This
spring
semester
(May/June
2009)
nine
students
and
I
embarked
on
a
search
to
discover,
in
a
very
short
six
weeks,
as
much
as
we
could
about
Horton
Bay
and
Petoskey,
summer
life
on
Walloon
Lake
and
Lake
Charlevoix,
from
roughly
1899
to
1920.
We
wanted
to
know
what
it
was
like
in
the
time
Hemingway
summered
here
and
how
his
Michigan
experiences
shaped
his
work,
even
his
writing
set
outside
of
Michigan.Â
We
read
the
Nick Adams
stories, Torrents
of
Spring,
and The
Sun
Also
Rises, as
well
as excerpts
from
biographies,
selected
scholarly
articles,
and
relevant
letters
from
the Selected
Letters
of
Ernest
Hemingway.Â
We
learned about
Ottawa
and
Ojibway
history,
and
the
tourist
entertainment
of
1905,
the Hiawatha play.
Thanks
to
the
GVSU
library
and
library
liason
Anne
Merkle,
we
read
local
histories
of
the
area,
as
well
as
contemporary
accounts
of
resort
life
in
the Chicago
Tribune and Grand
Rapids
Press.
We
took
an
overnight
trip
to
Hemingway
country,
enjoying
tours
of
Horton
Bay
and
Petoskey
led
by
James
Vol
Hartwell
and
Chris
Struble.
Our
adventures
included
meeting
fascinating
world
travelers
on
Lake
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