By Jane Greiner Sun staff writer The timber framing for the supporting walls of the new building at Cherry Republic went up in just one day. Robert Foulkes and his crew of six, from White Oak Timber Framers of Suttons Bay assembled, hoisted, braced, pushed and pounded the tree-sized components into place. “Handy Randy” Weirich, […]
By Jacob R. Wheeler Sun editor The American boy’s passport is his driver’s license, and a fortuneteller’s reading of his future spells itself out on a Rand McNally road atlas of the United States. Tiny county roads flow into highways like tributaries driven by fate towards the roaring river, and, in turn, the highways are […]
By Torin Yeager Sun contributor Picture this scenario: a boy, his dog, and his little sister walking peacefully along a path through the woods near the shore of Lake Michigan. The boy tosses a fair-sized stick into the brambles surrounding the path, and the dog, ever enamored by wood, goes howling in after it. After […]
By Ashlea Turner Sun contributor If you’re out on Lake Michigan, Lake Superior or maybe even the St. Lawrence Seaway in the near future, you might just witness history repeat herself. The Leelanau School’s replica of a 16th-century Voyageur Canoe might just speed right past you in its 33 feet of cedar glory.
By Sue Woodward and Nadine Nienhuis Sun contributors The 45th parallel, an imaginary line that circles the globe halfway between the equator and the North Pole, passes through Suttons Bay, Old Mission Lighthouse, Yellowstone Park’s Mammoth Hot Springs, Bordeaux, Venice and San Francisco. Some think there is a unique, creative force in the surrounding areas […]
By Jacob R. Wheeler Sun editor Nearly 90 years after the mysterious passenger steamboat captain Ralph Dorsey disabled and sank his magnificent craft, Rescue, with an axe on Big Glen Lake, the boat’s whereabouts remain as murky as his motives for doing so. Not even a team of professional scientists from the University of Michigan, […]
By Jane Greiner Sun nature correspondent Sandra Catlin of Honor and I recently attended the Cougar Tracking Seminar put on by the Michigan Wildlife Conservancy. Catlin has twice spotted a black cougar on the roads between her home and her job in Glen Arbor. Having seen a cougar with her own eyes (when they supposedly […]
By Jane Greiner Sun staff writer Empire’s reclusive Roen brothers never dreamed that one day their three-man bachelor household would be replaced by a mother-daughter duo that would turn their farm into an old fashioned bed and breakfast. Holly Decker never dreamed it either. Not until it occurred to her while enjoying a stay in […]
By James Coleman Sun contributor This piece was originally published in the Norwich Bulletin and submitted to the Glen Arbor Sun by Mr. Coleman, a close friend of Norman Wheeler, a local poet who runs the Beach Bards Bonfire, which meets every Friday at dusk from June 20 until Labor Day weekend on the Leelanau […]
By Marge Barrett Sun contributor Amidst all the stories Colonel Thomas J. Barrett could tell about flying military planes and jet fighters from 1934 to 1962, he likes to recall the day he flew with Orville Wright. While stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base just after the end of the Second World War, Tom was […]