Category Archives: Dune Acres
Save The Dunes Presents Monarch Music Fest
Save the Dunes celebrates the journey and migration Monarch Butterfly with food and music on Sunday, September 12th at Michigan City’s Brewery Lodge and Supper Club. “The Monarch butterfly is just one of many pollinators responsible for the incredible plant-life that we find in the Indiana dunes,” says Natalie…
Hooked on Art Festival Returns To Chesterton Indiana
It’s that time of year again for the coolest art festival of the season! Artists, art enthusiasts, and families of all shapes and sizes are invited to spend a beautiful Saturday listening to live music, eating delicious food, and enjoying interactive art activities. The 10th Annual Hooked on Art Festival will be held…
Life & Times of Amphibians
Special guest and Indiana University professor Spencer Cortwright brings to life amphibians of the dunes as he illustrates their life cycle, habitat, identification, mating, egg-laying, and their tribulations in his powerpoint presentation. Spencer Cortwright, Professor of Biology at Indiana University Northwest, presents a slide show: LIFE AND TIMES OF MIDWESTERN AMPHIBIANS. Professor Cortwright teaches ecology,…
Indiana Dunes – National Park!
The 15,000-acre Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was re-designated by President Donald Trump as America’s 61st National Park. This is the first national park in Indiana, which has 15 miles of beach along the shores of Lake Michigan. Sand, shore, and the space to breathe! This isn’t your run of the mill…
Hooked on Art Festival Returns To Chesterton Indiana
It’s that time of year again for the coolest art festival of the season! Artists, art enthusiasts, and families of all shapes and sizes are invited to spend a beautiful Saturday listening to live music, eating delicious food, and enjoying interactive art activities. The 10th Annual Hooked on Art Festival will be held…
Maple Sugar Time at Indiana Dunes
With the last of the freezing nights and the beginning of sap flow, maple trees are tapped for their sweet sap which is boiled into delicious maple syrup. In the 1870s, Swedish immigrants Anders and Johanna “Kjellberg” bought 80 acres in Porter County, Indiana, to establish a modest family farm. They were the first of…
Eclectica Pop Up Gallery During Taste of Michigan City
ECLECTICA POP-UP will be held during the Popular Taste of Michigan City in the same local. The Gallery will be displayed in the DOWN Gallery at Revive Consignments, and feature an ever evolving array of one-of-a-kind jewelry, accessories, wearables, photography, fine arts and crafts designed, made or collected by ANKO, Kathy Dennis and Dani Lane.…
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