Happy Holidays from your friends at Pilgrim Place.
Tammy and her assistants are keeping busy with several winter projects, one of which is the replacement of the many books that were lost in the 2009 fire. A big thank you goes out to the CSA Womens’ Association, which gave Pilgrim Place a generous donation this summer. [...]

At the Annual CSA meeting in August, the membership voted to change the name of the CSA Endowment Fund to the Preservation Fund, to better reflect the use and administration of the fund. Additional changes are in the works. Please watch this space for updates.

I heard the foghorn
Then remembered
The rain on the roof overhead
The tall trees dripping and swaying
Leaves rustling.

Have they been here forever?
Since the days when Pere Marquette
Walked through cool glades
And chirping golden meadows
To the open blue of Lake Michigan?

My grandmother sang me ‘The Red Fox Song’
‘Til nothing was left but the bones-o…’
And read me stories of magical [...]

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do [...]

My apologies for not doing any updates for several weeks.  My PC had a virus that locked out my e mail scanning capability and I didn’t want to risk sending out something nasty……It has been fixed and we are up and running now….      I hate to say it but, everyone left by Labor [...]

     Nothing to report except the weather has been wonderful.  Go out and enjoy the day… Todays picture is the Crystal lake sunrise yesterday…     Be well,  Jay

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Deb Cenname has been selected to lead the CSA Women’s Association, as Diane Young-Spitzer “retires” from office.
Deb is a long-time CSAer. Her children, Will Daugs and Kit Baker, are the fourth generation of her family coming to the CSA. Her parents bought their first cottage in 1947, on Standish Road. Deb and her husband Lou [...]

Associate Members Ask: Why Did I Get a Bill?
At the 2006 Annual Meeting the sections of the CSA bylaws pertaining to Members and Associate Members were amended, in particular making it possible for the first time in many years for new Associate Members to be approved. Because Associate Members are not authorized to vote on [...]