St. Joseph’s/Benton Harbor

Going into St. Joe we waited for a tow with a BIG barge backing out the canal

St. Joseph, Michigan was an artsy little town with a really neat gallery/artist studio called the Box Factory.  There artist are working their craft and we got to talking with 3 curmudgeons and admired their work.  One was a Digital Artist, one a modern artist (reminded me in looks of my friend at Vanderbilt, Michael Aurbach) and an Indian (From Mumbai) that worked with photography and framed for them all.  They were about our age and very interested in our trip as we were their work.  We got to talking to them and ran out of time—they closed the Gallery on us.  But there was a person who worked with pewter, a few pottery artists and a couple of terrible watercolorist that did self-portraits.  We stayed at the Free Wall in the heart of town because the winds were calm and ate on board so we didn’t really take in everything the town had to offer but we liked what we saw.  We left the State of Michigan the next morning and headed for Michigan City, Indiana—we have been in Michigan for a month and we had a weather window. We loved all the places we visited in Michigan and the Lake is and continues to be a challenge—wonderful if the winds and weather are right—otherwise stay in port. 

 

 

Thought our Grandson would love this one

 

Sunny Days at the Free Wall