#topinabee

[detroitlib]

View of guests on veranda at Pike's Summer Tavern in Topinabee, Michigan. Printed on front: "Veranda at Pike's Summer Tavern, Topinabee, Mich." Printed on back: "Post cards of quality. The Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y." Handwritten on back: "Dear Marion, I cannot find the big silver Reeds spoon. I have even searched the garbage hole. Thought perhaps you might have put it away for safe keeping. The story of the big fish is not overdrawn. I watched the fight for five hours & it was exciting. Only came in when night came on. The men had it hooked for 30 hours & only gave up when [undecipherable]. With love." Card is postmarked August 5, 1915.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[tranquilitybasehotelcasino]

i found out everyone gets one free jukebox request at this bar i’m at and the queue is so long i’m gonna be long gone by the time mine plays but i’m leaving the good people of breakers’ in topinabee with some “sugar, we’re goin down”

[sesshy380]

First half of day done and over with.

So glad dinner meetup is at this amazing local bar. If you ever find yourself in Northern Michigan, highly suggest making a stop at Breakers in Topinabee. Amazing food and Blood Orange hard cider on tap from the local brewery (along with many other beers/ciders). Their Long Island ice tea is awesome too. Not too much alcohol flavor or overbearing lemon (like some places I've been to).

Now to make it through dinner. I can do this.

[alidaisinthevalli]

Mullett Lake Michigan at Topinabee.

[peterrichards]

Autumn in northern Michigan

[janus-borne]

 matt.bower Topinabee, Michigan

[lookninjas]

441.

In Topinabee, the house tumble down the hill like laughing children unrolling themselves to stop dizzy at the shoulder, gasping and giggling, and staring up at the sky in wonder.

Other places, I know, the houses hide themselves down long driveways, behind thick stands of dark pine, severe as bitter widows, shut away from the sun and other unwanted guests

but here they crowd forward like anxious spectators pressed to the fence of M27 North like the lake is the only show worth watching, and for all I know it is, too.

[librarycomic]

My Last Summer With Cass by Mark Crilley. Little, Brown, and Company, 2021. 9780759555464. http://www.powells.com/book/-9780759555464?partnerid=34778&p_bt

Megan and Cass got to know each other during the summers when their families vacationed in Topinabee, Michigan. As kids they were inseparable. And, in a key incident, they once created a work of art together on a cabin's wall. The place's owner, a former kindergarten teacher, was more impressed than irritated, and made the girls' parents to promise to enroll both of them in art classes. They continue to collaborate on art over the years even as Cass's family falls apart.

Most of the book takes place the summer before Megan's senior year of high school, when she goes to New York for a few weeks to stay with Cass and her mom in Brooklyn. The neighborhood is a world apart from where Megan lives in Illinois, and she has a bread from her father talking down to her about her artistic ambitions. (He wants Megan to take over the family hardware store, and thinks art is something she can do in her spare time.) Megan has a great time full of art and deep conversations, she and Cass collaborate some more, and then they're even going to put a piece they worked on together in a show. But when it becomes clear Megan's parents might see it in the gallery, Megan panics.

My daughter and I loved reading Crilley's Akiko books together years ago; this story is much more mature but is a compelling read she'd love now. I was really impressed with the way Crilley uses non-white backgrounds throughout the book, which allows him to use white for emphasis and to draw my eye to different details; basically he continues to get better and better at the craft of comics, and everything he's doing continues to wow me.

[middleland]

Unidentified Female. RPPC. by Brandon Legvold Via Flickr:

1912 TOLEDO OHIO Postmark. Sent to: Miss Bessie Dumaresq? c/o Biological Station Topinabee?, Mich.

[mom-of-many-up-north]

It’s the best time of the year. A dusting of snow ensures the people, bugs and heat are gone and the roads are still passable. (at Topinabee, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXFVQHxsnKvnuLnIlD8ZtlWAcVN3pWeXKbjJTM0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[birbzfordayz]

Good Morning Everyone!

-From Sylvie, Lalisa and Topinabee.

[wewerefatedtopretend-gc-blog]

This is by far the most well kept Rest Area in the entire state of Michigan. Just north of Topinabee. This means so much to people who always are on long car rides. For real. 💯 #WellDone #Michigan

[alidaisinthevalli]

Michigan Central Railroad, later a branch of The New York Central, pulls into the depot at Topinabee, Michigan headed south to Detroit.

[peterrichards]

This is a picture of my heart.

[janus-borne]

 matt.bower Topinabee, Michigan

[lookninjas]

847.

I remember vaguely the ghost town somewhere north of the bridge copper country, hot in the summer three of us and my mother roaming a fogged image of peeling paint splintering wood, dirt and gravel paths to nowhere, to nothing, to roam until the long drive back home. It's malls, now, that's the new thing abandoned hotels, like the pink sprawl outside Topinabee, which is itself ghostly half the year at least, which of course moreso, now, which is why that ghost of memory haunts me every time I go walking and there just isn't anyone else for miles and miles, not even my brothers not even my mom, not even my ghost blonde with summer sunshine running down that dirt and gravel path with nowhere and nothing to go home to.