Category Archives: Museums & Collections

Road Trip: 2009 Selfridge Air Show & Open House – August 22 & 23, Harrison Township

August 20, 2009 – 3:48 pm

The 2009 Selfridge Air Show & Open House will take place on August 22nd and 23rd. Gates will be open to the public at 8 a.m. daily. Static display aircraft and countless military, aviation, and technology displays will be available to all guests daily after 8:00 a.m. A radio-controlled aircraft demonstration will take place from [...]

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of Farms & Folly: Michigan Department of History, Arts & Libraries

August 5, 2009 – 8:01 am

Over on Michigan in Pictures there’s a post this morning titled Farming in Michigan in the  1880s that features an excerpt from a Michigan farmer’s diary from the 1880s. It also looks at the proposed elimination of the Michigan Department of History, Arts & Libraries (HAL). In a move that lies somewhere between shortsighted and [...]

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Be A Tourist In Your Own Town – Lansing, May 30th

May 28, 2009 – 2:17 pm

We wanted to draw attention to this annual event in Lansing as it is something every city in Michigan should consider emulating. It is just too easy to grow into the mind set that where you reside there is absolutely nothing to do or that you have already seen it, done it, surfed it. We [...]

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Grand Rapids ArtPrize: the city is the gallery

April 24, 2009 – 7:28 am

Thanks Matt for passing this one along… inducement by powerbooktrance Yesterday the city of Grand Rapids announced the ArtPrize, a competition open to artists of all kinds from around the world that will award nearly one-half million dollars to prize winners, including $250,000 to the artist who receives the most public votes. The display and [...]

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A belated 97th birthday tribute to “The Corner”

April 21, 2009 – 4:59 pm

Last “Everything” at Tiger Stadium by RichKD Tiger Stadium from Wikipedia Tiger Stadium (formerly known as Navin Field and Briggs Stadium) is a stadium located in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan. It hosted the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team from 1912 to 1999, as well as the National Football League’s Detroit Lions from [...]

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100 Hours of Astronomy

March 26, 2009 – 2:06 pm

The 100 Hours of Astronomy project (100HA) is a worldwide event with a wide range of public outreach activities including live webcasts, observing events and more taking place during a 100-hour period in early April. One of the key goals of 100HA is to have as many people as possible look through a telescope as [...]

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Seeking Michigan: Your Michigan History super site!

March 20, 2009 – 7:24 am

Computers in the 1950s by Seeking Michigan The Department of History, Arts and Libraries has launched the Seeking Michigan Web site (www.seekingmichigan.org), a growing collection of unique historical information that – through digitized source documents, maps, films, images, oral histories and artifacts – creatively tells the stories of Michigan’s families, homes, businesses, communities and landscapes. [...]

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Friday night is Geek Night!

February 13, 2009 – 7:08 pm

Red Alert! Star Trek: The Experience by Ralph Krawczyk Jr Ralph’s Trek slideshow David Coates has produced a great preview (be sure to watch in high-quality) of the Star Trek exhibit at the Detroit Science Center. It opens tomorrow (February 14) and runs through Labor Day 2009: The show will cover about 12,000 square feet [...]

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“I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land” Free Lecture and Book Signing – Feb. 8, 2009 Lansing, MI

February 4, 2009 – 2:53 pm

In celebration of Black History Month, the Michigan Freedom Trail Commission is sponsoring a free, public lecture by Dr. Karolyn Smardz Frost, author of “I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land” – an account of the experiences of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, two Kentucky slaves who made a daring escape, only to be recaptured in [...]

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Michigan celebrates the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial

February 4, 2009 – 7:40 am

This year is the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth (Feb. 12, 2009) and the Michigan Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Committee is working to help the people of Michigan to appreciate how Lincoln’s life relates to the lives of Michiganians today. You can click over to see events & exhibits in Michigan relating to Abraham Lincoln, [...]

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