Writer Elizabeth McBride from Grand Ledge, Mich., will be the artist-in-residence at the Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) from May 19 to June 1, with a presentation on May 30. She plans to continue to revise and work on a collection of poems to be published and to develop a portfolio of nature poems of place and discovery.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Superintendent Dusty Shultz announced that the National Park Service proposes to develop a trail system (“Kettles Trail”) on federal lands in the Bow Lakes area of the National Lakeshore. To do so, the National Lakeshore will prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) which will describe and analyze alternatives for the Kettles Trail.
The People and the Olive, a feature-length documentary about the daily joys and struggles of Palestinian olive farmers living under the occupation, and last year’s Run Across Palestine (an initiative of the Traverse City-based nonprofit On the Ground, which supports fair-trade farmers around the world), will show at The Leelanau School north of Glen Arbor on Tuesday, May 7, from 2-4 p.m. The event is free, and the public are invited to attend. The film was created by Traverse City filmmaker Aaron Dennis and journalist Jacob Wheeler (founding editor of the Glen Arbor Sun). Wheeler will attend and take part in a question-and-answer session following the screening.
The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) will host nine artists in 2013 — five visual artists, two writers and two photographers — from May to October, in a series of two-week residencies. The GAAA Artist-in-Residence program provides artists with uninterrupted time to focus on their practice. Janice Dumas, a watercolor artist from Milford, Michigan, is the first resident of the 2013 program.
Dick Devinney, a longtime resident of Glen Arbor and Grand Rapids, founding director of the popular Summer Singers and former owner of Synchronicity Gallery, died recently while traveling in Paris. He is survived by his wife, Marion. Our thoughts are with the Devinney family, and we’re grateful for all Dick and Marion have done for the Glen Arbor community. Please read our feature story about Dick, “Singing in the Summertime,” which we published in June 2006.
Glen Arbor residents might recognize John Farah. The dentist from Ann Arbor owns a condominium at the Homestead Resort and likes to jog a 15-mile route around Big Glen Lake during his summer visits up north. On Monday in Boston, Farah was maintaining a solid pace, despite nagging small injuries that had interrupted his training cycle of late. He was hoping to finish the marathon at 4 hours and 15 minutes, and then greet his wife Jackie and her daughter Erin at the finish line. The plan was to take a train to Erin’s apartment so Farah could shower and change, and then head to Logan Airport for a flight back to Detroit.
In the hospital now, phone recharged, and finally have a laptop. I might as well post a longer update while everything is still fresh in my head. Though I doubt I’ll ever forget much of it. The funny thing is, the race was going really well up until everything happened. My mom and I waited to cheer my dad on at the 18-mile marker. He passed through right on schedule, ahead of most of the people with similar qualifying numbers. We handed him a protein shake, took some clothes he didn’t need, and then hurried over to the train to try and catch him at the finish line. The train was of course packed with people trying to do the same thing, and we had to let at least 3 go by until we could find one with enough space.
There is trash on our beaches, the climate is changing, and Glen Lake High School’s Students for World Awareness (SWA) want our community to do something about it. With Earth Day approaching, the students of the club have planned an event to increase environmental consciousness within their Leelanau County community.
The Glen Arbor Art Association Reader’s Theater presents two plays April 12-14. “The Circus Train,” from the Ellery Queen series, is an interactive detective tale featuring a giant, a midget, a fortuneteller and murder. Rounding out the evening is a sci-fi thriller from The Mysterious Traveler series, “The Ugliest Woman Alive,” where things are never as they seem.
Suttons Bay sewist, Donna Popke makes curtains, slipcovers and a range of odd, kinetic ottomans and footstools. Now she wants to add “reality show contestant” to her resume. Popke talks about her multidimensional sewing life at the April 18 “Talk About Art” interview, 7:30 p.m., at the Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA), 6031 S. Lake Street.