Scott Craig’s Laughing in Leelanau debuts at Old Art Building

Legendary local storyteller, Scott Craig, adapted his latest book for the stage. His comedy, Laughing in Leelanau, debuts at the Old Art Building in Leland at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 22. All proceeds from this one-of-a-kind production will go towards necessary upgrades for the building’s theater. Tickets are $100 and should be purchased in advance by contacting the Old Art Building.

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Sleeping Bear Surf & Kayak initiates North Bar Beach Cleanup

Sleeping Bear Surf & Kayak in Empire teamed up with FLOW (For Love of Water), Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Surfrider NoMi, and S’well for an April 22 Earth Day beach cleanup at North Bar Lake.

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A portrait of the artist

Quinn Faylor, a queer, multi-disciplinary artist, was born and raised in Petoskey and currently lives and works in Detroit. A 2016 graduate of the University of Michigan with a BA in Arts and Ideas in the Humanities, Faylor was an artist in resident at the Glen Arbor Arts Center earlier this month. Since June is Pride Month, the Sun spoke to Faylor, who identifies as non-binary, about the residency, about their muse and artistic inspiration, and about queer artists, tolerance and understanding, and coming out.

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DeCook wins second M22 Challenge

Ryan DeCook, 41, from Washington, Michigan, won this year’s M22 Challenge with a time of 1:14:59. Saturday, June 11, was the perfect day for a race in and around the Glen Lakes. Sunny and a cool 64 degrees Fahrenheit made it an especially beautiful day in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

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Gillespie wins Empire Asparagus Poetry contest

Athena Gillespie, age 20, won the Audience Choice award at this year’s Empire Asparagus Festival poetry contest, held on Saturday, June 4, for her poem “Green Force.” Gillespie also submitted a poem to the contest in 2012, when she was 10 years old. Both poems are published here.

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Protecting Leelanau’s dark skies from light pollution

It has become a global problem—electrical light pollution is sending its ever-brightening rays, hiding the night sky in place after place and there is no end in sight. In today’s world, city and suburban residents have lost sight of much of earth’s spectacular nighttime universe. At night a peachy orange glow is casting an ever-widening ominous circumference in the Grand Traverse region.

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Art After Hours In Glen Arbor

Art After Hours takes place June 15, July 20, and August 17, from 5-7 pm. The events offer visitors a chance to take a self-guided walking tour of galleries located in Glen Arbor’s art district—a five-block area from Lake Street to M-22 to M-109 West.

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A Glen Lake Laker hangs up his spikes after a career on German baseball diamonds

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This spring, for the first time since he moved to Munich 15 years ago, Maple City native Steve Walker is not hurling fastballs from the pitcher’s mound or smacking line drives from the batter’s box. As so often happens when we reach our mid-30s, baseball, or the activity we love most, takes a backseat to fatherhood and family life.

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A Spanish Flu relic reappears at Sleeping Bear Inn

In late May, Jeff Kato of Balancing Environment and Rehabilitation (BEAR), the nonprofit rehabbing Glen Haven’s historic Sleeping Bear Inn, found this bottle of Foley’s Cough Syrup—a concoction of 7% alcohol, honey and pine tar made popular during the 1918 flu epidemic—behind the baseboard in one of the guest rooms. The cough syrup has reappeared for the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Cottonseed expands to Frankfort

Cottonseed Apparel owners Laurenn Rudd and Elizabeth Gray have opened a second location in downtown Frankfort at the former location of the Benzie County Record Patriot. Cottonseed Apparel will offer the same line of products at its pop-up shop in Frankfort as they do in their Glen Arbor store.

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