Maria Lammers looked stunned when she heard the news from this reporter. Wiping her hands on her well-worn cook's apron, the bespectacled owner of the 25-year-old Gallagher's farm market and bakery could barely contain her excitement: "That's wonderful! That's great!" Fire up your ovens! It's a new dawn at the National Cherry Festival, for 72 years a celebrated rite of summer in quaint Traverse City, Mich. For the first time in more than two decades, you'll be able to buy a slice of freshly made cherry pie at the fest, which runs all next week along the breathtaking Grand Traverse Bay...
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