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See LIVELY on page 11 Jane Lively is raising funds for community supported agriculture shares to help feed 10 or more local migrant families. Photo by Robert Chacon

Livelys expand farm, launch Backyard Burdickville campgroundBy Norm WheelerSun editor

The scent of cinnamon suffuses the air. Is this a spice shop? A tea emporium? Nope, it’s Jane Lively’s hoop house shed for sprouting seedlings at the Lively Farm off Bow Road above Burdickville. Dozens of plastic pots line the shelves, all sprinkled with the red spice that kills any bacteria in the soil, thus enhancing germination. It’s just one more sign of the phenomenal growth occurring within the Lively family’s many new business ventures that include the Lively Farm, the Backyard Burdickville Campground, and the next LivelyLands weekend music festival coming in August.

Jane started the Lively Farm by creat-ing a CSA and selling shares four years ago. There were eight takers. The next year there were 15, the next, 25, and now

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Leelanau Coffee Roasting Arens brothers grow into Leland

there are 50 shares spoken for! CSA, or Com-munity Supported Agriculture, is a common model on small farms that connects the farmer and customer in a unique way. Customers buy “shares” of a farm’s harvest in advance and then receive a portion of the crops as they’re har-vested. This model provides farmers important early-season capital and a guaranteed market for their produce.

But Jane’s ambition doesn’t stop there. Her flowers and produce are also sold at the Em-pire Farmer’s Market on Saturdays in summer, and at the Grow Benzie Market on Mondays. Plus, Jane has an initiative to help feed “10 or more” local migrant families. “We are still raising funds for these community supported shares,” Jane explains. “These shares are going to migrant folks involved in local farm work and families in need of assistance in the Glen Lake school system. These shares will be free to families designated by the Migrant Resource

By Jacob WheelerSun editor

The Early Bird breakfast and lunch destination in downtown Leland has a new tenant—one whose brand is al-ready ubiquitous in northern Michigan.

In mid-June, John and Steve Arens, who own the Leelanau Coffee Roast-ing Company in Glen Arbor, will open a breakfast bistro that combines high-quality food with fresh-roasted coffee on the main drag in Leland. They are leasing the space from Skip Telgard, who owns the Blue Bird restaurant next door. The Early Bird sat empty through much of 2020 as Telgard struggled to find enough employees to staff the popular eatery.

“We’ve been looking for years to open a place that serves great food with fresh roasted coffee,” said John. “Steve saw that Skip was leasing the Early Bird and they began chatting in early February. The Telgards have been anxious to get someone back in there.”

The Arens brothers have hired Steve and John Arens. Photo by Jackson Arens

Matt Anderson as their chef. Ander-son previously worked for Guillaume Hazaël-Massieux at La Bécasse and Bistro Foufou. His menu will include breakfast staples such as huevos ran-cheros, eggs benedict, briskets, break-fast sandwiches, sourdough pancakes, cinnamon rolls, oatmeal and pastries. Brunch features blue crab bisque, tomato and tarragon soup and various salads.

“We wanted to combine that kind of breakfast with coffee that 48 hours ago was green,” said John. “And we wanted to find a place that mimics the amount of pedestrian traffic Glen Arbor gets in the summertime.”

Once COVID restrictions lift, the Leelanau Coffee Roasting Company Breakfast Bistro will seat 52 inside and 20 outside. The Arens brothers are adding a gazebo, and plan to have coffee bars both inside and outside. Hours will be 7 a.m. until 2 p.m., 7 days a week.

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A stargazing good samaritan sounds the alarm on Le Bear fire

Angela Doster DeWitt captured the aftermath of the Le Bear fire on May 15.

By Jacob WheelerSun editor

Kari Beitler, a Detroit area native who lives in Cleveland and studies plant science at Cuyahoga Community College, traveled north on a road trip with her parents on Thursday, May 13, to witness and photograph the Aurora Borealis. Photography is a passion for Kari, who describes herself on her Instagram account “kari_d_away” as a “rust belt explorer, a mitten native, and a Mother Nature protector and advocate.”

They planned to stay one night in Glen Arbor then travel northeast to Mackinaw City—where Kari thought the northern lights would be stron-gest—but decided at the last minute

to visit Mackinaw first and stay Sat-urday night in Glen Arbor, where they booked a room at the M22 Inn.

Kari and her father Gary planned to rise at 2 a.m. on Saturday morning, May 15, to walk the beach of Sleeping Bear Bay and capture the stars through the lens of her new Nikon camera. But they missed their initial alarm and didn’t leave their room until 3. They parked at the north end of Manitou Boulevard where it meets Lake Michi-gan, and Kari experimented with the settings on her camera to snap pan-oramic views of the star-lit sky. She had never taken night shots before.

At about 3:40 a.m., Gary glanced east in the direction of Le Bear Re-See LE BEAR FIRE on page 8

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Own an Italian restaurant on Big Glen Lake: Funistrada for saleFrom staff reports

Trattoria Funistrada is for sale. Tom and Holly Reay are selling their popu-lar Italian restaurant in Burdickville, located a stone’s skip from the south-east shore of Big Glen Lake.

Serbin Real Estate listed the restau-rant on May 27 for $1.495 million. The Sun broke the news that day. Offers may arrive soon, as the local real estate market is, in a word, hot.

Here’s how Serbin’s listing de-scribes Funistrada, which the Reays opened in 2000:

“Located on the east side of Big Glen lake, this award-winning, Leelanau County/Glen Lake restaurant, Trattoria Funistrada, well loved by locals and summer visitors alike, is being offered for sale. As a ‘turn-key business’ it includes all licenses, fixtures, supplies, furniture and management help with the transfer of ownership.

“This is a year around business that enjoys much support during the off season by locals and winter visitors. Known for their wonderful menu, wine list and dedicated staff, Funistrada is

a destination restaurant. Here, summer regulars and locals often celebrate spe-cial occasions with family and friends.

“The Reay family, who has built this business with love, great food and good business sense since 2000, are ready for their next chapter. New owners will also find the darling up-stairs apartment (2 BR, 1 bath, kitchen, living & dining area) could be used as owner, employee quarters or rental in-come. Currently used for dinner only, great opportunity to expand sales and business.”

Selling Funistrada “has been some-thing that we’ve looked into since before COVID,” Tom Reay told the Sun. “We’re not in a hurry. And it will continue as Funi with or without us. Our decision to sell was somewhat accelerated by circumstances, seeing changes in the market.”

“We owe our children several vaca-tions,” added Holly. “We’ve had three trips canceled. Our daughter has one more year of college, and we want to spend time with her.”

Funistrada means excellent Italian food “off the beaten path”

Read this excerpt from Norm Wheel-er’s feature story the Sun published in 2000, the year Funistrada opened.

I lounged in a hammock dozing and thumbing the pages of Diane Acker-man’s book A Natural History of the Senses as a northeast breeze nudged the maple leaves over my head. A red-shouldered hawk gave a single cry as it just missed the indigo bunting it hunted in a sudden plummet. Some enchant-ing scent was riding the air current up to Echo Valley from Burdickville. It wasn’t the burnt smell of roasting coffee I sometimes nose when the north wind is strong over Glen Arbor. No, this was making me hungry. It was oregano! Someone had a pot full of bubbling tomato sauce simmering downwind, and I was determined to find the source of that heavenly smell.

There was garlic in it too, and the promise of Chianti served in a wicker bottle by a woman like the one in “Il Postino.” So I quick-peddled down the green tunnel of Echo Valley Road to find a new Italian country restaurant just opening near Miller’s Resort. Tom and Holly Reay have hatched their dream, their own eatery at the former Glen Lake Inn in Burdickville.

Holly Reay, holding darling daugh-ter Carson while the harried crew prepared for their first “big night”, explained the origin of the name “Funistrada.” “In 1974 the Army did a food preference survey,” Holly said, “and they threw in the word “Funistrada” to see if the guys fill-ing out the survey were really paying attention. Well, “Funistrada” was checked off as better than eggplant, instant coffee, pickled beets, and grilled bologna!” Tom and Holly were married on a Kentucky Derby day, May 3, 1997, when one of the horses running the race was named, you guessed it, “Funistrada.” And then their Italian friend Sal told them that it means, loosely translated, “off the beaten path.” Tom Reay chimes in “These were all great connections, so that’s what we named our restaurant.”

The old Glen Lake Inn is no strang-er to many of us, having been a fa-vorite supper club run by the Frank Hockstein’s from 1970 to 1993. Tom recalled “It specialized in German fare and was known for its great martinis. The same people came at the same time on the same weekday for years. It was almost like a private supper club for locals.” Brian Hockstein tried to run it for a year, and for the past three years it has been Jack’s Glen Lake

Inn, run by Jack Russell. I asked Tom Reay why he and Holly took it over. “It’s the old American dream of being self-employed,” Tom replied. “You have to be crazy to own a restaurant, so I’m qualified.”

Tom and Holly have plenty of expe-rience in local food service establish-ments. Tom worked at Art’s Tavern in Glen Arbor for 13 years. Holly managed the Village Inn in Empire for 2 years, and Tom joined her there for another year. They supervised the renovation of the kitchen and the menu while there. Says Tom, “We played with somebody else’s money and made it work, so we thought OK, we can take the risk.”

Funistrada is a “trattoria,” an Ital-ian bistro serving informal, peasant/country style cooking. Why did they choose Italian? “No one else in this area does it,” says Tom, “and it’s my favorite kind of food.” The restaurant seats sixty including a bar that seats four. They specialize in fresh seafood and only use fresh ingredients. Tom de-clares “You can’t make good stuff out of bad stuff!” Core menu items include Veal Scallopini, Marlin, Red Snapper, and pasta. “We aim to see what people want and to tailor the menu over time,” says Holly Reay. Adds Tom, “We have NO whitefish.”

The portions are huge. Everyone leaving is grasping a doggiebag con-tainer like a quarterback holds the foot-ball on a rollout. We do the same, and then I get to finish everyone’s the next day for lunch. I head for the hammock for a nap, tasting the calamari, the lemon penne, the clams in white wine.

Stay tuned for more news about iconic local businesses for sale in future editions of the Sun.

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Manitou Transit resumes ferry service to islandsFrom staff reports

Manitou Island Transit’s passen-

ger ferry “Mishe-Mokwa” resumed service to the Manitou Islands on Me-morial Day weekend after record-high Lake Michigan water levels, flooded docks and the COVID-19 pandemic forced the family-owned business to take a year-long hiatus in 2020.

“It’s a relief. We weren’t going to make it another year,” co-owner Me-gan Grosvenor Muñoz told the Sun. “But when you drop something for a year, getting everything up and run-ning is difficult.”

Manitou Island Transit’s online res-ervation system is currently down—as of press time—so Muñoz and other employees are taking reservations by phone and email. (Visit the company’s website at ManitouTransit.com, call 231-256-9061, or email [email protected].)

And they’re busy! Customer de-mand to visit the islands for day trips and overnight camping is sky high.

“It seems like what everyone wants to do right now is camp. So we’re busy right now,” said Muñoz, who has con-tinued to enter reservations from home after she leaves the office in Leland’s Fishtown at 5 p.m.

“Looking ahead, there will be lots of booked days. People absolutely need to make reservations far in ad-vance.”

Mishe-Mokwa photo taken in 2019 by Raquel Jackson.Reservations at campgrounds

throughout Michigan are filling up this summer, as tourists choose camping as a safe recreation during the pandemic. Reservations are not required to camp on the islands. But group campsites on South Manitou require a reservation.

The Mishe-Mokwa will run at 75 percent capacity for the foreseeable future, due to COVID-19 restrictions. Masks are required onboard.

“Our crew is double-vaccinated, but we’re still masking because we’re seeing people come here from all over the map,” said Muñoz.

“A lot of people we’ve talked to, this is the first time visiting the area. It feel like July right now. On top of reservations, our gift shop is doing days like we do in July. … I’m not sure what July will look like.”

Like many businesses in Leelanau County, Manitou Island Transit is strug-gling to find enough employees for the season. Muñoz would like to hire two more full-time workers for the store, and two more to work on the boat. She just increased wages to $20/hour, and an employee sometimes makes $100 in tips each day on the boat.

What a difference one year makes. The dock at South Manitou Island was submerged under record-high Lake Michigan water levels in 2020 (left). This year the dock is ready to accept ferry passengers (right). Photos courtesy of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Leland Library holds summer children’s programFrom staff reports

On Friday, June 18, at 10:30 a.m.,

Leland Township Library will kick off its summer children’s program with Leelanau locals Patrick Niemisto and Norm Wheeler of Luunappi as part of its 2021 Children’s Summer Read-ing Program. The word “luunappi” is Finnish for a finger snap to the ear. To Niemisto and Wheeler, it also means

music and rhyme and tall tales. Join Luunappi for a morning filled with songs, stories, and poems for families on the turtleback in front of the library.

There is no cost to attend the pro-gram, which will be held in-person and outdoors (weather-permitting). Please bring chairs and/or blankets. In the event of inclement weather, we will move into the Munnecke room.

For more information, call 231-256-9152 or visit LelandLibrary.org.

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Glen Arbor, located behind the Town-ship Hall, runs Tuesdays from June 8 until September 14.

Leland, located in the Blue Bird park-ing lot, runs Thursdays from June 10 until September 9

Northport, located across from the marina, runs Fridays from June 4 until September 10.

Suttons Bay, located on St. Joseph St., at the north end of the village, runs Sat-urdays from May 15 until October 23.

Empire, located next to the post of-fice, runs Saturdays from June 19 until September 4.

Live music

Visit our website, GlenArbor.com, for an updated list of upcoming music at area venues.

Local venues include, in Glen Arbor: Boonedocks, Coastal, Glen Arbor Wines, and Cherry Republic; near Maple City, Little Traverse Inn; in Sut-tons Bay, Martha’s Table and Hop Lot.

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The Glen Arbor Arts Center (GAAC) hosts Feed Me!, an evening of poetry and prose about feeding the mind, body and spirit, on Friday, June 11, at 7 pm. Feed Me! is part of the Glen Arbor Arts Center’s exhibition Food Is Art/Art Is Food, which runs until August 19 in the GAAC gallery. The event is free and open to the public.

Poets and writers will perform or read their work outdoors before a live audience at the GAAC, 6031 S. Lake St. Glen Arbor. Each writer may read up to five minutes. No pre-registration is required. Poets will be added to the eve-ning’s readers list on a first-come basis.

Feed Me! is open to all writers and poets, both children and adults, of any experience or skill level. Poems may be the work of one author or a team of writers working in any genre: poetry or prose, free verse, traditional verse, haiku, rap, beat or other experimental forms. Both previously published and unpublished work is welcome. Feed Me! is a family-friendly event. Par-ticipants are asked to share work that is consistent with the temperament of this event.

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“For the times, they are a-chan-gin’” Bob Dylan

The business dynamic in Glen Ar-bor is in flux. A recent walk from one end of town to the other to ask “What’s the buzz?” took four hours because so much is happening. Both facts and rumors abound. And it’s the youthful energy of several newer business own-ers that is leading the transition.

Laurenn Rudd and Lizzie Morgan-Gray are the new owners of Cottonseed Apparel. They closed the deal with the Oberschultes on May 12. Laurenn started working there in 2005, moved to New York City for two years, and then returned to be the manager. Lizzie has been working there for eight years.

“I’ve always loved it,” says Lau-renn, “When Lizzie started she ex-pected it to be only a summer job. She had a degree in Anthropology and Bi-ology, but she fell in love with fashion. We became close by being managers together, and then started wondering if maybe we could buy it. Oberschultes talked to us last fall about the idea, so we started negotiating.”

The two now own Cottonseed 50/50. “We absolutely love working in Glen Arbor,” Laurenn continues. “We love this business they built, and we intend to carry on the legacy and the brands while also making it our own. We have the best customers and the best staff. For a seasonal place we have great retention. This is such a great space to work in.” For now there are no plans for major changes, but “we’ll see at the end of the year when things slow down and we have time to draft some goals.” Laurenn and Lizzie plan to stay open through the holidays, and will have the end-of-season sale in October as usual. “We’d like to be part of the pajama party at Thanksgiving, too!” (Visit their website at Cotton-seedApparel.com)

Bella and Zach Pryor, with the help of their parents Deanna and Scott, now have two shops in Glen Arbor. They continue to operate their Northern Roots location on the corner of the deck at Boonedocks, and they are also mov-ing into the new place, called Copper, in Georgia Gietzen’s former Northwoods Home & Gifts location next to the Leelanau Coffee Roasters and across from Bear Paw Pizza & Market.

“We will feature more of Scott’s designs there,” says Deanna, “and we’ll try to figure out how quickly the kids can run back and forth between the two shops!” Click on our website to read our Aug. 2, 2020, story about Bella and Zach, “Five Years After the Storm: Making Positive Out of Nega-tive.” (Visit on the web at Northern-RootsMichigan.com)

Ken Schwaiger, another of the young faces in Glen Arbor, continues to manage The Totem Shop. He started working there when he was 14, and

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after Doug and Tonya Thomas bought it from Oberschulte’s in 2010, they made Ken the manager in 2013. Ken says they’re gonna keep on keepin’ on. (Visit online at TheTotemShop.com)

Cady Hall and Cos Burrows, who took over the Good Harbor Grill in 2018, continue to expand with new starters and sides. They busted out their new menu Saturday with the addition of wheat berry salad and avocado corn salsa, and new appetizers including bruschetta, shrimp cocktail, and crab cakes. See the story at glenar-borsun.com/Handing the Good Harbor Grill over to the next generation. (Visit online at GoodHarborGrill.com)

Matt and Katy Wiesen continue to keep things busy on the east side of town at the Crystal River Outfitter’s Recreational District. They will host yoga on Wednesdays this summer, as well as kid’s art classes on Thursdays from 10-12. The Wine Bar has music on Saturdays until mid-June, and then expands to Tuesdays and Thursdays as well. You can enjoy a glass of wine while listening to The Duges, Andre Villoch, Dennis Palmer, or Blake El-liott. (Visit CrystalRiverOutfitters.com)

Riverfront Pizza & Specialties is for sale and negotiations are afoot, but business will proceed as usual through the fall. The Sun will report on developments as they unfold. (Visit RiverfrontPizza.com)

There are new developments re-garding the former Wildflowers prop-erty that was purchased by Pete Faber next to Northwoods Hardware, as well

Lizzie Morgan-Gray (left) and Laurenn Rudd (right) acquired Cottonseed Apparel from Marc and Diana Oberschulte on May 12.

as breaking news about the Sylvan Inn and the Lakeshore Motel. Stay tuned for details as they emerge. And Randy and Mari Chamberlain report that Blu, temporarily closed after the fire at LeBear Resort, is hoping to resume normal operations in a couple of weeks as the investigation of the fire wraps up and restoration of the utilities can proceed. (Visit GlenArborBlu.com).

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Interior designer Gretchen Knoblock turns New Leaf in Glen ArborBy Jacob WheelerSun editor

Gretchen Knoblock, who just opened New Leaf Interiors in the heart of Glen Arbor, giggles when she recalls standing in front of the Dechow Barn in the Port Oneida Rural Historic Dis-trict 40 years ago, complaining to her Leelanau School history and govern-ment teacher Mike Munhall, “What are we doing in the middle of a field looking at a dirty old barn? Why is this important in my life?”

The purpose of the field trip in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore was to learn about Dutch gambrel and gable roofs and vernacular architecture. Little did she know then, but what she learned from Munhall and from art teacher Joanne Evans that year would plant the seeds that inspired her to become an interior designer.

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Chicago’s north shore, says the two years she spent at Leelanau School as a junior and senior in the early 1980s changed her life. She also fell in love with northern Michigan, and longed to return here one day.

Eleven years ago she returned, with her cat, her clothes, her toothbrush, and little else. She rented a coach house near Suttons Bay and worked for another interior designer, but times were tough. The economic recession lingered, and launching her own ven-ture seemed like a risky move.

“People thought I was nuts, but I was here where my heart lived. When your heart is home, anything is pos-sible,” Knoblock said. “If I had to live under a bush and eat berries, thanks to my fine Leelanau School education, I would know exactly what bush to live under and what berries to eat.”

In Traverse City she launched New Leaf Interiors, which is located on the

south end of Elmwood Avenue in the Grand Traverse Commons. She made some missteps, learned from them, and thrived. She seized opportunities that presented themselves, and she listened to customer feedback. She brought cabinetry and kitchen design elements into a showroom across the hall so customers wouldn’t have to drive all over greater Traverse City to view them. She teamed up with other talented designers including Andrea Dolson, Ann McCoy, and Amy Schichtel, who Knoblock describes as a “master cabinet engineer and CAD (computer-aided design) technical drawing whiz. … She’s very technical. I’m looking more at the whole picture, the overall aesthetic.”

The interior design industry has surged in northern Michigan over the past year, buoyed in part by the CO-VID-19 pandemic and increased focus on home upgrades, and also by the Grand Traverse region’s meteoric rise as a cherished place to own a first or second home. And this after the early spring of 2020, when the coronavirus first arrived and the economy ground to a halt.

“Nobody thought anyone would do any business of any kind last year,” said Knoblock. “We were physically shut down. We were like ‘Don’t panic, just put food on the table … We’re not getting rich this year, but hopefully we can stay afloat’.”

New Leaf Interiors’ gross revenues last year increased 20 percent over 2019.

“People were focusing on homes, and focusing on northern Michigan,” she said.

“COVID really changed our human nature. Everyone was spending less of their disposal income on gasoline and clothes. They were sitting at home, working in their pajamas, wonder-ing ‘Now we’re at home. How do we do this?’ How do we keep a working husband and wife separate enough to do the work they need to do?”

Knoblock had long contemplated having a satellite location in Leelanau County, to be closer to high-end cli-ents. But each year a different project would delay her expansion.

“It’s always been a dream of mine to have a presence in Glen Arbor. I’m a Leelanau School kid,” she said. “I felt underrepresented in Glen Arbor.”

She wasn’t planning to expand this year either, until she read this spring that the National Lakeshore was at-tracting record numbers of visitors—during the cold months of January and February—and was on pace to set another annual record.

“Now was the time,” she told her-self. “We all know how busy last sum-mer was [in Leelanau County] during COVID.”

Knoblock jumped at an opportunity to lease the building from Bill and Dotti Thompson, just south of The Sportsman Shop on M-22, which had previously housed the arts and crafts store Smock Paper Scissors, and before that TnT Video. (Bill served his popu-lar Chicago-style “Dune Dogs” from a hotdog stand next door until Labor Day of 2019.)

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Keith Burnham, Biscuit, and The Leland ReportBy Sandra Serra BradshawSun contributor

Keith Burnham, with his great love of the charming village of Leland, and its accompanying historic Fishtown, lives by the words, “Every day’s a joy, and some days are more joyous than others…” And that right in his own special place. He has been taking photos of this area for well over five decades. Keith’s constant companion was his dog Biscuit. His daily pho-tos turned into the blog The Leland Report, and the Report and Biscuit came to have followers in every state in the nation as well as from all over the world.

Keith and his wife Joan moved to Leland from Illinois in 1999. Though they have lived most of their life in Illinois, their hearts and mind, for most of their lives, has always been in their beloved Leland, and especially Fishtown.

Joan Gits’s family had been va-cationing in Leland for well over 70 years starting back in the 1940s before World War II. She introduced Keith to the area in the summer of 1959 before they were married. “I knew I was going to live here the minute I came,” said Keith. As a couple, newly in love, they started coming to Leland whenever the time availed.

Besides their love for the area, there is an even greater love for their children. Their first born is Julie, the eldest of the Burnham family clan. Next in line is Mary, then John, and the youngest, James “Jim.” Even though they live in various places scat-tered across the country, they remain a close-knit family and always make that their priority. As for their Dad, despite living far from them, he shared his daily walks and the wonders of Leland—through his eyes—with them. He began emailing them his photos nearly every day when he and Joan moved full-time to Leland.

Fast forward to March 2001, when word—and his wonderful photos—got out beyond his communicating just with his own children. More and more people requested that they get the email too. “At first he emailed us photos every day. We forwarded them on to people we knew. It was such a big email, I thought it became easier to just create a website,” Jim explained.

Jim not only provided a link to the site, but allowed viewers to see the photos and have the ability to leave comments. Thus the official Leland Report began. “Its evolution was right

in step with the evolution of digital photography itself,” said Jim. Keith and Jim were forerunners in the then new digital photography and the soon-to-boom Internet. Since 2001, the Leland Report has been a photo-a-day, every day, with very few days missed. This they accomplished even before Facebook became popular after 2004.

“So, while all the photography outings with my Dad when I was a kid were more to go for a ride on the Honda, I think subconsciously he set into motion this feeling I discovered back in the decade after college, but always knew I had. In high school, I had a camera,” Jim reminisced. “In college, I had a camera. During all the summers in Leland, I had a camera. I have a milk crate filled to the top with slides and negatives dating back to the early 1980s.”

As for Keith’s journey into pho-tography, Jim explained, “My Dad’s journey was different. He was intro-duced to photography indirectly by his stepfather, Charlie Kluk. Charlie left Dad a pile of 3×5 negatives that Dad wanted to print, so he set up an ad-hoc dark room on the back porch of his grandparents’ house in North Riverside, Illinois.”

One family member that more must be included about in this story is Bis-cuit, their beloved dog who died on Jan. 12. “Biscuit came into our lives by fate, after his predecessor ran away (or ran back to their previous owner, we aren’t sure),” explained Jim. “My parents adopted Biscuit in 2009 from an elderly gentleman who lived in Empire. The man was no longer able to care for the dog and we all know that

Biscuit and Keith Burnham offer warm smiles.

he was fortunate to find a good home with my Mom and Dad.”

Biscuit was well known both on the Leland Report site as Keith’s constant companion, and especially was this well-loved hound popular in Fishtown. So much so that Jim added him to the Leland Report logo. “Biscuit always loved to meet his fans and take a pic-ture in Fishtown, his favorite place. At times Keith would say that more people knew Biscuit than knew him, but he was ok with that. Biscuit was a good dog and we will all miss him.”

“When I find the first Biscuit Re-port, I’ll post it. If you would like to honor Biscuit’s life, please consider a


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Kari saw the orange and red glow down the beach and replied, “It must be a bonfire.” They had seen one ear-lier the previous evening along Sleep-ing Bear Bay. Kari took a closer look and recognized that the fire was high off the ground. It wasn’t a bonfire.

“Let’s take a walk,” she said. Within a few steps, Kari saw that a large building was on fire, and she started to run toward the blaze, inadvertently dropping her camera and phone on the beach. Gary, nearly 70, continued to walk.

The fire sent flames 15 feet high on the east side of the resort, but Le Bear Resort is long enough that one could stand on Lake Street, on the west side of the complex, and not see the blaze. One couldn’t smell the fire

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She ran back toward her dad and yelled at him to call 911. “There’s a fire on the third floor,” she frantically told the emergency dispatcher. But no alarms had gone off. Dispatch called back Gary’s phone a couple times to confirm this wasn’t a false alarm.

In the meantime, Kari began knock-ing on doors at the resort and yelling that the building was on fire. By the time the Glen Lake Fire Department arrived within a few minutes of the initial call, Kari had pounded her fist on nearly every single door and shone her flashlight in windows, and all oc-cupants had left Le Bear. The evacuees included a family with two daughters staying directly underneath the fire.

By this time the smoke hung over the entire resort, which had opened for the season the day before and was approximately 80 percent full on the night of the fire.

“My little lungs hurt from coughing all night,” she wrote, “but [I] managed to bang and scream until everyone was awake and safe.”

With firemen on the scene, Kari snapped a few photos from the Lake Street boat ramp dock, but she left the scene when her asthma began to kick in. She and Gary walked west again toward their car, found her camera and phone on the beach, and returned to their hotel. Exhausted, they hadn’t taken a single photo of the northern lights.

Her mom Janet was awake and waiting for them when they returned. “I had a weird feeling something was going to happen,” she told them. Reek-ing of smoke and wired by what they had experienced, Kari and Gary each showered and didn’t get to sleep until close to 6 a.m. After checking out of the hotel on Sunday mid-morning, they stopped to caffeinate their bodies at the Leelanau Coffee Roasting Company before driving south again.

“I love Glen Arbor,” said Kari. “I can’t wait to get back here.”

Restaurant Blu still closedNobody was hurt in the fire, but

Le Bear suffered substantial damage. Nine different crews from around the region came to help put out the blaze and worked until 10:30 a.m. They included firefighters from Ce-dar Area Fire and Rescue, Leland, Grand Traverse Metro, Traverse City Fire Department, Almira, Long Lake, Leland, the Grand Traverse Band and Green Lake.

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“This comes obviously at the worst possible time,” wrote Chamberlain.

“[Friday] night we just had our busi-est day since reopening in April. The optimism of the pandemic waning, our staff was building with some fabulous people who have been through so much. … We all feel broken but we’ll be back.”

Chamberlain thanked the emergen-cy crews from Glen Lake Fire Depart-ment and five other departments and heralded their efforts to contain and save the building. Other restaurants in Glen Arbor stepped up to help, too.

“Thanks to Tim and his staff at Art’s Tavern for lending us cold storage space and all the other restaurants and friends in our town that have reached out to offer help.”


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“We always looked forward to the visits from Biscuit at the fishery in the mornings,” said Bill Carlson of Carlson Fisheries in Fishtown. “He always brought Keith with him,” Bill threw in with his grin. “Biscuit always got a treat of fish sausage or jerky as he waited patiently by the door. Some-times they would be on the south side of the river taking the perfect shot for the day, and Biscuit’s treat would be delivered by airmail. A great start to our day. We’re missing them now.”

Keith didn’t actually get a camera until 1955 while living in California. “My Dad didn’t catch the photography bug until later, when he started coming to Leland regularly in the early 1960s. He took photos of Barbecruise day, developed them in the bathroom of the Beach House and mounted them for display the same night at the Bar-beque,” he explained.

Anyone who knows what goes into taking, developing and mounting slides the same day at home can attest to this herculean task. The afternoon was filled with a cadre of volunteers

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cutting and mounting the slides for the show at the evening BBQ. Incidentally, the Leland Yacht Club Barbecruise will be held this summer on Saturday, Aug. 7.

Following in his Dad’s footsteps as an excellent photographer, Jim has taken it upon himself to shoot the pho-tos for the Leland Report. Jim, along with the rest of his brothers and sisters, says they were fortunate to spend all their summers in Leland growing up. “I’m the originator of the Leland Re-port, and for over 20 years I’ve given my Dad the palette on which he paints with his photographs.” Jim resides in Tremont, Illinois, but, just like his Dad, he travels back to Leland as often as possible. Julia, Keith’s oldest daughter, claims she lived in Illinois but “grew up in Leland.” A family love affair for sure.

The entire family is also avid rock collectors. “When we go to the beach, we all bring back our favorites,” said Jim. “Our collection includes a pretty good representation of most of the kind of rocks you’ll find on the shores of Lake Michigan: Granite, Agates, Petoskeys, Leland Blues and Frankfort Green, Honeycomb Coral, Charlevoix Stone (Favosite), Chain Coral, Basalt, Brachiopod Fossils, Chert, Jasper, Quartz, Sandstone, Unikite, and Sep-tarian Stones.”

The Leland Report: 15 Years in the

Leelanau Peninsula book was pub-lished in 2016. “It was a bare-bones effort. I reviewed over 20,000 photos, chose the best and laid it out in. When I finally showed it to a publisher they suggested, since I had most of the work done already, that I self-publish,” he explained. “I got some invaluable ad-vice from Steven Klein who is a retired publisher. Thanks goes to Leelanau Press publisher Barbara Siepker for that referral. My sister edited it. Meggen Wat Petersen, Sandra Serra Bradshaw and Mark Smith contributed some of the writing. And as a bonus,” he continued, “Susan Ager agreed to write the Foreword. We also included some interesting quotes from our good friend Bill Hahn from ‘near Chelsea, Michigan’.” It is a coffee table keeper of a book for sure and available locally at Leelanau Books and Suttons Bay Books, or find it online at LelandRe-port.com.

“I’m very grateful to have the book available,” said Paula Aflin, manager of Leelanau Books in Leland. “Very few people are self-publishing coffee table books,” she explained. “People want it for their cabins or to take home. They connect personally with this book,” she said. “One man came in just the other day and pointed to a picture inside the book. He said that he used to stay right across from there as he pointed. People connect with this special book.”

“My Dad thanks everyone for their well wishes. He’s 88 now and feeling, well, just okay. I am going to be man-ning the old Leland Gallery location (the lower level of the building under Fishtown) from June 29 thru July 7,” said Jim. “I will have our Leland Report book, canvas prints, Keith’s Leland Pen and Ink prints, and some other items as well.”

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is a central part of Glen Arbor’s busi-ness surge over the past 25 years. The Arens opened a small café across from Lake Street Studios—where the Cherry Republic retail empire lives now—on Memorial Day weekend of 1993 in a building they rented from Steve Heller. They initially shared the space with local entrepreneur Bob Sutherland, who sold cherry Boomchunka cookies. Steve and Bob knew each other from working at the Red Pine, which is now the Good Harbor Grill.

Steve Arens initially wanted to open in Empire—a hotter business destination than Glen Arbor at the time—and call their business “Empire Coffee Company.” They couldn’t find any retail locations available so they expanded their search to Glen Arbor.

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the street and told John she was im-pressed that this A-frame sign on the street had real hinges; she used shoe-strings to hold together her A-frame at Lake Street Studios.

Bob showed up one day and told the Arens brothers he had visited Smeltzer Orchard in Benzie County, which had dried cherries they wanted to promote that were packed in plastic deli tubs. John remembers they put a dish of the dried cherries on the counter for customers and Steve wrote a sign that said, “Dried cherries. Try Some. Yum.”

Cherry Republic took off. So did the Coffee Roasters, which moved in 1998 to their current location on M-22, across the street from the Western Avenue Grill.

The Arens brothers have flirted with retail expansions in the ensuing years. They opened, briefly, in Petoskey in 1997 and at the now mothballed Sugar Loaf resort in 1998, but each store closed within a few years. Now the Leelanau Coffee Roasters is growing again, this time in downtown Leland.

New Leaf Interiors opened in Glen Arbor this Memorial Day weekend, as the market continues to sizzle. By the end of April, New Leaf had already hit what the business grossed in all of 2020. Knoblock is considering more satellite locations in the years to come to serve other high-end home markets, such as Crystal Lake in Benzie County.

While interior design and home decorating are hot markets in lakeshore communities right now, so is home building. The challenge is to find a contactor to do the work. “Getting

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product is even rougher,” she said. “We could furnish an entire house, but we’re finding that materials are not arriving until next year. The supply chain is broken.”

What styles and motifs are hot right now among owners of second homes in Leelanau who want to update their interiors? Knoblock said it depends on what her clients perceive as the “northern Michigan look.” Some want the lake life, the ‘up north’ life, bears or woods. Many of her clients with second homes want a rustic contempo-rary feel—a space that resembles a log cabin inside but with modern updates and 21st century amenities.


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The Leelanau Community Cultural Center will host the annual Leelanau Artists Exhibition, an exhibit and sale of artists’ work from open studio ses-sions that take place year around at The Old Art Building in Leland. The show will open on Friday evening, June 4, from 5-7 p.m., and continue through the weekend. Viewing hours on Sat-urday, June 5, are 10 a.m.–5 p.m. and Sunday, 10-4 p.m.

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LIVELYcontinues from page 1Council (MRC) and professionals at Glen Lake Community Schools—and recipients will be welcomed into the farm community wholeheartedly as full-fledged members. We have plans to get together monthly with the MRC folks to cook and eat a meal together, and we’ll provide recipes and ideas for meals to create with the produce shared each week.” Through her mission of trying to make food accessible to all, Jane reached out to social worker Amy Johnson-Velis at Glen Lake School where she helped form a committee to offer community-supported shares to those facing food insecurity. Con-tributors may contact Jane through the website at TheLivelyFarm.com.

Jane’s mom Kelly Lively adds that there will also be flowers and some potatoes and squash available at Jane’s older sister Emily’s Backyard Burdickville Campground along M-72 (3805 W Empire Hwy) just east of Gil-bert Road. (That’s where members will pick up their shares this year on Thurs-days starting the second Thursday in June). Formerly the Eagle’s Meadow, the Livelys purchased the campground and event space last year and have al-ready started planting trees and grow-ing flowers and vegetables on the site. After living in Austin, Tex., and after working for seven years in the office at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Festival, Emily moved back to Burdickville a couple of years ago with her husband Robert and daughter Shirley. Then along came baby Arthur Felo to join the family recently.

“Backyard Burdickville is our name for the seasonal camping and event venue at the old Eagles Meadow. We have 15 rustic campsites for $25/night for up to four people, and right now there is plenty of availability,” Emily explains. “And we have a cool round glamping tent for rent for $75/night with two double beds and plenty of space inside. It’s like a little tented hotel room. (See www.HipCamp.com) We are allowed to have three large events per year right now, and we are awaiting Kasson Township’s approval to allow rental of the facility for smaller events like family reunions, weddings, and birthday parties.”

The family is busy re-thinking the facilities to accommodate more events and music. “There is a kitchen space already that provides caterers a place to provide food for weddings and re-unions. And we hope to enclose a 40’ by 30’ area of the garage for small indoor events that will include a small stage so that we can have year-round events. (She even has the old original bar from Art’s Tavern!) That and a shower/bath-room facility for campers will require a septic system, so we’re working on plans and permits for all of that.”

The first summer Emily was back in

Burdickville she organized a small lo-cal music festival called LivelyLands. The first one was held in the field next to Dave’s Garage near the Empire Airport along Co Rd 677, and the next year it was held behind the buildings at the Eagles Meadow before the Livelys purchased the property. This year’s LivelyLands will be staged at the back of the property on Aug. 20-22. Featured acts will include Austin artist Dana Falconbury (who has an album entitled Leelanau), and a trio consisting of Gregory Stovetop, Seth Bernard, and Mark Lavengood, all on Friday. Joshua Davis, Emma Cook, and the Detroit funk/soul band Laura Rain & the Caesars all play on Satur-day; and the Mark Lavengood Blue Grass Jam finishes off the festival on Sunday. Former local Pete Wiejaczka

will be home from his career provid-ing sound for arena concerts all over the country to set up sound gear and turn the knobs, Maria Ulrich from Leelanau Sound will help out again as the stage manager, and Emily’s close friend from Austin, Jason Weems, will again bring his resonant radio voice to the emcee duties. A talented singer-songwriter in her own right, Emily has created a production company (Lively Productions, duh!) that is “dedicated to assuring that at least 50% of our acts are female-fronted bands.” Tickets and info and opportunities to volunteer and to contribute can be found at TheLive-lyLands.com.

With the help and guidance of par-ents Jim and Kelly, the entire Lively family is busy on many fronts creating and sustaining community.

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