Entries by leelanau.com

CNN says: "Napa Valley-esque wine tastings"

CNN is featuring the Leelanau & Old Mission Peninsulas and the recommendations of Sarah Kantrowitz of Travel + Leisure – taste for yourself at Saturday’s Traverse City Wine & Art Festival!! If it’s wine you want, find an alternative to Napa Valley in Michigan’s Leelanau and Old Mission peninsulas. Here you’ll discover more than 850 […]

Leelanau Almanac for the Week of August 13 – 19

This week’s stories included another ticket giveaway to this Saturday’s Traverse City Wine and Art Festival, a rare opportunity from the Old Art Building to Enhance Your Vance collection, and highlighted the annual Grand Traverse Lighthouse Lobster Fest Benefit. Leelanau.com also reminded everyone to no only check events on the Leelanau.com calendar, but to add […]

Leelanau.com Event Calendar

Bored with doing the same ole’ things this summer? Looking for something to different to do? Check out the Leelanau.com calendar! Did you know that you can submit your events to the Leelanau.com calendar for FREE? Not only is your event listed on the highly visited leelanau.com, but it is included in our weekly e-news […]

Grand Traverse Lighthouse Lobsterfest Benefit

The Grand Traverse Lighthouse Museum will host their annual Lobster Fest Fundraiser on Thursday, August 20th from 6:00pm – 9:00pm. The event benefits the lighthouse foundation restoration project and features a dinner with fresh Maine lobster (or chicken), redskin potatoes, corn on the cob, cherry brownies, slaw, coffee, iced tea, beer or Leelanau wine.  Local […]

Leelanau Almanac for the Week of August 6 – August 12, 2009

This week’s stories included some great eventsFun Filled History Lessons from the Empire Area Museum, Woolsey Airport Fly In & Breakfast, and “LPVA Second Fridays” – Dog Days of Summer. We also featured Taste of Tuesday: The Cheese Shanty. And for Photo Friday: Ready for Harvest by danenmolly. Week’s Weather Aug 12: Sunny & 79 […]

"LPVA Second Fridays" – Dog Days of Summer

Many times when Leelanau residents think of wine tours and our fabulous wineries, they think of tourists and tourism.  The Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association has planned special events in hopes to draw more locals to the tasting rooms, as well as the tourists.  Since April, they have hosted Second Fridays, on the 2nd Friday of […]