Protecting a Jewel

Residents rally around Pleasant Lake

by Mary Beth Lewis

posted 1/14/2009

On an unseasonably warm Saturday afternoon in October, seventy-three-year-old Bob Miller is in a bold mood. A descendant of Freedom Township’s early German settlers and a volunteer local historian, he’s bent on making a little history of his own: a swim in Pleasant Lake as late into the fall as he ever has dared.

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