Essays – The Betsie Current Newspaper

Essays , Issue 5 , Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Once More Unto the Beech

Staff Reports October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 0 comment

Beech trees, passenger pigeons, and the struggle to survive in Northern Michigan

2024 , Essays , Featured Stories , Issue 14 , Print Editions

Leaving The Lights On

Staff Reports October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 0 comment

An essay on neighbors and nostalgia

2025 , Businesses , Essays , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue @ , News , Print Editions

The Betsie Current, Still Flowing

Aubrey Parker March 27, 2025March 27, 2025 0 comment

Tap into your inner George Bailey

2025 , Author , Essays , Featured Stories , Issue @ , Nature , Print Editions

Northern Michigan Chaos Theory

Tim Mulherin March 7, 2025March 7, 2025 1 comment

An essay advocating for appreciative adaptation

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , News , Print Editions , Swimming

One Last Ride

Aubrey Parker October 4, 2024October 4, 2024 0 comment

Or is it…?

2024 , Essays , Featured Stories , Nature , Print Editions

Opening Day

Tim Mulherin July 10, 2024July 10, 2024 0 comment

The cabin kind

2024 , Essays , Featured Stories , Issue #4 , Nature , Print Editions

Animal Magnetism: The Birds and the Bees

Staff Reports May 20, 2024May 20, 2024 0 comment

But not the way you thought

2024 , Essays , Featured Stories , Football , Issue 1 , Print Editions , Sports

Hail

Jacob Wheeler February 9, 2024February 9, 2024 0 comment

Confessions of a once reluctant Michigan Wolverine

2024 , Essays , Issue 1 , Nature , Print Editions , Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore , Swimming

Winter Swimming in Lake Michigan

Staff Reports January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 5 comment

Multi-generational group finds community and resilience in cold water

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 16 , Print Editions

When You’re In Your 80s, Why Wait?

Aubrey Parker January 17, 2024January 17, 2024 2 comment

Dodie Toman and Fred Snow make a commitment

2022 , Essays , Featured Stories , Issue 13 , Medical , Print Editions

Beneath The Surface

Staff Reports September 21, 2023September 21, 2023 2 comment

One woman’s struggle with ACEs and CPTSD

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Issue 7 , Print Editions

Travel Musings

Aubrey Parker July 2, 2023July 2, 2023 0 comment

Finding gratitude at the gate

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Issue 7 , Nature , Print Editions

Chattering and Mattering

Staff Reports July 2, 2023July 2, 2023 0 comment

When gossip is good

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Fishing , Issue 6 , Print Editions

Big Fish Tale

Staff Reports June 26, 2023June 26, 2023 0 comment

When the one that got away isn’t a fish

2023 , Businesses , Essays , Featured Stories , History , Issue 6 , Print Editions

Summers in Beulah

Staff Reports June 22, 2023June 22, 2023 4 comment

A family history of Reedcraft Weavers (1940-2011)

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Issue 5 , Print Editions

Incipience in Thompsonville

Staff Reports May 27, 2023May 27, 2023 1 comment

Early spring comes to Northern Michigan

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Historical , History , Iconic Person , Issue 5 , Non-Profit , Non-profits , Print Editions

Memorial Morses

Staff Reports May 26, 2023May 26, 2023 1 comment

Local brothers take Honor Flight

2022 , Essays , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Print Editions

The Future Will Not Wait

Staff Reports May 11, 2023May 11, 2023 0 comment

A message for the youth, from the youth

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Historical , History , Iconic Person , Issue 4 , Native American Culture & History , Noah Sorenson , Print Editions

What’s In A Name?

Staff Reports April 19, 2023April 19, 2023 1 comment

Stories behind the names of Benzie County

2023 , Brewery , Essays , Issue 3

Dark and Stormy Essay Contest 2023: Second Place

Staff Reports March 30, 2023March 30, 2023 1 comment

Second-place winner of annual Stormcloud essay contest

2023 , Author , Brewery , Businesses , Essays , Featured Stories , Iconic Person , Issue 3 , Print Editions

Dog-Gone Manifestation

Aubrey Parker March 30, 2023March 30, 2023 1 comment

Local girl writes essay about a lost dog just weeks before losing her dog

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Issue 3 , Print Editions

Radiant Love

Staff Reports March 27, 2023March 27, 2023 0 comment

The comforting warmth of wood heat

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Historical , History , Iconic Person , Issue 2 , Print Editions

1906: A Summer to Remember

Staff Reports March 24, 2023March 24, 2023 0 comment

Donated historical photos bring a family to life

2023 , Essays , Featured Stories , Horticulture , Issue 2 , Landscaping , Landscaping , Native American Culture & History , Nature , Print Editions , Trees, Shrubs, and Grass

Seeing Red in MI Backyard

Staff Reports March 5, 2023March 5, 2023 0 comment

Show-stopping native plants

2023 , COVID-19 Heroes , Essays , Featured Stories , Issue 1 , News , Print Editions

From Pandemic Penguins in a Plague House to a Parakeet in a Parking Lot

Aubrey Parker March 2, 2023March 2, 2023 0 comment

A long and winding story about friendship and fate, perhaps… By Aubrey Ann ParkerCurrent Contributor I grew up in and around Traverse City, where both sets of my grandparents lived—Cedar, Williamsburg/Acme, and then Lake Ann/Interlochen. My best friend from college, Quinn Davis, also grew up in Traverse City, but we didn’t become friends until we […]