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History of the Old Mission Peninsula and Traverse City Area.

Robert C. Tompkins honored at the Garland-Tompkins American Legion Post 399 in Old Mission, Michigan

Old Mission History: Robert C. Tompkins, Killed in USS Mount Hood...

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Marge Long, Russell Knapp (Gideons Representative) and Helen Mumford at Old Mission Peninsula United Methodist Church | Jane Boursaw Photo

Methodist Church News: Treasure Sale, Youth Group and Russell Gore

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Old Mission Peninsula School, Talent Show 1969 | OMPS Vintage Photos, Old Mission Gazette

OMPS Vintage Photos: Talent Show 1969

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Rosa Dohm and the Wunsch Family - Grand Marshals of National Cherry Festival Parades

Old Mission Farm Family Carries On Cherry Royalty Tradition at National...

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Old Mission, MI: Tim Boursaw transfers Chum Reay's Truck Door to Marty Reay

Remembering Marty Reay

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Grace Marshall Pratt Bacon, circa 1935 | Photo courtesy of Nikki Sobkowski

Old Mission Ghost Stories: The Haunting of Glen and Becky Chown’s...

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Vintage photos of Old Mission Peninsula School: A serious game of chess in the cafeteria, 1960s | OMPS Vintage Photos, Old Mission Gazette

OMPS Vintage Photos: A Serious Game of Chess in the Cafeteria

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Brit Eaton holds a photo of the infamous sailboat that flipped over in West Bay on one stormy day in 1964 | Jane Boursaw Photo

Old Mission Stories: A Neahtawanta Sailboat, a Storm Over West Bay,...

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Johnson Family Portrait taken by Bud Moyer, 1968 | Jane Boursaw Photo

The Clutter Files: A 1960s Johnson Family Portrait by Bud Moyer

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Vintage OMPS Photos: left to right, Alex Galligan, Norm Crampton, Bernie Carroll, Bill Welhusen and Bob Panter | Panter Collection at Peninsula Community Library

Vintage OMPS Photos: Mr. Galligan Having Coffee With the Bus Drivers...

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Peninsula Cellars on the Old Mission Peninsula | Karen Rieser Photo

Three Ghostly Hauntings on the Old Mission Peninsula

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Farm Stands open for the season on the Old Mission Peninsula; Old Mission Flowers, Warren Orchards, Local Yokels | Jane Boursaw Photo

Old Mission Farm Stands Open for the Season – Local Yokels,...

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crescent hill fruit farm, mexicans, migrant workers, cherries, cherry harvest, mexican migrant workers, h2a program, martinez, guetteto, johnson farms

A Brief History of Mexican Migrant Workers on the OMP

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Planting apple trees on Ward Johnson's farm on the Old Mission Peninsula | Jane Boursaw Photo

This Week on the Farm: Moving Bees, Planting Trees and Johnson...

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Vintage Recipes: Old Mission Cry Babies

Remembering Six Residents of the Old Mission Peninsula

VIDEO: Don Harrison Talks Vintage Postcards of Northern Michigan

Old Mission Mystery: Where Is This Farm?

The Haunting of Bowers Harbor Inn – Is It Genevieve Stickney’s Ghost?