Category Archives: Dig Michigan Features

Seeking Michigan: From Soda Pop to the Clouds

By Mary Zimmeth, Archives of Michigan, Archives of Michigan, courtesy Seeking 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. A Love of Airplanes Marion “Babe” Weyant of Lansing, Michigan loved airplanes. She [...]

Photo Friday: Touch by angela7dreams

This photo is part of the 5 senses garden sculpture at the Children’s Gardenat the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids. If you’ve never been to the gardens be sure to put it on your places to visit in 2010. Currently you can check out “Butterflies Are Blooming” which is their most [...]

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Michigan

2011 Michigan St. Patrick’s Day Events St. Patrick’s Day Parade – Detroit Sponsored by the United Irish Societies in metro Detroit, the parade runs along Michigan Avenue in the area known as “Corktown”, so called because of the many immigrants that came and settled here from County Cork. The parade travels down a dozen or [...]

2010 Michigan Brewers Guild Winter Beer Festival

The 5th Annual Winter Beer Festival will take place Saturday, February 27th, 2010 at the Fifth Third Ballpark in Comstock Park, just north of Grand Rapids. The Winter Festival is a unique opportunity to sample some of the best beers in the world, all brewed in Michigan. The organizers are expecting more than 35 Michigan [...]

Love & Wine in Northern Michigan

Taste the Passion 2011 – February 5&6, 2011. Cabin fever taking hold? Well here are a couple of great reasons to embrace winter in northern Michigan. The Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association presents “Taste the Passion ~ Wine, Chocolate & Love”. The following weekend as part of the Cherry Capital Winter WonderFest is the “Traverse City [...]

Michigan Books: Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg

Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg (Hyperion). The fear of mental illness hits deep into the psyche, and that terror brings about this fascinating book of research into family genealogy, personal history and secrets long held. It all started when Detroit native Steve Luxenberg began to discover some discrepancies in [...]

Michigan Books: American Salvage: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell

American Salvage: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell (Wayne State University Press). In these stories about cold, lonely, working-class Michigan life, Campbell creates a world where salvation counterbalances loss and despair, and she leaves the reader with a sense of hope and belief things will get better. Campbell’s daring stories and exceptional writing create an image [...]

Lansing Family Christmas 2009

A group of gifted musician friends from Michigan decided to get together by recording some holiday music and posting it up for all to hear. We think the songs sound great so pop over to their web page and hear their renditions of classics such as Baby it’s Cold Outside, Little Drummer Boy, Holy Night [...]

Congratulations Coach Izzo!

MSU head basketball coach Tom Izzo has surpassed his predecessor Jud Heathcote with 341 wins for the school record of all time wins following a 106 to 68 trouncing of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After having had served as the assistant head coach under Jud, Izoo was named head coach after his retirement following [...]

2009 Absolute Michigan Holiday Gift Guide

Photo by Cherie S. Think Globally, Shop Locally with our Michigan Holiday Gift Guide, designed to help you find the perfect Michigan gifts online or off. Feel free to add your Michigan based gift suggestions in the comments section below! The photo in this post was taken by Cherie S. and is titled “Don’t worry [...]