We would love your input on our giving. Please email us a few paragraphs about who you will be donating to this December and why; and if you give your time to the group as well. Starting on this Saturday, December 1st, we will send out checks of $500 to $10,000 to organizations in Northern Michigan […]
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We had some wild weather in the past month. My friend Charlie Crouch snapped this photo on Sleeping Bear Bay during a big storm. Here is a video of the winds 1000 miles from Hurricane Sandy. Colebrook and Hawthorn OD’d on candy. The boys playing on a giant nest of sticks. Hawthorn posing with a hatchet before […]
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Since I was 14, I’ve had a dream of being in politics. Well, I got my chance at 30. I ran and won a seat on the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners. Being a commissioner was without question, the toughest thing I have ever done. I should have just done one term and gotten back to […]
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When we grew up, there was an old map of the Sleeping Bear Dunes in our house. There is a mark on the map, just north of the dune climb and just west of the DH Day farm called Devil’s Hole. My brothers and I would speculate on what that spot was and why it […]
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(Continued from the 10/18 Orchard Report) And of course they were not at all surprised when I jumped out and yelled, “Raaarrrr.” I went to run ahead again, and they followed me as fast as they could so they could see me hide again. All the way down the trail I tried to hide but they […]
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We loved the moss on these old cedar posts A line of trees acting as a fence row. H looking pretty small under those big trees A smart farmer long ago planted a black walnut tree that is now huge. The squirrels get the nuts now. A small clue to the “Where is this” photo contest. We were there […]
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When the media asks me, The Bear, whether Cherry Republic sales are up this summer because of the Good Morning America’s coverage. I growl that we are, but is our growth rate curve steeper than other years? Not significantly. Whatever the level of impact our most beautiful designation had, our region is being discovered by the […]
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To Cherry Republic, pie stands for generosity and abundance. We gratefully share the earth’s abundance. Is there any more important words that this company lives by? Our overflowing sample bowls, free gift boxing, the cards, the support we give to local groups. Our staff also generously gives positive energy to each customer that comes in. […]
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What does Life, Liberty, Beaches and Pie stand for? It was 23 years ago when I created this motto on a t-shirt. I needed those words in gold and black to sit below a drawing of a beautiful cherry tree and big red Cherry Republic text. In past weeks, I talked about Life and Liberty. This […]
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Life, Liberty, Beaches and Pie! It was 23 years ago when I created this motto on a t-shirt. I needed those words in gold and black to sit below a drawing of a beautiful cherry tree and big red Cherry Republic text. Last week, I talked about what the word “life” stood for. This week I […]
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What does Life, Liberty, Beaches and Pie stand for? It was 23 years ago when I created this motto on a t-shirt. I needed those words in gold and black to sit below a big red Cherry Republic. The design called for Cherry Republic to feel like a country. And since I was a teenager, my […]
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The Cheney Family were the high bidders in our most coveted Inaudible Auction to date: an instant transformation into Cherry Republic employees, and a morning of hard labor in Glen Arbor. We think they enjoyed their time with us despite all of the intense labor. Here’s a peek at their day: Before we started working, I […]
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