Happy Thanksgiving from Leelanau.com
We at Leelanau.com hope you all have a very Happy Thanksgiving with safe travels and good food and company. See you on Monday! Photo: Last apples in the orchard by Jim Sorbie.
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Leelanau Holiday Happenings
There’s a lot of holiday happenings coming up – here’s a list of some of them and check the Leelanau Calendar for more! Cedar offers you a chance to Make It, Take it on Friday (Nov 28). Handmade gift kits will be available to purchase at any shop in Cedar, then you may attend a […]
Photo Friday: A Tale of Two Seasons
Cher has a pair of photos that show that Leelanau cherry trees can bring the beauty in late fall as well as spring. Check ’em out “background big” by clicking the photos! Have a great weekend!
Winter 2009 to pile it on up front
From the “News you might have been able to write by looking out the window” department comes a report from the Traverse City Record-Eagle that the first part of this winter may pack the biggest punch. They quote meteorologist Keith Berger of the National Weather Service in Gaylord as saying: “The last couple of years […]
Leelanau Almanac for the Week of November 13-19, 2008
The Bufka Farm by John Levanen News from the Week In addition to some Thanksgiving weekend events, we had Ken Scott’s cool time lapse of the South Manitou Island Lighthouse and looked at the 150th anniversary of the Traverse City Record-Eagle. The Week’s Weather Cold. Snow. Wind. These may not be a few of our […]
Annual PJ Party & Thanksgiving Sales in Glen Arbor, Leland & Northport
The annual Glen Arbor Pajama Party & Sale is held the morning after Thanksgiving (Friday, Nov 28) from 5-7 AM and features shoppers in their PJs and bargains galore! Glen Arbor also holds their annual Tree Lighting and Carols followed by a preview of the Holiday Market Place. More information on area shops & stores […]
Traverse City Record-Eagle – 150 years old!
This month the Traverse City Record-Eagle celebrates its 150th anniversary (check that link for their 40 page commemorative issue): Traverse City, 1858: Rutted, muddy streets framed by wooden store fronts that touted dry goods and hardware. Saw blades screeched as they ripped into virgin white pine. American Indians camped on the mouth of the Boardman […]
Suttons Bay Holiday Open House
Village shops and businesses in Suttons Bay will be open this Sunday (Nov 23) from noon to 4 PM for their annual Holiday Open House. They would like to thank their customers for their patronage through the year with refreshments and activities during this traditionally festive afternoon. More about the village and merchants from the […]
Leland Drama presents "Fools" this weekend
This weekend only (November 15th & 16th), Leland Public School presents “Fools” by Neil Simon. It’s the story of Leon Tolchinsky, an ambitious young school teacher who arrives in the village of Kulyenchikov and discovers that the town is suffering under a 200-year curse of stupidity. Performances are Saturday at 2 PM & 7 PM […]
Time-lapse of South Manitou Island Lighthouse
Ken Scott has produced this cool time-lapse video of the re-lighting of the South Manitou Island Lighthouse (complete with a soundtrack from mobygratis). Read more about this from the Re-Light the Lighthouse page and from Leelanau.com and thanks to Jim Stamm for pointing it out to me!
Leelanau Almanac for the Week of November 6-12, 2008
dark skies green waters fall hills Homestead ridge by 1Cher News from the Week This week we took a look at Veterans Day in Leelanau, possible changes coming at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, a benefit showing of the water documentary For Love of Water and a nice photo from Greg Jollife. The Week’s […]
For Love of Water (FLOW) Benefit
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC) is holding a fund-raiser and reception this Sunday (Nov 16) in Traverse City to launch a campaign to protect the public trust in the waters of the Great Lakes Basin. MCWC will be showing the film FLOW: For Love of Water (trailer below), an award-winning documentary investigation into what […]