This property was purchased in 1970
About Roderick Jellema
ROD: Michigan native, retired lit. professor (U. of Maryland), author of 7 books of poetry,
lives in Washington, D. C. Wife MICHELE: novelist, speechwriter, journalist -- currently
a publisher, head of Bacon Press Books, Washington. DAVID: former jazz archivist, full-time musician, plays cornet, clarinet, and flugel horn, mostly classic or traditional jazz --- currently centered in Austin. H
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ROD: Michigan native, retired lit. professor (U. of Maryland), author of 7 books of poetry,
lives in Washington, D. C. Wife MICHELE: novelist, speechwriter, journalist -- currently
a publisher, head of Bacon Press Books, Washington. DAVID: former jazz archivist, full-time musician, plays cornet, clarinet, and flugel horn, mostly classic or traditional jazz --- currently centered in Austin. Has spent part of most summers at Lost Valley.
Why This Property?
It combines traditional country living in a quiet traditional farmhouse with the
summer joys of swimming, sailing, hiking, and beach-bumming. Rod grew up with such summers near Holland, Mich. He bought the present property from his cousin Dirk, a medieval historian who developed the two miles of beach-land called Gray Dunes and Lost Valley, with whom Rod shared Lake Michigan summer life when they
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It combines traditional country living in a quiet traditional farmhouse with the
summer joys of swimming, sailing, hiking, and beach-bumming. Rod grew up with such summers near Holland, Mich. He bought the present property from his cousin Dirk, a medieval historian who developed the two miles of beach-land called Gray Dunes and Lost Valley, with whom Rod shared Lake Michigan summer life when they were growing up.
Unique Benefits
An old house from the 1890s that we saved as a beach cottage because we could
purchase with it full rights to a land-condominium beach, unspoiled, shared with
a limited number of like-minded neighbors.
An old house from the 1890s that we saved as a beach cottage because we could
purchase with it full rights to a land-condominium beach, unspoiled, shared with
a limited number of like-minded neighbors.