Rejoice household enjoyable on the Fourth of July – Glen Arbor Sun

Leelanau Vacation Realty proprietor Ranae Ihme (center), her daughter Nadia (left) and Janai Misner (proper) line up in Glen Haven for Glen Arbor’s Fourth of July parade. Photo from 2024 parade by Jacob Kurtz

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The pleasure commences when the parade strains up at 10:30 am within the historic maritime village of Glen Haven; it builds alongside M-109 as youngsters shout and wave, and it crescendos when the power of floats, traditional automobiles, boats on trailers, and hearth vans arrive shortly after midday to thrill the throngs of hundreds gathered alongside the roadside in downtown Glen Arbor.

Following the automobiles on foot is a Leelanau County model of a New Orleans Second Line Parade: a trumpeter, a kazoo corps, children tossing newspapers, Elvis impersonators, environmental nonprofit volunteers, and activists whose handmade indicators and electioneering messages remind us that the Fourth of July most definitely is a political vacation—an anniversary of a subversive, harmful, and revolutionary act that shook the world—and whose founding doc boasts a core message that appears extra related right now than ever.

(Remember the unique “boat rockers” at your barbecues, seashore picnics, and pontoon flotilla events on the Glen Lakes)

Glen Arbor’s Fourth of July parade can also be a festivity of neighborhood and a possibility to honor those that are sewn into the city’s cloth.

This 12 months’s honorary grand marshal is Carol Worsley, a celebrated chef and proprietor of the Thyme Inn mattress and breakfast who has lived at the very least of a part of the 12 months in Glen Arbor for greater than 60 years. As per custom, Worsley will journey in a convertible on the entrance of the parade.

A graduate of positive cooking faculties together with Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, Worsley labored beneath famed chef and creator Julia Child. She has drawn popularity of her gourmand cooking at Thyme Inn, a onetime vintage store on the west aspect of Glen Arbor, which she and her late husband Don bought in 1997.

“I’ve stayed at probably a hundred B&B’s all over the USA and Europe. This is number one,” frequent visitor Russ Douglas advised the Sun in 2013. “I mean, where else can you go and be surrounded by European antiques and a gourmet kitchen, and be served a three-course breakfast that’s fit for a king? It’s just—it’s fabulous.”

Worsley’s former pastry store and deli Thyme Out is now Inn & Trail Gourmet and owned by sisters Corinne Cochran and Annabel Moore. She was featured in Emita Brady Hill’s 2020 ebook Northern Harvest: Twenty Michigan Women in Food and Farming (Wayne State University Press).

Carol Worsley boasts one other, extra doubtful declare to fame in Glen Arbor. She was virtually the city’s solely fatality throughout the notorious August 2, 2015, windstorm.

On that memorable Sunday afternoon, Worsley was in her workplace above the indifferent storage at Thyme Inn when the air all of the sudden modified.

“I noticed that the wind stopped, and it got almost pitch black, so I decided to finish my paperwork in the kitchen,” she advised the Sun. As she was gathering up her objects “I thought I heard someone yell ‘GO!’ like my mother when she was mad. I dashed to the stairs, got part-way down, and then the tree crashed and the wind blew and I was thrown down the stairs.”

Worsley struck her head however didn’t break something, and he or she received out of the storage solely to see that it was minimize in half by a century-old oak tree that landed proper the place her desk stood. Battered and bruised, Carol was grateful that she was not—what she joked—“Glen Arbor’s only fatality. I feel very lucky!” Days later, she nonetheless had a headache and went to Traverse City for an MRI to verify she sustained no hidden harm.

On the Fourth of July, this acclaimed chef and storm survivor will journey within the entrance of the parade.