Share this:
- Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
- Share on X (Opens in new window) X
- Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
- Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
- Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
- Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
- Print (Opens in new window) Print
- Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
Curtis Cluckey, mushroom finder
Local PersonalityHis work is washing windows, but his passion is mushrooms. His dream is to grow them commercially. Cluckey meets me at Art’s Bar on Lake Street in Glen Arbor on a muggy May morning. He’s just come from washing the windows at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church across the street. By reputation and in person, he’s the Glen Arbor version of legendary Johnny Appleseed, a quintessential backwoodsman with good skills, good stories, and palpable integrity, a great window washer and a gifted mushroom finder.
Lanphier Observatory celebrates 40 summers of public stargazing
Historical Feature, Local PersonalitySince the Lanphier Observatory was built 40 years ago during the bicentennial year of 1976, visitors to the Glen Lake area and the Leelanau School have oohed and aahed at the wonders of the universe they can see through a 14-inch Celestron Schmidt-Cassegranian telescope.
Ethan Przekaza and Meg Doby’s boomerang home
Local PersonalityBenzie County natives Ethan Przekaza and Meg Doby — the latest in our occasional series on northern Michigan boomerangs — are exceptions to Michigan’s brain drain. Earlier this year they moved back from Colorado, bought a house in nearby Beulah and landed work in March at Matt and Katy Wiesen’s Crystal River Outfitters in Glen Arbor.
Chins Above the Counter
Business Feature, Historical Feature, Local PersonalityBay Wear celebrates three generations and 25 years By Sue Mabee Jameson Sun contributor The rule was that your chin had to reach above the counter before you could start working. When I was a child, my dad and his brother, Richard, had 13 “Jumpin Jeans” stores north of Detroit. In 1975, when I was […]
Poems in the Park
Local Personality, Poetry/EssayIt looks like your standard-issue National Park sign, a chocolate brown square with white type affixed to a wooden post. Upon closer inspection one discovers that this isn’t your Uncle Sam’s signage. This summer, nature poems masquerading as official park signs can be found in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the four other Great Lakes national parks at trails, vistas and beaches as part of the National Park Service centennial celebration.
Ken Scott, Hank Feeley, Barb Siepker sign at Cottage Book Shop
Upcoming EventOn Sunday, July 10, from 1-3 p.m., the Cottage Book Shop on Lake St. in Glen Arbor will host signings by the authors of three notable books: Leelanau Trek by Ken Scott and Kaye Kraphohl; Painting the Joy of Sleeping Bear Country by Hank Feeley, and Historic Cottages of Glen Lake with Barbara Siepker and Dietrich Floeter.
Chamber music in Cedar
Upcoming EventEven if Carl Donakowski wasn’t scheduled to perform as a cellist for the Leelanau Summer Music Festival, his thinking fingers would hint that he’s a musician. His faintly summer-tan hands curve around his coffee cup, tap the table in syncopation, and pause above the tabletop, like a conductor about to lead his orchestra into a piece. Donakowski plays chamber music, though. Chamber music has no conductors. The genre is an elegant deviant in the musical world, and it will soon be heard in Leelanau.
Creative placemaking
Historical Feature, Investigative ArticleWhen the conversation turns to how the arts are represented in a community, one might point to a museum within the city’s limits; or to a restored movie theater where art house films are screened alongside blockbusters. Those are outward, bricks-and-mortar symbols of a community’s cultural life. But what, then, are the less visible characteristics of a community in which the arts are an integral part?
Especially for kids at the national park
NewsThere you are, all ready to take the kids to the beach, when it begins to rain. What to do? The Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore offers a variety of indoor and outdoor spots to visit on any summer day, whether or not it’s a good beach day.
Not a beach day? Your complete guide on what to do with the kids
NewsBy Linda Alice Dewey Sun contributor We all love to take our children and grandchildren to lakes and rivers on “beach days.” But when the weather turns cold or rainy, kids can get tired of stay-at-home activities. We wondered where the “locals” here take kids in the summertime. These are some of the answers we […]