Reading a Bonnie Jo Campbell book is like sitting down for a cuppa, or a cold one, with your very best gal pal. You can let loose and relax, kick off your shoes, loosen your girdle, because she does, her story does, the way it weaves in and around you and floats you along, easy, easy. Just like a river.
Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear offers the inspiration for creative writing in their Path to the Page Writing and Hiking workshop on Thursday, July 28 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. with instructor Anne-Marie Oomen of Interlochen Arts Academy. Participants will learn about the history of select farmsteads during their three-mile walk on the Bayview Trail through the Port Oneida Rural Historic District.
The Beach Bards Bonfire — the storytelling and poetry festival on Friday nights at The Leelanau School beach north of Glen Arbor — begins its 23rd season tonight. Children’s hour starts at 8 p.m., and the adult portion begins at 9 p.m. Bards Norm Wheeler, Anne-Marie Oomen, Bronwyn Jones and Joe VanderMeulen typically lead the performance (stories and poems are recited by-heart, and not read, according to the oral tradition). And musicians usually make an appearance around the fire.
Empire Asparagus Festival 2011 poetry winners. First place, Kimberlee Johnson. Second place, Mary O’Neil. Third place, Paula K. Darling.
Author Thomas Lynch will read from his latest book Apparition and Late Fictions, on Wednesday, May 18th at 7 p.m., at the Glen Lake Community Library in Empire. This collection of short stories was selected as a 2011 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of Michigan.
Mlive.com published a wonderful story on Sunday by our friend Kim Schneider, titled “State, national parks offer programs for artists”, which highlights what the local branch of the National Park service has contributed to our thriving local art scene.
Forest Rebecca Olson enjoyed an early spring day the right way in northern Michigan — by tapping a Maple tree and enjoying the sap from which we make maple syrup. In succession, the flowers bloomed, the snow began to melt, the chickens came out to play, and her daughter Roen greeted the farm animals.
City chickens may be a new thing now, but in the city of my childhood, Toledo, Ohio, there was nothing unusual about raising backyard hens, roosters or even rabbits for that matter. Times then, as now, were lean and tight, and people were just beginning to rise up out of the dire straits of near poverty; so raising chickens for their eggs or a Sunday dinner, or rabbits for Saturday night stew, helped nourish many families.
The windstorm that hit Leelanau County this week was the strongest storm ever to hit the continental United States, rivaling the pressure of tropical storms and surpassing the winds that doomed the famed Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975 in Lake Superior.
By Norm Wheeler Sun editor Some of my relatives west of Shelby, in Oceana County, recently had a yard sale, and my mother, Anna Jean Wheeler, scored an old book there about Michigan that used to belong to my grandfather, Neil Wheeler. Neil grew up on a farm east of Hart. His sister Emma had […]