A New Kind Of Country Christmas
By Craig Manning | Dec. 23, 2024
For decades, it was one of Leelanau County’s most beloved holiday fixtures – a retail store dedicated almost exclusively to Christmas ornaments and other yuletide décor. Country Christmas operated out of a small building on M-72 for over 35 years before closing for good in 2022. This holiday season, though, the space is abuzz once more, with the owners of Bee Joyful – a local maker of beeswax soap and other natural skin products – bringing a new look and feel to the Country Christmas building.
“I grew up right here in this area, and my parents actually lived just a few doors down from the Country Christmas store,” says …
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