Word: onaway
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...tussle with Lake Michigan's temperamental airs. Many an old reliable will be missing. But inland sailors will get a squint at four formidable newcomers recently purchased in the East: Falcon, last of the famed Marblehead Q Boats; Barquita and Gentian, a pair of New York 32s; and Onaway, designed by famed Designers Sparkman & Stephens...
Apple of Adman Maxon's eye is his summer home, the Cabin, in the Northern Michigan town of Onaway (pop. 1,492), where he was born. The Cabin is a modest estate of eleven buildings equipped with every comfort. Items: two tennis courts, stables, a large playhouse complete with full-size soda fountain (because Maxon could never afford to buy enough sodas when he was a boy). He can and does bed & board 72 guests at a time, sometimes entertains up to 400 guests a week. Often as not they include overalled members of the six-team Onaway softball...
...step farther by having a Vassar, and completes the story with the following towns (see Rand McNally World Atlas): McBrides, Romeo, Elsie, Eureka, Waltz, Chase, Halfway, Rapid City, Twining, Blissfield, Climax, Liberty, Alaska, Maybee, Union City, Paines, Kawkawlin, Paw Paw, Richville, Cadillac, Lawrence, Princeton, Champion, Battle Creek, Bad Axe, Onaway, and Farwell...
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