Norm is the author of 'Glass Creek Memories', which shares his thoughts and memoirs, and some photos back in the days where we all lived a simpler life. Excerpt follows:
Norm and Willie Erway supported the sanctuary not only through their memories but through moral and financial support. They committed funds to build the boardwalk from the barn to Glass Creek. Volunteers and family members have since worked on repairs.
Bob's death seems like the end of an era for the Otis Family Farm, but it can become a beautiful beginning. The farm with its rolling glacial hills its woods, ponds, march and of course Glass Creek winding its way through the marshes, is really a jewel set in the ring of surrounding state recreational area. That Bob and Millie put this gem in trust with the Michigan Audubon Society made all of my family very proud. Now when we see a wood duck fly by in all its glorious colors we can say "There goes one of Bob's ducks" or better yet, maybe he's flying with it, just checking things out. And then there were the rattlesnakes - not many, but how many does one need to get the adrenaline flowing? When we were bringing the cows in from the marsh, they would sometimes circle out around an area and you had better follow their lead since nine times out of ten there would be a rattler buzzing its warning. Finding one sunning on a haycock, or worse pitching one up on a load of hay was excitement enough for small boys.
Norm and Willie Erway supported the sanctuary not only through their memories but through moral and financial support. They committed funds to build the boardwalk from the barn to Glass Creek. Volunteers and family members have since worked on repairs.Norm Erway died March 31, 2013. Some of his ashes were scattered at his beloved Glass Creek. His wife Willie died December 2015.
Erway daughter Kimby writes a blog about her family and the Otis Farm, 'Any Port in a Storm.'.
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| Norm and Millie at the Otis Farm Sanctuary |
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