Leelanau.com invites you to help in the battle against hunger in our region with the Father Fred Food Drive. Father Fred operates a pantry in Traverse City and also helps out with food pantries in Leelanau & Benzie counties. The drive starts tomorrow (Saturday, Sep 24) and runs through October 1st. This year the pantry […]
This week’s photo is Sundrenched by jakphoto. See it bigger and in his slideshow and see more photos from this week in Leelanau in the Leelanau(dot)com group slideshow on Flickr.
Thanks to the Sleeping Bear Dunes Visitor’s Bureau for this news! This Saturday (Sep 24) is National Public Lands Day. NPLD is the nation’s largest, single-day volunteer event for public lands in the United States, and last year. The impact is huge, especially in this era of declining budgets and last year’s 170,000 volunteers worked […]
UPDATE: You can watch the cablecast of the event at UpNorth TV! Next Tuesday (Sep 27) from 6-8 PM the Grand Vision will present a live, local cablecast from the State Theatre in Traverse City with satellite sites in each of the six Grand Vision counties. According to Grand Vision Spokeswoman Marsha Smith: “We really […]
Last Thursday the Inland Seas Education Association, a non-profit organization based in Suttons Bay that is dedicated to science education on the Great Lakes, welcomed its 90,000th student aboard the 77′ schooner Inland Seas. The 90,000th student was from St. Francis Assisi in Ann Arbor. Executive Director and Captain Tom Kelly, said: “This is a […]
Let me be the first to say “I doubt it,” but in anticipation of a new burst of energy here, I’m rolling out a fresh post to replace the Turning the Page on Sugar Loaf post with its nearly 400 comments. This week’s Leelanau Enterprise reports that Sugar Loaf owner Kate Wickstrom met with Glen […]
Christian took this shot of Sleeping Bear Bay at the end of August from atop Alligator Hill. You can see it bigger or in his Sleeping Bear Dunes slideshow.
For the fourth consecutive year, Oryana Natural Foods Market (the community cooperative owned by thousands of area residents) will make a significant donation from its end-of-year proceeds to a worthy non-profit. Oryana Education and Outreach Coordinator explains: “Cooperatives work for the sustainable development of communities. We are excited about this program, which gives us and […]
The Leelanau Historical Museum, Leland Chamber of Commerce, and Old Art Building hold their annual celebration of Leland’s history next Saturday (Sep 17). Via the Leland Michigan website: The annual Leland Heritage Celebration takes place September 17. This annual event is free and open to the public. Highlights include the Leelanau Historical Museum’s “Wooden Boats […]
The third annual Michigan Schooner Festival sets sail September 9-11, 2011 on West Bay in Traverse City at Open Space Park and Clinch Park Marina. The festival will feature eight tall ships including the Appledore V, Madeline, Welcome, Manitou, Pier Wisconsin’s S/V Denis Sullivan and Leelanau’s own schooner Inland Seas aka the Great Lakes Schoolship. […]
I finally realized that I should post the great photos we have each week in our Almanac with a little more of an eye for posterity! This week’s photo is a panorama of the Grand Traverse Lighthouse by Ken Scott. Ken says that Sunday was an ‘awesome cloud day’. Check it out bigger or in […]
Over on Absolute Michigan, we post a “Weird Wednesday” on the last Wednesday of every month. They often feature something from Linda S. Godfrey, the author the definitive book of Michigan mysteries: Weird Michigan. Today is no exception and has a very cool Leelanau County focus! The story of an early 20th Century sea monster sighting was […]