Jun 29-18

Past-E-Mail: Cam Notes - 2018: June: Jun 29-18
2006: Parked at the Park    ...scroll down to share comments
Photo by Cathy Westcott
2009: Big Mac and Kids    ...scroll down to share comments
Photo by Bob Farrell
2013: Toivola Juhannus    ...scroll down to share comments
Photo by Melanie Hakala Rossi
Midsummer Juhannus at Agate Beach    ...click to play video
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By
Mary Drew at Pasty Central (Mdrew) on Friday, June 29, 2018 - 08:24 am:

We’re going on a tour today in the archives, around the U.P., starting at Esrey Park in 2006, with Cathy Westcott and her family. I’m sure it wasn’t easy to get the three kiddos to sit still long enough for a photo op from one of the viewing benches, with Lake Superior in the background.

Next we head south to the Mackinac Bridge with Bob Farrell and his family, back in 2009. It’s a popular stop, to get a picture of the kids and the Mighty Mac for memories of their trip UP North.

Our last photo stop is in Toivola, courtesy of Melanie Hakala Rossi back in 2013. We’re on the shores of Agate Beach for a Finnish celebration called Juhannus or Summer Solstice, which includes a large Kokko or bonfire. With that pile of wood stacked high, it looks like it must have been a dandy one for sure.

I was excited to find a video of the Toivola Juhannus back in 2012. It’s quite short, but gives you a good idea of the real thing, with the bonfire and a beautiful sunset lighting the horizon on fire, too.


By Alex "UP-Goldwinger" (Alex) on Friday, June 29, 2018 - 10:58 am:

Nice set...kids love a Big Mac! And where is Smokey when you need him?


By mickill mouse (Ram4) on Friday, June 29, 2018 - 01:59 pm:

Go to...

www.clickondetroit.com

and take a look at, where does up north begin? Kinda of interesting...:O)

I would like to hear what you think.


By Pat & Glenda (Gormfrog) on Friday, June 29, 2018 - 02:22 pm:

Apt in these times:

Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice;
moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
.......Karl Hess


By FRNash/PHX, AZ (Frnash) on Friday, June 29, 2018 - 04:29 pm:

Pat & Glenda (Gormfrog):


Quote:

Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice;
moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
.......Karl Hess


Karl Hess — an American speechwriter and author, widely considered to be the author of the renowned Goldwater line:

Quote:

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!"
— Barry Goldwater


… in a speech at the Republican National Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco on July 16, 1964.

… but Hess later revealed that he had encountered it in a letter from Lincoln historian Harry Jaffa and later learned it was a paraphrase of a passage from Cicero. (Perhaps from Aristotle via Cicero?)

Though neither Hess nor Goldwater mentioned Thomas Paine's name in Goldwater's acceptance speech, this was drawn directly from the words of Thomas Paine's words:

Quote:

"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is a species of vice."


On October 31, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson, the Democratic contender for the presidency, replied in a speech in New York:

Quote:

"Extremism is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue."


… and then a bit later:

Quote:

“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
— Malcolm X”


… in his famous response in the Oxford Union Debate, December 3, 1964, the last speech he gave in public.
By
Deb S. (Usedtobeayooper) on Friday, June 29, 2018 - 04:37 pm:

Just love the Big Mac picture. Makes me
want to go there.


By jbuck (Jbuck) on Friday, June 29, 2018 - 05:45 pm:

Re: where does Up North begin? I guess i never
thought of Clio as 'up north'!!!

In what could be the first time ever, i agree with
Stabenow. I remember before they built the 'new' I-
75 that Clare had the "Gateway to the North" sign and
we always thought we were up north when we saw it.
Maybe we were being brainwashed as grade schoolers!


By FRNash/PHX, AZ (Frnash) on Friday, June 29, 2018 - 11:51 pm:

jbuck (Jbuck):
"Re: where does Up North begin? I guess i never
thought of Clio as 'up north'!

Clio? No way!
For me, more likely around Gaylord, near the 45th parallel (45°N latitude).

Old Mission Lighthouse - 45°N
Old Mission Lighthouse
20500 Center Rd
Traverse City, MI 49686

Or at the Gaylord Regional Airport (GLR) (45°00' 46.9000"N / 84° 42'12.4000"W)


By FRNash/PHX, AZ (Frnash) on Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 12:02 am:

Lookie, (click →) the Michigan Central Railroad Station in Detroit will live again
(YouToob video, 3 min + 49 sec.)
… after decades of decay! To be resurrected by Ford!

(I actually took a train from there to Chicago, then a change of trains and on to Houghton on the old Copper Country Limited, in the mid-1960s, then it died shortly thereafter. 'Cuz I didn't want to miss that experience!)


By D. A. (Midwested) on Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 02:38 am:

Having been to Finland many times, I've attended several Kokko at Juhannus. There is also conspicuous consumption of large quantities of adult beverages and it marks the beginning of 6 weeks vacation for most everyone.

Great picture of the Copper Harbor overlook in 2017.


By jbuck (Jbuck) on Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 06:40 am:

6 weeks of vacation? WOW!!!!


By Alex "UP-Goldwinger" (Alex) on Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 08:05 am:

Wow, indeed! My bladder's drained and my bags are packed.


By jbuck (Jbuck) on Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 09:27 am:

Hey Alex ~
Let's hope SOMEONE is working at the gas station!


By D. A. (Midwested) on Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 03:23 pm:

Outside of Helsinki, you're lucky to find stuff open or staffed very well. In the moderate sized town I worked in (about 35 miles north of Helsinki) all but one hotel closes for the summer and that one hotel only has a skeleton staff. People just seem to disappear as they go to their remote cabins and cottages on the many lakes and coast line. It's all very similar to the U.P. FYI, many gas stations are automated year round.


By Duane P. (Islandman43) on Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 03:30 pm:

Up North starts at St. Ignace, the UP side of the bridge.


By FRNash/PHX, AZ (Frnash) on Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 04:13 pm:

Alex "UP-Goldwinger" (Alex):
"… My bladder's drained and my bags are packed."


Not quite the lyrics I remember, but "your bags are packed", and you're
(click →) "Leaving on a Jet Plane"? (YouTube video, 3 min + 27 sec.)

😇
(Some of the early scenes in that video almost look like the Copper Country!)
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