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“I don’t know many other small, getaway towns that are this progressive,” Aron Packer, a Chicago gallerist who’d opened a place in Three Oaks, told McEwen. “I haven’t had to change my focus here,” he said. “It’s just as contemporary, just as challenging as my Chicago gallery.” And then there was the Acorn Theater, offering plays, concerts, and comedy in a renovated corset-bone factory. The Acorn’s a story in itself — the Times published that one last December.
It’s not that McEwen got her facts wrong — the Times didn’t publish them while they were right. She turned in the story last spring expecting the Times to run it last summer in its Friday Escapes section. But a story about a different Michigan haven got into print first, which meant McEwen’s had to wait. And rust, as they say, never sleeps.
