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Come celebrate Michigan’s Log Cabin Day with National Park partner Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear on Sunday, June 30, from 11 am to 4 pm. The event this year will take place exclusively at the Boekeloo Cabin located in Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore and Benzie County. Descendant Stuart Boekeloo will provide the interpretive history of the unique cabin situated on a cranberry bog at the end of a quiet two-track. The late 1800s log cabin location also has a walking path to Lake Michigan. Bill Herd, Preserve board member and retired interpretive ranger for Sleeping Bear Dunes, will also be on-site to highlight Preserve’s extensive preservation work on the cabin.

Off a two-track road south of Empire lies the historic Boekeloo Cabin/Boekelodge, one of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s most popular sites, built as a homestead cabin in the late 1800s. Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear (PHSB) has been working to restore this beautiful building and site since 2005. Last summer PHSB’s contractor did a beautiful job of restoring the logs of the cabin. This summer Preserve will be working from July 18-20 on the windows, chimney, gables and interior, as well as repairing the gate, boardwalk and privy. Volunteers are needed for the nonprofit work group’s project for each of those days, starting at 9 a.m. Volunteers with good carpentry and window glazing skills are preferred, but general “unskilled” volunteers are needed as well.