Details surrounding the history, legend and exciting 2010 discovery of one of the Great Lakes’ most sought-after shipwrecks will be disclosed during the Empire Area Heritage Group’s Dec. 2, free public program at the Empire Township Hall.
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On sweltering nights when you cannot fall to sleep no sound is larger than the buzz of a mosquito or a trapped moth striking the screen of your bedroom window. In the north woods, in the village of Empire, through open windows you hear the call of a coyote or an owl, an occasional rustle in the leaves and brush as an opossum or porcupine scutters through, the perfect stomping of deer hooves. There is no cooling breeze; the night feels warm and sticky. Well past midnight you rise to look out the window and watch a bat dart back and forth where moths cluster beneath a village street light.
I became a Boizard geek after reading The Boizard Letters: Letters From a Pioneer Homestead (1993) and I’ve explored several themes in those letters in this summer series of articles. In this final article in that series, I mention things I’ve found and areas still in need of further looking. One of the things I have found in my search for Mrs. Boizard is her tombstone in Maple Grove Cemetery.
A special holiday tradition continues as the Glen Lake Community Library kicks off its annual call for children’s books. The Friends of the Library, in cooperation with Glen Lake School’s “Parenting Communities” program, are once again collecting donations of new children’s books for children whose families are in need of assistance this holiday season.
Empire Chamber of Commerce chair Paul Skinner reported that approximately 30 Empire Village and Township residents planted almost 12,000 daffodil bulbs on Front Street last weekend.
The Dunegrass Festival will change its name to “Sleepy Bear Music Festival”, organizer Ryan Lake told the Glen Arbor Sun. The popular northern Michigan summer music festival will roll out the carpet again August 10-12, 2012, on the Harm family’s property near Lake Ann.
Join Empire Chiropractic for the new business’ grand opening on Nov. 12 from 12-5 p.m.
Glen Arbor merchants will open their doors to kids of all ages for Halloween trick-or-treating. This annual event packs the sidewalks of Glen Arbor with costumed kids (and adults), and brings families into town from across Northern Michigan. Many store owners go ALL OUT with decorations and costumes of their own, and some will even have treats for the adults.
Seven strong swimmers. Five kayakers, one in a borrowed orange plastic open water kayak paddled by my husband, David Early. Me, resident geek and novice on my stand-up paddle board (not a paddleboat, a paddle board), my ATX dubbed “Yellow Belle.” Our brave leaders are Kati Rooney and spouse, Jim Hennessey. We are the proverbial motley crew — except we have a purpose. This is the sixth annual Esch to Empire swim.
The Empire Planning Commission will hold a public input meeting on Thursday from 7-8 p.m. at the Empire Township Hall to discuss biking in the village, as part of the coming Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail.