The Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC) hosts Feed Me!, an evening of poetry and prose about feeding the mind, body and spirit, on Friday, June 11, at 7 pm. Feed Me! is part of the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s exhibition Food Is Art/Art Is Food, which runs until August 19 in the GAAC gallery. The event is free and open to the public.
The business dynamic in Glen Arbor is in flux. A recent walk from one end of town to the other to ask “What’s the buzz?” took four hours because so much is happening. Both facts and rumors abound. And it’s the youthful energy of several newer business owners that is leading the transition.
The scent of cinnamon suffuses the air. Is this a spice shop? A tea emporium? Nope, it’s Jane Lively’s hoop house shed for sprouting seedlings at the Lively Farm off Bow Road above Burdickville. Dozens of plastic pots line the shelves, all sprinkled with the red spice that kills any bacteria in the soil, thus enhancing germination. It’s just one more sign of the phenomenal growth occurring within the Lively family’s many new business ventures that include the Lively Farm, the Backyard Burdickville Campground, and the next LivelyLands weekend music festival coming in August.
Leelanau Cheese founders John and Anne Hoyt have found successor cheesemakers Gary Smith and Joshua Hall to continue to produce their award winning, handcrafted raclette and fromage blanc cheeses upon their retirement. The sale of Leelanau Cheese Company—announced Saturday in a press release—includes all property, equipment, inventory, recipes and formulas at their location on M-22 south of Suttons Bay.
The Early Bird breakfast and lunch destination in downtown Leland has a new tenant—one whose brand is already ubiquitous in northern Michigan. In mid-June, John and Steve Arens, who own the Leelanau Coffee Roasting Company in Glen Arbor, will open a breakfast bistro that combines high-quality food with fresh-roasted coffee on the main drag in Leland. They are leasing the space from Skip Telgard, who owns the Blue Bird restaurant next door. The Early Bird sat empty through much of 2020 as Telgard struggled to find enough employees to staff the popular eatery.
Kari Beitler, a Detroit area native who lives in Cleveland and studies plant science at Cuyahoga Community College, traveled north on a road trip with her parents on Thursday, May 13, to witness and photograph the Aurora Borealis. Photography is a passion for Kari, who describes herself on her Instagram account “kari_d_away” as a “rust belt explorer, a mitten native, and a Mother Nature protector and advocate.”
Leelanau County is the first county in Michigan to cross the 70 percent threshold for residents, 16 and up, who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In Leelanau, 75 percent of residents have received at least one shot.
After a 2020 pandemic hiatus, the Beach Bards are back! The Friday night bonfires featuring poetry, storytelling and music on the beach at The Leelanau School will take place four times this summer: June 25, July 9, July 23, and August 6.
Glen Arbor resident Linda Dewey recounts how her father, Air Force captain Bill Dewey survived the Kassel Mission over Germany in this Memorial Day story honoring the Greatest Generation, who won the Second World War. Linda is working with the Kassel Mission Memorial Association to bring home the remains of American airmen who went missing in action in on Sept. 27, 1944.
Trattoria Funistrada is for sale. Tom and Holly Reay are selling their popular Italian restaurant in Burdickville, located a stone’s skip from the east shore of Big Glen Lake. Serbin Real Estate listed the restaurant today for $1.495 million. Offers may arrive soon, as the local real estate market is, in a word, hot.