May 2009

Float Away on the Manistee: The Packing List

Float Away on the Manistee: The Packing List

Travel Editor Lynda Twardowski (world’s biggest cheapskate) shares all the essential goodies she used on her 4-day kayaking trek down the Manistee River. Full article...

Float Away on the Manistee

Float Away on the Manistee

The North’s Mighty Manistee offers a trip at a tempo any kayaker can handle. Full article...

Cookbook From Sleeping Bear Dunes Cottage Country

Cookbook From Sleeping Bear Dunes Cottage Country

Jim Volz shares his love of simple, elegant entertaining at his Crystal Lake cottage in Sleeping Bear Dunes country in his new cookbook, “Dinner on the Porch.” Full article...

Video: Morels From Capture to Kitchen

Video: Morels From Capture to Kitchen

Video of Chef Randy Chamberlain of blu in Glen Arbor foraging for morels in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, then cooking them with scallops and leeks. Full article...

Gallery Tour in Leelanau Country

Gallery Tour in Leelanau Country

Art hop through Leland, Glen Arbor, Suttons Bay, Omena and Northport. Full article...

Camp David Photo Gallery

Camp David Photo Gallery

Pictures of a Bay View cottage near before its smashing makeover. Full article...

Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Excerpt from the novel Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson. Published in the 1880’s and set on Mackinac Island. Full article...

Pickerel Lake Cabin Rescue—“Before” Pics

Pickerel Lake Cabin Rescue—“Before” Pics

Architect John Sarkesian and his wife, interior designer Suzanne Sarkesian turned an old cabin in the Petoskey area into a family treasure. Full article...

Made in Leelanau Wine Country

Made in Leelanau Wine Country

Love Leelanau Wines? Tom and Ben Kleinfelter of Leelanau Garden Furniture will incorporate the bottles from you favorite vintages into a custom hip bistro patio set. Full article...

Petoskey Area Cottage Rebuild

Petoskey Area Cottage Rebuild

No one in Indian River wanted to see the old cottage at the river mouth torn down. Then they saw the new one the Biddingers built in its place. Full article...

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