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High water, Dollar General top Glen Arbor Sun’s 2019 stories
It was the year of high water, as Lake Michigan water levels nearly eclipsed their all-time record—just six years after setting their all-time low. That made beach walking difficult; it exacerbated conflicts over beach-walking rights along riparian-owned property; it made the reality of Climate Change even more dire, and it contributed to flooding in Leland’s historic Fishtown.
Ice boating, “the most fun you can have with your clothes on”
This winter you’ll see ice boats cruising along frozen West Grand Traverse Bay or Lake Leelanau on a clear, windy day. Their sails are propelled by wind like normal boats. But these crafts face no friction from waves or currents. They can move at three or four times the wind speed.
Sleeping Bear Dunes offers new snowshoe hikes
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is planning something new this winter for their free ranger-led snowshoe hikes. Whether you are an experienced snowshoer or have never tried snowshoeing, the National Lakeshore invites you to join a ranger-led snowshoe hike to explore the park.
Glen Arbor Arts Center seeks artists in residence
The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program is now accepting applications for its 2020 program. A program prospectus and an on-line application can be found at GlenArborArt.org. The deadline for submissions is February 5, 2020.
Mawby Vineyards taps next generation of innovation
The clinking of bottles fills the air as I sit down with Larry Mawby, founder of Mawby Vineyards in Suttons Bay, and Mike Laing, who, with his brother Pete, has taken the reins from Larry and is now running Mawby Vineyards as well as their still wine company Big Little Wines.
Joyce Bahle’s heartfelt mission keeps Jim Harrison’s writing alive
Joyce Harrington began working as the late Jim Harrison’s aide-de-camp in 1979 following a handshake in the granary and writing studio behind the author’s house in Lake Leelanau. She was his literary assistant, business manager, and guardian, freeing Harrison to lead a prolific, international writer’s life that would produce hundreds of poems, novels, essays and screenplays. Efforts are underway to keep Harrison’s work alive and to share it with a new generation of readers, poets and writers—across the United States and the world.
Mae Stier self-publishes poetry and essay collection inspired by Lake Michigan
Empire resident Mae Stier has released a collection of writing and photography highlighting the region in her self-published book Lake Letters.
Leland Fishtown shanties rising—$1.65 million still to be raised
After a year of high water, seiches, and the Leland river seeping into the old wooden shanties in Fishtown, the historic village is beginning to get the makeover it needs. Before Christmas the Cheese Shanty and Morris Shanty will be lifted off their foundations and temporarily moved to the parking lot to make way for sheet metal pilings and poured foundations.
Unburied Treasure: Erosion from record high water levels reveals shipwrecks
Northwest Michigan residents know when “that feel is in the air,” a sense that an epic and timeless battle between the north and south winds will soon be taking place here on the Lake Michigan coast—when “the witch of November come stealin’,” as singer Gordon Lightfoot relates in his ballad “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”.