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		<title>Thanksgiving in Old Mission: Bring on the Mac &#038; Cheese!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Norton</dc:creator>
		
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By MIKE NORTON

Each November, on the first Saturday after Thanksgiving, lovers of good food and wine flock to the vine-covered slopes of the Old Mission Peninsula for one of the year’s quirkiest and tastiest events .
 
There, in the cozy tasting rooms of the Peninsula’s seven wineries &#8212; Chateau Chantal, Chateau Grand Traverse, Black Star Farms, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beach Weather and Christmas Concerts. What a Strange November!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Norton</dc:creator>
		
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By MIKE NORTON
 

Wow! What amazing weather we had this past weekend! After such a dismal October, November is coming in like a lamb, with unbelievably warm and sunny days, balmy moonlit nights and – strangely enough – excellent beach weather. You probably wouldn’t want to swim, but it was nice to see people out sitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Iceman: the World&#8217;s Biggest One-Day Mountain Biking Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Norton</dc:creator>
		
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By MIKE NORTON
 
 
Much as I hate to admit it, color season is coming to an end, and winter hasn’t arrived yet. So what is there to do in Traverse City in this crazy in-between month of November?
 
Well, how about riding a mountain bike at top speed through a northern Michigan pine forest?
 
All right, maybe it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo Highlights from the Fall of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Norton</dc:creator>
		
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 By MIKE NORTON 
 
Ah, it’s a blustery Friday here in Traverse City, and although it’s unseasonably warm I think we’re well past the peak of fall color now. The wind is stripping leaves off the trees and scattering them down the streets in whispery battalions of red and gold. Kids are gathering downtown for the annual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Old Mission &#8220;Quilt Barn Trail&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Norton</dc:creator>
		
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By MIKE NORTON
 
Surrounded almost entirely by the deep blue water of Grand Traverse Bay, the long narrow Old Mission Peninsula is best known for its stunning views, picturesque orchards and award-winning wines.
 
But the Peninsula is also saturated with history. Home to the region’s first permanent settlement, its 18-mile length is dotted with picturesque farms, schoolhouses, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running Zombies, Dancing Zombies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Norton</dc:creator>
		
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Heck, I always knew there were zombies in Traverse City. After all, I used to cover local government back in my journalism days, and I’ve got no problems with zombo-Americans, as some of them prefer to be called. But who knew they’d end up with their own Halloween events? Two of them, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween Happenings and Fall Festivals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Norton</dc:creator>
		
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By MIKE NORTON
 
 
 We’re definitely coming up on peak fall color in the Traverse City area – each morning on my way to work I see more trees joining the show. (The poplars have just added their intense sunny yellows to the oranges, yellows and reds already in evidence. Wow!) And now I’m realizing that I’ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn Adventures in Old Mission</title>
		<link>http://blog.visittraversecity.com/?p=874</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Norton</dc:creator>
		
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By MIKE NORTON
The more I get out and about, the more I&#8217;m convinced that we&#8217;re getting closer and closer &#8212; perhaps this very weekend! &#8212; to peak fall color in the Traverse City area.
Certainly, it&#8217;s already there in some of the higher places south and east of town, and although things are still lagging a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bohemian Rhapsody: A Fall Trip to Gill&#8217;s Pier</title>
		<link>http://blog.visittraversecity.com/?p=846</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Norton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By MIKE NORTON

High on a lofty ridge, about a half-hour&#8217;s drive from Traverse City, the cemetery of St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church may have one of the best views in Michigan – a wide vista of Lake Michigan and the distant Manitou Islands framed by lush orchards and vineyards.



But it’s a modest cemetery, and equally modest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cooler Weather Arrives &#8212; and So Have the Salmon!</title>
		<link>http://blog.visittraversecity.com/?p=836</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Norton</dc:creator>
		
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By MIKE NORTON


 
Me and my big mouth.


 
All I had to do was say that September had been wonderfully warm and sunny, and what happens? I barely had time to hit the “post” button on this blog before scads of ugly rainclouds moved in and gave us several days of Yuck Weather. Ah, well [...]]]></description>
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