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Sleeping Bear Dunes offers Memorial Day programs
Upcoming EventPark Ranger-led programs will be featured at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Visit the National Lakeshore on Memorial Day Weekend and tour the Glen Haven Maritime Museum, watch a blacksmith, take some photos, and learn more about lighthouses, owls and other birds.
Leelanau Peninsula Birding Festival holds May 5 fundraiser
Upcoming EventDave Barrons, chairperson for the 2013 Leelanau Peninsula Birding Festival, reports that the festival will hold a fundraiser on Sunday, May 5 at the Bay Theatre in Suttons Bay. The featured film will be The Big Year starring Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson. In birding, a Big Year is seeing or hearing as many different species of birds as possible in a calendar year. The characters of this comedy begin their big year for lots of different reasons. The film will begin at 12:45. Tickets are $8 per person with proceeds to benefit the birding festival. The website for the festival is www.mibirdfest.com.
Park holds apple and pear tree pruning workshop
Food/Organic LivingSleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will host its annual pruning workshop on Friday, May 3, in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District. The workshop will be held at the Dechow farmstead in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District, four miles north of Glen Arbor on M-22 across from Port Oneida Road. Directional signs will be placed to help participants to the location.
Jim Crockett, Beach Bards perform at Art’s, April 28
Upcoming EventDon’t miss the next Empire Area Community Center benefit concert on Sunday, April 28 from 4-6 p.m. at Art’s Tavern in Glen Arbor. Local folk musician Jim Crockett will perform in tandem with The Beach Bards poetry troupe. Click here to learn more about the Empire Area Community Center’s philanthropy toward locals in need.
Sleeping Bear birding trail connects the dots
Upcoming EventFrom staff reports Michigan’s coastline and habitat diversity have long been a draw to bird watchers and nature enthusiasts. Birders and eco-tourists spend millions each year in the enjoyment of their pursuits. Now, the Sleeping Bear Birding Trail, Michigan’s first birding trail, has been formed to connect exceptional birding areas and promote the area that […]
Food extraordinaire Nancy Allen publishes “Discovering Global Cuisines”
Food/Organic Living, Local PersonalityFrom staff reports Join Leelanau County food extraordinaire Nancy Allen, Fred Laughlin, culinary chefs and students, for an around-the-world tasting preview of Allen’s newly released culinary textbook, Discovering Global Cuisines on Friday, May 10 from 6-8 p.m. at Lobdell’s — on the second floor of the Northwestern Michigan College Great Lakes Campus, 715 East Front […]
Sleeping Bear Dunes proposes “Kettles Trail” in Bow Lakes area
Investigative ArticleSleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Superintendent Dusty Shultz announced that the National Park Service proposes to develop a trail system (“Kettles Trail”) on federal lands in the Bow Lakes area of the National Lakeshore. To do so, the National Lakeshore will prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) which will describe and analyze alternatives for the Kettles Trail.
Friends of Sleeping Bear seeks Heritage Trail ambassadors
Upcoming EventKent Kelly reports that the group, Friends of Sleeping Bear — which is independent of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore but helps the local Park maintain amenities such as the new Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail — seeks trail ambassadors for the Trail. Friends of Sleeping Bear will hold a kick-off meeting on Thursday, May 2, at 2 p.m. at the Blacksmith Shop in Glen Haven, one mile west of Glen Arbor.
Locally-made documentary about Palestinian olive farmers shows at Leelanau School
Dispatch from Afar, Upcoming EventThe People and the Olive, a feature-length documentary about the daily joys and struggles of Palestinian olive farmers living under the occupation, and last year’s Run Across Palestine (an initiative of the Traverse City-based nonprofit On the Ground, which supports fair-trade farmers around the world), will show at The Leelanau School north of Glen Arbor on Tuesday, May 7, from 2-4 p.m. The event is free, and the public are invited to attend. The film was created by Traverse City filmmaker Aaron Dennis and journalist Jacob Wheeler (founding editor of the Glen Arbor Sun). Wheeler will attend and take part in a question-and-answer session following the screening.
Poems welcome at 10th annual Empire Asparagus Festival
Food/Organic Living, Upcoming EventThe Glen Lake Community Library will host a poetry contest as part of the 10th annual Empire Asparagus Festival. Aspiring poets are invited to submit their asparagus-inspired verse to the library by Monday, May 13. Entries will be judged in youth (ages 18 and younger) and adult categories, with prizes awarded in both groups. Poems may be emailed to info@glenlakelibrary.net; or mailed to Glen Lake Community Library, P.O. Box 33, Empire, Mich. 49630; or can be dropped off at the library itself. On Saturday, May 18, at 2 p.m., all verses submitted in the contest will be shared in a poetry reading at the Empire Township Hall. Contestants are encouraged to attend this fun gathering to present their own “Ode to Asparagus”!