
Once more unto the Beech: Beech trees, Passenger pigeons and the struggle to survive in Northern Michigan
By Jess Piskor First in a two-part series “I will not be able to send you any provisions,” read 13-year-old Etta Boizard in Glen Arbor. It was Oct. 18, 1865, and the letter was from her father, Oliver. Mustered out of the United States Army after the …