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 Wreck of the Jennie and Annie washes up on Sleeping Bear Point
About a week ago now I came across this photo by Mark Lindsay. I asked former Park Ranger Bill Herd, and he told me what has since come out in the media. Sleeping Bear Dunes historians believe the schooner fragment, estimated to be about 40-feet long and peppered with twisted metals spikes, is part of the shipÕs bilge keelsons, which the Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archeology says were long timbers running most of the shipÕs length, strengthening the keel.   read more »

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September 7, 2006

2006 Tour de Leelanau

Filed under: biking,calendar,glen lake,Leelanau,sleepingbeardunes,sports — Andrew McFarlane @ 10:33 am

Tour de Leelanau winds through Lake Leelanau

Sleeping Bear Dunes, photo by Derek Graham

The 2006 Tour de Leelanau will be held next Saturday (Sep 16). The Tour de Leelanau is a point to point open road race for the top professional and amateur cyclists in the Midwest. The men's course is just over 100 miles long and starts in Leland at 10 AM. The women's race starts at the Homestead at 11:30 and is 66 miles.

You can get much, much more information at the Tour de Leelanau website and see more photos by Derek (and others) of Michigan's most scenic bicycle race by searching Tour de Leelanau on Flickr.

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