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	<description>reflections on moving to the north country - by Donald H. Lewis</description>
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		<title>The Night Before the Tournament</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donald Holmes Lewis Published in the January-February 2012 issue of The Mackinac Journal, the Monthly Magazine of the Straits. . It was an odd morning in the middle of February last year when I awoke in the early morning in our cottage on Mullett Lake in Cheboygan County. The baseboard heaters were silent as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Small Package Tucked Under His Arm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donald Holmes Lewis Published in December 2011 issue of The Mackinac Journal, Monthly Magazine of the Straits. . Early in the morning last week Maizie scooted out the kitchen door and stopped with her paws in three inches of new snow. The temperature had fallen close to zero overnight and it was still pitch dark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for the Bridge of My Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donald Holmes Lewis Published in the October 2011 Issue of the Mackinac Journal, Magazine of the Straits. With this issue, Back Up North has moved from the Cheboygan Daily Tribune as a weekly column to the Mackinac Journal, Magazine of the Straits.  Don’s book Back Up North featuring his Tribune columns from 2009-2010 is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bald Eagle Joined My Family for Dinner</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 12:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Donald Holmes Lewis Published on August 6, 2011 in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune. &#160; &#160; Last week Sal and I crossed the Upper Peninsula on our way to Duluth to see my parents, my brother, my sister, and 250 Lewis relatives at the big reunion. Clear blue skies carried us west over endless miles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Summer Storm of Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 01:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Donald Holmes Lewis Published on July 23, 2011 in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune.  Last Sunday night was the first hot heavy night of summer. The air refused to move. The lake barely whispered. An orange moon rose over the other side of Mullett Lake and disappeared in the growing darkness overhead. My son [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only a Single Boat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Donald Holmes Lewis Published on July 9, 2011 in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune.   When I slipped out of bed on Tuesday morning, only a single boat graced the grey blue water of Mullett Lake. Three guys were hard at walleye fishing out in the middle. The man in the white ball cap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Beach Needed Some Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donald Holmes Lewis Published on July 2, 2011 on the Cheboygan Daily Tribune. When Sal’s brother Dave and his boys arrived on Monday, Dave asked me a question. “Do you have anything you need me to do?” “Yes. The beach.” “What do you mean?” “C’mon, I’ll show you.” While the boys stashed their stuff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Glory Tight in Another Eastern Storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 19:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Donald Holmes Lewis Published on June 25, 2011 in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune.   On my way home to our cottage on Mullett Lake this week, I saw the landscape photo I wanted to take. I’d been keeping my eye on the horizons and the blue green forests and the muddied waters making [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reunion Travels and Home Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Donald Holmes Lewis Published on June 18, 2011 in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune.     The day began with a whisper of cold northern air tiptoeing over the early summer waters of Mullet Lake. The northern Michigan sky over the Straits was clear blue like a diamond. I was about to go back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mallard Family Reunion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Donald Holmes Lewis Published on June 11, 2011 in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune.   This column is a “Best of Back Up North” column originally published last year at this time.   There were five generations of mallards having a picnic on our dock on Mullett Lake last Monday morning. I counted twenty [...]]]></description>
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