manager.

*****Her it comes: The final season of Major Crimes.. This is a tough one, what quality acting there is on that show.

*****Days alert: It breaks my heart that they brought back Dr. Rolf back and immediately killed him off. At least he was in Abigail’s dream and boy was he hairy!!Please let him have a twin like on Night Court.** Why are characters heading to Memphis? Will they meet with someone who can help answer questions about Will Horton? Will Paul find out the truth before anyone else and will he keep it to himself? If Will is alive, is he the same person or has he went thru big changes? ** Rumors are out there that EJ could be headed back..fingers crossed.

*****Texas inmates donated $53,863 for hurricane Harvey relief.

*****Has Mueller filed his first charges in the Russia investigation?

*****Trump’s approach to Iran seems to be undoing all of Obama’s efforts. This, of course is the ultimate goal of the Trumpers so good news for them. Trumps use of the term ’Arabian gulf’ has helped to unify the diplomatic and revolutionary sides of the Islamic republic.

*****Too Funny to Fail takes on the subject of the failure of The Dana Carvey Show.

*****Robert Plant has a new album, ‘Carry Fire’ which he will support with a 2018 tour.

*****Congress did not reauthorize the healthcare program for kids so 9 million kids are booted off healthcare.

*****Bob’s Burgers did a great episode about brunch drunks. Oh that is such a thing!!

*****The new administration just loves pollution. Just one more thing to add to the ever growing list of climate change dismantling is Scott Pruitt helping to get rid of the clean power plan. I am sure their corporate polluter friends and Obama haters are pretty happy about that.

*****Scarlett Johansen and Colin Jost made their first public appearance as a couple at an SNL after party.

*****Word is that they have found Paul Revere’s outhouse and they are examining its contents.

*****I’m so glad that Curb is back!!! J.B. Smoove is killing it as usual.

*****Roman Polanski has a new film, ‘Based on a true story’ which stars his wife Emmanuelle Seigner.

*****Metamora High school in Illinois is reeling from a racist video put out by some members of the football team.  The entire school system of Metamora which includes Riverview and Germantown hills was closed October 3 due to a mass shooting scare.

*****The newest Eastwood film is the 15:17 to Paris.

*****Facebook had to turn over about 3,000 ads for inspection. Facebook employees offered themselves up to the Trump and Clinton campaigns. Only Trump took them up on it. Google and Twitter also embedded themselves in his campaign.  The staff used all they were taught to put bogus Hillary info out there and penetrate the rural vote.  They pushed a lot of buttons with infrastructure in middle America. The platform churned out 50 to 60 thousand ads a day.  By pinpointing the things you care about most , they seemed to use the trickery well because it worked.

*****They found the tomb of Santa in Turkey.

*****Nick Cage has his own candy bar in Japan.

*****Chris Elliott is on the Last man on earth. Thank you God!

*****The country talked about guns for a few days again after the Vegas shooting. No license or registration is needed in Vegas. Machine guns are perfectly legal. As saner people have mentioned: The GOP insists that the Vegas shooter’s gun arsenal is a right but medical treatment for his 500 + victims is merely a privelage. Well put Desirina Boskovich.** The American college of physicians says that gun violence is a public health issue and calls for banning automatic and semi -automatic weapons.** 78% of Americans don’t own guns.**Wayne LaPierre was on Face the Nation to reinforce that anti -gun people are elites. The only sane thing he said was that we need to enforce the laws we have in place better to start with.

*****Sen. Bob Corker is ranting about Trump and the ‘adult day care center’ we call the White house.

***** Oh my God.. Rick Springfield is on AHS. Whoa! Sometimes that show just amazes you with its direction. Hell yea.

*****Brett Ratner and Jared Leto will bring Hugh Hefner to the big screen.

*****Jedediah Bila has left the View and has been replaced by Meghan McCain.

*****Colin Kaepernick consulted a Navy seal about his peaceful protest. The Seal told him that he didn’t see a problem with the kneeling at the games. He found it more respectful than sitting. People seem very divided on this issue  but this country has always disagreed on their version of patriotism. Wearing the flag s disrespectful, kneeling during our anthem is not. Perhaps the players should hold AR 15’s instead of taking a knee. Our President does not seem to have a problem with protesters showing up armed.**Pence made a big show of walking out of the game after the kneel. Only loves the team if they think as he does. It was an expensive stunt.

*****California has been experiencing the biggest wildfires in state history.

***** Hmm. I see a movie with Liam Neeson , Clint Eastwood and Kurt Russell.

***** The Pioneer Woman speaks of a granny named Inee.

*****So, I rarely watch Fallon but that Hillary show was awkward and special. The respect and beautiful words from the female writers and Miley brought tears.

*****Can’t wait to see Suburbicon.. looks fab!!

*****350 barrels of oil were spilled in the gulf of Mexico.

*****Reporters were arrested in St. Louis as they interviewed demonstrators. This is in violation of their first amendment.

*****Anti- abortion advocate Rep. Tim Murphy had a bad week as congress was trying to pass a bill that would ban and bring criminal charges against those who have abortions after 20 weeks. His mistress Shannon Edwards claims that he asked her to get an abortion but it turned out the pregnancy was just a scare.  He now says that it is his staff who wrote the pro- life rhetoric he spewed. He has resigned.**Scary clown wants to broaden the rules to let more employees deny birth control coverage.

*****The Rolling Stones have 18 recordings pulled together for On Air. The collection of 1963- 1965 BBC show clips were never commercially released.

***** Harvey Weinstein? Secret employees? Everybody knew?  WTF?  Obviously we have some extreme self indulgence and mental health issues here. Why can’t powerful men control themselves? **Many of the liberal donations he made have been donated to charity.** The list keeps growing with thanks to Ronan Farrow and his exhaustive work in the story on The New Yorker. Weinstein’s wife has left him so he is in for some shit. ** More women are coming forward about other powerful men as well like R Kelly, Mark Helprin and James Toback.** When the movie is made of the Harvey scandal, I hope they cast Jeff Garland in the title role.**In the wake of the Weinstein tsunami there have been protests at public gatherings for other men with pasts .A retrospective for Roman Polanski  did not turn out so well.

*****Meet the Press and the AFI are having  film fest. Look for the film Heroin(e).

*****Paul Manafort and Rick Gates were indicted for hiding foreign bank accounts, money laundering, false statements, conspiracy against the U.S. just to name a few. There is now a viral video with the music from To Russia with love that shows Trump and various staff being taken in by the FBI. I teared up.. Could it happen??** George Papadopolous has pled guilty.

*****Kathy Griffin is slamming Harvey Levin and Andy Cohen. She claims that Levin was egging people on about her Trump head stunt. Her Mother in a retirement community and her sister dyeing of cancer were receiving death threats. Cohen who produced her ‘My life on the D-list” is taking over her New Year duties on CNN.  Her claim about him is he often tried to get her do coke and he is generally an ass.

*****Actor Anthony Rapp claims Kevin Spacey was sexually aggressive with him when he was 14 and Spacey was in his 20’s.  Kevin denied and apologized and came out.

***** You must check out Denis O’Hare as Edgar Allan Poe on PBS American Masters.

*****Corey Feldman wants to expose the pedophiles of Hollywood for 10 mil.

*****Does it bother anybody else that those on cooking shows never seem to use spatulas to scrape the bowl? They pour and move on.

*****Check out the Comedy Get Down with Cedric the Entertainer, Eddie Griffin, DL Hughley, Charlie Murphy and George Lopez.

*****Larry Flynt is offering 10m million for info leading to the impeachment of scary clown.

*****Ben Stiller takes on the 2015 prison escape of David Sweet and Richard Matt. The Showtime production will star Benecio Del Toro, Paul Dano and Patricia Arquette

*****Jemele Hill is back from her suspension form ESPN because of her tweets. Let the girl stand up for her beliefs.

*****Atlanta has voted to decriminalize weed, now if they can get the rest of Georgia on board!

***** So it seems the boy scouts are going to now admit girls.

*****It has been nice to see Charley Pride every now and again lately.

*****Hooray!! Jessica Tuck is on General Hospital.. Oh, How I have missed you Jessica Tuck.. Where have you been??

*****A report says that white nationalists are flocking to get their DNA tested  to prove their white heritage with some mixed results. Of course they often find they have African ancestry or other  blood they may not want to admit is running thru them. Duh!

*****Nellie (Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.)  was arrested for rape on his tour bus at a Wal Mart.

*****Chicago pastor Robbie Wilkerson and his wife Tasha were sentenced to 37 months and 12 months respectively for defrauding a summer food program for impoverished kids.

*****The 207 Nobel Peace Prize has gone to Jacques Dubochet and Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.

*****Steven Avery of Making a Murderer has been denied a new trial.

*****Roseanne Cash is getting some backlash for her comments. Cash wrote, ”The NRA funds domestic terrorism.” Her life has been filled with threats because of her views with smears like, ”your Dad would be ashamed of you.” Some ‘fans’ obviously did not understand her Father.

*****The White house thinks NBC should apologize after their report about Rex Tillerson threatening to resign after clashes with Trump. The scuttlebutt is that Pence intervened. Word is that Tillerson called Trump a fucking moron. Rex says he never considered leaving.

*****Senate intelligence can’t seem to get anywhere on the Trump dossier because everyone refuses to cooperate.  The committee has reported they are still interviewing and going thru documents. The investigation is now in exploratory mode. They do know that Russia is currently active in meddling in our election process and our vote tallies were accurate. Republican members of the bipartisan panel are praising the Obama administration for their complete cooperation.

*****Marilyn Manson had to cancel 9 shows after being crushed by a stage prop!

*****R.I.P. Tom Petty, the victims of the Rt. 91 country music fest in Las Vegas, S.I. Newhouse Jr., Bunny Sigler, Ralphie May, Bob Schiller, Fats Domino, John F. Dunsworth, Robert Guillaume, Gord Downie, Richard Wilbur, Sima Wall, Jack Bannon and victims of the NY Halloween attack.

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What You Need To Do To Have A Great Michigan Experience

Michigan boasts the Great Lakes, Jim Harbaugh (yeah baby! Ok, Tom Izzo for you State fans),cars and boats, good food, and good beer. Whether it’s your first visit or you’re just looking for hidden attractions and unusual things to do, here are places and activities you need to check out when stopping by the Wolverine State.

  Take a Tour Around Belle Isle

  Known for its conservatory, Nature Zoo, aquarium, and its beach, Belle Isle Park is a place where it isn’t hard to spend a whole day in the area.

  What is now called the gem of Detroit is a 982-acre island between the US and Canada. It has an extensive history starting with the Ottawa and Ojibwe peoples who first lived in the island.

  During the French Occupation in Detroit, settlers called the area Hog Island. After all, it was a place where the settlers housed their pigs, chickens, and other livestock to protect them from coyotes coming from the mainland. During the 1840s, private individuals who acquired ownership over some of the lands began developing the area into a resort. It was then that the people named the place Belle Isle.

  In 1879, the City of Detroit assumed ownership over the island, and over the years, developed it into a large park to provide residents a place for recreation and relaxation. But during the 2000s, because of the financial problems the city faced, the park did not have the maintenance it needed. And so, in 2013, the City of Detroit and the State of Michigan came up with a lease agreement that has paved the way for the Park to become one of the must-see places in Michigan.

  Conquer the Sleeping Bear Dunes

  Sometimes we just need a place where we can unwind, kick our shoes off, and get comfy with sand beneath our toes, all while looking over the great view that is Michigan.

  Climbing the beautiful Sleeping Bear Dunes is a rite of passage for anyone traveling to Michigan.

  The place got its name from the sleeping bear of a Chippewa legend. It is a tale of a mother bear and her two cubs that sought shelter in the opposite shore of the lake, away from an enormous forest fire. However, miles of swimming had their toll on the cubs, and they eventually lagged behind.

  The Sleeping Bear is unlike any other, stretching over 50,000 acres by the side of Lake Michigan. Hills, forests of birch, beech, pine, and maple, and a fresh breeze will embrace you.

  And if you’re into fishing, you can also have the Sleeping Bear experience in the small lakes and rivers that surround the nearby area. But of course, any visit is incomplete without marveling at the beauty of the massive and impressive coastal sand dunes and bluffs.

  Take an Adventure Through Ann Arbor’s Fairy Doors

  The Fairy Doors of Ann Arbor are whimsical portals and a series of small doors that open to another world. They are a type of installation art scattered all over Ann Arbor and first appeared in 1993.

  When Kathleen and Jonathan Wright, together with their young daughters, were renovating their century-old home, they discovered miniature doors that were only six inches tall. They found the doors opening to hallways with railings leading to other tiny doors. They also found windows with lights inside.

  In 2005, Jonathan documented and even installed, more of the little doors all around the town. Fairy doors soon opened worlds to minuscule coffee and tea shops, shoe salons, toy stores, schools, and music venues. What better way to get to know Ann Arbor than by walking around town locating all the fairy doors you can find?

  Chow down on different coneys

  Coney Island in Michigan means a different hot dog tradition. Instead of the amusement park in New York, Coney Island here refers to an estimated 500 diners enjoying Greek food, and what we know as coney dogs – the pride and treasure of Metro Detroit.

  Coney dogs are the delicious hot dogs in a bun covered in ground beef chili sauce and topped with mustard, onions, or other garnish.

  Some say the tasty food is a blessing that came with the wave of Greek migration to the US around 1900 to 1919. Whoever thought of topping chili beef on weiners is a sure winner as countless variations of Coney dogs exist all over Michigan.

  So, American or Lafayette, anyone?

  Snowmobiling the Backcountry

  Michigan can offer you literally thousands of snowmobiling trails groomed to provide folks an interconnected and extensive snowmobile trail system. So when you’re in the state with one of the highest number of snowmobile registrations in the country, not giving snowmobiling a try just doesn’t make any sense.

  Experience the snow-capped terrain of Michigan and navigate through national forests and, again, literally thousands of frozen lakes as well as open fields that are in no short supply. You will have to explore the scenic trails covered with blankets of snow.

  And don’t worry about the accommodations as there are plenty of lodging establishments and restaurants to choose from for those traveling by sled.

  Dip into one of the Great Lakes

  You can also go for all five. Not visiting and having a swim in one of the lakes is another of those things that just doesn’t add up when you’re in Michigan.

  Try to enjoy the breathtaking views of each of the five lakes. The Huron, Erie, Superior, Michigan, and Ontario lakes all makeup one-fifth of our planet’s freshwater surface, totaling an area of 95,160 square miles.

  You can find all of the lakes on the border between the US and Canada, touching areas of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Ontario. All of the lakes are home to thousands of species of animals and plants.

  It’s good to spend at least a day in one of these lakes, or you can also enjoy a break in one of the smaller inland lakes. Either way, a lake visit is one way to enjoy Michigan properly.

  Visit the Grande Ballroom

  The Grande Ballroom was a 1920s jazz dancehall that transformed into Detroit’s rock counterculture center during the 1960s. Today, it’s an abandoned building with the years that passed eating away the infrastructure and turning the legendary stage into a crumbling beauty open for public consumption.

  Charles N. Agree was responsible for the Grande Ballroom’s Art Deco style with hints of Moorish flair. The venue is a witness to different periods in history drowned by the shifts in music style. Now, the Grande Ballroom remains empty with nothing but stories from the past and their silence to invite explorers setting foot in Michigan.

  Takeaway

  There are plenty of things and places to experience when you’re in Michigan with your friends and family. When going on a trip to the Great Lakes State, make sure to enjoy its beautiful dunes, exciting snowmobile trails, magnificent lakes, picturesque islands, great food, and buildings as well as installations that share the changing culture of the people in Michigan.

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What You Need To Do To Have A Great Michigan Experience

Michigan boasts the Great Lakes, Jim Harbaugh (yeah baby! Ok, Tom Izzo for you State fans),cars and boats, good food, and good beer. Whether it’s your first visit or you’re just looking for hidden attractions and unusual things to do, here are places and activities you need to check out when stopping by the Wolverine State.

Take a Tour Around Belle Isle

  Known for its conservatory, Nature Zoo, aquarium, and its beach, Belle Isle Park is a place where it isn’t hard to spend a whole day in the area.

What is now called the gem of Detroit is a 982-acre island between the US and Canada. It has an extensive history starting with the Ottawa and Ojibwe peoples who first lived in the island.

During the French Occupation in Detroit, settlers called the area Hog Island. After all, it was a place where the settlers housed their pigs, chickens, and other livestock to protect them from coyotes coming from the mainland. During the 1840s, private individuals who acquired ownership over some of the lands began developing the area into a resort. It was then that the people named the place Belle Isle.

In 1879, the City of Detroit assumed ownership over the island, and over the years, developed it into a large park to provide residents a place for recreation and relaxation. But during the 2000s, because of the financial problems the city faced, the park did not have the maintenance it needed. And so, in 2013, the City of Detroit and the State of Michigan came up with a lease agreement that has paved the way for the Park to become one of the must-see places in Michigan.

Conquer the Sleeping Bear Dunes

  Sometimes we just need a place where we can unwind, kick our shoes off, and get comfy with sand beneath our toes, all while looking over the great view that is Michigan.

Climbing the beautiful Sleeping Bear Dunes is a rite of passage for anyone traveling to Michigan.

The place got its name from the sleeping bear of a Chippewa legend. It is a tale of a mother bear and her two cubs that sought shelter in the opposite shore of the lake, away from an enormous forest fire. However, miles of swimming had their toll on the cubs, and they eventually lagged behind.

The Sleeping Bear is unlike any other, stretching over 50,000 acres by the side of Lake Michigan. Hills, forests of birch, beech, pine, and maple, and a fresh breeze will embrace you.

And if you’re into fishing, you can also have the Sleeping Bear experience in the small lakes and rivers that surround the nearby area. But of course, any visit is incomplete without marveling at the beauty of the massive and impressive coastal sand dunes and bluffs.

Take an Adventure Through Ann Arbor’s Fairy Doors

  The Fairy Doors of Ann Arbor are whimsical portals and a series of small doors that open to another world. They are a type of installation art scattered all over Ann Arbor and first appeared in 1993.

When Kathleen and Jonathan Wright, together with their young daughters, were renovating their century-old home, they discovered miniature doors that were only six inches tall. They found the doors opening to hallways with railings leading to other tiny doors. They also found windows with lights inside.

In 2005, Jonathan documented and even installed, more of the little doors all around the town. Fairy doors soon opened worlds to minuscule coffee and tea shops, shoe salons, toy stores, schools, and music venues. What better way to get to know Ann Arbor than by walking around town locating all the fairy doors you can find?

Chow down on different coneys

  Coney Island in Michigan means a different hot dog tradition. Instead of the amusement park in New York, Coney Island here refers to an estimated 500 diners enjoying Greek food, and what we know as coney dogs – the pride and treasure of Metro Detroit.

Coney dogs are the delicious hot dogs in a bun covered in ground beef chili sauce and topped with mustard, onions, or other garnish.

Some say the tasty food is a blessing that came with the wave of Greek migration to the US around 1900 to 1919. Whoever thought of topping chili beef on weiners is a sure winner as countless variations of Coney dogs exist all over Michigan.

So, American or Lafayette, anyone?

Snowmobiling the Backcountry

  Michigan can offer you literally thousands of snowmobiling trails groomed to provide folks an interconnected and extensive snowmobile trail system. So when you’re in the state with one of the highest number of snowmobile registrations in the country, not giving snowmobiling a try just doesn’t make any sense.

Experience the snow-capped terrain of Michigan and navigate through national forests and, again, literally thousands of frozen lakes as well as open fields that are in no short supply. You will have to explore the scenic trails covered with blankets of snow.

And don’t worry about the accommodations as there are plenty of lodging establishments and restaurants to choose from for those traveling by sled.

Dip into one of the Great Lakes

  You can also go for all five. Not visiting and having a swim in one of the lakes is another of those things that just doesn’t add up when you’re in Michigan.

Try to enjoy the breathtaking views of each of the five lakes. The Huron, Erie, Superior, Michigan, and Ontario lakes all makeup one-fifth of our planet’s freshwater surface, totaling an area of 95,160 square miles.

You can find all of the lakes on the border between the US and Canada, touching areas of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Ontario. All of the lakes are home to thousands of species of animals and plants.

It’s good to spend at least a day in one of these lakes, or you can also enjoy a break in one of the smaller inland lakes. Either way, a lake visit is one way to enjoy Michigan properly.

Visit the Grande Ballroom

  The Grande Ballroom was a 1920s jazz dancehall that transformed into Detroit’s rock counterculture center during the 1960s. Today, it’s an abandoned building with the years that passed eating away the infrastructure and turning the legendary stage into a crumbling beauty open for public consumption.

Charles N. Agree was responsible for the Grande Ballroom’s Art Deco style with hints of Moorish flair. The venue is a witness to different periods in history drowned by the shifts in music style. Now, the Grande Ballroom remains empty with nothing but stories from the past and their silence to invite explorers setting foot in Michigan.

Takeaway

  There are plenty of things and places to experience when you’re in Michigan with your friends and family. When going on a trip to the Great Lakes State, make sure to enjoy its beautiful dunes, exciting snowmobile trails, magnificent lakes, picturesque islands, great food, and buildings as well as installations that share the changing culture of the people in Michigan.

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