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.
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.
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.
Check out this video of last year’s M-22 Challenge. This unique triathlon features a run up the Sleeping Bear Dune Climb, a bike race around the Glen Lakes and a paddle on Little Glen Lake.
From staff reports A new ant species was recently described, for the first time, by German researchers from specimens collected in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. This ant exhibits an unusual behavior: it enslaves other ants. Dr. Susanne Foitzik from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany) will present a program discussing this interesting species and its […]
The Leelanau Summer Music Festival opens its seventh season this Saturday, June 11, with Music of the British Isles. The concert will take place at 7 p.m. in the former school of Holy Rosary Church in Isadore (near Cedar) and feature Richard Sherman, MSU Professor of Flute and principal flutist of the Lansing Symphony. Sherman will be joined by virtuoso Russian pianist Genadi Zagor in a musical tour of the British Isles.
Historically, water quality monitoring programs have relied on traditional techniques, such as culturing microorganisms (e.g., E. coli, enterococci) in the laboratory, to evaluate if beaches are safe for swimming, surfing, and other water-exposure recreational activities. However, the significant time-lapse between sample collection and results, typically 18 hours or longer, can result in inaccurate management decisions due to rapidly changing water quality conditions. This results in either unnecessary beach closures or beaches open to swimming when the water quality is actually poor. Recent advancements in DNA-based technology are increasingly becoming indispensable tools in environmental applications, including water quality monitoring. With these techniques, water quality results are achievable on the same day of sampling, within hours of sample collection.
Nationally recognized architectural photographer Dietrich Floeter and Leelanau Press publisher Barbara Siepker capture the beauty and essence of 60 summer cottages and the nostalgia enveloping them in Historic Cottages of Glen Lake.
A big wind swept through Glen Arbor on Aug. 2, 2015, and one of the things it left behind was a different perspective. “New Views: A Storm of Art” opens June 10 at the Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA), and presents work by 26 artists who interpreted the storm.
Wings of Wonder is inviting the public to a release of an adult Bald Eagle on Sunday, June 5, at 10 a.m., at Eagle Meadow located at 3805 West Empire Highway (about 6.7 miles east of Empire off of hwy 72).