Third in the Life in the Garden Series. Sequel to regional best seller, Time in a Garden, and Garden of Eve. "Love grows from tender shoots, rooted deep in the rich soil of human experience." Northern Michigan garden writer, Eve Brennerman, has known both love and unthinkable loss. Even as she makes a pact with herself to rediscover life at its fullest, what she learns about love and its opposite will shake her idyllic rural Eden to its foundations. Tender Stem is a love song to the power of rediscovering what grounds us...whatever our age or stage in life. As Eve writes, "I have got to...

Bay View is a jewel box of a Northern Michigan Chautauqua community along the shores of Little Traverse Bay, southwest of the Mackinac Bridge. Founded in 1875 and now a National Historic Landmark, its 31 public buildings and 450 cottages are among the most pristine examples of 1900-era High Victorian architecture in the United States. Historical photographs capture the fascinating journey via rail and Great Lakes steamer to the early campground's beech-forested hillside. Rare images trace its path from a wilderness Methodist campground to a vibrant embodiment of Chautauqua's four pillars: the...