Tower of Power by docksidepress
Heritage Hill has 1,300 homes that date from 1848 and representing over 60 architectural styles. To understand just how diverse these styles can be, visit the Voight House Museum, a beautiful example of Queen Anne architecture and then walk a few blocks over to the Meyer May house which was Frank [...]
By maude
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Pickle Barrel House by agilitynut
Here's a fun one!
Two huge barrels make up this unique and much-loved landmark that has been restored and opened back up as a museum. The house was built for William Donahey creator of the Teenie Weenie comic cartoon feature by a grocery distributor grateful for the attention that the Teenie [...]
February 18, 2008 – 10:33 am
For more than a decade, Five Lakes Grill has ranked as one of the nation's most respected restaurants, drawing food enthusiasts not only from the metro Detroit area but from throughout the state and across the country.
Chef Brian Polcyn (who developed his skills at two of Michigan's most prestigious restaurants, the Golden Mushroom and the [...]
February 8, 2008 – 9:59 am
Jerry Linenger is one of more than a dozen Michiganians who have been (or still are) astronauts. Born in 1955 in Eastpoint (a Detroit suburb), Linengar graduated from East Detroit High School and earned a degree from Wayne State University. After many years of hard work, schooling and experience in the military, Linengar was accepted [...]
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 30, 2008 – 8:41 am
Up in Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard (William Morrow) is set in Detroit in 1945. U.S. Marshal Carl Webster hopes to use the free-spirited Honey Deal to track down a pair of escaped German POW's hiding out with Honey's ex-husband, Walter (a dead ringer for Himmler). Complete with German spies, a transvestite killer, and Nazi [...]
By farlane
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January 29, 2008 – 10:48 pm
Gloria Whelan was born November 23, 1923 in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from the University of Michigan and became a social worker. In 1972, the Whelans tired of the hectic pace of the city and moved to Oxbow Lake near Mancelona in northern Michigan. After an oil company that owned the mineral rights to [...]
January 29, 2008 – 9:10 am
Sweety Pies: An Uncommon Collection of Womanish Observations, with Pie by Patty Pinner (Taunton Press) was written by a Saginaw native Patty Pinner who gathered 70 prized pie recipes from the women in her life.
What distinguishes this book is its utterly beguiling storytelling - each recipe is accompanied by a story told on the woman [...]
January 28, 2008 – 6:46 pm
Bruce Catton (Oct 9, 1899 - Aug 28, 1978) was a journalist and a notable historian of the American Civil War. He won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox, his study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia. He also received the Presidential Medal of [...]
January 28, 2008 – 8:19 am
Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen (Viking) is - according to author Bich Minh Nguye's web site - a story of:
As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in the 1980s in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Bich Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity. In the pre-PC era Midwest, where the [...]
