Category Archives: Community

Google Search Stories: Ypsilanti’s SolarYpsi Project

YouTube and Google have a feature called “Search Stories” about people who are using Google’s search to find new ways of doing things. One of the people they profile is Dave Strenski of Ypsilanti, who you can learn more about in the video below. Dave and some like-minded individuals created SolarYpsi in 2005 with the [...]

February is National Cherry Month!

Michigan Cherries by jdurchen Did you know that Michigan is the largest producer of Montmorency tart cherries, growing 70-75% of the crop? February is National Cherry Month, and the Cherry Marketing Institute (link below) has bushels of info about the history and present state of the cherry industry including growing research showing that antioxidants in tart [...]

February Michigan Event Calendar

Iron Works #2 – Cranbrook by MikeRyu Our Michigan February Event Calendar shows that the more the weather tries to keep us holed up, the more ways we find to get out and have fun!! Of course, there’s still many, many more and we invite you to fill us in on other February events in [...]

What’s great about the Great Lakes State?

Michigan officially became a state on January 26, 1837 which was a Thursday as well! Many (many) more fun facts at #Mich175 = Happy 175th Birthday Michigan!! on Michigan in Pictures. We continue our Michigan’s 175th Birthday Bash giveaway today. What’s more, we’ve had so much fun doing a giveaway a day that we’re going to see [...]

Seeking Michigan: Michigan’s “Birth Certificate” Comes Home

By LeRoy Barnett, Michigan History Magazine and courtesy Seeking Michigan and the Archives of Michigan. The goal of Seeking Michigan is simple: to connect you to the stories of this great state. Visit them regularly for a dynamic & evolving look at Michigan’s cultural heritage and see more stories from Seeking Michigan at Absolute Michigan. Note: [...]

Michigan’s 175th Birthday Bash!

Photo by Aunt Owwee On January 26, 1837 President Andrew Jackson signed a bill declaring Michigan the 26th state of the union.  That means the Great Lakes State turns 175 next Thursday. That seemed like a pretty big milestone to us, and to celebrate, we’re throwing Michigan’s 175th Birthday Bash and giving out a week’s worth [...]

Why We Went Dark

Along with many sites on the Web, Absolute Michigan went dark on January 18th to protest a pair of truly awful bills that are on a fast-track for passage, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA). Neither of these new laws would stop piracy, which Absolute Michigan [...]

The Legend of Heikki Lunta

Now I’ll sing my song
, to make the snow come down And I’ll do my snow dance
. Whoops! I almost lost my pants I’ll holler and yell,
 And really give it —- It’s Heikki’s snow dance song, 
Heikki’s snow dance song ~from the original Heikki Lunta Snowdance Song This weekend (January 20-21), the annual Heikki [...]

Martin Luther King’s Last Visit to Detroit

I have a dream this afternoon that my four little children, that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that I came up within, but they will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not the color of their skin. I have a dream this [...]

Invasive Species in the National Parks

Goby by swatzo Last year the National Park Service produced a series of short documentaries exploring invasive species in the Great Lakes. The series was funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative showing how invaders are changing the ecosystems in national parks and what’s being done to stop them. All four of them are available [...]