On Tuesday, June 29, at 7 pm, Cedar summer resident and author Tim Mulherin will visit Leland Township Library to discuss his new book Sand, Stars, Wind & Water: Field Notes from Up North. This book is a vivid, entertaining chronicle of the author’s outdoor adventures exploring northwest lower Michigan.
You can’t drive through the tiny lakeside village of Omena without stopping to check out the gallery which has been a fixture there for more than 40 years. Tamarack Gallery, opened by David and Sally Viskochil in 1972, was originally located in a building owned by Sugar Loaf and then moved to its current Omena location in 1976. Though David, the joyful and warm-hearted frontman—committed to his artists and his clients both—died unexpectedly in 2005, Sally, with the capable assistance of Len Cowgill, has kept the gallery open and flourishing since.
The light and inviting new Glen Lake Community Library, which opened in Empire in September 2020 during the height of the COVID pandemic, will host its first public exhibit and opening reception on Tuesday, June 29, from 6-7 p.m. for a show called “On the Precipice” which pairs 10 pastel paintings and 10 poems written in response to those paintings. The painter is Glen Arbor resident Linda Alice Dewey, and the poet is Empire resident Anne-Marie Oomen.
There’s a painted lady in Glen Arbor, setting heads a-swivel as they walk, bike, or drive past Bay Lane at M-22. Although diminutive at under 700 square feet, she has an outsized personality. She’s well-traveled for her age—at least 125 years—and her pedigree is just as colorful as her painted trim, ornate corbels, and drop finials. “She” wears a sign proclaiming herself the Copemish Depot.
The Leelanau Community Cultural Center (LCCC) and Little Garden Club of Leland are co-sponsoring an exhibit and sale of “Art of the Garden” at the Old Art Building. The show will run June 24-27 from 11 am–5 pm. This exhibit will feature artwork of the flora and fauna of gardens in a variety of mediums.
Keith Burnham, with his great love of the charming village of Leland, and its accompanying historic Fishtown, lives by the words, “Every day’s a joy, and some days are more joyous than others…” And that right in his own special place. He has been taking photos of this area for well over five decades. Keith’s constant companion was his dog Biscuit. His daily photos turned into the blog the Leland Report, and the Report and Biscuit came to have followers in every state in the nation as well as from all over the world.
On Friday, June 18, at 10:30 a.m., Leland Township Library will kick off its summer children’s program with Leelanau locals Patrick Niemisto and Norm Wheeler of Luunappi as part of its 2021 Children’s Summer Reading Program. The word “luunappi” is Finnish for a finger snap to the ear. To Niemisto and Wheeler, it also means music and rhyme and tall tales. Join Luunappi for a morning filled with songs, stories, and poems for families on the turtleback in front of the library.
The Sugar Loaf Resort property owner announced today that Taplin Enterprises has been awarded the demolition contract for the former ski resort property. This project is scheduled to begin the last week of June and conclude in October.
Photo: Ann McCoy (left) and Gretchen Knoblock (right) at New Leaf Interiors’ new location in Glen Arbor. By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Gretchen Knoblock, who just opened New Leaf Interiors in the heart of Glen Arbor, giggles when she recalls standing in front of the Dechow Barn in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District 40 years […]
More than 110,000 visitors flocked to Sleeping Bear Dunes last month—a new May record. The National Lakeshore has attracted 237,257 visitors through the first five months of 2021. That’s nearly 90,000 more than the first five months of 2020, when Sleeping Bear set a record for annual visitation with more than 1.7 million guests.