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Starting at 6 PM this Saturday (September 1), there will be an Open Mic at Marina Park in Suttons Bay. Stage and sound are provided - bring yourselves, your friends, your instruments and your lawn chairs and blankets.

When it gets dark, there will be a fireworks display! For more info about the event, call Dennis Grant at 231-271-0300 or The Business Helper at 231-271-4404.

For more about Suttons Bay, check out suttonsbayarea.com!

Photo: A Crescent Cast by Chris Arace. Chris writes: Ruins of the Crescent dock on N. Manitou Island. This dock was for the old logging town of Crescent. In the Early 1900's it stretched 600 feet into Lake Michigan. We have a post about the ghost town of Crescent City on North Manitou Island (with another photo from Chris!)
The Leelanau Almanac took the week off, but we did have a nice photo interlude courtesy of our Leelanau(dot)com photo group on Flickr:

Matt Callow was recently an artist in residence with the Glen Arbor Artists and took some interesting photos.

I drove by this slowly crumbling barn north of Northport the other day and could remember when it wasn't so slowly gone...

Here's a photo of a hillside orchard near Northport from October 2005. Jeff has a whole lot more photos of the Leelanau Peninsula that are probably best viewed as a slideshow!

This photo of an old lens from the Sleeping Bear Point Coast Guard Station Maritime Museum in Glen Haven is one of several John has taken.

Fishtown Delights by oldbrushes is just one of several beautiful photos of Fishtown Kathy has taken.

Photo: Big & Little Glen Lakes by williger - it's part of a great set of Sleeping Bear Dunes photos!

We're going to take a week off to enjoy a little of the summer before it's all gone - we encourage you to do the same!

We will be filling the space with a daily photo of Leelanau from our Leelanau(dot)com photo group on Flickr. Hope you enjoy!

Goofyfooted (at North Bar Lake) by Andy McFarlane

News from the Week

Stories from the week included the world premiere of some Sleeping Bear Dunes animations from the Art Place, a Leelanau on Location feature on the ghost town of Crescent City on North Manitou, a wallpaper-sized photo and slideshow from the 2007 Woolsey Airport Fly-in and the launch of our all-new category pages.

The Week's Weather

We finally had a break in the drought and all those brown lawns are greening up nicely. It looks like we'll be back to the sun for the weekend too.

August 16, 2007: Mostly sunny & low 70s (73Ëš/57Ëš)
August 17, 2007: Mostly sunny & low 70s (72Ëš/48Ëš)
August 18, 2007: Partly sunny & low 70s (70Ëš/45Ëš)
August 19, 2007: Mostly cloudy & low 70s w/ overnight rain (71Ëš/55Ëš)
August 20, 2007: Mostly cloudy & low 70s w/ heavy morning rain (73Ëš/57Ëš)
August 21, 2007: Partly sunny & low 70s (73Ëš/60Ëš)
August 22, 2007: Mostly cloudy, some rain & 80s (86Ëš/66Ëš)

Click for the Leelanau news archive from August 2006!

I hope that anyone who has been following Leelanau.com for a while has seen that we've really been picking up the level of stories and presentation over the last couple of years.

It may have been hard for the casual visitor to see just how much information is contained here and to easily access it. To make that easier, we've rolled out our new category pages, featuring expanded listings for our web site sponsors and a constantly updated list of articles and news for that category. Check them out!

• Art & Entertainment
• Business & Services
• Food & Dining
• Homes & Real Estate
• Lodging
• Shopping
• Sports & Recreation
• Towns & Community
• Leelanau on Location

Photo credit: S. Manitou Light by Greg Jollife.