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    A Chestnut Story: Saving an American Icon on the OMP

    Tom Dalluge - 4
    Winter at Old Mission State Park | Jane Boursaw Photo
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    Forest Bathing at Old Mission State Park

    Harry Vann Phillips - 6
    Dave Murphy's neighbor, Cornelia | Murphy Photo
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    A Swan Story: Things Aren’t Always As They Seem

    Dave Murphy - 5
    Foggy Blue Water Road on the Old Mission Peninsula | Jane Boursaw Photo
    Opinion

    Old Mission Peninsula: A Sanctuary We Are Fortunate to Call Home

    Harry Vann Phillips - 3
    Pat Murphy in Vietnam | Photo courtesy of Dave Murphy
    News

    A Tribute to Big George Foreman, That 1968 Fight with Jonas...

    Dave Murphy - 6
    Chateau Grand Traverse, aka Winery Hill, on the Old Mission Peninsula | Jane Boursaw Photo
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    Growing Pains on the Old Mission Peninsula – Where Are We...

    Jane Louise Boursaw - 0
    Winter on Bluff Road, Old Mission Peninsula | Jane Boursaw Photo
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    An Old Mission Poem: We Live Here Content (An Ode to...

    Jane Louise Boursaw - 4
    Chum Reay's Truck Door after Tim Boursaw found it in the woods
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    Celebration of Life Planned for Marty Reay

    Jane Louise Boursaw - 1
    Brit Eaton holds a photo of the infamous sailboat that flipped over in West Bay on one stormy day in 1964 | Jane Boursaw Photo
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    Old Mission Stories: A Neahtawanta Sailboat, a Storm Over West Bay,...

    Brit Eaton - 4
    Kent Ackerman, UPS Driver on the Old Mission Peninsula | Ackerman Photo
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    UPS Guy Retires After 18 Years on the Old Mission Peninsula...

    Kent Ackerman - 5
    Robert C. Tompkins honored at the Garland-Tompkins American Legion Post 399 in Old Mission, Michigan
    History

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

    W. William Rudolph - 2
    Peninsula Cellars on the Old Mission Peninsula | Karen Rieser Photo
    History

    Three Ghostly Hauntings on the Old Mission Peninsula

    Karen Rieser - 0
    Vintage Old Mission Peninsula farm photos; Johnson Farms on Center Road
    History

    Happy Labor Day: Vintage OMP Farm Photos and Hardworking Farmers

    Jane Louise Boursaw - 6
    Winter on the Old Mission Peninsula; East Bay from East Bay Boulevard in near town | Jane Boursaw Photo
    Opinion

    Christmas Eve Reflections: Cornelia, Quiet Shoveling and Treasuring Our Days

    Dave Murphy - 6
    Johnson Kids, 1960s; Carol, Ward and Jane at their house in Old Mission | Mary Johnson Photo
    Jane's World

    Will the Bay Freeze Over and Memories of Winter in Old...

    Jane Louise Boursaw - 7
    Old Mission Congregational Church on the Old Mission Peninsula | Jane Boursaw Photo
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    Bungee Jumping in Old Mission

    Tim Boursaw - 3
    Tim Boursaw on the steps of the Old Mission school house, 65 years later; log church on the right and Deb's former house across the road | Jane Boursaw Photo
    Tim's World

    So It Begins, Part 2

    Tim Boursaw - 5
    Mission School Road, where Tim Boursaw recalls his early life of crime | Jane Boursaw Photo
    Tim's World

    So It Begins, Part 1

    Tim Boursaw - 7
    Tim Boursaw, second from right, and Debbie Kennedy, right, with pals in Key West in the 1970s (I think that might be Deb Hart, left, and Tom Dewsbury)
    Tim's World

    Paradise Frost: Days of Christmas Past

    Tim Boursaw - 5
    Mexican Drive-In Poster; Bowers Harbor on the Old Mission Peninsula, 1960s | Poster Courtesy of Katy Kern
    History

    I Was a Guard at the Mexican Drive-In at Bowers Harbor...

    Tim Boursaw - 14
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