Tim Allen apparently heard the call of the wild.
The "Home Improvement" star is buying the former Shady Trails camp on Lake Michigan for $2 million. The camp includes 29 buildings on 26 acres.The University of Michigan ran summer programs there for kids with speech and language impairments from 1932 until 1995.
Allen and his wife, Laura, already have a cottage on a cherry farm owned by her parents some 25 miles away, in Omena Point.
So, why invest in real estate? Allen's mother-in-law, Annette Deibel, apparently whis-pered in his ear. She is a director of the Leelanau Conservancy, a nonprofit group working against development of the area.
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