August 13, 2008 – 1:36 pm
Situated approximately half way between Detroit and Chicago and home to Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo is the second of Michigan's regions that we are exploring this month. Our goal with this series of articles is to give you a little taste of some great vacation opportunities that are probably less than a tank of gas [...]
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August 7, 2008 – 11:32 am
Traverse City is the largest city in Northwest Lower Michigan, and the first of Michigan's regions that we are exploring this month. Our goal with this series of articles is to give you a little taste of some great vacation opportunities that are probably less than a tank of gas away, so if you have [...]
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Sleeping Bear Dunes by StrudelMonkey
The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore headlines itself "The best nature escape in the Midwest" and though I certainly have strong ties to the Dunes, I feel confident saying it's top 5 at the very least.
The October 21, 1970 Act of Congress that established the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore declared [...]
January 30, 2008 – 10:28 am
The latest of our Absolute Michigan "Weird Wednesdays" (held the last Wednesday of every month) is an excerpt (I think) from the forthcoming Strange Michigan: More Wolverine State Weirdness by Linda S. Godfrey and Lisa Shiel. Linda is the author of Weird Michigan.
In May, 2005, in Macomb County Circuit Court, one Elaine Lee, aka Elaine [...]
January 21, 2008 – 6:00 pm
The latest episode of the week is also the last for a little while. We'll still be doing video though so stay tuned!
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January 7, 2008 – 11:05 am
The second episode of The Week features more from Michigan Notable Books on Alden B Dow and Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project, southern Michigan's big snow and a blizzard of photos from the Absolute Michigan pool.
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December 20, 2007 – 8:54 am
Old Downtown by cmu chem prof
Of course Absolute Michigan is all about buying what gifts you can through the web sites of Michigan's shops, stores and manufacturers. However, as the clock ticks down, shipping times mean you're probably going to have to finish up offline.
Our Michigan shopping section can help there too with hundreds of [...]
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December 13, 2007 – 10:18 am
The word of the week on Absolute Michigan this week was "toy" and one of the things we learned is that Lionel Model Trains are based right here in Michigan!
The Northwest Special Freight Train features a GP38 diesel locomotive, boxcar, 2-bay hopper, operating searchlight car, caboose and some Lionel FasTrack sections to get you going. [...]
December 7, 2007 – 10:06 am
Celebrate the Mackinac Bridge's 50th birthday with this Mackinac Bridge 50th Anniversary (1957 - 2007) puzzle from Barn House Puzzle. The 15 x 21" puzzle features a photo by John Russell and is 513 pieces.
Barn House Puzzle features distinctive jigsaw puzzles that stimulate learning and make great gifts. If they've run out of these Mackinac [...]
November 29, 2007 – 9:01 am
At just under four inches long when folded, the Travel Folding Cribbage Set is great to take on any trip, and it even comes with playing cards. It's a must-have for any cribbage fan.
The Drueke Company was founded in 1914 in Grand Rapids, filling the gap left when World War I made it impossible to [...]
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