On Tuesday, June 29, at 7 pm, Cedar summer resident and author Tim Mulherin will visit Leland Township Library to discuss his new book Sand, Stars, Wind & Water: Field Notes from Up North. This book is a vivid, entertaining chronicle of the author’s outdoor adventures exploring northwest lower Michigan.
On Friday, June 18, at 10:30 a.m., Leland Township Library will kick off its summer children’s program with Leelanau locals Patrick Niemisto and Norm Wheeler of Luunappi as part of its 2021 Children’s Summer Reading Program. The word “luunappi” is Finnish for a finger snap to the ear. To Niemisto and Wheeler, it also means music and rhyme and tall tales. Join Luunappi for a morning filled with songs, stories, and poems for families on the turtleback in front of the library.
On Friday, Jan. 17, at 1:30 pm, Mark Breederland, Extension Educator for Michigan Sea Grant’s Northwest District, will give a talk about current and projected water levels in the Great Lakes at Leland Township Library. Breederland gave a similar talk in Peninsula Township in November of 2019, which drew an audience of over 100 people.
On Thursday, October 24 at 2 p.m., JoAnne Cook will present a program titled “The Way of Life of the Anishinaabek: History, Culture and Traditions” in the Munnecke Room at Leland Township Library.
On Wednesday, September 25 at 2 pm, the Leelanau Historical Society & Museum and Leland Township Library will host award-winning author and oral historian Martha Bloomfield for a talk titled “Michigan Immigrants: Romanies, Hmong, and Many More” in the Munnecke Room at the Library.
Author Tom Carr tells stories of murder, robbery and mayhem through the ages in the Great Lakes state. Delivered in a lively manner with irreverence and historical context, the stories include crimes of passion, greed, insanity and just plain awfulness. On Wednesday, August 14, at 6 pm, Carr will be in the Munnecke Room at Leland Township Library
On Saturday, August 10 at 10:30 am, Teresa Scollon, poet, essayist, editor, and educator, will lead a poetry workshop in the Munnecke Room at Leland Township Library. “A poem doesn’t setout to tell the entire narrative the way a story does,” said Scollon. “And yet, a poem, by capturing a particular moment, can illuminate a world and draw in the reader in profound ways.” The workshop is free and open to the public. “No matter your level of experience in reading or writing poetry. All are welcome,” Scollon said.
On Monday, July 29 at 6 pm, Leelanau County local Anne-Marie Oomen and several other contributors to the Michigan Notable Book, Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction, will read their essays aloud and sign copies of the anthology at Leland Township Library. The book includes essays from 23 of our state’s most well-known writers, including Oomen, who also won a Michigan Notable Book award for her book The Lake Michigan Mermaid: A Tale in Poems this year.
On Friday, July 12 at 10:30 am, local children’s book author and illustrator Brianne Farley will visit Leland Township Library to read her newest book, Charlotte the Scientist Finds a Cure, written by Camille Andros. Like the character Charlotte in the book, attendees will use their skills of scientific observation to examine, draw and color carrots.
On Saturday, June 15, at 10:30 am, Leland Township Library will host poet, professor, and Leelanau-enthusiast Mary Ann Samyn for a poetry workshop titled “Where to Now?: A Sense of Direction for Poets”.