FAMILY NIGHT

4/19/2006

From left, Luke Smith, 9, Dakota Smith, 8, and Jacob Ellison, 9, look over books at the recent Blissfield Book Fair in the Blissfield Elementary library. At the same time, the school had a Family Reading Night picnic supper until 6, when stories began.

Jacob Brown shows a Petoskey stone after hearing the legend of the stones. he stones were formed by glaciation, in which ice plucked stones from the bedrock, grinding off rough edges and depositing them in a portion of Michigan s Lower Peninsula. But the legend says a Mother Bear has been leaving her tears on the beaches of Lake Michigan for hundreds of years.