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Cork & Fork culinary festival returns to Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel

This isn't your typical event. The Cork & Fork culinary festival is returning to Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel for it second year this fall. It will feature a handful of celebrated women chefs from across the U.S. and is being hosted in partnership with the James Beard Foundation. The event runs from Friday, Sept. 29 through Sunday, Oct. 1.

Winery now offers sailing adventures to inn guests

Black Star Farms is really taking it up a notch. It's one of Northern Michigan's most well-known wineries and you can already stay the night there. But what if your stay also included a few hours on a private sailboat on Grand Traverse Bay? C'mon!

Historic Sleeping Bear Dunes barn to be saved!

A big effort is underway to save a historic barn at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The nearly 150-year-old Goffar Barn is at risk of crumbling into Narada Lake, which has swelled in recent years due to high regional water levels and beaver activity. 

B-B-B-Benny the Beard Fisher

A troll in the U.P.? “Benny the Beard Fisher” is a new art installation on the banks of the Manistique River at Northland Outfitters in Germfask. He is a troll character in a coming children’s book by Danish artist Thomas Dambo – and the latest up north attraction to open to the public. The 14-foot-tall wooden troll is already delighting visitors.

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