Leelanau Township will again hold its Rolling Taps in Northport at 10 a.m. Memorial Day. The Taps stations start just south of town and continue all the way to the Leelanau Township Cemetery, where the Memorial Day Service will start at 10:30 a.m. The Northport Community Band will play at the service, and the featured speaker is Jim White. The Memorial Day Rolling Taps started in Northport in response to COVID. The annual service was not held that year, since people couldn’t gather. The response to this moving start of the program has become part of the tradition.
This Friday is the opening reception for the Northport Arts Association’s Annual Northport Photo Exhibit at the Village Arts Building in Northport. This year’s exhibit is the biggest since the first show in 2018 in terms of both number of artists and the diversity of work. This year features over 35 photographers, both professional and emerging, and hundreds of photographs, framed and unframed. The reception is from 5 to 8 p.m. this Friday, and the exhibit runs through June 9.
Dale and Joan Blount traveled to East Lansing this past week to attend the Tony Award Winning Broadway musical, “Six”, at the Wharton Center at Michigan State University. This is an all women musical about the six wives of Henry VIII, each telling their story in song and dance. Their stories in brief: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. It’s an entertaining and creative blend of history (her-story), humor, and music. In addition to an outstanding allwoman cast, they are backed up by amazing all-women musicians.
