by Lissa Edwards | Dec 26, 2017 | Counties, Food & Drink, Outdoors, Towns
Wander, sip, enjoy the snow! We raise a glass to winter wine tours with friends and family. Harvest time is typically peak tasting season in Northern Michigan; winter, not so much. But 45 North’s tasting room, tucked between the villages of Lake Leelanau and Suttons...
by Courtney Jerome | Dec 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
Harbor Springs-based nonprofit Manna Food Project is celebrating its 30th anniversary helping feed the hungry in Northern Michigan. Seven employees and over 250 volunteers work together on four meaningful projects: Manna’s Food Bank, Manna’s Food Rescue, Manna’s Food...
by Annette Niergarth | Dec 21, 2017 | Events
If pairing bean to bar chocolate with delicious hand-crafted cocktails is wrong, we don’t wanna be right. When you visit Mammoth Distilling’s new cocktail lounge in Traverse City you’ll get to enjoy just that. In their shared space with Fresh Coast...
by Erik Olsen | Dec 21, 2017 | Counties, Towns, Vacation
The most popular tourist destination in the Great Lakes becomes a have-it-to-yourself secret snow sports destination come winter. Fat tires, XC skis, snowshoes and you—you’re welcome! Go on a Mackinac Island winter vacation and discover the intimate side of this...
by Carly Simpson | Dec 20, 2017 | Counties, Towns
Local flooring retailer, Floor Covering Brokers Carpet One, is pleased to announce their monetary donation of $6,100 to relief efforts in Puerto Rico. “We feel a special bond to Puerto Rico because our lovely friend and spokesperson, Miriam Pico, was born on the...
by Daniel Shepler | Dec 20, 2017 | Counties, Outdoors, Towns
Never tried XC skis? Well, you are missing out! Rent some gear that fits and find a flat and pretty trail to discover winter at its most glorious. Now is the time to get out and play in the snow on cross-country skis, and in Northern Michigan we are fortunate to have...
by Anne-Marie Oomen | Dec 20, 2017 | Up North Essays
In the end, the creatures found it. They were the ones who knew what to do. A couple decades ago my dear friend Mimi gave me a blue sweater. Not just any blue sweater, but one that had been knitted by her mother in Denmark. When her mother died, Mimi—who had gone to...
by Jeff Smith | Dec 19, 2017 | Counties, Towns
Discovering art. Building community. How one woman’s dream of an arts center for all took flight. This is Blackbird Arts. This article is featured in the December 2017 issue of Traverse, Northern Michigan’s Magazine. Get your copy! Is Virginia an artist?...
by Erik Olsen | Dec 18, 2017 | Evergreen, Outdoors, Towns
Climbing hundreds of feet up an ice column, with Lake Superior surging below, is not for everybody … but it is for this winter-hungry crew. Traverse City photographer Erik Olsen takes us ice climbing in the Upper Peninsula. A frosty and early start, a 15-mile...
