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Fishtown has my heart video 2021

March 15, 2021 / Summer Meyer / Featured, News
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We are pleased to present our Fishtown Video, featuring YOU! We asked for recent and special photos and received over 500 submissions, featuring everything from glimpses of summer 2020 to treasured family memories spanning decades. One thing is certain, Fishtown is a place that lights up faces. Your smiles are contagious. Thank you to everyone […]

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Fishtown 5K – 2021

January 29, 2021 / Summer Meyer / Events
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The Friends of Fishtown 5K (Virtual) July 17-31, 2021 Our 13th annual race for Fishtown will be a virtual event, allowing participants to practice physical distancing while safely uniting in support of Fishtown. All proceeds go toward preserving historic Fishtown—the place, the stories and the Leland fishing tradition. Join us virtually to Run the Race-Preserve […]

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Learning About Fishtown – Through Stories

July 12, 2019 / Marsha Brunett / Events, Featured, News
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By Claire Kurnick Since the age of five I have joined my family for the packed car ride north from suburban Detroit to enjoy the bliss and peace of summers in Leland. After my parents’ divorce, my mother wanted to leave Bloomfield Hills and move north, but it wasn’t until she became an empty nester […]

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Fishtown’s Mortgage Pay-Off Celebration

February 15, 2019 / Marsha Brunett / Events, Featured, News
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  Fishtown Preservation completed the Fishtown mortgage on February 7, 2019! In celebration, we declared February 7–16, 2019 ~ Love Fishtown Week! The shanty rooftops were relit* with the addition of a big red heart from February 7 through February 16. On Thursday, February 14, 2019, we celebrated this important milestone in Fishtown. We offered tributes, […]

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Going Down to Fishtown Video

July 1, 2017 / Marsha Brunett / News
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Fishtown volunteer, singer-songwriter Steve Lindo surprised us by writing a song about Fishtown, and created and shared his video: Click here to watch video!

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Joy of Leland

December 29, 2016 / Fishtown Preservation / Featured, Fish Tugs
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It was late November 2015, and Joy was heading inland for the latest round of maintenance and improvements Fishtown Preservation has undertaken over the past ten years

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Fishtown, Under Construction

January 29, 2014 / Fishtown / Events, Galleries, Shanties
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Long awaited, much anticipated, urgently needed: That’s the best way to describe the rehabilitation project that’s been going on in Fishtown throughout this punishing winter.

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2013 5th Annual Friends of Fishtown 5K

July 30, 2013 / Fishtown / Events, News

The 2013 Friends of Fishtown 5K. The results are in…

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Don’t Change Anything

December 19, 2012 / Amanda Holmes / Featured, History, News
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Don’t change anything. Many people—maybe most—thought that was our mission when the Fishtown Preservation Society (FPS) purchased the core historic part of Fishtown in February 2007.

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Fishtown Festival Photos

September 19, 2012 / Fishtown / News
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Fishtown Festival

The Fishtown Festival, part of the 2012 Leland Heritage Celebration, was a wonderful day! Thanks to all of this year’s visitors, supporters, partner organizations, volunteers and sponsors. We hope you had a great time (including enjoying a bowl of whitefish chowder!), while helping to preserve Fishtown. For photos and highlights, see below. Don’t forget to […]

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Fishtown Preservation
Office location and hours
203 E. Cedar Street
P.O. Box 721
Leland, MI 49654M-F 9:00-4:00 (year-round)
(231) 256-8878
(231) 256-2517 (fax)
[email protected]
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    Established in 1992, Bel Lago began serving wine on the edge of Lake Leelanau in 1999. Today, our northern Michigan winery is known for crafting...

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