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The Lake Culture: Up North

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Culture Travel Tuesday

Lake at twilight

Destination: Michigan

By Jessica Voigts

(Note from VMB: World wide, I have spotted places where people go to get away.  In Russia, it is dachas in birch tree woods or near water; in Sweden we visited a summer home made from a farmer’s outbuilding, which turns out to be a popular way to craft a rural cabin; in Italy, people flee to the rows of beach chairs lined up along stretches of sea; in Arizona, we flee to San Diego beaches or northern Arizona cabins; and in the midwestern and eastern United States, particularly, there’s the Lake Culture.  As we say farewell to summer, Jessica Voigts brings us a view of the Lake Culture in Michigan.) Continue reading The Lake Culture: Up North →

Lakeside Shakespeare for Culture Travel Tuesday

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Culture Travel Tuesday

Lakeside Shakespeare Theater poster
Lakeside Shakespeare Theater poster

Destination: Michigan

Cultural Event: Outdoor Theatre with Lakeside Shakespeare

By Jessica Voigts

A warm summer evening, hawks gliding by above the trees, lawn chairs and blankets, wine and munchies, good friends, music, and Much Ado. It is the best of outdoor summer theatre, and it happens every year in Frankfort, Michigan, a small artsy town located on the Sunset Coast of Lake Michigan. Continue reading Lakeside Shakespeare for Culture Travel Tuesday →

Drinking in Ohio with Dickens

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Charles Dickens at 200

Destination: Ohio, 1842

Book: American Notes by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens

It would be quite unthinkable to let this month pass without paying homage to the 2nd centenary of one of our greatest and most popular writers–Charles Dickens, born February, 1812 (probably February 7). I’ve been dipping into some Dickens’ travel writing to supplement my scanty knowledge of his novels. (I did love Bleak House, and we all know The Christmas Carol, of course.) And the travel writing is lively, detailed, and very funny in places. Continue reading Drinking in Ohio with Dickens →