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A print & digital magazine including travelogues, lifestyle profiles, literature, music and document

A print & digital magazine including travelogues, lifestyle profiles, literature, music and documentaries that all showcase the young and established creatives whose work and lives form the greater community we call Northern Michigan. The magazine publishes several articles in each issue and includes multi-media elements with each piece.

09/21/2026

In our Fall Issue, we tell how in Traverse City became a beacon for community-supported and locally-loved outdoor recreation, and the importance of fostering these spaces from generation to generation. ⛷️🚴

Come join us at Mt. Holiday on September 30th 6pm-8pm for our Fall Issue Release Party! 🙌🏼 We’ll have readings from our contributors, and there will be drinks, food, and plenty of outdoor space to soak in the first days of fall. 🍻🍂

See below for a preview of the story by Mt. Holiday Board Co-President Erin Robinson Hutt and to read the rest of her story, make sure you secure a copy now with a print subscription, available from our online shop (link in bio)

Here is an excerpt from Erin’s story:
“A local architect drew plans. Someone approached the Coast Guard, which was getting rid of materials from old barracks. Beams were repurposed for the lodge. People volunteered their expertise, labor, and time.

From the beginning, Holiday was built for the community, by the community.

In those early years, Mt. Holiday became the place to go after school in the winter. There was no coordination among parents, no cell phones to communicate plans. You simply went to Holiday. Everyone would be there. A free bus took kids to the hill, parents picked up neighborhood kids on their way over, and the Record-Eagle established a ski school. One photo from 1961 shows a family season pass costing $10.

“It was what Traverse City was,” Denny says. “It’s just what you did in the winter.””

09/11/2026

In our Fall Issue, the unsung impact of a northern Michigan nonprofit, Conservation Resource Alliance, through the eyes of a freshly appointed guest to the river care party that is the Conservation Resource Alliance 🌊🌲

See below for a preview of the story and to read the full essay, make sure you get your issue by purchasing a Print Subscription at the shop link in our bio, or even better, come out to the Fall Issue Release Party on September 30th at to experience Tori reading from her story, and purchase your copy there! 🍻

Here is an excerpt from Tori’s essay:
“Starting my role at Conservation Resource Alliance (CRA) felt like arriving late to a very cool party that I’d been dying to get invited to. The other attendees are outfitted in perfectly curated earth tones, discussing topics that make me feel like I belong at the kids’ table, and moving through the space with the confidence of someone who knows the difference between a brook trout and a brown trout.

Though I arrived at CRA with the foundational skills for my role as engagement specialist, I quickly realized how little I knew about rivers compared with teammates who’d dedicated their careers to caring for them. Some had been doing this work at CRA since the days of oversized flannels, Foo Fighters and Oasis playing on pocket radios, and before I’d even popped into existence.

CRA has long operated in a somewhat niche realm of conservation, doing critical work that has only recently begun attracting mainstream attention. Dam removals and stream crossing replacements aren’t inherently sexy—unless you’re an aquatic species finally able to travel upstream to new spawning grounds, expanding a dating pool once restricted to your siblings and cousins. But as extreme weather brings flooding and road washouts, aging dams and undersized stream crossings are finding themselves in the public spotlight.”

09/04/2026

Our Fall Issue Release Party will be Sept. 30th 6-8pm at ! 🙌🏼 As with past Fall Issues, the release party also serves as the opening night party for the Michigan Outdoor Summit, which always turns out to be a banger. 🍻

We’ll have readings from our contributors, including a couple from a collaboration with The Summit, and there will be drinks, food, and if the weather permits, there is plenty of outdoor space to soak in the first days of Autumn. 🍂 Looking forward to seeing you all on September 30th at Mt Holiday!

The Fall Issue ‘26 features —

- The story of Mt. Holiday | Traverse City by Erin Hutt
- A profile of Conservation Resource Alliance by Tori Westmoreland Wolever and Gavin MacDonald
- A Great Lakes adventure story by Tina Nowakowski
- The origin story of by Dennis Heathfield
- A deeply heartfelt essay by Casey Jo Graham Welmers with photography by Beth Price 📷 (see above photo!)
- Poetry by the one-and-only Michael Delp (Michael Delp)

09/02/2026

Very excited to announce that our short film with artist Dana Falconberry is premiering at Fresh Coast Film Festival festival in Marquette 🙌🏼 Oct. 15th-18th. Part music video, part artistic study – this portrait of Dana follows her from inspiration to finished piece as she combines paint and traditional chain-stitching to create a multi-layered scene ✨

Featuring artwork & music by Dana Falconberry and special thanks to Matt Voight of V GALLERY for providing some stellar studio space👏🏼

09/01/2026

gearing up for the Fall Issue while looking back at Summer ☀️ 🌊 If you haven’t yet, sign up for our newsletter at the link here (https://www.theboardmanreview.com/newsletter) for the Fall Issue announcement coming this Friday! ✨

07/14/2026

In our Summer Issue, we feature a collection of beachy Leelanau verses from a trio of poets honoring places and moments connected by the peninsula — , Michael Dickmam and

For more ~beachy summer verses~, make sure to grab an issue today on our website or check in with one of our amazing stockists! (links to both in our bio)

Please enjoy a sample poem from Paul Baumbusch:

At peak, Time sneaks away
To eavesdrop from the door

As all the humans play
Along the sunset shore

Horizons burn and burn
The bonfire doesn’t end

Lovers ever yearn
A friend remains a friend

October’s far away
And April’s long ago

We dally and delay
We take the evening slow

Listening to our laughter
Time chuckles in his way

Aware of what comes after
The bracing light of day

Soon he’ll come to scold us
Marching to the beach

He cautioned us, he told us
Forever’s out of reach.

06/26/2026

Summer Issue ‘26 Cover Reveal! ☀️ This image of farmer and low key wordsmith Nic Theisen of and was taken by none other than , decidedly our most featured cover photographer. While Nic has been busy with his summer crops, we snuck in (with permission) a feature story celebrating two of his unique gifts: vegetable growing/preparation, and writing. You can now purchase a Summer Issue at our website shop 🙌🏼(link in our bio) and in stores soon!

Also, speaking of Farm Club, make your way up into the county this coming Monday, June 29th for our Summer Issue Release Party. The event will go from 6pm to 8pm, the kitchen will be closed, but there will be snacks and drinks! As always, there will be readings from our contributors, music, and just great conversation. See you all there! 🍻

06/20/2026

From childhood visits to Tamarack Gallery to launching decades later, a Leelanau County couple explores creativity, local identity, and the importance of protecting the places that shape us.

To read more of the story about V Gallery in Omena, purchase a print subscription today at the link in our bio or grab a copy at our upcoming Summer Issue Release Party at on June 29th, from 6pm to 8pm. We hope to see you there! 🍻

Here is an excerpt from Matt’s story:
“Leelanau County deserves to stay the kind of place that feels distinct from everywhere else. As we’ve watched it change, many of us have realized that if we want our children to grow up with even a piece of what made this area so special for us, we have to stay involved and protect its character. It’s mesmerizing to watch our six-year-old and almost five-year-old fall in love with the same magic that shaped our own childhoods; Barb’s Bakery, Happy Hour, our favorite hiking trails and beaches, and of course the fascination and appreciation of local art. Progress is inevitable, and not all change is bad, but there’s a difference between helping a community grow and sanding away the quirks, traditions, and local character that made people want to come here in the first place. Keeping a gallery in Omena felt like one small way to hold the line.”

06/15/2026

In our Summer Issue, Rachel Zemanek of .nomi gives a heartfelt reflection on books, banned stories, and the importance of protecting spaces, where people can gather, learn, and feel connected through literature and community 📚🌲with photography by ✨

See below for an excerpt from her story and Rachel will be selling books at our Summer Issue Release Party at on June 29th, from 6pm to 8pm. We hope to see you there! 🍻

Here is an excerpt from Rachel’s story:
“One thing about readers is that they are resilient and stubborn. They have their rituals, and they are not to be messed with. Even audiobook readers purchase physical copies of the book to put on their shelf. The feeling of holding a piece of someone’s soul in your hands cannot and will not be taken away. I followed some of the trends but could never bring myself to buy a Kindle or e-reader. There is a certain tactile stimulation one gets from leafing through the pages of a good book. The smell, the feel, the binding, the movie playing through your imagination.

When I decided to take this journey on a freezing cold February morning with my face plastered in the window of what would become more than I could have ever imagined just six weeks later, I didn’t know all the facts. I had no clue how to run a bookstore. I had never worked retail. I had spent the last ten years in the world of blood, guts, and fire as a first responder. Books were my escape from the brutal reality of the back alleys of life.”

04/30/2026

Our film THE LAST TO LEAVE is coming to the 2026 Traverse City festival! The film is part of the “Problem-Solving” shorts block and is showing Friday 12pm at and Sunday 10am at 🌲

A production from & in partnership with / .

See below for more about the film. We hope to see you there!

“In 2006, Kathleen Knight was doing some research in an Ohio forest. All around her were hundreds of beautiful, healthy ash trees. But when she returned just three years later, it was a completely different scene.

“And that was kind of our moment of shock saying, ‘Wow, they’re all dead,’” Kathleen remembered.

A destructive, invasive beetle, emerald ash borer, was wiping out ash trees. First across the Great Lakes region and, eventually, all over North America.

So, Kathleen left the dead trees, and headed back to her car. That’s when she spotted a single ash tree, alive and thriving in the midst of destruction. At first she was really confused. Why did this tree survive? She had to find the answer to that question, because it could save an entire species from extinction.”

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