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Iranian Arya Khoshnegah recalls his escape to the Leelanau School

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The Leelanau School featured a special graduation speaker during its commencement ceremony on June 3. Alum Arya Khoshnegah, together with his sister Laila, left Iran as teenagers and enrolled at the private boarding school north of Glen Arbor, just before the 1979 revolution that changed the fortunes of their family and their country. Leelanau, which specializes in experiential learning and small class sizes in a beautiful setting, graduated 19 seniors who hail from 11 states. Distinguished alumni have included survivors of wars and natural disasters, children of statesmen and accomplished actors.

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Art Association’s “Talk About Art” features Fleda Brown

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The Glen Arbor Art Association’s (GAAA) “Talk About Art” series continues with host Norm Wheeler in conversation with Traverse City poet Fleda Brown on Sunday, May 7, at 2 p.m. at The Leelanau School in Glen Arbor. There is no charge.

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Lunch with the post-impressionists at Glen Arbor Art Association

The Glen Arbor Art Association (GAAA) celebrates Spring’s return with an art history talk exploring the Post-Impressionists on Thursday, May 11, at the Leelanau School, 1 Old Homestead Road, Glen Arbor. An optional Provençal-themed luncheon at blu restaurant is available.

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Glen Arbor Art Association “Mostly Music” series features Trio Jazz

Trio Jazz Volume 1, a closer look at jazz and the popular songs that make up our national songbook, is the next installment of the Glen Arbor Art Association’s “Mostly Music” series, Sunday, Feb. 19, 7 p.m. at the Leelanau School Dining Hall in Glen Arbor. Tickets are $12, and available at the door or through the GAAA website: glenarborart.org.

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The Arts are alive at Leelanau and Glen Lake Schools

Totem poles are, historically, monumental sculptures carved from tall trees. The Leelanau School project got its totem tree from Art’s Tavern owner Tim Barr. He donated a 26-foot-tall cedar, which had graced the Barr home before the storm had turned it into a supine lawn ornament. McCue’s students resurrected the cedar through the transformative power of art. And like other historic totem poles, this one was endowed by it creators with a story to tell about their tribe.

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Loss and longing: the art of Michael Huey

Michael Huey spent the first decade of his life in an enchanted kingdom: The Leelanau School and Camp Leelanau for Boys. Huey, 52, grew up here with his grandparents and great aunt, who founded the school and camp, his parents, and two siblings. In his 2013 book Straight As the Pine, Sturdy As the Oak, a history of the school and camp, Michael Huey writes: “We lived on-site year ‘round … When thick, heavy snowflakes fell around The Homestead on quiet December afternoons … it simply intensified the feeling I always had anyway of being tucked in under the shelter of Prospect Hill. There, more or less alone, with the hill behind us, and the Crystal River, its dune, and Sleeping Bear Bay before us, our lives seemed as complete and as safe as they possibly could be.”

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Lanphier Observatory celebrates 40 summers of public stargazing

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Since the Lanphier Observatory was built 40 years ago during the bicentennial year of 1976, visitors to the Glen Lake area and the Leelanau School have oohed and aahed at the wonders of the universe they can see through a 14-inch Celestron Schmidt-Cassegranian telescope.

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Collaboration between Glen Arbor Township, Leelanau School revives tennis courts

For years, the tennis courts at the Leelanau School, the private boarding school north of Glen Arbor, sat unused, succumbing to cracks and weeds. High schools stars such as Brian Munroe, Jason Petty and internationally ranked Danish exchange student Dan Valbak once swung their rackets here, and the school routinely competed in the high school state championship. But last decade the Leelanau School all but eliminated its sports program.

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Glen Lake Association anoints watershed guardians

Photo by Chris Pina By Linda Alice Dewey Sun contributor “How beautiful is Glen Lake and Sleeping Bear Bay and the Sleeping Bear Dunes?” asks Rob Karner, water biologist for the Glen Lake Association (GLA). “Who’s going to protect it?” It’s a concern to GLA president Dennis Becker as well. Like many others in recent […]

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Tips for finding morel mushrooms

Morels grow best in spring, mid-April to late May, when the daytime temperatures reach around 60-65 degrees while the evening temps stay above 50 degrees. This helps to warm the soil to over 50 degrees, which is important for morel mushrooms and many other fungi to grow.

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