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Grateful locals welcome Wiesen Farm produce
Food/Organic Living, Local PersonalityAfter five years of primarily growing apples and nurturing their garden along, Tom and Christy Wiesen, with help from daughter Sofia, are already thriving in their first year of selling produce. After being hop growers who helped their family start the hop farm along M-72, Tom and Christy decided to branch out on their own with fruit and produce.
Audrey Smith goes to ArtPrize
Local Personality, Upcoming EventAudrey Smith has been accepted into ArtPrize, where she will hang three of her paintings—collectively titled “Golden Africa”—in one of the world’s most popular art events. ArtPrize takes place Sept.20-Oct. 8 in Grand Rapids.
Harvest Stompede: a food & wine tour along the trail
Upcoming EventThe Harvest Stompede Wine Tour weekend, Sept. 9-10, features a spectacular race through Leelanau’s vineyards followed by a self-guided wine tour along the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail featuring world class wines and culinary delights that reflect the season’s bounty.
Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear hosts member, volunteer potluck
Upcoming EventPreserve Historic Sleeping Bear (PHSB) will host their member and volunteer appreciation potluck on Saturday, Sept. 9 at 5:30 p.m. at the Charles and Hattie Olsen Farm. PHSB members and volunteers are invited to gather for a meal and social time with others that support the nonprofit. The event will be held in the barn at the Olsen Farm (PHSB offices) in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Feline love story
Poetry/EssayA soul mate is one with whom you share the same ideas, someone with whom your thought world is so alike that words are not necessary. Politically and spiritually you are on the same page, sharing a heart to heart, mind and body connection. Hand to hand, this bond is recognizable in our human relations. What about our relations with the animal kingdom, house pets, mainly? Well, perhaps not politically, but in a spiritual and physical way as in this story we share a heart to heart comfort in being close to our pets, our furry family member.
Innisfree memories
Historical FeatureMany school groups from Traverse City and Leelanau traveled to Innisfree on Pyramid Point for environmental education. The fifth or sixth grade students stayed for four nights at the camp within the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore. The program operated all year round within sight of the Manitou Passage. Students were led on beach hikes and woods hikes by a crack team of naturalists. In the winter snowshoe hikes and ski trips. Canoe trips on the Crystal River was a staple activity as were “get lost” hikes.
Readers’ Theater or perform On Golden Pond
Upcoming EventThe Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) Readers’ Theater will hold auditions for On Golden Pond, Sept. 6, at 7 p.m. at the Glen Lake Community Reformed Church, 4902 W. MacFarlane Road in Burdickville. The Readers’ Theater production offers roles for three men, three women and one teenage boy.
From Mosses to Mentoring: On Halbert’s Path
Investigative Article, Poetry/EssayMany a nature lover was introduced as a child to the outdoors by a parent or teacher. The outdoors can be just the back yard, but the crucial thing is awakening what Rachael Carson called in her wise and lovely essay of that title A Sense of Wonder. Pheasant hunting with his father first kindled it in local naturalist Rick Halbert. As a teacher and volunteer, he’s spent his life connecting people and nature. A botanist, he knows, loves, and fosters the native plants of our region.
Farm to digital marketing: young professionals pursue the Leelanau dream
Local PersonalityArtist and web designer Raquel and farmer Kevin Jackson’s journey came full circle when the millennial couple, both 33, settled in Leelanau County five years ago to pursue their dream of working for themselves and growing roots in this beautiful place. Their story is a powerful testament to young professionals who take the risk of leaving safe jobs in downstate urban areas to chart their own course. Northern Michigan and its aging population needs more of them.
Glen Arbor holds Labor Day summer sidewalk sales
Upcoming EventCome on out to shop, dine and seek some recreation in Glen Arbor. You won’t want to miss the stellar end-of-summer deals during Sidewalk Sale days in Glen Arbor, held annually Labor Day weekend. The sales start Thursday, Aug. 31, and continue through Labor Day Monday, Sept 4.