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The Guided Walking History Tours of Traverse City will begin its tenth season on July 9th, following the National Cherry Festival.

The informative tour is about two and a half hours covering a two-mile route. The tours begin at the Perry Hannah Plaza, located at the corner 6th and Union St. near downtown.

There is no charge for the tours, but gratuities for the guides are appreciated. Groups of six or more can schedule tours at other times.

For 2025 our 10:00 AM walking tours begin on Wednesday July 9th and continue daily through October 8th. No reservations are needed, simply arrive by 10:00 AM please.

Interactive rhythmic fun for everyone with Lori Fithian of Drummunity!

For all preschool, elementary and middle-school students! Keep your reading skills sharp & have fun by participating in your library’s Color Our World Summer Reading Program. All are welcome!

Sign up for the Color Our World Summer Reading Program and get a free book and a reading kit!

Perks of signing up for the Color Our World Summer Reading Program include:
– Free Books! Children signed up for the program can choose one free book each week when they attend an Tuesday or Wednesday/Thursday morning program.
– Prizes! Children signed up for the program can earn a prize each week by using their reading log.

Meet the Traverse Area District Library Youth Services team at the museum for art-inspired storytime this summer. Each session will feature a different artistic theme and will be followed by a related art project with Dennos staff and volunteers.

July 9th | Photography
July 16th | Writing & Storytelling
July 23rd | Performing Arts

Drop in, free. Tickets are not necessary for this event.

National Alliance on Mental Illness offers support groups for families and individuals living with a mental health challenge. Groups are confidential, free and no registration is required.

Email info@namigt.org or call 231-944-8448 for more information.

Charlotte Ross Lee Concerts in the Park Series

Pack a picnic and head to Pennsylvania Park in Downtown Petoskey for Crooked Tree Arts Center’s annual Charlotte Ross Lee Concerts in the Park Series!

Held 12:00 - 1:00 PM each Wednesday and Friday, June 18 through August 15, the concert series brings local musicians to the Gazebo stage.

Bring a lunch, lawn chair, or picnic blanket and enjoy live music in the park! These performances are free and open to the public.

Learn more and view the full schedule at: https://www.crookedtree.org/article/concerts-park or call 231-347-4337.

Join us in learning about the basics of getting resin printed miniatures game ready! You will create your own miniature that will be printed and primed before the event for you to paint and take home. This class will cover primers, base coating, washes, and highlights using special acrylic paint formulated specifically for painting gaming figures.

Instructions on how to make and submit your figures will be sent with a registration confirmation email. All necessary supplies will be provided.

In order for the custom miniatures to be ready for the event, registration and required submissions will close 7/10/25.

Join Interlochen Public Radio at Little Fleet for the 2025 Classical Happy Hour series.

Performing on July 16th from 5:30-7:00pm is Archipelago.

The Archipelago Project is a non-profit music education organization dedicated to advocating musical arts through performance, residency, and consultation. Archipelago’s mission is to connect, educate, and inspire audiences from diverse ethnic, geographic, and socioeconomic populations. The organization is comprised of highly trained musicians, teachers, and artists from the United States and the world. Archipelago immerses audiences in diverse programming that spans musical styles from around the globe.

A special thank you to this year’s Classical Happy Hour series sponsors, PNC Bank and MSU Federal Credit Union.

Get on the boat! We’re going to Lake Como! New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Adriana Trigiani is the consummate storyteller. The adored novelist, who’s also a celebrated screenwriter, producer, director, and podcast host, pays homage to her Italian roots in her fiction, consistently bringing both laughter and tears to her devoted readers ever since her debut twenty-five years ago with Big Stone Gap.

Her new novel is a fresh, contemporary, intergenerational must-read. The View From Lake Como, is everything an immersive summer read should be—funny and heart-wrenching, with perfectly imperfect characters that readers will feel deeply connected to. With its vivid depiction of the complexities of familial relationships, the novel is a love letter to big Italian American families, Old World roots, and daughters who learn to live life on their own terms. It’s for anyone who finally wants to start living the life they’ve always dreamed of.

USA Today crowned Adriana Trigiani “one of the reigning queens of women’s fiction,” and The View From Lake Como promises to earn her the title of Queen of Italian American Literature.

Wild Up Your Septic Drain Field with Native Plants

28th year of Music, Jokes, Inspiration... music by the Backroom Gang...2025 free will offering benefitting
Homestretch Nonprofit Housing, Northwest MI Community Action Agency, and Northwest MI Supportive Housing
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