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Interviews: A Great way to meet People
I’m new to this area. A new full-time resident anyway. I bought a place in the woods between Harrison and Gladwin about seven years ago and came up here with friends and family on a fairly regular...
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Changing my Blog Title
I’ve changed my blog title from “The Moving Finger” to “The Moving Finger in Mid-Michigan” with the tagline “Random musings of Michigan, its History and More.” The title and tagline are more reflective...
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An Embankment is NOT a Trestle
I have noted a number of impressive railroad beds in Clare County, Michigan that were built in the 1870s and 1880s when logging was a major industry and the economy was booming. People were streaming...
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Meredith: Wonder of the North Woods (Back in 1884, Anyway)
There may have been towns during Michigan’s lumbering era that had uglier reputations than Meredith, but I’ve not heard of any. While the town in the northeast corner of Clare County was created to...
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Jim and Maggie: Disreputable, Despicable and Clare County’s Own
The evil that men do live after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Jim Carr and Maggie Duncan were evil, but for a few years their evil deeds made...
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The Amish in Clare County
If you were to guess the decade the Amish established a presence in Clare County, what would be your answer? Maybe the 1890s after the lumberjacks had left and farmers moved in? Or the 1930s during the...
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Three Area Soldiers. One Epidemic. Three Graves.
Three young men—two from Clare County and one from adjacent Gladwin County–go off to World War I. We know little about the three other than two were cousins and enlisted together. One of them had not...
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A review of a new book by Jon H.Ringelberg Thou shalt not kill: Exodus 20:13 It’s one of the 10 Commandments and even people who don’t read the Bible know of that one. Sadly, it’s also a commandment...
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