10th Anniversary Dune Climb Concert July 13

Once again the Manitou Music Festival and the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore have teamed up to present the Dune Climb Concert at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 13. This year will feature two cellos serenading the Dunes: Crispin Campbell and Eugene Friesen. The landmark event is free. Photo by Andy McFarlane

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Letters in support of mini-golf course

“I read the letter from Rhonda Reems in the June 12 issue of the Glen Arbor Sun regarding Mike and Becky Sutherland’s putt-putt golf course. I’d like Ms. Reems to know that it is really a wonderful place. I’ve never played any kind of golf and didn’t think I would ever want to. But this […]

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Local artists join Safe Passage efforts on behalf of Guatemalan children

Press release Several area artists are lending their talents to help provide hope and opportunity to impoverished children of families who work and live at the Guatemala City garbage dump. Last April, at the invitation of Great Lakes Friends of Safe Passage, local artists visited a virtual dump constructed at Higher Grounds Trading Company in […]

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Changing the world one gift at a time

By Jody Arendale Sun contributor Pssst…how’d you like to pick up a perfectly good, slightly used 40-gallon water heater, on the cheap? Or maybe a gas furnace for your drafty old pole barn? Ever dream of having a vintage cast iron claw foot bathtub but couldn’t afford to buy one? What about old windows for […]

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Final Pickin’ Party brings curtain over annual event

By Bill Dungjen Sun contributor Twenty years ago, Patrick and Mary Kay Niemisto invited around 15 of their musician friends to their house on Baatz Road in southern Leelanau County to share music and a potluck supper and friendship over the Memorial Day weekend. Since then, they have seen their children grow up, they have […]

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Skies and Dunes Collide

On a day like this, it seems you can almost reach up and touch the clouds from the top of the dunes near Glen Haven. See more of Jeff Rabidoux’s photos at www.lifeonthe45th.com or look for them in future issues of the Glen Arbor Sun. Scroll down for the following stories in our June 12 […]

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Siepker’s book remembers historic cottages

By Joanne Bender Sun Contributor Barbara Siepker, owner of Glen Arbor’s rustic and relaxing Cottage Book Shop on Lake Street, has transformed herself from a psychiatric social worker to a best-selling author. Her book, Historic Cottages of Glen Lake, (Leelanau Press, 2008), is earning accolades and acclaim for the previously unwritten local resort era history […]

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Girls Night Out!

Don’t miss the second-annual Girls Night Out event at the Glen Arbor Township Hall on Thursday, June 19, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Last year, approximately 200 women shopped for a great mix of food, chocolate and wine, clothes, jewelry, accessories and books, and services including insurance, dental, spa and photography. Other upcoming local events […]

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World Citizen Alights in Empire: An Interview with Marian Gyr

By F. Josephine Arrowood Sun contributor Fans of the 1971 cult classic Harold and Maude may be thrilled to discover that a vigorous, free-thinking, octogenarian social activist has recently made her home in Empire. Yet Marian Gyr is much more interesting and engaged than a hippie-era movie character. The lively educator, environmentalist and matriarch says, […]

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Spontaneous wedding elopes at final Pickin’ Party

By Jacob Wheeler Sun editor Weddings are many things: celebrations of love, lavish parties and family reunions. Typically they are also meticulously planned and rehearsed, down to where the flowers and candles are placed, months before the vows are exchanging. Not so for Megan Lewis, 38, and James Garfield Bartley, 31, both transplants from Detroit, […]

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