via lpwines.com… The Leelanau Peninsula “Wine on the Water Festival” takes place this Saturday, July 20 from 1-7PM in Suttons Bay. The Grand Traverse Insider reports: Sponsored by the Leelanau Peninsula Chamber of Commerce, the Wine on the Water Festival, (formerly the Leelanau Peninsula Wine, Food and Music Festival), will feature samples from the peninsula’s award-winning wineries, […]
Justin Warnes shared this awesome video from TC based Hagerty Classic Insurance about the dune cars that once cruised the Sleeping Bear Dunes. More about the Dunesmobiles on Leelanau.com! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08zf-olX-Hw&feature=youtu.be
On August 15th or 16th, 1908, the passenger steamer Leelanau that serviced North & South Lake Leelanau exploded. It merited a brief article in the New York Times that you can see right here (also see this account from the Aug 17 Eaton Free Press with a different take). You can click the pic for […]
In 2010, friends and admirers of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore helped win the park the title of “Most Beautiful Place in America” on Good Morning America. Now they can help it become the “Eighth Wonder of the World.” The Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau has nominated Sleeping Bear in an international competition […]
Local restaurateurs and Northern Michigan breweries will show off their best as Glen Arbor kicks off the summer season with the annual Glen Arbor BBQ & Brew Festival on Saturday, June 15th from 2-8 PM. “Now that the sun is finally shining,” says Chamber of Commerce Event Coordinator, Mason Query, “we are excited to set […]
Michael Huey in the last couple of days of a Kickstarter project to fund Straight as the Pine, Sturdy as the Oak. This new book will tell the history of Camp Leelanau for Boys, the Leelanau Schools, and the Homestead in Glen Arbor from their beginnings around 1920 until 1963. Richly illustrated, the book makes […]
The wine industry in northern Michigan is bigger than ever, and vineyards are popping up everywhere you look. It’s a business that has a multi-million dollar impact on the state, and is expected to continue to grow. Winemakers on the Leelanau Peninsula say the region is great for grapes; the snow insulates the vines, the […]
via Michigan in Pictures… Cherry Orchard … spring snow, photo by Ken Scott The National Weather Service noted that the high temperature yesterday at the Otsego County Airport in Gaylord only reached 35 degrees – a new record for the coldest high temperature for the date that crushed the previous record of 44 degrees from […]
Open for Business by joeldinda There have been a flurry of articles and even a new “Leelanau County Commissioners Tinfoil Hat Brigade” Facebook page on the heels of a decision by Leelanau County Commissioners to reject a partnership with Grand Traverse County to promote growth and shutter the county Economic Development Corporation (EDC). It’s now reached […]
photo: Dream On by Kenneth-Snyder EMPIRE, MI – The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will be offering a series of monthly astronomy programs this year. Join Park Rangers and the the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society (GTAS) for a guided exploration of our night sky and one daytime event. The next Star Party is May 11 with […]
Via Michigan in Pictures… Spring on Good Harbor Bay, photo by Eric Raymond Good Harbor is located on the northern edge of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore at the Lake Michigan end of County Road 651. Today only evidence of the vanished village are the pilings of what was once a 500′ dock that could load […]
Here’s a pre-1970 photo of the harbor – quite a change from today! Check out Don’s photo of the Leland Harbor bigger!