Good Hart is an unincorporated community in the township on the shore of Lake Michigan and is part of The Tunnel of Trees, M-119 about 13 miles north of Harbor Springs and eight miles south of Cross Village. This was a center of Ojibwe settlement under the leadership of Joseph Black Hawk and his brother Good Heart in the early 19th-century. The township has a total area of 31 square miles. |
Below: The sign entering
the City of Good Hart on the Tunnel of the Trees Road. |
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Below: White Lilac trees
and large artistic butterflies |
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Below: The
Good Hart General Store and a really great T-shirt. Karen Duquette would
have bought it, but she only likes V-neck T-shirts. |
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Good Hart, located
just past Robinson Road, is a tiny village that serves as the enclave
of a few select stores. Upon stopping in Good Hart, Lee and Karen Duquette
wandered into a store called Primitive Images, which was filled
with unusual furniture, decor, jewelry, and a tea room. Here the two
RV Gypsies were given free lemonade which
was excellent.
Then Karen Duquette saw "Northern Crepes", a pop-up
cart that looked like it was transported out of a 1950’s movie
set. Northern Crepes fills European-style crepes with fresh-bought
local produce and other Northern Michigan-made fare. There were two
separate menus, Savory and Sweet. |
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Below: Lee and Karen Duquette
sat outside of Northern Crepes stand and enjoyed their lemonade
while waiting for their crepes to be made. The weather was wonderful. |
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PBS was filming in Good Hart for a PBS TV Special and they interviewed
Lee and Karen Duquette. The photo below shows Tom Daldin (from the PBS
series "Under the Radar") filming Northern Crepes
and Primitive Images and interviewing the two RV Gypsies as
well as the ladies sitting at the roadside table next Lee and Karen.
The PBS special was shown in Michigan and other nearby states, plus
parts of Canada in August 2013. It is titled "Northern Crepes."
Karen and Lee Duquette were also filmed, but they never got to see the
actual film footage. PBS refused to send them a copy. That sucked.
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Below: After enjoying their
crepes, Lee Duquette drove around the corner and down a dirt road and
they found themselves at Redmond Township Beach Reserve. |
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Below: Lee
and Karen Duquette followed the pathway through the sand dunes to Lake
Michigan. |
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