The Vintners of 2003
Here’s a great old poster that Traverse Magazine did of vintners from the Leelanau Peninsula & Old Mission Peninsula.
Here’s a slideshow of photos from the 2008 LPVA Sip & Savor … we’re doing a PJ Prize Giveaway this year.
Interview with Mark “The Bird” Fidrych
This great interview with Mark Fydrich is featured today in Remembering Mark “The Bird” Fidrych on Absolute Michigan. The Tiger phenom died yesterday at the age of 54 and was one of my all-time favorite baseball players.
If you can, consider doing what Samara Pearlstein at Roar of the Tigers suggests:
I suggest a memorial to one of the best things about him– his ability to bring fun to a sometimes deeply (some would say ‘overly’) serious sport. Baseball is, after all, a game, and it’s SUPPOSED to be fun; Fidrych understood that.
So, tomorrow, go out and do a little something ‘willfully eccentric’ (thanks for the phrase, commenter Matt). Talk to your car. Groom the seat of your office chair with your hands. Change pens because the old one doesn’t have enough great ideas in it. Smile at yourself a little, and think of the Bird.
