If you seek a sleeping bear...

   EMPIRE, MICHIGAN, The park of the village of Empire is beautifully situated between
   Lake Michigan on the West and South Bar Lake on the East.  This favorite recreation spot
   is visited by both resorters and residents.  -Postcard in Ektachrome by Jack D. Rader, 1960s.

Located in Leelanau County, Empire is the gateway to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Links to related websites:   www.empirechamber.com   &   www.leelanau.com

Two online books might be of interest.  Just click and read!

Beautiful Glen Arbor Township:  Facts, Fantasy and Fotos, by Robert D. Rader and the
Glen Arbor History Group, 1977.  Historian Kathleen Stocking writes about the dunes:

              "They change, yet they don't change.  They are like jewels, evocative of
              eternity, of ancient processes in the earth.  Their form changes, but their
              substance does not.  They stay in the memory, those millions upon millions
              of tiny pieces of quartz and feldspar."    -Kathleen Stocking, p. 89. 


                www.manitouislandsarchives.org/archives/ebooks/bgat/bgat-web.pdf

A Nationalized Lakeshore:  The Creation and Administration of the Sleeping Bear Dunes
National Lakeshore, by Theodore J. Karamanski, National Park Service, 2000.

                          www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/slbe/index.htm

     SLEEPING BEAR DUNES   -Postcard from a folio, West Michigan, The Waterwonderland 
     State, published by Dexter Press, West Nyack, N.Y., c. 1960.

We love the Pure Michigan ads at CIRCUMSPICE MICHIGAN, and find ourselves grabbing a
hankie whenever these evocative 30-second spots are aired on radio and television.

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