Art After Hours takes place June 15, July 20, and August 17, from 5-7 pm. The events offer visitors a chance to take a self-guided walking tour of galleries located in Glen Arbor’s art district—a five-block area from Lake Street to M-22 to M-109 West.
This spring, for the first time since he moved to Munich 15 years ago, Maple City native Steve Walker is not hurling fastballs from the pitcher’s mound or smacking line drives from the batter’s box. As so often happens when we reach our mid-30s, baseball, or the activity we love most, takes a backseat to fatherhood and family life.
In late May, Jeff Kato of Balancing Environment and Rehabilitation (BEAR), the nonprofit rehabbing Glen Haven’s historic Sleeping Bear Inn, found this bottle of Foley’s Cough Syrup—a concoction of 7% alcohol, honey and pine tar made popular during the 1918 flu epidemic—behind the baseboard in one of the guest rooms. The cough syrup has reappeared for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cottonseed Apparel owners Laurenn Rudd and Elizabeth Gray have opened a second location in downtown Frankfort at the former location of the Benzie County Record Patriot. Cottonseed Apparel will offer the same line of products at its pop-up shop in Frankfort as they do in their Glen Arbor store.
So, if you are Katie Dunn, and you have been coming to Glen Arbor every summer since 1976, and you have worked all over town, and you know everybody, are you still a ‘Fudgie,’ or ‘Permafudge,” or now a ‘Local?’ Katie declares, “I feel like I’m ‘Local-ish.’ When I bought a car to keep up my 1927 log cabin I own on Big Glen Lake, I got a Michigan license plate. Doesn’t that give credence to me being a local?” she asks with a smile.
The McCahill family, who own On the Narrows Marina, purchased Glen Craft Marina from Kathy Aylsworth in March. They have no plans this year to change the marina, which is located on Big Glen Lake, though Conor McCahill said that owning both marinas will help streamline work and allow them to do more with the staff they have. Glen Craft also has eight rental units and boat services. The McCahills had previously outsourced boat services at On the Narrows Marina.
On Wednesday, June 15, at 7 pm, Robert Dale Parker will introduce the life and writings of Bamewawagezhikaquay / Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1842), the northern Michigan poet and fiction writer who was among the first Native American literary writers. Register for this virtual program hosted by the Leelanau Historical Society.
Bardenhagen Berries Farm celebrates its 150th anniversary as a family farm this year by commemorating its rich history and continuing to diversify for its future. While the farm offers a variety of crops, it is perhaps best known for strawberries.
The flora and fauna of the Sleeping Bear Dunes will be the focus of Detroit artist Quinn Faylor’s work during their Glen Arbor Arts Center residency May 29-June 11. Faylor will spend two weeks creating paintings and textile works that continue their exploration of home, and human relationships to land and the natural world.
The M22 Challenge returns to its usual time on Saturday, June 11. (The 2021 race was held in September due to uncertainties surrounding the pandemic.) Registration has filled up, but join spectators on M-109 or at locations around the Glen Lakes to watch this unique triathlon that features a 2.5-mile run up the Dune Climb, a 17-mile bike ride through Glen Arbor and around the lakes, and a 2.5-mile paddle in Little Glen Lake.