Shining Light on the Greatest of the Great Lakes

While most people think of taxi cabs as a big city thing, on Lake Erie’s Kelleys Island, taxi cabs are the only thing for folks who don’t drive or have had a few adult beverages. The ins-and-outs of this family-run business, Island Rides,are irritating, amusing and heartwarming. Let’s talk to Bobby…

Alberto Rey fled Cuba with his parents as a child. More recently he retired as a distinguished professor from SUNY –Fredonia. The painter, Orvis-endorsed fly fishing guide and conservationist talks art, kids, water and fishing from his studio on the banks of Lake Erie tributary and steelhead stream…

Kenny Kreutzfeld began working on vintage wood boats when he was a kid. And now more than 50 years later he’s still at it, operating K & M Restorations in Marblehead. From turn-of-the-century boats to more “modern” Chris Crafts and Lymans from the 1950s and 1960s, he tears them apart and puts t…

Let’s visit with long-time Kelleys Island resident Vicki Finnegan and Ploy, one of her many “adopted” grandchildren. Ploy (Wassana Prommanat) is one of many international students who visit and work on the island and in the region each year during the summer season as a part of a U.S. Department of…