from staff reports The Glen Arbor Art Association’s Manitou Music Festival has a new director this year, but the quality and diversity of the concerts that will resonate from the Glen Arbor area this summer haven’t changed. Debra Fayroian, a cellist in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, takes over for Crispin Campbell, a cellist at the […]
By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor It’s a common misconception. Smart growth does not mean no growth. So forget nightmarish images of tree-hugging activists tearing up infrastructure and highways to rid the land of mankind’s tracks. Throw out that loaded word, communist, too. The Michigan Land Use Institute has no intention of gobbling up tracts of […]
By Christina Campbell Sun staff writer The movie Night on Earth has a poignant scene between a high-powered casting agent and her young, female taxi driver. The casting agent says she has a part the cab driver would be perfect for. Wouldn’t she like to be a movie star? The young woman agrees it’s a […]
By Norm Wheeler Sun editor The cool, wet weather of June and early July put scowls on many faces, but it was great for the restaurants in town. Bad beach days pack the lunch tables. Brendan Burroughs (Good Harbor Grill) and Tim Barr (Art’s) both report records for the week after July Fourth. When folks […]
By Lois Bearslee Michigan State University Press, published 2003 Lois Beardslee, author of Lies to Live By, is an accomplished Native American artist, teacher and writer in Leelanau County. She practices many traditional art forms, including birch bark biting, quillwork, and sweetgrass basketry, as well as painting and illustration. In publishing these excerpts from Lies […]
By Torin Yeager Sun staff writer In an area populated by more than a few picturesque golf courses, it is generally not surprising when yet another large expanse of neatly tended greens appears. However, when a course is created that puts an entirely new spin on a time-honored sport, interest grows substantially.
By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor A couple of new businesses have opened their doors in town — a surf shop and a doctor’s office — and as long as you play it safe, there should be no causal relationship between the two. As a matter of fact, the Glen Arbor Sun wouldn’t even mention them […]
By Thomas Benn Sun contributor Far out in the lake, the “long boats” approaching from the south look like floating logs with small knots protruding above one or both ends. Some are on a course slanting in toward shore and the Manitou Passage. Coming closer, bulk carriers over a thousand feet in length can be […]
By Helen Westie Sun contributor Barbershops and beauty salons, besides rendering services for which they are intended, have ever been places to gather all the news of a community. But at Jo Lynn’s Hair affair in Empire there is even more interesting and unusual entertainment available. Two parrots and some colorful fish comprise a mini-menagerie, […]
By Norm Wheeler Sun editor “It’s just amazing,” says Ken Hurlin. “We thought if a couple hundred came it would be great!” But around 800 people from the Glen Lake area showed up on the deck at Boondocks on Wednesday, June 23, to raise funds to support the care of Willie Hurlin. Willie (the son […]