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Manitou Music Fest opens at DH Day Campground

The Glen Arbor Art Association is partnering with the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore to offer three additional summer Manitou Music Festival concerts this summer, to be held at the D.H. Day Campground amphitheater. The expanded lineup is part of the National Park Service’s 100th birthday celebration in 2016. The public, park rangers and campers are invited to join in the celebration with a concert in the park this summer and “find your park” through music.

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Kathleen Stocking’s “Long Arc of the Universe”

Writer Kathleen Stocking wants to change the world. The acclaimed author of Letters from the Leelanau and Lake Country has just published her third book of essays, The Long Arc of the Universe: Travels Beyond the Pale. In it, she takes readers along on her incredible journeys from her home in seemingly peaceful, picturesque northern Michigan to some of the world’s most unstable and terrifying places. Like a modern-day Scheherazade, she brings her skill with words, language and storytelling to protect herself, as well as teach an incredible range of students: from hardened criminals in maximum security prison to the offspring of Central American despots; from poor African-American children traumatized by gang warfare in their urban neighborhood to Third World children in Thailand and Romania.

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Library hosts Stocking, children

The Glen Lake Library will host Kathleen Stocking, author of the newly published memoir The Long Arc of the Universe: Travels Beyond the Pale, on Thursday, June 30, at 7 pm. Stocking is well-known locally for her previous books Lake Country and Letters from the Leelanau. Her latest book describes her varied and eye-opening experiences over the years, from work in the California prison system, to teaching and traveling throughout the third world.

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Leelanau Women Artists host Art in Empire

Balloons will adorn the doors of two Empire galleries, one local studio and the Empire Town Hall for “Art in Empire!” — a brand new art event sponsored by Leelanau Women Artists (LWA). Scheduled for the weekend of June 24-26, the occasion kicks off Friday evening with a grand opening at the town hall, where seven local women artists will unveil their Leelanau-inspired work. Wine and appetizers will add a welcome to the Friday night affair. Look for balloons at Sleeping Bear Gallery and The Secret Garden on Front Street, and JoJo and Bucky on M-22 as well (JoJo and Bucky is a new working studio by pencil artist Jim Hilton and jeweler Becky Willis).

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Summer Singers rehearsals start June 21

From staff reports The Summer Singers, a community chorus sponsored by the Glen Arbor Art Association, invite all singers, young and old, to join them for a summer filled with making music. The chorus rehearses each Tuesday beginning June 21, at the Glen Lake Community Reformed Church in Burdickville, from 7 to 9 p.m. All […]

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Kerry Kelly, friend of Sleeping Bear

From staff reports Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes may be best known for working together with the National Park to maintain the popular Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail. Later this summer the trail will open its fourth leg — a 3.8-mile stretch from the Port Oneida Rural Historic District to Bohemian Road on Good Harbor Bay. […]

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Heritage Trail expands north; full addition delayed until August

The good news: the popular Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail has expanded and opened its fourth leg, which will eventually run 3.8 miles east from Port Oneida to Bohemian Road and Good Harbor Bay, bringing the trail total to 17 miles. The bad news: the trail addition is only partly complete. The construction of a boardwalk over the southern shore of Narada Lake (about halfway between Port Oneida and Bohemian) is far behind schedule, and work won’t resume on the bridge until July 5.

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National Lakeshore hosts Picnic in the Park and Junior Ranger Day

Come celebrate International Picnic Day at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore with a Picnic in the Park. Make it simple or extravagant; bring a bike, or go on a hike. Invite friends and family, and earn a Junior Ranger badge or patch.

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Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear launches new Olsen farm exhibit

Hattie Olsen, the story goes, once fell through the attic of the farmhouse where she lived with husband Charles in Port Oneida. She was fine, but her boys laughed when they saw her legs protruding from the ceiling. Life was hard, but there was also humor on the farmstead where the Olsens lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Charles, when he grew older, would sometimes fall while plowing the land. The horses knew him and knew every inch of the land, would stop and wait for him to get up.

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Park hosts barn restoration workshop

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will again host their successful barn restoration workshop on June 13-18 at the John Burfiend Barn on Port Oneida Road, four miles north of Glen Arbor on M-22. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the partnership between the Michigan Barn Preservation Network (MBPN) and the National Lakeshore in developing this series of “hands-on” workshops. The park and the MBPN are providing the skilled labor to put on this workshop.

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