The sleek, silver-and-white vessel sits among a smattering of other high-end cruisers, but this boat is a bit different: Butterfly ... kids. Rounding out the main trio is a smaller pleasure craft ...

Author and illustrator Catherine Weitz’ award-winning children’s book Fly Me To Mars tells the story ... museum staff for a morning of arts and craft making with a holiday theme.

One such man is Dave Ellis, president of the Greater Flint Muddler Minnows -- a nonprofit group of fly fishermen who specialize in tying their own flies and teaching others how to do it.