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Make it a Michigan Vacation in 2008!

May 5, 2008 – 7:25 am

Ludington State Park, Big Sable Light
by Through Joanne's eye
Last month tourism experts from Michigan State University delivered a less than rosy forecast for Michigan's tourism industry at the Driving Tourism 2008 conference. Also see the full Michigan Tourism 2008 presentation (PDF). The report projected that poor economic indicators on the state and national level and [...]

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The Voice of the Lone Ranger Rides Again

April 10, 2008 – 8:56 am

Who was that masked man?
Kee-mo-sah-bee.
Hi-yo, Silver away!
Anyone over the age of fifty in Michigan, or anywhere else for that matter, instantly recognizes these phrases. They are the tried and true marks of one of America’s most trusted heroes: the Lone Ranger.
What few people in Michigan know is that The Lone Ranger was a Detroit creation [...]

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Discussing Michigan farming & agritourism

April 9, 2008 – 7:53 am

Fair Evening by CaptPiper
Interlochen Public Radio's Points North program recently spoke with Michigan Department of Agriculture Director Donald Koivisto about many aspects of farming in Michigan like biofuels and value added agriculture along with challenges to farming operations like food safety, water withdrawals, re-zoning and taxes on farms and availability of migrant labor. Agriculture is [...]

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The Week for March 24-30, 2008

March 24, 2008 – 8:55 am

Sandhill Cranes 1 by C.A. Mullhaupt
We're in the first full week of spring, which of course means that there's big piles of snow on the ground and even the Easter Bunny is feeling the cold. CA says that sandhill cranes are migrating back through Michigan in mid-March and that she captured this pair was at [...]

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The Week for March 17-23, 2008

March 17, 2008 – 12:01 pm

Detroit Night Walk 03/14/2008 by army71rich
Welcome to another installment of The Week - our place for comments and links to news from the week, interesting blog posts, cool video and media, coming events, new web sites added to Absolute Michigan.
According to our Michigan March Event Calendar, events tap this week around Michigan include ArtServe Michigan's [...]

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Michigan Books: Up in Honey's Room by Elmore Leonard

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 [...]

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Michigan Books: Stealing Buddha's Dinner: A Memoir by Bich Minh Nguyen

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 [...]

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Michigan Books: Sailing Grace by John Otterbacher

January 24, 2008 – 9:34 am

Sailing Grace by John Otterbacher (Samadhi Press) is the story of former Michigan legislator John Otterbacher of Grand Rapids surmounting the challenges of 8 heart surgeries in 8 months. From the Sailing Grace web site (where you can also see a lot of cool photos from the trip):
This true story, narrated with present-tense immediacy, begins [...]

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Absolute Michigan: The Week for January 13, 2008

January 14, 2008 – 9:23 am

The third episode of The Week features more Michigan Notable Books, author Tom Bissell, the the 2008 Detroit Auto Show and a great iceboating video from our video group, and lots of photos from the Absolute Michigan pool.

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Michigan Books: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

January 7, 2008 – 10:00 am

Elijah of Buxton was written by Christopher Paul Curtis and published by Scholastic. Curtis is the winner of the Michigan Library Associations 2005 Michigan Author Award and has also received the Coretta Scott King Medal and the prestigious Newbery Medal.
This story for young adults is set in Buxton, Ontario. In it, Curtis explores the growth [...]

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