Take the Scenic Route, and Discover Yourself at the Cottonseed, open May through October in downtown Glen Arbor. The Cottonseed’s mission is to bring fashion to all women of all shapes to Northern Michigan. The Cottonseed loves you just the way you are.
In 1983 Becky Thatcher and Ananda Bricker invited all the artists they knew (including Suzanne Wilson) to a potluck at Ananda’s beach on Glen Lake. This group, informally organized, then met every Thursday morning at the Soda Shop (now the Western Avenue Grill) to discuss plans on how to market their art.
Becky Thatcher’s designs combine the natural textures of stone, the colorful depths of faceted gems and the luster of pearls with silver, high karat gold and platinum. Appreciating each stone for its inherent beauty, Becky personally selects exceptional gemstones, such as tourmaline, boulder opal, fancy sapphire, tanzanite, rutilated quartz and beryl from Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and Bangkok.
Anderson’s offers a unique “Up North” shopping experience with helpful, friendly staff. The grocery store offer a wide assortment of products, including local items from; Stone House Bread, Grand Traverse Pie Co., Leelanau Coffee Roasting, Shetler’s Dairy, Moomer’s, The Red Heads, Brownwood Farms, Leelanau Cheese Company, Carlson’s and many more.
Wildflowers is a delightful cornerstone of shops in Glen Arbor, offering over an acre of beautiful gardens for customers to stroll through and enjoy in the spring, summer and fall. The gardens are full of unique bird baths, fountains, wind chimes, scupture, plants, potted arrangements and garden accessories. Inside customers are enthralled with the unique collection of gifts, interior design, jackets, furniture, jewelry, Baci Beads, paintings, custom silk arrangements, and an assundry of other engaging items that are sure to delight you and your family.
The Synchronicity Art Gallery shows the original work of 95 outstanding Michigan artists in a wide variety of media. The gallery is located in Glen Arbor in the heart of Lake Michigan’s Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, 25 miles northwest of Traverse City. Synchronicity’s website features some of its artists with examples of their work that are available for purchase.
Entering the Sobran gallery on the west side of Glen Arbor one is offered a feast for the eye. There one comes face to face with impressionistic paintings of local scenery marked by their brilliant colors. Tropical Key West and images from France and Italy also adorn the walls or are found stacked on a table.
The Port Oneida Rural Historic District — the picturesque tapestry of late 19th century farms, fields and rolling hills, just east of Glen Arbor on M-22 — will soon have a Cultural Landscape Management Plan, which Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (the local branch of the National Park Service, or NPS) will develop together with an Environmental Assessment.
There is no better way to get outside and burn off some of those extra holiday calories than by joining a Park Ranger at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on a special holiday snowshoe hike on Sunday, Dec. 26 and/or Thursday, Dec. 30.
Leelanau County’s “elephant in the room”, the long-shuttered Sugar Loaf ski resort, is back in the news following a quiet autumn season after the eccentric Las Vegas boxer-turned-businessman Liko Smith returned to the West Coast empty-handed. Resort owner Kate Wickstrom has been courted in recent months by at least two suitors, including David Skjaerlund, from Owosso, near Grand Rapids.