The Exposures Open House will be held Friday (Apr 25) at the Old Art Building. The event features an exhibition of work from this year's Exposures magazine along with refreshments and music. The opening reception is on Friday, April 25 from 5 to 8 pm featuring original artwork, essay and poetry readings, hors d'oeuvres and live music by the "I Am Art" student band. The exhibit continues on Saturday, April 26 from 10 am to 4 pm and this is a great chance to support some wonderful student artists and writers from all of Leelanau County's schools.
Check out a few items from past editions of Exposures from Leelanau.com and the Northern Michigan Journal!
The Winter 2008 edition of The Beechnut Review (Leland High School's literary magazine) has been posted. The current edition has deliberately muted titles with the authors focusing on their voice.
Here's the voice of Ryann Collins from Across the Bay:
The "promise" was a camping trip on Power Island. After weeks of planning, my sisters, mom, step-dad, and I were finally ready to set out across Grand Traverse Bay for the island. We wasted valuable time that day packing our camping gear. The original plan was to load everyone and all the gear into our dinghy, christened "Big Red." After much deliberation, arranging, and rearranging, the conclusion was reached that there was no way everything would fit. The obvious solution was to bring everything across in our family's canoe. Sounds like a foolproof plan, right? Just load up the gear in the canoe, stick the kids in the dinghy, tie 'em together, and we're off, no problem.
Well ... not quite.
Photo credit: Breakwall Rocks II by Andy McFarlane
News from the Week
News from the week included a story about Leland grad Alisha Glass's success in college volleyball, including being names to first team all Big Ten and helping Penn State to a #1 ranking. Right now they are in the Sweet Sixteen, so look for her on TV! Other stories included a nice Enterprise piece remembering Leelanau historian Larry Wakefield and a photo of a storm building over the Manitou Passage.
The Week's Weather
We had some stormy, windy weather last weekend and though the winds have died down, we've been getting steady snow and cold temps. Great news for area ski resorts!
November 29, 2007: Breezy & low 30s (33°/19°)
November 30, 2007: Snow, wind & 20s (24°/16°)
December 1, 2007: Windy & low 20s w/ heavy overnight snow (24°/15°)
December 2, 2007: Wet snow & low 30s (34°/24°)
December 3, 2007: Light snow & low 30s (32°/24°)
December 4, 2007: Light snow & 20s (27°/19°)
December 5, 2007: Snow & teens (21°/17°)
Click for the Leelanau news archive from December 2006!
Purple Fishtown 2003, photo by Andrew McFarlane
The Glen Arbor Sun has a nice piece by Holly Wren Spaulding titled Before We Hibernate: Leaves, Wood, Food that makes a refreshing change from the recent political firestorm.
Go read it.
