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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Teaching the healing of Reiki

By Codi Yeager Sun contributor It was still in the room—warm and dark and safe. There was soft music playing in the background and the faint, mixed aroma of essential oils bottled in their glass vials. Plants cozied up to the walls. Trees stood silent outside the windows. On the massage table, I lay looking […]

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School Daze

By Mary Sharry Sun contributor School had just let out for the summer and here I was already thinking about fall, the new school year. Kindergarten was wonderful and then first grade with blackboards (I date myself) and chalk, oak tables and chairs, the cloakroom where in the winter snow-crusted mittens dripped onto the floor […]

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Discovering secrets in the Empire Bluffs

By Adam Dean Sun contributor The location in which you choose to live your life defines a great deal about why you live it. Some people dedicate their lives to their corporate jobs and often live in bustling cities full of the “American dream” and asphalt jungles. Some people dedicate their lives to helping others […]

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