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...book called Painting the Model, he has brought together several of his previously published essays and reviews. Bois is currently working on a project about Ellsworth Kelly, an American modern artist...
Fast-Midwestward to Michigan: F.H. died in 1937, and I was just old enough to remember him as a fierce-looking geezer with a sandy mustache. Today that would describe me, and at the coffee bar in Ellsworth's Viking Food Store, Pete Drenth, 77, said a couple of weeks ago that from the side he could see the resemblance. I was pleased to hear that. One of the other high-mileage gents passing the time over coffee heard my name and said, "You're the doctor who settled in Toledo." No, I told him, that was my father...
...bride, Christine Sandberg, then to bring her to the U.S., and finally, after their five children were born, to give his wife one last look at home. One of the hazy bits in his story is how, before he emigrated, he knew of a tiny, unincorporated farm hamlet called Ellsworth (after Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, the first Union officer killed in the Civil War). There were a few Dutch families in this rolling, forested country at the northern tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, but no Danes who might have written to say there were lumberjack jobs in the woods...
...rate, the teenage and penniless F.H. found his way to Ellsworth and prospered there, somehow buying and selling farms and houses, building and operating a three-story hotel called the Orient, a shingle mill, a hardware store and a waterworks, and donating land for a station when the railroad came through in '92. That was the year he and two other men paid a surveyor to plot out the town. That year -- and any other, according to a town history -- he was good for a suit of clothes, or a railroad ticket, or the rent money, when someone was down...
...canning factory that my grandfather and some other townsmen started in the '20s petered out, I learn, in the early '70s. A steel- fabricating plant operated there for a few years, then went belly up, and now a toxic-waste cleanup putters along in a clutter of rusted metal. Ellsworth Lake is still where it was when my father and I would shove off at first light in a borrowed rowboat, seats slicked by dew, to fish for perch and crappies with bamboo poles and worms. Now a friendly fellow who is launching a $15,000 bass boat, complete with...