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Voices of North Manitou: Remembering Crescent

By Stacie / December 11, 2025 / Comments Off on Voices of North Manitou: Remembering Crescent

Voices of North Manitou Authors Billy and Karen Rosa share North Manitou Island history and reflect on the recent trip to Crescent on the island, where the Billy and Karen searched for his grandmother’s home from the early 1900’s. Now in the federally designated wilderness of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, the site of…

Tour of Historic Katie Shepard Hotel

By Stacie / August 29, 2023 / Comments Off on Tour of Historic Katie Shepard Hotel

Walk through the Katie Shepard Hotel with me on North Manitou Island! It is normally closed to the public, and this is a great opportunity for you to see inside. Built in 1985, this beautiful building is being lovingly restored. We did our second volunteer trip to North Manitou Island this month, this time with…

Port Oneida Walking Tour

By Stacie / April 15, 2021 / Comments Off on Port Oneida Walking Tour

Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear A Hiking and Skiing Guide to the Port Oneida Rural Historic District in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. 35 pages, 2006     Purchase

Time Stands Still on North Manitou

By Stacie / March 10, 2021 / Comments Off on 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…