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Seasons of the Leelanau
by
Sandra
Serra Bradshaw
 Foreword
Introduction
1. The Essence of Leelanau
2. A Town-by-Town
Guide in History
3. The Native
Americans
4. Leelanau Lodging
5. Dining, Leelanau-Style
6.
Gift Shops and Galleries
7. Fruit
of the Leelanau
8. Seasons of
the Maritime
9. The Sleeping Bear
Dunes National Lakeshore
10. Fishing and Boating
the Seasons of the Leelanau
11. Seasons of
Recreation
12. Seasonal Reflections and Promises
Appendices
 Written
by longtime, year long resident, Sandra Bradshaw, Seasons of the Leelanau provides both visitors and residents alike with an up-to-date
travel guidebook - including the new street names and new street
numbers - for Leelanau County. While evoking the charm, history,
and beauty of this area, the author provides specific information,
telephone numbers, directions and maps to reach various charming
towns, unique shops, orchards, wineries, beaches, lighthouses, shipwrecks,
boating and fishing sites, and all other possible destinations in
Leelanau County.
Anyone visiting northwest Michigan - and its beautiful
Leelanau Peninsula - will find this book an essential traveling
companion.
- All 16,500-plus of
us who live here know how special Leelanau County is. As
an occasional writer about my county, I hear many of our
visitors tell us how special they find it to be. Gov. William
G. Milliken spoke of its "splendor." Gov. James
J. Blanchard called it "Paradise." Gov. John Engler
said its Sleeping Bear Dunes form part of a tapestry that
makes "Michigan's shoreline the most beautiful in all
the states."
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- Leelanau was named
in 1840 by ethnologist Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, a federal
Indian agent whose extensive writings on the history and
conditions of native Americans were an important inspirational
source of legends for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's lyric
epic, The Song
of Hiawatha.
Schoolcraft said Leelinau, as it was originally spelled,
meant "delight of life," as he chronicled in the
Legend of Leelinau about an Indian maiden attracted
to her sylvan land of delight. From this comes the county's
modern-day slogan: "Land of Delight."
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- This land of delight
is also a land of creativity. Artists abound in Leelanau.
So do authors. Sandra Serra Bradshaw, creator of this book,
is one of the newest. She provides a delightful mix of fact
and fancy--a poetic guide book through the seasons, sights,
and shops of Leelanau.
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- Just as the shimmering
whiteness of Leelanau's Sleeping Bear Dunes was a beacon
to those who first traveled by water, it was a landmark
for the first space travelers. US astronaut Jack Lousma,
who climbed the dunes as a boy growing up in Michigan and
viewed them from 200 and 275 miles away in two space missions,
told me: "Sleeping Bear really stands out from space."
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- From ground zero, the
whole county stands out. Sandy Bradshaw helps us find our
way.
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- Foreword by George Weeks
Columnist, The Detroit News
Author, Sleeping
Bear: Its Lore, Legends, and First People and Sleeping Bear: Yesterday and Today
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