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A Garden Apart
Susan Olsen Haswell and Prof. Arnold R. Alanen An agricultural and settlement history of Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Region. 181 pages, 1994 Purchase PDF
A Nationalized Lakeshore
Theodore J. Karamanski The creation and administration of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore 215 pages, 2000 Purchase Online
The Manitou Passage Story
Gene Warner An indefinitive history of the settlement of Northeast Lake Michigan 59 pages, 2007 Purchase
Aurora of North Manitou Island
Donna Winters Fifth in the Great Lakes Romances series, this book can be read as a stand alone historical fiction account of life on North Manitou. 277 pages, 1993 Purchase
Supper in the Evening
Al Barnes Pioneer living in Michigan, Civil War, early settlers, cultural life, logging, and recipes. Barnes is a noted Traverse City historian. 259 pages, 1967 Purchase
The Legend of Sleeping Bear
Kathy-jo Wargin Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen A classic retelling of the Ojibwe legend that names the Sleeping Bear Dunes, with beautiful illustrations. 48 pages, 1998 Purchase
Time Stands Still on North Manitou
Stacie Longwell Sadowski First Published in the Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear Fall 2020 Newsletter. This is the time of year when we would normally be celebrating progress on the Katie Shepard Hotel Project on North Manitou Island, sharing images and stories from what would have been our 12th consecutive year on the project. Past years…
Renewing of the Mind
Stacie Longwell Sadowski We spent the evening out on the water tonight. This is our third trip around the area with our new boats – actually loaner boats while we wait for the new ones to come in. There is something transforming about spending time in silence gliding over the water’s surface, meeting and surprising…
Forgive Us Our Trespasses
Stacie Longwell Sadowski There is one beach, among all the Lake Michigan beaches I know, that holds special spiritual sway with me. So much that I have not visited there in nearly twenty years, for fear that it has changed. It is the property that was once the church camp I went to as a kid, Pilgrim…
Hiking Through the Port Oneida Historical District
Stacie Longwell Sadowski Act 1. Bayview Trail Overlook The wilderness is within walking distance… …and beyond that the calm of the lake, where the Spirit of the Lord is hovering over the face of the waters, as in Genesis 1, then more wilderness – in the form of an island. Aren’t all wildernesses islands? Ever…