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Nightmare on Ice, Miracle on Ice

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Remembering a near-death experience on frozen Lake Michigan. It was Super Bowl Sunday of 1984, and the carefree 15-year-old girls wanted to find ice caves. Karen Gros and Bobbi Boos, students at the Leelanau School north of Glen Arbor, walked onto frozen Sleeping Bear Bay in search of tunnels and mammoth formations they expected to find on Lake Michigan. The girls suddenly found themselves on a chunk of ice that broke off from the pack and began floating away from the shore. Suddenly, the ice on which they stood began to disintegrate into smaller chunks.

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Ken Scott, Hank Feeley, Barb Siepker sign at Cottage Book Shop

On Sunday, July 10, from 1-3 p.m., the Cottage Book Shop on Lake St. in Glen Arbor will host signings by the authors of three notable books: Leelanau Trek by Ken Scott and Kaye Kraphohl; Painting the Joy of Sleeping Bear Country by Hank Feeley, and Historic Cottages of Glen Lake with Barbara Siepker and Dietrich Floeter.

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Open house at Leelanau Studios features Wings of Wonder

From staff reports The public is invited to a campus-wide open house on Friday, April 15, from 5-8 p.m. at the Leelanau Studios located at 10783 Cherry Bend Road and M22 (the old Norris Elementary School). As part of the event, Studio #2, Ken Scott Photography, in collaboration with Wings of Wonder, offer a unique […]

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New reads in Leelanau

2015 has been a good year for local literature. New books about Leelanau, books by Leelanau County authors and at least one old favorite await eager readers in area bookshops. Here’s a sampling:

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Leelanau Conservancy picnic and silent auction, Aug. 6

The Leelanau Conservancy will hold its annual friends picnic and auction on Thursday, Aug. 6, at the Chippewa Run Natural Area in Empire. The picnic begins at 5 p.m. and features a silent auction, as well as pre-picnic field trips, a kids tent and a special program. A local foods-focused meal will be served, along with local wines. Tickets are $35 for adults until Aug. 3, when the price goes up to $40. Tickets for kids tent children under 12 are just $5.

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Leelanau Conservancy publishes book on protected lands

Working with iconic Leelanau photographer Ken Scott, the Leelanau Conservancy has published a book of photos and essays about the lands that the Leelanau Conservancy has protected over the last 27 years. The 56-page book, titled Why We Preserve features 52 stunning color photographs and seven essays by a cache of writers including renowned chef Mario Batali, CBS Sunday Morning News correspondent Martha Teichner and Traverse Magazine publisher Deborah Wyatt Fellows.

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Cottage Book Shop celebrates 30 years

Visit the Cottage Book Shop on Saturday, May 23, from 1-3 p.m. to help this Glen Arbor mainstay celebrate 30 years in the community. Owner Sue Boucher and her team have a fun afternoon planned with six local authors signing their books.

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Dennos Museum to feature Ken Scott photography

The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will present an exhibition by photographer Ken Scott, Sept. 21-Oct. 26. The exhibition is being presented in collaboration with the Leelanau Conservancy.

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Behold Leelanau’s ice caves

This Memorial Day weekend, the Leelanau Press will publish a new book by photographer Ken Scott of the rare ice formations he captured this past winter off the shores of Lake Michigan in Leelanau County. Through his lens, the viewer will experience ice caves in early winter, after a March thaw and refreeze, ice balls, ridges, volcanoes and pancake ice in a color spectrum from white to green to blue. Words cannot describe the beauty of these unusual natural ice structures that only a few brave souls have experienced.

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Glen Arbor Art Association’s Talk About Art series features Jesse Hickman

In the Talk About Art series Sarah Bearup-Neal conducts live interviews with local and regional artists about their art making and thinking. These insightful interviews take place monthly at 7:30 p.m., at the Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) at no charge.

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