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Run to support Sleeping Bear Dunes preservation

The 11th annual Port Oneida Run— an event held by the Park’s nonprofit partner Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear—will take place on Saturday, August 5. The run starts and ends at the big red barn and lawn area at the Olsen Farm/Port Oneida Farms Heritage Center, just four miles north of Glen Arbor. It is the only race that winds through the beautiful scenery of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore’s Port Oneida Rural Historic District. With its historic farms and barns, Port Oneida is hailed as one of the most prized historic landscapes in the country and should be on every runner’s bucket list.

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National Park hosts antique apple and pear tree pruning workshop

The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will again host its popular apple and pear tree pruning workshop on Friday, May 5, in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District.

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National Lakeshore, Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear debut maple sugaring days

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in partnership with Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear will host Maple Sugaring Days at the Dechow and Olsen Farms in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District on Saturday, March 4, and Sunday, March 5 from 10 am-3 pm each day. Join park rangers, volunteers, and special presenters at this new event to learn the history of maple sugaring and the process of making maple syrup from start to finish.

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Port Oneida Fair returns to Sleeping Bear Dunes

The Port Oneida Fair returns to the Port Oneida Rural Historic District of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Friday and Saturday, August 12-13, following a two-year COVID-19 hiatus. Beginning at 10 a.m. each day, and running until 4 p.m., visitors are invited to step back in time to actively experience life as it was in this once active community of robust farms of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The fair promotes the preservation of rural traditional skills, crafts, landscapes, and communities of the Upper Great Lakes Region through education and artistic expression.

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Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear holds Heritage Tours

Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear (PHSB), an official partner of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, is again offering ways for people to immerse themselves in the historic side of the park by offering Sleeping Bear Heritage Tours. The nonprofit operates the Port Oneida Farms Heritage Center staffed with their volunteer docents from Tuesday-Saturday from 11 a.m.–3 p.m. The Center is located four miles north of Glen Arbor on M-22 and the Heritage Trail near Port Oneida Road. Tour the exhibits in the Olsen Farmhouse and barn, enjoy the gardens, or take one of their family-friendly excursion tours.

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Park holds Port Oneida Sampler instead of Fair

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has canceled the Port Oneida Fair this year (it was also canceled in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Instead, the Park invites the public to a Port Oneida Sampler, which will be held on four consecutive Wednesday afternoons in August. On each day, one of the Port Oneida farms will open a barn or house for one-way traffic and tours and may have a demonstrator on site.

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Port Oneida Collection features images, oral history, maps

Those who are interested in the Port Oneida historic district of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore might be interested to know that a new book about the place is now available. Tom Van Zoeren’s A Port Oneida Collection: Images, Oral History, Maps presents the story of each of the farms of Port Oneida, based mainly, as the title suggests, on oral history interviews conducted with residents of the community, and on photographs collected from them. It is illustrated with a detailed map of each farm.

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Sleeping Bear Dunes holds Port Oneida Fair

Every August, the Port Oneida Rural Historic District awakens from its peaceful slumber and comes alive with activity true to the period when it was a community of robust settlers.

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Artist in resident Kauff paints rural farms and barns

Anne Kauff, one of seven artists selected for a 2018 Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC) artist-in-residency, will immerse herself in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District, scouting for subjects that will be the basis of concept-driven paintings of rural farms and barns. Kauff lives and works in Illinois.

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Port Oneida 5K, 10K support Sleeping Bear Dunes

Historic Sleeping Bear will hold its ninth annual Port Oneida Heritage Run/walk on Saturday, Aug. 4 at the Port Oneida Farms Heritage Center/Olsen farm. The fundraiser for the nonprofit partner of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore supports preservation of the National Park’s historic structures.

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