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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
Leelanau’s ice caves are back. They’re not as gigantic or awe-inspiring as the 2014 ice caves that formed near Gill’s Pier between Leland and Northport, but they have nonetheless garnered the attention of nationwide media. Glen Arbor resident Eric LaPaugh took this video on Feb. 16 of ice caves that had formed in Sleeping Bear Bay, just outside Glen Arbor. The lucky find has attracted free publicity for his company Leelanau Adventures, which offers guided tours of lesser known spots in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
The University of Virginia women’s Division One soccer team will play a preseason match against Michigan State University (MSU) women’s soccer team on Friday, Aug. 15, at 1 p.m. at Myles Kimmerly Park, one mile west of Maple City. The event is free and open to the public. Bring a lawn chair or blanket, and prepare to enjoy a fast-paced game of the world’s sport.
Grupo Ayé is the perfect choice to headline “Rock the River”, The Leelanau School’s annual benefit concert on Saturday, June 21, at 7 p.m., at the boarding school one mile north of Glen Arbor. Much more than a Cuban salsa band, the group has crafted its own cultural identity by incorporating various genres including Latin jazz, merengue and mambo, among others. The band also takes pride in their showmanship; making shows a complete experience for their audiences.