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Ferries and Bridges to Adventure

Author: Maureen Dunphy

I am a writer and a collector. When I was a kid, I collected rocks. As an adult, I collected islands and wrote about them in my book "Great Lakes Island Escapes: Ferries and Bridges to Adventure" (Wayne State University Press, 2016). Then I got to collect the Great Lakes themselves. My juvenile nonfiction book, "All About the Great Lakes" (Blue River Press) is coming out in July 2019. Through Dunphy Consulting Services, I offer individual coaching services for writers, assist with book proposals and manuscripts, and facilitate writing workshops and retreats. I also teach prose-writing workshops for Springfed Arts. I have always lived in the tri-county area of the Lower Peninsula in the “Mitten State” and grew up visiting the Great Lakes--Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, in particular. But, for the last 25 years, once the ice is off the lake and the ferry is running again, I spend time at my cottage on Ontario’s Pelee Island in Lake Erie. On weekends there, I collect fossils and beach glass on the west shore. I also collect the ideas materializing above the waves, hovering just at the horizon. And, regardless of what else I happen to be collecting at the moment, I'm always collecting words and stories, connecting and combining bits of information in ways that I find fascinating. Recently, those collections are focused on trees.

Wooded Island: White City Respite

Posted on August 31, 2016September 1, 2016 by Maureen Dunphy

On the Monday morning three days after Japan’s March 11, 2011 triple disaster of the 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami, topping 45-feet,… Read more Wooded Island: White City Respite

As Good and Saucy as a Coney

Posted on August 25, 2016August 25, 2016 by Maureen Dunphy

This blog posting could be for John Considine, who I met in 2008 or 2012 while working a phone bank… Read more As Good and Saucy as a Coney

My New “Mainland” Island Companion

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Maureen Dunphy

“Travels with Books” is this year’s festival theme for the 14th Annual Kerrytown BookFest, taking place Sunday, September 11 at the Ann Arbor… Read more My New “Mainland” Island Companion

You Never Know Who You Might Meet

Posted on August 9, 2016August 11, 2016 by Maureen Dunphy

Yes, that is a small plane in the featured photo above. And, yes, that is Tom Daldin, host of the… Read more You Never Know Who You Might Meet

A Bois Blanc Welcome, “Bob-Lo Style”

Posted on August 1, 2016August 4, 2016 by Maureen Dunphy

For those of you who grew up in the Detroit area, as I did, the name “Bob-Lo” may conjure up annual… Read more A Bois Blanc Welcome, “Bob-Lo Style”

Dispatch from the Pelee Island Winery Pavilion

Posted on July 19, 2016 by Maureen Dunphy

The sun is shining, the grapes are growing, the wine is good. This is where you want to be with… Read more Dispatch from the Pelee Island Winery Pavilion

Before You Check the Ferry Schedule

Posted on July 12, 2016July 12, 2016 by Maureen Dunphy

Before you check the island ferry schedule, you may want to check another schedule first. On most Great Lakes Basin islands, summer… Read more Before You Check the Ferry Schedule

Of Nations and Islands, Flags and Fundraisers

Posted on July 4, 2016July 5, 2016 by Maureen Dunphy

Every inhabited Great Lakes Basin island has celebrated one or the other of two “nationhood” holidays over this past long… Read more Of Nations and Islands, Flags and Fundraisers

The Ephemeral Dance of the Mayfly

Posted on June 30, 2016July 2, 2016 by Maureen Dunphy

Dance of the mayflies . . . or flight of the “fishflies” . . . or “march” of the “Canadian… Read more The Ephemeral Dance of the Mayfly

A”Baker’s Dozen” of Islands

Posted on June 20, 2016June 21, 2016 by Maureen Dunphy

Now that we’re just on the other side of the Summer Solstice, you may want to reconsider if you’ve yet… Read more A”Baker’s Dozen” of Islands

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