The Friends of the Glen Lake Community Library will their annual used book sale Aug. 7-9 at the Glen Arbor Township Hall. This three-day fundraising event offers gently used books for adults and children in more than 50 categories, games, and puzzles, as well as DVDs and CDs. This year the Friends have an extraordinary selection of beautiful coffee table books. The sale is scheduled as follows:
Wildflowers owner, Donna Burgan, said her store would have never lasted 40 years without the devotion of the community when she first opened it.
The Leelanau Community Cultural Center (The Old Art Building) is pleased to announce a very special evening of music, featuring three gifted singer/songwriters Jim Crockett, Fred Ball and Mark Brown. These “Old Friends” are coming together to perform Thursday evening, August 8, at 7:30 p.m.
Every August, the Port Oneida Rural Historic District awakens from its peaceful slumber and comes alive with activity true to the period when it was a community of robust settlers.
The Glen Lake Library and the Cottage Book Shop will host best-selling author Elizabeth Berg for a special matinee reading, on Monday Aug. 5 at 1 p.m., at the Glen Arbor Township Hall.
Amy Bredehoft, from Birmingham, Ala., thought she was in shape to climb the Sleeping Bear Dune Climb on Monday, July 8. Sure, the 54-year-old and frequent summer visitor to Paul’s Paradise cabins on Little Traverse Lake had drunk coffee that morning and a couple alcoholic drinks the night before; she was on vacation, after all.
On August 3, Center Gallery at Glen Arbor’s Lake Street Studios welcomes painter Justin Kellner. Because of the extraordinary excitement for the Glen Arbor Art Center’s annual plein air paint out, we at Center Gallery were looking to exhibit something a little different during that weekend. We wanted something that had a tie to the landscape, but not explicitly so.
Freshwater Reporter is a new community newspaper covering Manistee and Mason counties. The paper’s publisher and co-editor is Pat Stinson, who reported the news from Empire, Maple City and Cedar for the Sun for many years. After relocating to Manistee, Stinson said she saw a need to share more stories from rural villages in Manistee and Mason counties, as well as the larger cities of Manistee and Ludington.
The Chatham Rabbits hop onto the Lake Street Studio Stage on Sunday, August 4, at 8 pm to perform the next Manitou Music series concert.
The Glen Arbor Arts Center’s Summer Singers will “Talk About Art” during a short program of conversation and songs about home and place on August 4, at 2 p.m. at the GAAC, located at 6031 S. Lake St., in Glen Arbor. This program is open to the public at no charge.