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InstaMeet at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Upcoming EventOn Saturday, June 4, at 2 p.m., Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will host a free InstaMeet event to celebrate National Trails Day. An InstaMeet is an interactive, in-park event, allowing Instagram users (IGers) to meet up, take photos, and get to know each other. Once the IGers meet, they will accompany a park ranger on a nature hike.
Step Back in Time to 1916 at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Upcoming EventCelebrate the National Park Service’s 100th birthday by joining in the annual Glen Haven Days historic festival. The event will be held Saturday, May 28, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Glen Haven historic village and United States Life-Saving Service (USLSS) Station at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The festivities will include hands-on activities and costumed reenactments.
Glen Arbor Art Association Readers’ Theater to perform Madame La Gimp and In a New York Minute
Upcoming EventMadame La Gimp is a hilarious tale of antics and romance. A down on her luck New York fruit seller named Apple Annie (Madame La Gimp) has the shock of her life when she learns her long separated daughter is coming with her fiancé and his parents from Spain to meet her. It seems that Apple Annie has been characterizing herself in her letters as a wealthy aristocrat. Because one of her steady customers, gangster Dave the Dude, believes she is his good luck charm, he decides to extend the charade by helping Annie pose as a New York socialite.
Art grows here
Business Feature, Investigative ArticleSuspend reality for a moment, and think of the Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) as a plant. Then, think of the GAAA’s building as a container in which art, culture and creativity in the Glen Arbor region have been nurtured since 2002, the year that building behind the Lake Street Studios was completed.
New in town: Changed forest, Northwoods Home & Gift, realtors rotate
NewsWhat’s new in town in 2016 — particularly if you haven’t visited Glen Arbor since last July — are the forests around the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. They are completely different. That’s because of the Aug. 2, 2015, megastorm, which packed “straight line” winds of 100 miles per hour, leveled thousands of hardwood trees across Alligator Hill, along the east side of Big Glen Lake, across Leelanau County and on Old Mission Peninsula north of Traverse City. The storm was the most dramatic thing to hit Glen Arbor in modern times, and it changed the experience of visiting our beloved National Lakeshore for generations to come.
Leelanau Conservancy holds wildflower plant sale
Upcoming EventThis Memorial Day weekend, Friday and Saturday, May 27-28, on the Village Green in Leland, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day, the Leelanau Conservancy will host its annual wildflower plant sale. Working with environmentally conscious area builders as well as the County Road Commission, plants have been rescued from areas of future roads, gravel pits, or other development. Plants were dug and potted this spring by more than 30 Leelanau volunteers.
Celebrating Empire’s green stalk, with an ode, poetry and recipes
Local PersonalityFrom staff reports The Empire Asparagus Festival drew 2,500 enthusiastic “spargel” revelers last weekend. The annual weekend-long event has drawn acclaim as “one of the world’s weirdest festivals”. On Friday night, festival organizer and town booster Paul Skinner was honored for his service to Empire. Read Norm Wheeler’s “ode to Paul Skinner” (which was read […]
Researcher to discuss Avian Botulism at Sleeping Bear Dunes
Investigative Article, Upcoming EventOver the past decade, there has been an increased incidence of bird deaths in Lake Michigan due to Type E avian botulism. Over 6,500 dead birds have been documented within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore alone. Scientists from the National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have been conducting a collaborative research project to determine the causes of these botulism outbreaks — work that includes underwater research in Good Harbor Bay.
Find your inner ‘stalk’ at 2016 Empire Asparagus Festival
News, Upcoming EventFrom staff reports The world-famous Empire Asparagus Festival returns to Empire, May 20-22 (it’s considered among the world’s weirdest festivals). Empire also recently made a Slovakian magazine’s list of the most interesting cities in the USA. Click this link and visit page 39 to read Lucia Matúšková’s story. Events kick off Friday night, May 20, […]
Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail ambassadors sought
Upcoming EventSleeping Bear Heritage Trail ambassadors help visitors by answering questions, giving directions, and sometimes handing out coupons for Cherry Republic ice cream when they find trail users “Doing Something Right”. Ambassadors are also Friends of Sleeping Bear’s eyes and ears on the trail reporting maintenance or safety issues that need to be resolved.