The Leelanau Township Community Foundation is co-hosting an open house with the Northport Arts Association (NAA) and the Northport Performing Arts at 301 N. Mill Street, Northport, on Wednesday, May 11 from 4-6 p.m. The NAA will be showcasing their exciting new ClayWorks studio.
The Clinton F. Woolsey Memorial Airport, located approximately 5 miles north of Northport on County Road 629, will receive a dedication of Michigan Historical Marker on Wednesday, July 14, at noon. The airport is named after Clinton F. Woolsey, who died in an airplane accident in 1927 while on the Pan-American Good Will Flight to South America sponsored by the U.S. government. He was a native of Northport, and his father donated 80 acres of the family farm to Leelanau Township for an airport to honor his son.
Julia Brabenec lives up in Northport, just off M-22, in a stone house that was built by her own hands, her husband’s and their children’s hands. The house sits in an organic orchard beside a vineyard. Petite in stature, eyes large and vibrant inside her heart-shaped face, Julia’s ever-present smile framed in fly-away silver and white, a vibrant shawl of orange and gold gracefully draped over her shoulders. Her voice, whether over the phone or in person, is assured and melodic, liberally embroidered with gracious notes of self-deprecation, gratefulness and humor.
Take a period of unprecedented disturbance, add a cup of communal spirit, a dash of post-retirement creativity, a couple handfuls of craftsmanship and sprinkle on a liberal desire to share and give back: the delicious result would most certainly resemble The Big House Farm Stand, featuring Adelade’s Baked Goods and locally grown produce in Northport.
Newbery award-winning author Lynne Rae Perkins from Suttons Bay will be at Dog Ears Books in Northport on Saturday, Nov. 16, beginning at 2 p.m., to sign her latest children’s book, Wintercake. A few signed copies are available now for people who cannot be present on (or cannot wait until) Nov. 16.
Leelanau UnCaged unfolds on Saturday, Sept. 28, filling the village streets with song, dance, food and art — plus fun directed specifically at kids. Entrance is free.
Tuesday evenings in July in Northport will highlight a special writers’ series at the Leelanau Township Library. All of the events are free and open to the public.
Inspired by the local agriculture, their love for the region, and their passion for the cafe vibe, Amy and Kevin Murphy have opened The New Bohemian Cafe in the village of Northport.
On the early evening of a spitty, sleety, slush-gray Sunday, 23 people gathered at The Tribune in Northport for a feast. Three cooked it. One served it. One washed its dishes. And 18 were there only to drink their BYO wine and eat— not food they chose from a menu but food chosen for them, and prepared in an open kitchen no bigger than a bathroom.
On Sept. 29, Leelanau County will host the “biggest and longest free festival of the north.” About 35 performance groups and 100 artists will dot the shut-down streets of Northport. That’s right, lower Leelanau skeptics: the village at the top of the county has been hosting the ever-growing end of summer bash for six years now.