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  July 28, 2025
  
  Beaver Island Retreat
  
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  Beaver Island: Where the Night Still Lives!
  
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  Detroit Resistance Book Club: Building Community, Growing Resistance
  
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  Lake Superior’s Pictured Rocks: 500 Million Years in the Making
  
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  Old Presque Isle Lighthouse
  
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