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News
from the Forest
Mother
Nature is welcoming in spring with warmer weather and longer
days. We’ve seen wild turkeys strutting through the back
woods, along with the return of the robins. It’s beautiful
to witness, and it’s a great time of year to stretch your
legs, either at the beach or the Saugatuck Dunes State Park.
So we hope you can plan a visit soon, and we’ll help you
shake off those winter blues.
Sherwood Forest Cottage
Our Cottage is getting booked up for the summer, here’s what we have
left: May 31-June 6, June 7-13, July 19-25, July 26-August 1, August 16-22,
and August 23-29. It goes for $1200 for the week and sleeps up to 5 people,
has a full kitchen, washer/dryer, pool privileges, and is only 1/2 block from
Lake Michigan and the public beach. And of course, there is still nightly availability
for the spring and fall. For more information, you can visit the cottage website
at http://www.sherwoodforestbandb.com/COTTAGE.HTML
April Massage Special
Enjoy a soothing massage in the comfort of your own room in a style suited
just for you (cost of 1 night stay and 2 massages ranges from $235-$300). We
also offer romantic wine and cheese baskets and delicious chocolate lovers
packages. Offer good Sunday-Thursday, April 2008.
Private Golf Lessons
Now that spring is here it’s time to dust off those golf clubs and hit
the links. We’ve teamed up with the Ravines Golf Club, an Arnold Palmer
Signature Championship Golf Course with some awesome PGA professionals, to
offer golf lessons for one or two persons. You’ll get a 1-night stay
at Sherwood Forest and a 30- to 45-minute golf lesson with a guaranteed lesson
time at the Ravines Golf Club. We have lots of different packages, so for more
info and prices, check out http://www.sherwoodforestbandb.com/GOLF.html
Gift Certificates
Give the most amazing gift on the planet. Imagine receiving a gift certificate
from Sherwood Forest B&B! After the recipient jumps up and down and hugs
that special someone, he or she will rush to the phone to book a room at Sherwood
Forest (just gotta have that fireplace/Jacuzzi suite). Call 800-838-1246, or
visit our gift certificate page at http://www.sherwoodforestbandb.com/giftcert.htm
Here’s what’s happening in and around the area:
WINE DINNERS
Join the folks at Everyday People Café for their wine dinner on April
15 at 6:30 p.m. It’s across the Atlantic with rebel Tour de France dinner:
6 courses will be paired up with some wines from the land that paired wine
with love and attitude. Culinary and vine elucidations guaranteed to please
your senses. For more info, visit http://everydaypeoplecafe.com or
call 269-857-4240.
On April 26, The Fenn Valley Winery, a local vineyard, will host a culinary
excursion to a foreign land. This year Christine Ferris will help them explore
the mysterious Southeast Asian country of Thailand that will be paired up with
some awesome wines from Fenn Valley. Reservations are required. For more info,
call 269-561-2396 or visit http://www.fennvalley.com
MUSIC
Visit Journeyman Café/Rye in Fennville for music. April 4: Bill & Jessie
Freshwater, Celtic; April 11: Luke Winslow-King, delta blues; April 18: Jocelyn
Scofield, jazz/folk; April 25: Who Hit John, bluegrass. All shows begin at
8 p.m. For more info visit http://journeymancafe.com/events.htm or
call 269-561-2269.
Folk/Blues
On April 12 at 8 p.m. at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts don’t miss
folk/rock/blues singer-songwriter Venitia Sekema accompanied by Mark Albers
on stand up bass and Danny Dine on guitar. Sekema has been winning over audiences
around the Midwest with her straightforward, sometimes funny, always emotionally
moving lyrics. For more info, call 269-857-2399 or visit www.sc4a.org
Sirens
The Chenille Sisters will be performing on April 19 at 8 p.m. at the SCA. What
these three women have in common are heavenly voices, a lot of witty wisdom,
and a passion for connecting with their audiences. For more info, call 269-857-2399
or visit www.sc4a.org
Jazz/Blues
There is some awesome music being played at the What Not Inn (a neat little
restaurant) every Saturday, Sunday, and Mondays (with Wally Michaels on piano,
Jeff Beavan on bass, and Jack Wilkin on the drums). Enjoy the heartfelt show
tunes sung by one of Saugatuck’s favorites, Michael Holmes, and there’s
some cool jazz by vocalist Mary Rademacher and Edye Evans Hyde. Show times
are 7-11 p.m. For more info, call 269-543-3341 or visit http://www.whatnotinn.com
Blues/Jazz
Join the hip and groovy folks at Everyday People Café every Friday and
Saturday in April from 6:30-10 p.m. to hear some really cool jazz. You’ll
see the likes of the Eddy Curtis Jazz Duo and Rick Hicks Blues Guitar. For
more info visit http://everydaypeoplecafe.com or
call 269-857-4240.
ART
The Water Street Gallery and Amazwi Contemporary Art invite you to come and
play Art Dart. When: April 19, 6-8 pm; How: Purchase a dart ($250) then throw
your dart to receive a number and at 7 p.m., the fun begins. When you hear
your number called, grab your favorite piece of art from the gallery wall.
Water Street Gallery is on Center St., downtown Douglas. For more info, call
269-857-8485 or visit http://www.waterstreetgallery.com
Good Goods in downtown Saugatuck has just taken a new shipment of Stick Plaques
for their Sticks Object Art and Furniture collection, which is handcrafted
in the U.S. Sticks has received national acclaim for their distinctive line
of furniture, accessories, and sculptural art. For more info, visit http://www.goodgoods.com or
call 888-857-6501.
Constance Petter Gallery will exhibit Michael Maitner's newest additions of
whimsical and surreal oil landscapes influenced by Benton, Wood, and Hopper.
Located on 161 Blue Star Highway in Douglas. Call 269.857.7861 or visit http://www.constancepettergallery.com
ThirdStone Gallery's April feature is Equinoxica-Non-Toxica, a group show to
greet the spring season. Featuring new works from Tom DePree, Susan Mulder,
Kathy Arredondo, and several other ThirdStone regulars. The show will also
welcome painter Sarah Hurley and new digital works by Mary Hatch. ThirdStone
is at 120 E. Main St., downtown Fennville. For more info, visit http://www.thirdstoneartgallery.com or
call 269-561-8149.
Film Studies
On the first and third Tuesdays in April at The Red Barn Playhouse, Bill Henderson
will host a film series: the first is The Loved One a comedy by Tony Richardson
on April 15; then Fantasia by Walt Disney on April 29. There will be brief
comments before each film and audience discussion afterward. For more info,
call 269-857-5300.
A Passion for Furniture Design
On April 17 at 7 p.m. at the SCA, Joseph Jeup, a Kendall College Art and Design
graduate and one of the nation’s hottest designers shares his passion
for designing and manufacturing and talks about how Michigan’s historic
furniture design industry stacks up against its global competitors. For more
info, visit http://www.sc4a.org or
call 269-857-2399.
EXHIBITIONS
Polyester: American Fashion of the 1960s & 1970s will be at the Holland
Museum through May. This exhibition of festive-occasion to everyday clothing
from the museum's collection spans several decades of American fashion with
particular attention paid to the rise in use of synthetic textiles and psychedelic
design of the 1960s and ‘70s. The Herman Miller Foundation sponsors the
exhibit. For more info, visit http://www.hollandmuseum.org/
or call 888-200-9123.
An exhibition partnership with the Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society and
Museum features a collection of historic signage from the Saugatuck-Douglas
area, including the Saugatuck Chain Ferry, Mt. Baldhead Hotel, architect Carl
Hoerman, and more. This exhibition reveals both the changing nature of sign
design through the decades and the evolution of the Saugatuck-Douglas community.
The exhibit is up at the SCA now through April 28. For more info, call 269-857-2399
or visit www.sc4a.org
Visiting Writers
Next in the line-up for the Hope College Visiting Writers Series on April 16
at 7 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theater in downtown Holland is fiction writer
Karen Joy Fowler, who is the author of several novels and short-story collections,
including The Jane Austen Book Club, a novel widely popular with readers and
critics alike. Fowler's earlier work is well known to fans of literary science
fiction and fantasy, and she has won many awards, including a Nebula Award
from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The author will read
from selected works. For more info, call 616-395-7403 or visit http://www.hope.edu/vws/
Antiques
The Allegan County Antique Market will start up the last Sunday in April from
7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Allegan County Fairgrounds. The 400 exhibitors will
be there rain or shine--200 indoor and 200 under canopies (the market is always
the last Sunday of the month, April through September). For more info, call
269-735-3333. And don't forget about the antique hot spot in the area, the
Blue Star Antique Pavilion at 2948 Blue Star Highway in Douglas.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
April 12, Saugatuck, Town Crier 5K and 10K
April 13, Herrick Library Concert Series, Hammers & Horns, Horn/Fortepiano
3:00p.m.
April 10-12, 17-20, 24-26 You Can’t Get There from Here, Holland Civic
Theater
May 2-4, Blue Coast Artist opening Weekend
May 3, Downtown Douglas Spring Preview
May 3, Rusty Evens, A Tribute to Johnny Cash, SCA-Saugatuck
May 3-10, Tulip Time Festival, Holland
May 15, Lecture Series, Artistic Traditions of Great Lakes Native People, SCA-Saugatuck
May 17, Colin Hay (80’s band-Men at Work), SCA-Saugatuck
May 23, Shemekia Copeland, Blues, SCA-Saugatuck
May 24, Dave Mason, (Traffic-Rock n Roll Hall of Famer), SCA-Saugatuck
May 25, Dee Alexander, Jazz, SCA-Saugatuck
May 25, Allegan Antique Market, Allegan
May 26, Memorial Day Parade, Saugatuck & Douglas
June 3, 11, 18,& 25 Music in the Park, Saugatuck
June 7, Marcia Ball, Boogie-Blues, SCA-Saugatuck
June 11, Lecture Series, The Genius of Burr
Tillstrom, SCA-Saugatuck
June 12-15, Waterfront Film Festival
June 13, 20 & 27, Saugatuck Green Market
June 14, Saugatuck Arts and Crafts Show
June 27, Fenn Valley Winery open house
July 4, Independence Day
July 5, The Capitol Steps, Comedy, SCA-Saugatuck
Books
Sue’s book of the month is The Diving Bell and the Butterfly:
A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby. It’s 1995, Bauby
was the editor-in-chief of the French magazine Elle, the father of two young
children, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, style, and impassioned
approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind
of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body
which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him
to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost
miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating
a word at a time, blinking to select each letter as the alphabet was recited
to him slowly, over and over again. By turns wistful, mischievous, angry, and
witty, Bauby bears witness to his determination to live as fully in his mind
as he had been able to do in his body. Again and again he returns to an inexhaustible
reservoir of sensations, keeping in touch with himself and the life around
him. You can purchase or order this book at the Singapore Bank Bookstore in
Saugatuck (269-857-3785) or at Treehouse Books in Holland (616-494-5085) or
visit http://www.treehousebooks.net
Sherwood Forest Staples
We will pamper you to your heart's content with one of our Sweetheart Specials
(we now can include Godiva Chocolates), or you can try one of our in-house
massages--doesn't get much better than that. And of course, there's our ever-popular
Famous Chefs of Saugatuck Gourmet Dinners November through April. You can link
to our Sweetheart Specials at http://www.sherwoodforestbandb.com/SWEETHEART.HTML
Here's the link for gourmet dinner details and a sample menu:
http://www.sherwoodforestbandb.com/DINNERS.HTML.
From the Sherwood Forest Files:
Another amazing recipe from Tranquility Carol, the wispy siren who sings the
songs of the deep woods. She liberates the soul with subtle touches and tastes
and brings us this springtime recipe just as the days are warming up. This
soup has a wonderful, jovial flavor, and when you add the cilantro, you’re
in heaven.
Tranquility Carol’s Southwestern Soup
Ingredients:
Olive oil
1-cup onion, diced
Two-thirds cup chopped green bell pepper
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 jalapeño pepper, seeded and minced
1 pound pork tenderloin or chicken, trimmed and cut into bite-sized pieces
2 cups less-sodium chicken broth
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
One-half teaspoon salt
One-quarter teaspoon black pepper
1 (15-ounce) can pinto beans, rinsed and drained
1 (14-ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
1 cup diced avocado
Sour cream and tortilla chips
Preparation:
Heat a small nonstick Dutch oven over medium-heat. Coat pan with olive oil.
Add onion, bell pepper, garlic, and jalapeño to pan; sauté for
2 minutes. Add pork; cook 3 minutes. Add broth and next 6 ingredients (through
tomatoes); bring to a boil. Partially cover, reduce heat, and simmer 6 minutes
or until pork is done, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, and stir in
cilantro. Serve with avocado and sour cream. Yield: 4 servings.
For
more hip and groovy recipes, you can visit our recipes page
on our website at http://www.sherwoodforestbandb.com/RECIPE.HTML
Hope to see
you soon!
Keith & Sue
Sherwood
Forest Bed & Breakfast
938 Center St.
Douglas, Michigan
http://www.sherwoodforestbandb.com
800-838-1246
P.S. Peace
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