Kari Beitler, a Detroit area native who lives in Cleveland and studies plant science at Cuyahoga Community College, traveled north on a road trip with her parents on Thursday, May 13, to witness and photograph the Aurora Borealis. Photography is a passion for Kari, who describes herself on her Instagram account “kari_d_away” as a “rust belt explorer, a mitten native, and a Mother Nature protector and advocate.”
Local businesses are showing signs of life, despite the global coronavirus pandemic and statewide shutdown. Art’s Tavern and Blu in Glen Arbor are both open for curbside service, as are Leland’s Riverside Inn and Empire’s Friendly Tavern.
Check out the Little Free Library that Blu owner and chef Randy Chamberlain installed in front of his restaurant at the end of Lake Street in Glen Arbor early this summer, as a way to share his abundance of worldly cookbooks and travel books with other readers. Be careful. Open a page, and you might be tempted into Blu for a delicious meal.
“I’ve always made a living with a knife,” says Terry Conger of TC Butchering. He has sharpened his skills over a long, self-directed apprenticeship that included prep cooking and managing a well-known Traverse City restaurant; working at area retail groceries; and processing thousands of game and farm animals.
Join popular art lecturer Linda Young and favorite Chef Randy Chamberlain for a special event exploring the joie de vivre of French Impressionism on Wednesday, May 18th. A three-course par excellence luncheon at Blu, designed by Chef Randy and inspired by Monet’s recipes at Giverny, will be complimented by a talk at the Glen Arbor Art Association.
During one extraordinary week in August 2015, the sounds that dominated our town were the whirr of winds and the ugly crack of trees, followed by the buzz of chainsaws, the hum of generators, and the cheering and car honking as Consumers Power trucks and linemen rolled into town like a liberating army.