Here it comes… ready or not… 5/8

The after effects have already started and they haven’t laid a brick. Just thinking about progress many of our town's merchant's have already pulled up stakes and closed their businesses.

Our little town has somewhat out grown it’s self. Corporate America has it eye on us and as it has in the past for just north of town Mr. Rockefeller built his Midwest get away on Trout Lake. The same holds true of the folks from Listerine, Johnson Wax and so on. We were a get away destination due to the “quaintance” of the little island town surrounded by woods and water.

Then came Pizza Hut and Mc D’s and the quaintance was shot in the foot especially when the our old watering hole burned down. It was an old turn of the century massive roof covered boathouse that had dining and cocktails right on the lake. You could sit there with the sound of the waves under your bar stool while gazing at the mounted fish over the bar and listen to tall tails from George, Jerry and Larry the bar tenders.

Now it’s Culver’s and Perkin’s - all of which have added to the glare of Progress? But the real knife is coming, it’s a Super Wal-Mart. So our loss is their gain and it’s a loss that can never be recovered only put into their corporate profits. It’s pave over the pine time. If you want a truly northwood’s experience? Try heading further north to the UP - it still takes a bit to get lost up there but it's possible just ask Dave and Freddie.