Alissa Thomson’s company IndieGrow Flowers has bloomed like a field of wildflowers this summer, just three years after she and her husband Jackson left the stifling corporate culture of Washington, D.C., and returned to their native northern Michigan with their daughter Arianna. (She and Jackson met at the former Woody’s Bar in Northport, where she worked summers.
By Marc Boissoneau Sun contributor “You don’t mind if I work while we talk, do you?” Carol Worsley asks. “Because as a cooking teacher, I’m used to working and talking.” On this particular day, Worsley is shelling shrimp for a friend, but she already has plans to bake scones and cookies when she finishes that […]
“M-22 is all about the northern Michigan lifestyle,” an excited Matt Wiesen says while standing behind the wine counter at his and wife Katy’s new apparel store and tasting room in Glen Arbor. “It’s about a glass of wine on the boat, beaches, bonfires and a laid-back attitude.”
Thyme Inn is a lovely American style farmhouse built sometime before 1880. Originally used as a farmers residence it was also a boarding house for lumber jacks when Leelanau County provided lumber to rebuild Chicago after the great fire in 1871. More recently It was the “Brotherton House Antique Shop” until Don and Carol Worsley, your Inkeepers, purchased it in 1997.