Loraine Anderson
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Loraine Anderson: Heroes in back yard
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day today, we don't have to look far in northwestern lower Michigan to find tragic examples of prejudice and discrimination.
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Historian did her part to raise awareness
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Loraine Anderson: Story comes full circle
The story of local World War I heroes Harry and George Holliday, published in a two-part series Sunday and today, focused on the past. It is incomplete without bringing it to the present.
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Loraine Anderson: River stirs feelings
Nature calls on a walk along the Boardman River. Images, thoughts and questions flow through my mind...
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Loraine Anderson: TC's dark past
A night of Ku Klux Klan terror in Traverse City 87 years ago this month earned the city a mention and footnotes in a new book.
Continued ... - Monday, August 1, 2011
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Loraine Anderson: Clayton Sporre's legacy
My acquaintance with Clayton Sporre began in 2009 when he called and told me he had a collection of scrapbooks filled with Record-Eagle clippings dating back to the early 1900s.
Continued ... - Monday, July 25, 2011
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Loraine Anderson: On the wings of doves
Sunlight spills from the big blue sky into a rural cemetery near my hometown in Michigan's Thumb. The funeral director picks up a basket, says a few words and lifts the lid. Three white doves flutter out and upward. Surprise ripples through family and friends gathered at a burial service to honor Nellie McKay Andison, my 103-year-old great aunt who died July 14. Life is a series of comings and goings, beginnings and endings, I tell myself.
Continued ... - Monday, July 4, 2011
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Loraine Anderson: No eternal perfect age
I sit in the State Theatre with a friend eating popcorn under the starry sky of an August night replicated in thousands points of light embedded in the State's ceiling in perpetual tribute to the Traverse City Film Festival — at least as long as the house lights are on. I will probably think of this some day as part of a Golden Age in Traverse City. The important thing for me to remember is that there is no eternal perfect age. There is just now and golden times occur in the present because that's where I live, laugh, love, cry and create.
Continued ... - Monday, June 27, 2011
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Loraine Anderson: Local history books
Call this column History Crossroads. Local history writers are adding new books to the area’s growing trove.
Continued ... - Monday, June 6, 2011
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Loraine Anderson: Portals to TC's past
Local history writer Dick Fidler has a knack for finding history in odd places — a manhole cover, a 19th century photograph of a woman wearing an apron and hat of light bulbs, or a 1924 Traverse City mayor's proclamation designating July 31 to Aug. 9 as "Rat Killing Week."
Continued ... - Monday, May 9, 2011
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Loraine Anderson: Tragedy repeated
I sit at my computer, considering how to write a column about the Great Lakes and the sadness I feel while researching the history of these marvelous freshwater seas and their native fish species.
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My mind sees only a lamprey and its ugly mouth that I found so terrifying as a child in the late 1950s. The lamprey is the face I put on a raft of Great Lakes ills that started in the early 1800s. - Monday, April 11, 2011
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Special delivery: An 1864 Civil War letter
For years I had little relationship to my great-great grandfather Charles Dickerson until 2005, when I received his 1864 letter home from the Civil War.
Continued ... - Monday, March 14, 2011
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Loraine Anderson: Civil War a mirror
I've been rereading sections of "Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood" by Civil War historian Bruce Catton. It's his 1972 memoir of growing up in Benzonia during the early 1900s when many Civil War veterans were still alive.
Continued ... - Monday, February 14, 2011
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Loraine Anderson: Artist pays homage
In 2003, high school science teacher and artist David Kirby created and installed a solar system along a five-mile section of TART. Now he's delivered something more down-to-earth: a bronzed bust of lumber baron and city father Perry Hannah.
Continued ... - Monday, January 17, 2011
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Loraine Anderson: Late great TC hero
Move over, Harold Titus. Make room for Ezra Winter. Ezra Winter is my newest "Late Great Traverse City Hero." Late Great is the name I give to important people in area history that time forgot and a look back uncovers.
Continued ... - Monday, December 20, 2010
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Loraine Anderson: No mistaking heroism
Newspapers record the daily history of the communities they serve. That's an important job, though it may not be recognized until decades later. An uncorrected error can live long beyond the reporter who made the mistake.
Continued ... - Sunday, December 5, 2010
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Loraine Anderson: New history blog
Last week, the Record-Eagle launched a history blog in the new History section created recently on our website. I invite you to take a look at it at www.record-eagle.com/history.
Continued ... - Monday, October 18, 2010
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Loraine Anderson: Living now
One of my favorite sayings is, "All time is now." It allows me to live fully in the "now," even when I'm doing historical research or trying to envision the world after the electronic-media revolution settles down.
Continued ... - Monday, September 27, 2010
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Loraine Anderson: Magazine a page-turner
History is alive and well, and living in northern Michigan, thanks to local historians, history writers, museums and historical societies. The new kid on the block is the Record-Eagle's year-old quarterly magazine, "Reflections By the Bays."
Continued ... - Monday, June 28, 2010
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Loraine Anderson: Stories to treasure
Memories and images of my father return to me at the Northport Memorial Day service and have been with me ever since. I pay attention.
Continued ... - Sunday, May 30, 2010
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Loraine Anderson: Readers value towns
Ask people what they value about the place they live, then get ready for some thoughtful answers.
Continued ... - Monday, May 3, 2010
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Loraine Anderson: Fabric of time is what makes us whole
The din of children's voices bounces off the walls of the Smithsonian Museum of American History and echoes down the halls of time. I can hardly hear the volunteer docent.
Continued ... - Monday, April 5, 2010
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Loraine Anderson: What do you value?
Sense of place. I've always liked that phrase and personally defined it as a crucial connection between individuals and their environment or communities.
Continued ... - Monday, March 8, 2010
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Loraine Anderson: In the Copemish Triangle
I don't know exactly where I got lost in what I now call the Copemish Triangle. I do know I was trying to find the "shortcut" from Manistee to Traverse City. Life is a mystery and so is that territory between Kaleva and Karlin in northeast Manistee County. It has no north, no south, no west, no east if you miss a fork in the road in Copemish.
Continued ... - Monday, February 8, 2010
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Loraine Anderson: R.I.P. Sister Janina
I've just finished Mardi Link's "Isadore's Secret," published last year. It's a good read, well-researched and well-told with respect for the people whose lives it touched for decades. Link, a former police reporter and book editor, doesn't conclusively solve the mystery of who killed Sister Janina in 1907.
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Recording Superstar Whitney Houston Dead at 48
Fans 'Speechless' Over Houston's Death
Romney Tops Santorum in CPAC Straw Poll
First glimpse of Blue Ivy Carter
Absolute Lin-sanity
Hate to be Rude: Bubba Watson
Peek inside Barbie's closet
Test on Comforter in Powell Unit Shows Blood
Angry Dad Shoots Teens Laptop
Hero Driver Saves Kids From Burning Bus
Funeral to be held for Powell boys
Sandusky on having to stay inside and people turning on him
Uzbek Man Pleads Guilty in Plot to Kill Obama
Woolly Mammoth Caught on Camera?
Did JLo 'Assault' Marc Anthony on Camera?
Christie Brinkley's Runway Slip
Toddler forced to run half-naked in snow
Halle Wants to Leave the Country
Northern Lights shine above earth
Plane makes perfect belly landing
