Join ski company representatives, along with area coaches, to help you and your family get properly sized and fitted for new race boots and skis.
Ski reps will be taking orders for 2017/18 ski racing equipment. Most race equipment is custom ordered the day of the sale and shipped to Mountain Sports shortly afterwards for pick-up.
Enjoy special one day pricing on new race equipment (skis, boots, bindings), plus check out the new ski clothing in stock andall race related accessories and protective gear.
Ski race equipment available from Atomic, Elan, Fischer, Head, Lange, Nordica, Rossignol, Salomon, and Volkl.
Location: Mountain View and Mountain Sports
Time: 11am-1pm
For more information, call the Mountain Sports Shop at 888.968.7686, ext. 4400.
National Writers Series Co-Founder Doug Stanton is the critically acclaimed author of two New York Times bestselling nonfiction books: his 2001 breakout work, In Harm’s Way, about the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, and 2009’s Horse Soldiers, named a “Notable Book” by The New York Times and currently in development as a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced film starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon.
Stanton joins his editor, Colin Harrison, to talk about his new book, The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle of Echo Company to Survive the Vietnam War. When the North Vietnamese began bombarding 36 cities scattered across South Vietnam—an infamous campaign known as the Tet Offensive—the war escalated to previously unmatched heights. Causing major alarm back in the States, it would be a turning point in the public’s tolerance of the war.
Back on the front lines, U.S. and South Vietnamese troops fought for their lives. Of those entangled in the offensive, many perished. Those who returned home were greeted with disdain or disregard.
Now the remarkable story of a small platoon called Echo Company will be told. Stanton conducted first-person interviews with soldiers, traveled to former battlegrounds, and pored over letters sent to and from Echo Company, as well as an abundance of Pentagon reports, photographs, and filmed footage. The story ends with one soldier finding closure in the country where it all began.
Stanton, a Traverse City native, has written on subjects ranging from travel and sports to history and entertainment. His writing has appeared in Esquire, the New York Times, TIME, Men’s Journal, the Washington Post, and Outside Magazine—whose founding editor, Terry McDonell, will take the NWS stage in October. He lectures nationally and has taught creative writing and English at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He and his wife, Anne, have three children and live in Traverse City.
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September 17, 2017, 7 pm City Opera House, Traverse City
Guest host: Colin Harrison
Event Sponsor: Chemical Bank
Doors open at 6 pm with live music, cash bar and Morsels sweet treats. Q & A and book signing post event.
Ticketing: Call 231-941-8082, ext. 201, or stop by the City Opera House Box Office located at 106 E. Front Street in downtown Traverse City, Michigan.
Chairlift rides are on our Crystal Clipper Quad Chairlift located in the center of our frontside slopes. Tickets are available for purchase at the base of the Crystal Clipper. Cash bar available at the top of the mountain.
Cost: Chairlift rides are $7 per person. Houseguests and children 8 & under are free with a paying adult.
For more information, call the Park at Water’s Edge at 888.968.7686 ext. 7000.
EVENT SUBJECT TO CHANGE: Check the Crystal Mountain Website for the latest updates on Fall Chairlift Rides
For those who don’t know, Alice Waters is a national culinary treasure. Her NWS appearance is the culminating event of the debut week, Local Harvest Restaurant Series, which will run Sept. 18-24 (more information is available through Tricia Phelps, Taste the Local Difference 847-809-7643).
The proto-foodie earned her chops as an early champion of food sustainability, opening the legendary Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California in 1971 at just 27 years old. Since its inception, the restaurant has boasted locally sourced, seasonal, and organic ingredients as well as an impressive clientele; among its ranks, the Dalai Lama.
In 1996 Waters planted the seeds (yes, literally) of what would become the Edible Schoolyard Project. A free lunch and food education initiative, what started with a single garden and teaching kitchen today services sixteen school districts and provides 10,000 meals per day.
A bestselling author to boot, Waters’ latest publication, Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook takes readers through the tumult of the 1960s and into the formative years that led Waters to the front of the culinary vanguard. Kirkus Review described the memoir as a peek into “an almost charmed restaurant life that exhales the sweet aromas of honesty and self-awareness.”
Waters has received numerous accolades, including Harvard Medical School’s Global Environmental Citizen Award. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and inductee of the French Legion of Honor. In 2015, President Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal.
It’s no small luxury to have such an influential figure indulge us with savory tidbits on her activism and inspirations—a discussion certain to leave us craving more.
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September 24, 2017, 7 pm
City Opera House, Traverse City
Guest host: Jennifer Blakeslee and Eric Patterson
Event Sponsor: Cherry Capital Foods
Local Foodie Sponsor: Oryana
Doors open at 6 pm with live music, cash bar and Morsels sweet treats. Q & A and book signing post event.
Ticketing: Call 231-941-8082, ext. 201, or stop by the City Opera House Box Office located at 106 E. Front Street in downtown Traverse City, Michigan.
The Annual Acme Fall Festival is fun for the whole family!
Join us for the Seventh Annual Acme Fall Festival, Saturday, September 30, from 10am to 4pm!
This year’s festival will be held at Flintfields on Bates Rd in Williamsburg.
Events will include classic car show, kids events, Wings of Wonder live raptor show, bake sale and farmers market, craft show and silent auction, delicious food and more!
There is something for everyone! You will not want to miss out on the fun!
Share with us the excitement of Harvest! Brian’s cellar and still will be open to smell wines, stomp grapes, and tour. Our tasting room staff will serve wine tastes and take private label orders.
NEW! Wines by the glass and lunch items like bratwurst and charcuterie boards served from our dining room!
Activities for All, Open to Public:
1:00 pm: Mini Slurpin’ Seminar Learn the basics of wine tasting – slurping noises encouraged!
2:00 pm: Grape Stompin’ Put Lucille Ball to shame and get in line for your chance to crush grapes the old fashioned way: with your feet!
3:00pm: Distillation Seminar – join the winemakers as they show off their shiny copper pot still.
Discounts and Other Fun:
Exclusive case discounts of 15% off a mixed case of wine
Exclusive case discounts of 20% off a full case of any one wine
Wines by the glass from our tasting room, East Bay Wine Terrace and West Wine Patio
New vintage wines and products
Wine Aroma Challenge & displays
Register early for Wine and Cooking Seminars
Private label wines (order before the holiday rush!)
Wine Tasting open to the public all day from 11am-7pm.
Must be over 21 to taste.
National Writers Series Co-Founder Doug Stanton is the critically acclaimed author of two New York Times bestselling nonfiction books: his 2001 breakout work, In Harm’s Way, about the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, and 2009’s Horse Soldiers, named a “Notable Book” by The New York Times and currently in development as a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced film starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon.
