Category Archives: Churches & Religious Organizations

Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Keweenaw Peninsula

September 27, 2007 – 9:47 am

Our second fall color feature (in conjunction with Michigan in Pictures) is the Keweenaw Peninsula, way up north and surrounded by the icy waters of Lake Superior, is one of the first places in Michigan to be touched by autumn's paintbrush.
Michigan.org's Color Tour of Houghton, Eagle River, Copper Harbor starts you in the city of [...]

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20k

September 26, 2007 – 8:48 am

This photo was the 20,000th photo added to the Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr. For the last 2 weeks I've been watching the number climb and wondering if it would be a photo of a Michigan icon like the Mackinac Bridge (#19,999), a breaking news event like the GM strike (19,980) or even a photo [...]

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Michigan events, calendars and things to do

May 3, 2007 – 7:37 am

If you came to this page searching for a current Michigan event calendar, head to the Absolute Michigan home page and look for the current calendar

Ferris Wheel at Night by Karen McG
But is there anything to do in Michigan?
If you've ever heard this, you may have wondered how anyone could ask that given the incredible [...]

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Vol I, No. 1: Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization!

January 25, 2007 – 9:16 pm

This is a page where we asked folks to say hello. Lots of them did!
The current version of Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization is right there.

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Michigan History: St. Joseph – Wedding Capital, U.S.A.

January 25, 2007 – 8:41 am

fountain in the woods by catzinahat
Las Vegas boasts that it is America's "wedding capital." Yet, in the early years of the twentieth century, Michigan, especially the Lake Michigan town of St. Joseph, was the "wedding capital of the Midwest." Michigan marriage laws did not require residency, allowed people to marry at the age of 18 [...]

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Proposal 2 sounds like a really bad idea

October 27, 2006 – 8:33 am

Both Democratic Governor Granholm and Republican challenger Dick DeVos have voiced opposition to Proposal 2. Now former Republican Gov. William Milliken has also come out with an editorial in opposition to the measure that would end affirmative action:
In just a few weeks, the voters of Michigan will be facing an important choice that will define [...]

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Detroit's Walk To Freedom

June 22, 2005 – 6:44 pm

The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. is among America's best-recognized civil rights activists. His many accomplishments include his "I Have A Dream" speech that he gave on August 28, 1963, in Washington, DC. King, however, first gave that now-famous speech in Detroit.
In the spring of 1963, Detroiters looked for a way to commemorate the anniversary [...]

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Michigan and "The Longest Day"

June 9, 2005 – 6:37 pm

On Monday, June 6, 2005, aging allied veterans gathered on the rain-whipped beaches of northwestern France and quietly honored friends who had fallen 61 years earlier in the battle that changed the course of World War II.
In Michigan, the anniversary received little notice. But in 1944, the invasion of German-occupied Western Europe was a [...]

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