Northern Mich~Mash Preserve
~HORTON BAY~
(Charlevoix County)
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Natives on Horton Creek
Photo Below: The authors, however, of Petoskey Glimpses labeled the water as Bear Creek...
Photo Below: The authors, however, of Petoskey Glimpses labeled the water as Bear Creek...
1856
A 1956 Centennial edition of "Boyne City 1856-1956 An Early History" told of the 1 August 1856 sailboat arrival that included the family of Sam Horton. "On board the Rover was Sam Horton and his family and two young men. The party had set out from Toledo, planning to sail around the peninsula, up the Grand River to Grand Rapids. Because their provisions were low, they stopped at Pine River for supplies. Adverse winds delayed their departure until Sam Horton felt that Providence decreed that he should locate here on Pine Lake. Sailing east along the north shore, he found the beautiful bay that today bears his name. There were planted fields and improvements that had been made by the Mormons, before they were driven away.
Thus it was that Sam Horton became the first white man to settle permanently on Pine Lake."
Thus it was that Sam Horton became the first white man to settle permanently on Pine Lake."
1880
Horton House Stagecoach Stop in Horton Bay
1883
1886 ~ 1887
Telephone service from Boyne Falls to Boyne City was provided in 1886.
In 1887 telephone service extended from Boyne City to Horton Bay.
Telephone service from Boyne Falls to Boyne City was provided in 1886.
In 1887 telephone service extended from Boyne City to Horton Bay.
1893
Horton Bay Ferris Wheel
Horton Bay Ferris Wheel
1894
This village was given a post office named Horton's Bay on 27 February 1879, with Alonzo J. Stroud as the FIRST postmaster. The village name was shortened to Horton Bay on 12 October 1894. The Horton Bay post office was closed on 15 January 1910.
1896
The obituary for Oliver S. Horton was printed in the 04/30/1896 Elk Rapids Progress:
Oliver S. Horton, the youngest son of Samuel and Sophia Horton, was born in Toledo, May 5, 1853, and died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Jas. R. Dean, at Elk Lake, Monday, April 6th, aged 42 years and 11 months.
He came to Northern Michigan with his parents and family in the summer of 1856, being among the first settlers on Pine Lake, Charlevoix county, after the Mormons left there, making their home at what is now known as Horton's Bay on Pine Lake. When Samuel Horton went up Pine Lake with the small vessel that he came from Toledo in, the country around Pine Lake was an unbroken wilderness save a few small clearings the Mormons had deserted and from which the fisherman had been driven.
Miles from neighbors, with an unbroken forest around them, the family suffered all the privations incident to pioneer life, often reduced to great extremities for the bare necessities of life.
Deprived all church and school privileges, Oliver grew to manhood having never spent a day in school in his life, yet his desire for knowledge was such that he acquired what would be termed a fair common school education. He became a great reader of such books as came within his reach and stored his mind with good solid information.
He was of a religious turn of mind and for the last four years had been preaching in the United Brethren church. On the 6th day of April, 1895, while stationed at Shepherd, Mich., he had a stroke of paralysis on his left side, and for weeks his life was despaired of, but his strong constitution helped him to rally and he so far recovered as to be able to walk and help himself some but he never regained the use of his left hand. On Monday, April 6th, just a year from his first stroke, he was uncommonly cheerful and rode six miles during the day.
About nine o'clock in the evening he retired for the night, being at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. R. Dean. Shortly after retiring he had another very severe stroke of paralysis and was unconscious until death came to his relief, which was in about five hours after the stroke.
About five years ago he was married to Miss Ida Bloss, of Clarion, who survives him. He also leaves a daughter by a former marriage and five sisters to mourn his loss.
Oliver S. Horton, the youngest son of Samuel and Sophia Horton, was born in Toledo, May 5, 1853, and died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Jas. R. Dean, at Elk Lake, Monday, April 6th, aged 42 years and 11 months.
He came to Northern Michigan with his parents and family in the summer of 1856, being among the first settlers on Pine Lake, Charlevoix county, after the Mormons left there, making their home at what is now known as Horton's Bay on Pine Lake. When Samuel Horton went up Pine Lake with the small vessel that he came from Toledo in, the country around Pine Lake was an unbroken wilderness save a few small clearings the Mormons had deserted and from which the fisherman had been driven.
Miles from neighbors, with an unbroken forest around them, the family suffered all the privations incident to pioneer life, often reduced to great extremities for the bare necessities of life.
Deprived all church and school privileges, Oliver grew to manhood having never spent a day in school in his life, yet his desire for knowledge was such that he acquired what would be termed a fair common school education. He became a great reader of such books as came within his reach and stored his mind with good solid information.
He was of a religious turn of mind and for the last four years had been preaching in the United Brethren church. On the 6th day of April, 1895, while stationed at Shepherd, Mich., he had a stroke of paralysis on his left side, and for weeks his life was despaired of, but his strong constitution helped him to rally and he so far recovered as to be able to walk and help himself some but he never regained the use of his left hand. On Monday, April 6th, just a year from his first stroke, he was uncommonly cheerful and rode six miles during the day.
About nine o'clock in the evening he retired for the night, being at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. R. Dean. Shortly after retiring he had another very severe stroke of paralysis and was unconscious until death came to his relief, which was in about five hours after the stroke.
About five years ago he was married to Miss Ida Bloss, of Clarion, who survives him. He also leaves a daughter by a former marriage and five sisters to mourn his loss.
1897
The photo below was submitted by Angela Kuhn
with permission for it to be viewed only on this Northern Mich~Mash Preserve web site.
The label under the photo stated: "Unloading picnic group in 1897 Glenwood Beach... east of Horton Bay"
The photo below was submitted by Angela Kuhn
with permission for it to be viewed only on this Northern Mich~Mash Preserve web site.
The label under the photo stated: "Unloading picnic group in 1897 Glenwood Beach... east of Horton Bay"
1908
Horton Bay Lumber Wharf Gave Way
Mr. Dilworth had Blacksmith Shop and Large Potato Warehouse
1910
Horton Bay School
Horton Bay School
1911
Frank Fox bought a box car full of broke horses.
Frank Fox bought a box car full of broke horses.
1915
Ursula, Sunny & Carol Hemingway going to Horton Bay
Ursula, Sunny & Carol Hemingway going to Horton Bay
Ursula and Sunny at the Dam on Horton's Crick
Ursula and Sunny on the trout stream at Hortons Bay dam
Horton Bay Bride and Groom ~ Wesley Dilworth and Katherine Kennedy
1915
1915
Article Right and Two Photos Below: 13 and 15 July 1915 ~ Wesley Dilworth and Katherine Kennedy were united in marriage. Mr. Dilworth was of Horton Bay where he was engaged producing, buying and shipping for several years. The photos below were in the scrapbook of Grace Hall Hemingway with her handwriting noting the Bride and Groom on 13 July 1915 at the Hemingway's Walloon Lake Windemere Cottage shoreline. The other photo below of the combined Dilworths and Hemingways includes 16 year old Ernest Hemingway in the very back. Grace was in the front right holding her baby Leicester Hemingway.
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1917
Mary (Foote) Bewell and husband John Bewell moved to Horton Bay, Michigan,
in the late 1860s or early 1870s, and lived there until close to her death in 1917.
Mary (Foote) Bewell and husband John Bewell moved to Horton Bay, Michigan,
in the late 1860s or early 1870s, and lived there until close to her death in 1917.
~ James Fox,
Well Known Farmer of Horton Bay Died ~ 1914 |
~ Reverend William Koteskey to preach in Evangelical
Horton Bay Church ~ 1923 |
~ Reverend William Koteskey to preach in Methodist Church... Horton Bay native ~
1936 ~ Listings for the
Horton Bay Churches~ 1934 |
Ruth (Prohaska) Chamberlin (1927–2019) was a life-long member of the Horton Bay United Methodist Church. She served as the church organist from 1968 until 2012. She was active in United Methodist Women as well as a member of the Gideon's International Auxiliary.
1931 Obituary Below: Mrs. John (Ruth Ekstrom) Koteskey taught school at Horton's Bay.
1938
Electrical power came to Horton Bay officially, April 4, 1938, when Paul Skornia officially recorded
the 56 'yes' to 10 'no' on a Township public propositions 'to grant a franchise to The Top O'Michigan Rural Electric Co.
Electrical power came to Horton Bay officially, April 4, 1938, when Paul Skornia officially recorded
the 56 'yes' to 10 'no' on a Township public propositions 'to grant a franchise to The Top O'Michigan Rural Electric Co.
~ Horton Bay Belknap Family on Lost Zamzam Ship ~
1941
1941
The 24 October 1964 Petoskey News Review obituary for Mrs. Minnie (Atwood) Sheaffer
stated that Minnie and Atwood Sheaffer owned and operated the Horton Bay grocery from 1945 to 1947.
stated that Minnie and Atwood Sheaffer owned and operated the Horton Bay grocery from 1945 to 1947.
~ Horton Bay Seeks to use Township Hall for School ~
1945
1945
~ Horton Bay School House ~
Article/Photo (blurry) Below Left and Two Obituaries Center and Right:
Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Caroline Spura) West of Horton Bay celebrated 50 years in 1950.
Mr. West had come to Horton Bay in 1885 from Canada.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Caroline Spura) West of Horton Bay celebrated 50 years in 1950.
Mr. West had come to Horton Bay in 1885 from Canada.
~ Horton Bay Labor Day Bridge Walk ~
MANY years ago, Horton Bay started its bridge walk as a joke, and it has continued to 2019. It began when a comparison was made to the annual Labor Day walk on the Mackinac Bridge. Horton Bay's bridge walk traverses the 14 1/2 foot culvert just west of Horton Bay on Boyne City Road. Some years of the bridge walk tradition have brought as many as 1,000 people... walking by candlelight. Quite a number considering Horton Bay has only about 15 residents.
~ Horton Bay Parades ~
1908
Article and Photos Below: Horton Bay Parade Outdoes Itself... AGAIN
Article Below: Historical Perspective of the Horton Bay Parade
Two Photo/Text Below: Remembering Ernest Hemingway in the 1990 Horton Bay Parade
4 July 2021
Horton Bay to host "World's Shortest" Independence Day Parade!
With the "tongue-in-cheek" floats and celebration and coming out of a COVID–19 pandemic,
only two entries were lined up about a week prior to the fourth.
Horton Bay to host "World's Shortest" Independence Day Parade!
With the "tongue-in-cheek" floats and celebration and coming out of a COVID–19 pandemic,
only two entries were lined up about a week prior to the fourth.
Another Horton Bay Author (?) ~ "True Hard Scrabble" by Lee Lowell Winters
1972
1972
Horton Bay General Store
(Undated Postcard Below)
(Undated Postcard Below)
~ Horton Bay, Horton's Bay, Hortons' Bay ~
1968
1968
Article Below: Art for the local Horton Bay art show included that of Ernest Hemingway's mother Grace Hemingway.
~ Mary Lynne Hartwell and the art of Calligraphy ~
Horton Bay's John Koteskey
Koteskey remembers Hemingway as... "Polite Kid".
Horton Bay Contemporaries Remember Hemingway
1979
John N. Knapp, was born 16 June 1911 in Bay Township, Charlevoix County.
He attended school at Horton Bay, and had lived all his life in Northern Michigan.
He attended school at Horton Bay, and had lived all his life in Northern Michigan.
Photo/Text Below: Horton Bay's Landmark General Store
being prepared for the 4 July 1980 old fashioned parade...
being prepared for the 4 July 1980 old fashioned parade...
Article Below: Hometown Horton Bay
Three Photos Below: Driving into Horton Bay...
Click to Download File Below: Tom Dammann wrote this three page file/article for the 18 October 1990 Emmet County Graphic. It is an interesting article with photos about Hemingway's connection to people and places when living near Walloon Lake, and his time spent at Horton Bay.
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1990 Fall Color Tour Begins in Horton Bay
by William Ohle (three pages below)
by William Ohle (three pages below)
Article Below: Horton Bay's Windigo Predicts the Rest of Winter
The Shadow Knows
The Shadow Knows
TOP
Man in the City
Photo Below: A NEGATIVE image of "Man in the City"
Located between the Horton Bay General Store and Fox Inn on 10 July 2019...
5115 Boyne City Road, Horton Bay, Michigan
Photo Below: A NEGATIVE image of "Man in the City"
Located between the Horton Bay General Store and Fox Inn on 10 July 2019...
5115 Boyne City Road, Horton Bay, Michigan
Check out the resemblance of the sculpture above to the photo in the article titled:
"Hemingway Sculpture re-dedication at Beaver Island Library" by clicking HERE.
9-Foot-Tall Steel Sculpture re-dedication will take place August 30, 2019.
Hmmmmm. What happened here?
"Hemingway Sculpture re-dedication at Beaver Island Library" by clicking HERE.
9-Foot-Tall Steel Sculpture re-dedication will take place August 30, 2019.
Hmmmmm. What happened here?
Article Below: History of Horton Bay United Methodist Church
Ernest Hemingway's and Hadley Richardson's Charlevoix County 1921 marriage record stated that they were married by Reverend W.J. Datson. Horton Bay Church records, however, do not show W.J. Datson as being the assigned reverend for the church. Newspaper articles showed that Datson had become the minister of Petoskey’s Emmanuel Episcopal church by 11 May 1919. So that begs the question as to what was happening in the Horton Bay Church regarding who the church’s minister was in that 1921 timeframe.
As a contemporary of the Hemingway Family, and with the Ohle Family being friends to Hadley Richardson’s family in St. Louis, William Ohle wrote of the Hemingways, and the Horton Bay Church; mentioning that the Ohle Family attended the Methodist Church on “scheduled Sundays.” In his 1976 booklet of “100 Years in Horton Bay” Ohle described the Hemingway’s wedding which Ohle attended; “Ernest and Hadley were married in the forlorn little [Horton Bay] Methodist Church, and perhaps the only solid reason to regret its passing.”
Ohle continued, “The Methodist Church has long since been demolished, which was a merciful exodus because it never really ‘got off the ground’ as a happy place of worship, and was a stark symbol of failure standing alone and empty. There is nothing worse than an abandoned church.
In the long run, the Horton Bay Methodist Church was a monument to the inability of the ‘bosses’ to copy the shining success of the ‘workers’; the vindication of the latter and a just reward for their long journey from Old World religious oppression to the Promised Land of Horton Bay. An American Saga.”
It almost seems as if Ohle was speaking in “code” regarding the POLITICS of Horton Bay’s little church, and what was transpiring… but, it is obvious that changes were in progress. Mrs. Mary (Koteskey) Crouterfield was the sister of three minister brothers, Charles, Will and Ed, and another sister Martha Koteskey married a minister. Mary spoke more directly about the stance of the Horton Bay church in the 1970s. Ohle wrote, “The present Horton Bay Church, according to Mary [Crouterfield], was one of the fruits of a six-weeks revival which she well remembers, when seventy-four or seventy-five local people, young and old, including herself, joined the Evangelical group. The present building, erected through the personal labor of many of the members, was finished, as recorded on the bell in the steeple, in 1898, and has been healthy and happy ever since. In fact, it was handsomely enlarged in 1973.”
Mary continued, “The Methodists remained a very small congregation but, encouraged by the successful efforts of the Evangelical group, managed to build the little house of worship that was next to the store [This was the church building where Ernest and Hadley married.]. However, its congregation did not grow and eventually the remnants of the congregation joined with the Methodist Church in Boyne City.
Mary explained, “In 1946 the Church of the United Brethren in Christ merged with the Evangelical United Brethren Church and became known as the Evangelical United Brethren Church. The merged group is now designated the United Methodist Church.”
Ohle listed the ministers of the Horton Bay-North Bay Circuit with O.Y. Schneider in 1919-1920 and G.H. Simpson in 1920-1921 which would have been the time of Ernest and Hadley’s 1921 marriage there. The local Petoskey Evening News paper confirmed that Reverend G.H. Simpson preached sermons in the Evangelical revival services, and was referenced as “Rev. G.H. Simpson, Evangelical pastor at Horton Bay” like in the 18 December 1920 Petoskey Evening News article below.
As a contemporary of the Hemingway Family, and with the Ohle Family being friends to Hadley Richardson’s family in St. Louis, William Ohle wrote of the Hemingways, and the Horton Bay Church; mentioning that the Ohle Family attended the Methodist Church on “scheduled Sundays.” In his 1976 booklet of “100 Years in Horton Bay” Ohle described the Hemingway’s wedding which Ohle attended; “Ernest and Hadley were married in the forlorn little [Horton Bay] Methodist Church, and perhaps the only solid reason to regret its passing.”
Ohle continued, “The Methodist Church has long since been demolished, which was a merciful exodus because it never really ‘got off the ground’ as a happy place of worship, and was a stark symbol of failure standing alone and empty. There is nothing worse than an abandoned church.
In the long run, the Horton Bay Methodist Church was a monument to the inability of the ‘bosses’ to copy the shining success of the ‘workers’; the vindication of the latter and a just reward for their long journey from Old World religious oppression to the Promised Land of Horton Bay. An American Saga.”
It almost seems as if Ohle was speaking in “code” regarding the POLITICS of Horton Bay’s little church, and what was transpiring… but, it is obvious that changes were in progress. Mrs. Mary (Koteskey) Crouterfield was the sister of three minister brothers, Charles, Will and Ed, and another sister Martha Koteskey married a minister. Mary spoke more directly about the stance of the Horton Bay church in the 1970s. Ohle wrote, “The present Horton Bay Church, according to Mary [Crouterfield], was one of the fruits of a six-weeks revival which she well remembers, when seventy-four or seventy-five local people, young and old, including herself, joined the Evangelical group. The present building, erected through the personal labor of many of the members, was finished, as recorded on the bell in the steeple, in 1898, and has been healthy and happy ever since. In fact, it was handsomely enlarged in 1973.”
Mary continued, “The Methodists remained a very small congregation but, encouraged by the successful efforts of the Evangelical group, managed to build the little house of worship that was next to the store [This was the church building where Ernest and Hadley married.]. However, its congregation did not grow and eventually the remnants of the congregation joined with the Methodist Church in Boyne City.
Mary explained, “In 1946 the Church of the United Brethren in Christ merged with the Evangelical United Brethren Church and became known as the Evangelical United Brethren Church. The merged group is now designated the United Methodist Church.”
Ohle listed the ministers of the Horton Bay-North Bay Circuit with O.Y. Schneider in 1919-1920 and G.H. Simpson in 1920-1921 which would have been the time of Ernest and Hadley’s 1921 marriage there. The local Petoskey Evening News paper confirmed that Reverend G.H. Simpson preached sermons in the Evangelical revival services, and was referenced as “Rev. G.H. Simpson, Evangelical pastor at Horton Bay” like in the 18 December 1920 Petoskey Evening News article below.
A 25 April 1921 Petoskey Evening News article announced that “O.Y. Schneider of Boyne City is the new Evangelical pastor”.
The later 30 March 1923 Petoskey Evening News noted that Reverend William Koteskey would aid Rev. O.Y. Schneider at Horton Bay.
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After research of local 1919 >1921 newspaper articles, it still was NOT obvious, just who was the proclaimed minister of the Horton Bay Church on 23 September 1921 the day of "the wedding", but it seemed that because the church had become an Evangelical Church, various ministers often spoke at different times as requested. A single 31 March 1923 Petoskey Evening News paper included Schneider, Koteskey AND Datson. Each was noted as still ministering: O.Y. Schneider, paster at Evangelical Church at the corner of Howard and Grove streets, with Rev. Wm. Koteskey, of Bay City, to preach at that same church on Monday evening. AND W.J. Datson was the Rector of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church at the corner of Mitchell Street and Waukazoo Avenue.
Ernest’s request for choice of minister to perform his marriage had been expressed in an August 1921 letter to Miss Grace Quinlan in Petoskey; noting that Hadley “doesn’t care particularly what breed of priest it is, but prefers one that doesn’t wear a celluloid collar or chaw tobacco.“ Obviously, W.J. Datson, rector of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Petoskey, not the proclaimed Horton Bay Church, filled those requirements, and was requested to perform the wedding for Ernest and Hadley Richardson in the little Horton Bay Church.
The later 30 March 1923 Petoskey Evening News noted that Reverend William Koteskey would aid Rev. O.Y. Schneider at Horton Bay.
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After research of local 1919 >1921 newspaper articles, it still was NOT obvious, just who was the proclaimed minister of the Horton Bay Church on 23 September 1921 the day of "the wedding", but it seemed that because the church had become an Evangelical Church, various ministers often spoke at different times as requested. A single 31 March 1923 Petoskey Evening News paper included Schneider, Koteskey AND Datson. Each was noted as still ministering: O.Y. Schneider, paster at Evangelical Church at the corner of Howard and Grove streets, with Rev. Wm. Koteskey, of Bay City, to preach at that same church on Monday evening. AND W.J. Datson was the Rector of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church at the corner of Mitchell Street and Waukazoo Avenue.
Ernest’s request for choice of minister to perform his marriage had been expressed in an August 1921 letter to Miss Grace Quinlan in Petoskey; noting that Hadley “doesn’t care particularly what breed of priest it is, but prefers one that doesn’t wear a celluloid collar or chaw tobacco.“ Obviously, W.J. Datson, rector of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Petoskey, not the proclaimed Horton Bay Church, filled those requirements, and was requested to perform the wedding for Ernest and Hadley Richardson in the little Horton Bay Church.
William H. "Bill" Ohle was the grandson of William Henry Ohle, one of the founders of Horton Bay. He organized the FIRST Horton Bay parade. Bill contributed 1,500 volumes of historical and biographical writings about Northern Michigan and the Great Lakes area to the Petoskey Public Library.
The article below was written by William H. Ohle.
The article below was written by William H. Ohle.
The photo below shows only a fraction of the Bill Ohle Collection of books
housed in the Michigan Room of the Petoskey District Library.
9 November 2014
housed in the Michigan Room of the Petoskey District Library.
9 November 2014
William H. Ohle wrote 100 Years in Horton Bay Charlevoix County, Michigan 1876 ~ 1976
which may be accessed by clicking HERE.
which may be accessed by clicking HERE.
William H. Ohle passed in 1997, and his wife Margaret "Per" Ohle carried with her
writing for the local newspapers until she was 80 years old. Peg passed in 2006.
writing for the local newspapers until she was 80 years old. Peg passed in 2006.
Horton Bay founder's grave found, honored ~ 8 October 2010... Petoskey News Review
Jim Hartwell was one of the last "Up North" characters who enjoyed the
"Last Good Country" in Horton Bay
"Last Good Country" in Horton Bay
"'The Grove" (next to the Red Fox Inn) was a place where many community picnics and reunions were held.
It was a little park for all the people!" ~ Page 23... Bill Ohle in his booklet Horton Bay 100 Years
It was a little park for all the people!" ~ Page 23... Bill Ohle in his booklet Horton Bay 100 Years
2019
In July 2019, although Jim Hartwell has passed away, the Red Fox Inn Bookstore remains in the family with Jim's sister running the store.
Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson were married in Horton Bay, Michigan, 3 September 1921.
Reverend W.J. Datson performed the Horton Bay Wedding
of Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson.
of Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson.
With the various possible connections mentioned below, it is understandable why Reverend W.J. Datson would be the likely choice to perform the 21 September 1921 wedding of Ernest and Hadley at Ernest’s beloved Horton Bay.
1) 19 April 1919: Datson and his family would be moving from Escanaba, Michigan, to Petoskey, Michigan's, Emmanuel Episcopal church by 11 May 1919. The Charlevoix County record stated that the minister is the Rector of the Emmanuel Church, which would coincide with the above information.
2) Petoskey’s Emmanuel Church was located on the corner of Waukazoo and Mitchell streets, just across Mitchell Street from the Petoskey Library at that time. During the winter of 1919 Hemingway was living at the Potter’s Rooming House at 602 State Street in Petoskey… from Datson’s church travel south two blocks to State Street, turn east two blocks, and that was where Hemingway was living on the corner of State Street and Woodland Avenue.
3) On 16 June 1919 Miss Mary Oven, of the Woman’s Guild of Emmanuel Episcopal church, was to host a “meet & greet” for Rev and Mrs. Datson at Miss Oven’s house at 524 State Street on the corner, directly across from Miss Potter’s Rooming House on the corner of 602 State Street where Hemingway stayed.
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4) Previously, by August of 1918, Hemingway had been wounded in Italy. In November of 1919 returned war vets were talking to local students, even at Petoskey’s Lincoln school, as noted in a 12 November 1919 Petoskey Evening News article. The same article noted that Hemingway had spoken to students in Oak Park, IL, about his experiences with the Allied armies in Italy. ~ So, the 22 May 1922 Petoskey Evening News reported that Rev. W.J. Datson, rector of Emmanuel church, would deliver the sermon and be in charge of the entire service for the annual Memorial Sunday sermon to the members of the G.A.R., W.R.C., American Legion, Sons of Veterans, Spanish-American War Veterans and other patriotic bodies of the city.
5) On 29 August 2021, Robert Datson, son of the Reverend W.J. Datson, went on a week-long camping trip with friends to the Comstock Farm on Walloon Lake… so the Reverend's son was no stranger to the outdoors at Walloon, just as Hemingway was in love with Walloon outdoors. The Comstock Family also owned the Comstock grocery store on Mitchell Street in Petoskey. |
Carlos Baker's Ernest Hemingway A Life Story concludes Baker's account of Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson in Horton Bay:
"The minister read the service and Hadley marched out with Ernest into the warm September evening. For an hour they posed for pictures outside the Pinehurst Cottage. Then Liz Dilworth called them in for one of her famous chicken dinners.
Night had fallen when Ernest and Hadley threw their bags into the back of John Koteskey's Ford and made their getaway to Longfield Farm and from there they rowed across the lake to Windemere. The honeymoon lasted for two weeks."
"The minister read the service and Hadley marched out with Ernest into the warm September evening. For an hour they posed for pictures outside the Pinehurst Cottage. Then Liz Dilworth called them in for one of her famous chicken dinners.
Night had fallen when Ernest and Hadley threw their bags into the back of John Koteskey's Ford and made their getaway to Longfield Farm and from there they rowed across the lake to Windemere. The honeymoon lasted for two weeks."
Photo Below: Ernest Hemingway's mother Grace Hall Hemingway preserved family photos in one of her family scrapbooks that have been digitized by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University. This is Grace's photo and handwriting of the Pinehurst Cottage at Horton Bay where her son Ernest had their reception.
John Koteskey admitted that aside from driving Ernest hemingway to Petoskey once or twice, and on only one occasion to Walloon (the night of Hemingway's wedding), Koteskey really did not know Hemingway very well. Koteskey remembered when Hemingway got back from the war in Italy, that "The poor fellow was hobbling around on those crutches... but I don't remember much more about him, only that he was polite and no different from the other resort kinds around then. I was closest to his folks, Doctor and Mrs. Hemingway. They were awfully nice people. I remember making regular trips to Petoskey for them. I used to charge three dollars for the round trip, about 13 miles, and one dollar for the round trip to Horton Bay. That old Model-T Ford was our first car and we found it darn hard to keep in gas. So the extra money came in handy." ~ transcribed from the 21 August 1972 Emmet County Graphic
"The most celebrated ceremony held at the forlorn little Methodist church, and perhaps the only solid reason to regret its passing, was the first of many weddings of Ernest Hemingway who married lovely Hadley Richardson of St. Louis there on a fine September day in 1921.
All the townspeople were invited and most attended. The Ohle family was there because Washington University, in St. Louis, where my father taught started late that year, and we were family friends of the Ushers, Hadley's aunt and uncle, with whom she had lived in St. Louis. Dr. Usher was also a professor at Washington U.
Kenny and Stub VanHoesen and Harold Harris and I were there, and I think Howard Crouterfield, giggling and irreverent ten year olds (four of us, that is Stub was a little older).
Mr. Rudolph Dahlgreen, who lived across the road from the church, was a very good amateur artist and had been commissioned by Bay people to do a watercolor of the church as a community gift to the bride and groom. Everyone contributed a share of the picture and framing costs. Sunny Hemingway does not recall the painting and has no idea where it might be. I doubt that Hadley Hemingway in the long run was much attached to it, especially after she later married Paul Scott Mowrer, the famous Chicago journalist.
As it turned out Sunny did not attend the wedding, as punishment for some transgression. Neither did Marjorie [Bump] or her mother. Bill Horne, who had been Ernest's ambulance buddy in Italy, Jock Pentecost and 'Howie' Jenkins and Carl Edgar (The Odgar) from Chicago were in the wedding party. After the ceremony John Koteskey drove the bride and groom across Sumner Road to Walloon Lake.
As a boy, and for a summer after 'the war' Ernest frequently availed himself of the open-handed hospitality of James and Mrs. Dilworth, making himself at home in 'Pinehurst' at frequent intervals. He and Wesley Dilworth had been childhood friends, and the Senior Dilworth had been close friends of Ernest's parents, which is how his Horton Bay sojourning started. All the others listed above were summer Horton Bayites who were close cronies of Ernest in Chicago as well as Horton Bay.
Ernest would often leave the summer menages owned by his parents on either side of Wallon lake and hike the four miles across Sumner Road to Horton Bay for days at a time. He also spent a winter after his return from Italy in Petoskey trying desperately to write - and sell what he had written...
The Methodist Church has long since been demolished, which was merciful exodus because it never really 'got off the ground' as a happy place of worship, and was a star symbol of failure standing alone and empty. There nothing worse than an abandoned church." ~ Transcribed from William H. Ohle's booklet 100 Years in Horton Bay (1876-1976). Click HERE to read more Ohle's booklet.
All the townspeople were invited and most attended. The Ohle family was there because Washington University, in St. Louis, where my father taught started late that year, and we were family friends of the Ushers, Hadley's aunt and uncle, with whom she had lived in St. Louis. Dr. Usher was also a professor at Washington U.
Kenny and Stub VanHoesen and Harold Harris and I were there, and I think Howard Crouterfield, giggling and irreverent ten year olds (four of us, that is Stub was a little older).
Mr. Rudolph Dahlgreen, who lived across the road from the church, was a very good amateur artist and had been commissioned by Bay people to do a watercolor of the church as a community gift to the bride and groom. Everyone contributed a share of the picture and framing costs. Sunny Hemingway does not recall the painting and has no idea where it might be. I doubt that Hadley Hemingway in the long run was much attached to it, especially after she later married Paul Scott Mowrer, the famous Chicago journalist.
As it turned out Sunny did not attend the wedding, as punishment for some transgression. Neither did Marjorie [Bump] or her mother. Bill Horne, who had been Ernest's ambulance buddy in Italy, Jock Pentecost and 'Howie' Jenkins and Carl Edgar (The Odgar) from Chicago were in the wedding party. After the ceremony John Koteskey drove the bride and groom across Sumner Road to Walloon Lake.
As a boy, and for a summer after 'the war' Ernest frequently availed himself of the open-handed hospitality of James and Mrs. Dilworth, making himself at home in 'Pinehurst' at frequent intervals. He and Wesley Dilworth had been childhood friends, and the Senior Dilworth had been close friends of Ernest's parents, which is how his Horton Bay sojourning started. All the others listed above were summer Horton Bayites who were close cronies of Ernest in Chicago as well as Horton Bay.
Ernest would often leave the summer menages owned by his parents on either side of Wallon lake and hike the four miles across Sumner Road to Horton Bay for days at a time. He also spent a winter after his return from Italy in Petoskey trying desperately to write - and sell what he had written...
The Methodist Church has long since been demolished, which was merciful exodus because it never really 'got off the ground' as a happy place of worship, and was a star symbol of failure standing alone and empty. There nothing worse than an abandoned church." ~ Transcribed from William H. Ohle's booklet 100 Years in Horton Bay (1876-1976). Click HERE to read more Ohle's booklet.
Photo Below L>R: 3 September 1921 wedding of Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson with
sisters Carol, Ursula, Hadley, Ernest, Ernest's mother, brother Leicester, and Ernest's father...
sisters Carol, Ursula, Hadley, Ernest, Ernest's mother, brother Leicester, and Ernest's father...
Wedding Announcement below in the 5 September 1921 Petoskey Evening News...
Although Hemingway was spelled with TWO M's,
this is the local wedding announcement for Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway.
Although Hemingway was spelled with TWO M's,
this is the local wedding announcement for Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway.
* Seeking a photo of the Bride and her attendants. Contact web master HERE with photo link.
LATER: A 3 September 1992 article in The Graphic by William Ohle identified the attendants. "Fonnie" Usher was Hadley's sister Florence Richardson who had married Roland Usher in June 1910.
Ruth Bradford was a friend Hadley had an apartment with in St. Louis, Missouri, after Hadley's mother died.
Another friend Hadley shared the apartment with was Bertha Doan.
LATER: A 3 September 1992 article in The Graphic by William Ohle identified the attendants. "Fonnie" Usher was Hadley's sister Florence Richardson who had married Roland Usher in June 1910.
Ruth Bradford was a friend Hadley had an apartment with in St. Louis, Missouri, after Hadley's mother died.
Another friend Hadley shared the apartment with was Bertha Doan.
Hadley's Matron of Honor was her St. Louis born friend Helen Pierce Breaker. Helen's wealthy parents lived on Kingsbury Place. Helen drove Hadley to Union Station to meet Ernest for his first visit to St. Louis. Helen followed the newlywed Hemingways to Paris where by the 1930s, Helen had become a photographer of note. Helen did take one of the photos of Ernest Hemingway that is striking.
A Hemingway aficionado, John Hargrove, told of one of Hadley Richardson's wedding attendants, Katy Smith. John wrote, "Hemingway met Bill Smith and his sister Katy, who were from St. Louis and summered in Michigan, at Horton Bay in 1916. They became fast friends. Ernest even asked Bill to be his best man when he thought he was going to marry Agnes von Kurowsky. When he instead married Hadley, Bill's sister Katy was an attendant to Hadley. Later, Bill visited Ernest in Paris several times in Paris, where he went with Ernest and Hadley on fishing trips and to the bullfights, and was part of the 'Key West Mob.' Katy married John Dos Passos, whom Hemingway introduced her to in Key West, in 1929. She was killed in a car wreck in 1947, an accident that cost Dos Passos sight in one eye. Hemingway never forgave Dos Passos for Katy's death."
Photo Below: Hemingway (center) stood with his friends on his wedding day in Horton Bay; friends include Luman Ramsdell and Dutch Pailthorp. Other male attendants/ushers were: Bill Horne, Bill Smith, Carl Edgar, Jack Pentecost, Art Myer and Howell Jenkins, all pals of Ernest.
Per John Hargrove from left to right: Jack Pentecost, Howell Jenkins, George J. Breaker, Edwin "Dutch" Pailthorp, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Smith, Bill Horne, Carl Edgar, and Luman Ramsdell. View John Hargrove's additional comments about Ernest's "Best Man" and wedding party, by clicking HERE.
Photo Below: Hemingway (center) stood with his friends on his wedding day in Horton Bay; friends include Luman Ramsdell and Dutch Pailthorp. Other male attendants/ushers were: Bill Horne, Bill Smith, Carl Edgar, Jack Pentecost, Art Myer and Howell Jenkins, all pals of Ernest.
Per John Hargrove from left to right: Jack Pentecost, Howell Jenkins, George J. Breaker, Edwin "Dutch" Pailthorp, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Smith, Bill Horne, Carl Edgar, and Luman Ramsdell. View John Hargrove's additional comments about Ernest's "Best Man" and wedding party, by clicking HERE.
Article Below: Hemingway and Hadley Wedding Reception held at Shangri-La
Different church building below than the church in the photo above...
Mr. Stroud employed his brother-in-law, William Ohle, to build a "company store", which is the present Horton Bay General Store, to supply the burgeoning new mill town. Mr. Stroud is listed as the owner through 1894. Then apparently because of the pressure of his political career, Stroud sold the store operation to Mr. Sly of Bay shore, a relative of Homer Sly, founder of the Elk Cement & Lime Company. The store was managed by a Mr. Atwood who probably lived in the building.
Mr. Sly owned the store about five years. Meanwhile Conrad Schneider indicated to Mr. Stroud that he would be interested in starting a grocery store, and Stroud and several friends underwrote that building and stocking of "Schneider's Store". This is the building now know as the Bay Township Hall.
At this time there was ample "room" for two stores, but Mr. Schneider soon attracted the lion's share of the trade, and in 1900 bought out the Sly business. He sold the smaller store a few years later to Del Ford. ~ Transcribed from William H. Ohle's booklet 100 Years in Horton Bay (1876-1976).
Mr. Sly owned the store about five years. Meanwhile Conrad Schneider indicated to Mr. Stroud that he would be interested in starting a grocery store, and Stroud and several friends underwrote that building and stocking of "Schneider's Store". This is the building now know as the Bay Township Hall.
At this time there was ample "room" for two stores, but Mr. Schneider soon attracted the lion's share of the trade, and in 1900 bought out the Sly business. He sold the smaller store a few years later to Del Ford. ~ Transcribed from William H. Ohle's booklet 100 Years in Horton Bay (1876-1976).
2018 ~ 2019
Horton Bay General Store
Horton Bay General Store
Photo Above: Alex Childress' additional work also may be viewed at Alex Childress Photo.
"Mr. Stroud had employed his brother-in-law, William Ohle, to build a 'company store', which is the present Horton Bay General Store, to supply the burgeoning new mill town. Mr. Stroud is listed as the owner through 1894. Then apparently because of the pressure of his political career, Stroud sold the store operation to Mr. Sly of Bay shore, a relative of Homer Sly, founder of the Elk Cemetery & Lime Company. The store was managed by a Mr. Atwood who probably lived in the building.
Mr. Sly owned the store about five years. Meanwhile Conrad Schneider indicated to Mr. Stroud that he would be interested in starting a grocery store, and Stroud and several friends underwrote the building and stocking of 'Schneider's Store'. This is the building now known as the Bay Township Hall.
At this time there was ample 'room' for two stores, but Mr. Schneider soon attracted the lion's share of the trade, and in 1900 bought out the Sly business. He sold the smaller store a few years later to Del Ford.
An especilally happy picture of Horton Bay life in my childhood was the way 'the store' was the focal point of the whole community, and I am sure it had always been so.
Horton Bay was never large enough to support a local newspaper, and the way everyone learned what was going on was to hitch up the buggy Saturday night and spend an hour or so at the store.
In those days the store was longer than it is now, because the ‘quiet hour’ quarters in the rear had not been built, and the one-room sales area went all the way to the back. Groceries were on the shelves at the left, and candy and tobacco in cases fronted with glass just to the left as you entered the store, with dry goods on the right side.
In the display cases there were licorice twists and jawbreakers and gum and such, cigars and corncob pipes, big twists of chewing tobacco (‘Climax, The Grand Old Chew’), and a special cutter handy to whack off pieces of it; cigarette papers and packages of Bull Durham and Prince Albert for those who preferred to ‘roll their own,’ and a couple of brands of ‘tailor mades,’ including ‘Camels’ and ‘Luckies’ for those who preferred them.
Next, on the same side were more feet of counter space. A big spool of string stood on it. The string fed up through a wire loop attached to the ceiling and dangled back down for easy access when packages were to be wrapped. There was a long roll of ‘butcher-wrap’ on a spool just below the counter to wrap products such as wedges cut with a huge knife from the ‘wheel’ of mouse cheese kept under a glass cover on the counter.
Next in line was a big red coffee-grinder, because vacuum-packed coffee had not been invented. Then there was the Babcock butterfat tester, used as a basis for paying farmers for bulk milk, since the store acted as a collection station for a local dairy. Kids liked to wind up the tester to high speed, which was tolerated but not liked by the storekeeper.
Behind the counter were bins of dried peas and rice and sugar and other staples. In back was the cooler for meat and other perishables. (It is still there.) In front of the counter was a small keg with dill pickles swimming in brine, and another, of bulk crackers. Toward the rear of the room was a large barrel of vinegar with a wooden hand pump stuck in the top to dispense vinegar into a quart measuring pitcher for transfer to your own container.
Slab bacon hung on a hook head-high (sliced bacon had not been invented), and throughout the store hung long, wiggly strands of fly-paper, danglier form the ceiling like so much spaghetti, well-populated with dead and dying flies, so prevalent in the horsey days. Salt blocks were stacked on the floor and canned goods lined the shelves.
The other side of the store was the dry goods section, featuring overalls, thread, bandana handkerchiefs, work socks and work shoes, big straw hats and basic fishing tackle. Horse collars and other harness items hung overhead on a wall hanger, and buggy whips stood butt down on an ingenious oversized last-susan style display rack. If you wanted a bamboo fishing pole for bass or speckled trout fishing, you paid fifty cents and took your choice from a selection stacked next to the second floor steps behind the store.
In the middle of the store, a third of the way back, stood a pot-bellied iron stove, and around it were a number of captains’ chairs which got plenty of use. The stove was not, of course fired in summer except very early or late in the season, but the Saturday night contingent sat around it anyway, talking over events of national and local interest. If there was an overflow crowd which occurred when anything important was coming on, like the First World War, or a hot election, late comers perched on the counter, swinging their feet and chiming in when so inclined.
The ladies never intruded on this weekly conference, but busied themselves shopping, passing the time of evening on the high front porch, or visiting around the Bay with Lizzie Fox, Mrs. Stroud, Aunt Betty and Kathryn Dilworth senior and junior, and Mrs. Mary West…
At various times through the years the store sometimes changed hands, and all members of my family were curious to see ‘who was running it’ when we returned from St.Louis each June. After Mr. Stroud ran it, and Mr. Atwood and Conrad Schneider; Lester, Vollie and Don Fox, Charlie Friend, Ray Cyr, Atwood Sheaffer, the Balknaps, the Sears, the Robinsons, Bob Schmoldt, Vern Grams, and no doubt quite a few others have tried their hand. Some were successful, but none has ever done as well as Harriett Housel, the present owner. It is likely, too, that none has worked as hard as she.
Today the stove is gone, but once again the Horton Bay Store is a gathering place, where local people and summer people come to shop and trade news and just to socialize, perched on a stool at the coffee counter, presided over by Harriett and George and Betty Housel and Juanita Miller.” ~ 100 Years in Horton Bay Charlevoix County, Michigan 1876 ~ 1976 by William H. Ohle
Mr. Sly owned the store about five years. Meanwhile Conrad Schneider indicated to Mr. Stroud that he would be interested in starting a grocery store, and Stroud and several friends underwrote the building and stocking of 'Schneider's Store'. This is the building now known as the Bay Township Hall.
At this time there was ample 'room' for two stores, but Mr. Schneider soon attracted the lion's share of the trade, and in 1900 bought out the Sly business. He sold the smaller store a few years later to Del Ford.
An especilally happy picture of Horton Bay life in my childhood was the way 'the store' was the focal point of the whole community, and I am sure it had always been so.
Horton Bay was never large enough to support a local newspaper, and the way everyone learned what was going on was to hitch up the buggy Saturday night and spend an hour or so at the store.
In those days the store was longer than it is now, because the ‘quiet hour’ quarters in the rear had not been built, and the one-room sales area went all the way to the back. Groceries were on the shelves at the left, and candy and tobacco in cases fronted with glass just to the left as you entered the store, with dry goods on the right side.
In the display cases there were licorice twists and jawbreakers and gum and such, cigars and corncob pipes, big twists of chewing tobacco (‘Climax, The Grand Old Chew’), and a special cutter handy to whack off pieces of it; cigarette papers and packages of Bull Durham and Prince Albert for those who preferred to ‘roll their own,’ and a couple of brands of ‘tailor mades,’ including ‘Camels’ and ‘Luckies’ for those who preferred them.
Next, on the same side were more feet of counter space. A big spool of string stood on it. The string fed up through a wire loop attached to the ceiling and dangled back down for easy access when packages were to be wrapped. There was a long roll of ‘butcher-wrap’ on a spool just below the counter to wrap products such as wedges cut with a huge knife from the ‘wheel’ of mouse cheese kept under a glass cover on the counter.
Next in line was a big red coffee-grinder, because vacuum-packed coffee had not been invented. Then there was the Babcock butterfat tester, used as a basis for paying farmers for bulk milk, since the store acted as a collection station for a local dairy. Kids liked to wind up the tester to high speed, which was tolerated but not liked by the storekeeper.
Behind the counter were bins of dried peas and rice and sugar and other staples. In back was the cooler for meat and other perishables. (It is still there.) In front of the counter was a small keg with dill pickles swimming in brine, and another, of bulk crackers. Toward the rear of the room was a large barrel of vinegar with a wooden hand pump stuck in the top to dispense vinegar into a quart measuring pitcher for transfer to your own container.
Slab bacon hung on a hook head-high (sliced bacon had not been invented), and throughout the store hung long, wiggly strands of fly-paper, danglier form the ceiling like so much spaghetti, well-populated with dead and dying flies, so prevalent in the horsey days. Salt blocks were stacked on the floor and canned goods lined the shelves.
The other side of the store was the dry goods section, featuring overalls, thread, bandana handkerchiefs, work socks and work shoes, big straw hats and basic fishing tackle. Horse collars and other harness items hung overhead on a wall hanger, and buggy whips stood butt down on an ingenious oversized last-susan style display rack. If you wanted a bamboo fishing pole for bass or speckled trout fishing, you paid fifty cents and took your choice from a selection stacked next to the second floor steps behind the store.
In the middle of the store, a third of the way back, stood a pot-bellied iron stove, and around it were a number of captains’ chairs which got plenty of use. The stove was not, of course fired in summer except very early or late in the season, but the Saturday night contingent sat around it anyway, talking over events of national and local interest. If there was an overflow crowd which occurred when anything important was coming on, like the First World War, or a hot election, late comers perched on the counter, swinging their feet and chiming in when so inclined.
The ladies never intruded on this weekly conference, but busied themselves shopping, passing the time of evening on the high front porch, or visiting around the Bay with Lizzie Fox, Mrs. Stroud, Aunt Betty and Kathryn Dilworth senior and junior, and Mrs. Mary West…
At various times through the years the store sometimes changed hands, and all members of my family were curious to see ‘who was running it’ when we returned from St.Louis each June. After Mr. Stroud ran it, and Mr. Atwood and Conrad Schneider; Lester, Vollie and Don Fox, Charlie Friend, Ray Cyr, Atwood Sheaffer, the Balknaps, the Sears, the Robinsons, Bob Schmoldt, Vern Grams, and no doubt quite a few others have tried their hand. Some were successful, but none has ever done as well as Harriett Housel, the present owner. It is likely, too, that none has worked as hard as she.
Today the stove is gone, but once again the Horton Bay Store is a gathering place, where local people and summer people come to shop and trade news and just to socialize, perched on a stool at the coffee counter, presided over by Harriett and George and Betty Housel and Juanita Miller.” ~ 100 Years in Horton Bay Charlevoix County, Michigan 1876 ~ 1976 by William H. Ohle
All that remains of the interior from the original 1876 Horton Bay General Store is
the ceiling AND the floor!
Two Photos Below: The 2019 counter in the Horton Bay General Store was first a work bench in the
Boyne Falls, Meyer General Store (which housed a funeral parlor above).
The counter has been preserved with the original markings when used as a work bench by Mr. Meyer.
the ceiling AND the floor!
Two Photos Below: The 2019 counter in the Horton Bay General Store was first a work bench in the
Boyne Falls, Meyer General Store (which housed a funeral parlor above).
The counter has been preserved with the original markings when used as a work bench by Mr. Meyer.
1961 AND 1987 AND 2000
~ Filming of Hemingway ~
~ Filming of Hemingway ~
~ 1961 ~
(THIS Filming Did NOT Happen in Horton Bay, Michigan)
(THIS Filming Did NOT Happen in Horton Bay, Michigan)
Article Below: Horton Bay Connections Checked out For Another Hemingway TV Filming
1987
1987
~ 1987 ~
(Filming Happened in Bay View, Michigan)
Ernest Hemingway married Hadley Richardson in the Episcopal church
which stood next to the Horton Bay general store.
The Horton Bay church has since burned down.
This wedding scene was recreated for a documentary about Hemingway,
but was filmed in Bay View, Michigan, in 1987.
which stood next to the Horton Bay general store.
The Horton Bay church has since burned down.
This wedding scene was recreated for a documentary about Hemingway,
but was filmed in Bay View, Michigan, in 1987.
The filming of a TV Mini-Series about Ernest Hemingway began 24 August 1987 in Bay View, Michigan. Linda Marmeistein was the producer for the series which was to be released by independent TV stations. The filming was based on Carlos Baker's biography of Hemingway and covered the author's life from the time of his first marriage in 1921 until the time of his death in 1961. Many local Petoskey area people performed, without speaking parts, along with stars Stacy Keach as Ernest Hemingway and Josephine Chaplin (youngest daughter of Charlie Chaplin) as Hadley (Richardson) Hemingway. Ernest and Hadley married in 1921 in Horton Bay, Michigan, and spent their honeymoon at the Hemingway Family Walloon Lake Windemere Cottage. One of the asphalt streets of Bay View was filled with sand to look like the proper time frame for the actual place of marriage. A Bay View cottage was decorated to look like the office of Hemingway's father, including a large insect collection rented from a local Petoskey young man who already had the collection. This is a non-professional family video that I taped and narrated at the time of the filming of the Hemingway documentary. ~ Karla Buckmaster
Click on the triangle in the photo below to view the video...
1991 NYT Death Notice for Linda Marmelstein who helped produce "Hemingway" the six part TV mini-series. She visited a Petoskey home to borrow the insect collection for the scene of Ernest Hemingway's home. Linda can also be viewed in the home-produced above video on YouTube.
Photo Above and Photo Below: OLD and NEW Lavender Hill Farm Gift Shop Building...
To view slideshow below of Lavender Hill Farm, click PLAY in upper left corner of main photo.
* 9 June 2012 ~ Historic Horton Bay Received its first concrete curbs!
* 4 April 2015 ~ Red Fox Inn, Horton Bay General Store still stands tall ~
by James Vol Hartwell (Petoskey News Review)
by James Vol Hartwell (Petoskey News Review)
* On 12 October 2018 Gloria Wyn, 86 passed away in Grand Rapids.
She was a gifted artist and was one of the owners of the historic Horton Bay General Store.
She was a gifted artist and was one of the owners of the historic Horton Bay General Store.