Category Archives: The Michigan Pages

Seeking Michigan: “…With the Greatest Determination…”

By By Bob Garrett, Archives of Michigan 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. [...]

The Daily Michigan: As If We Were Prey by Michael Delp

“In understated prose that remarkably says more in one sentence that many writers do in a paragraph, Delp takes us inside the head and hearts of his male characters, all of whom share a certain melancholy, both eerie and familiar, all in a style reminiscent of another up-north renowned author, Jim Harrison.” —Detroit News Today [...]

Celebrate Valentine’s Day the Michigan Way

Here’s a whole ton of Valentine’s Day ideas. YOU probably have some other ideas – share them in the comments or right here or on our Facebook! Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius by Church of One Next Tuesday, February 14th is Valentine’s Day – a day for lovers, sweethearts, paramours [...]

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 [...]

The Daily Michigan: Tropical Love Valentine’s Day Box

Our good friends at Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate in Empire are another of our featured partners for The Daily Michigan. Their chocolates are all-natural and contain many organic and other naturally grown ingredients, many grown in the garden on founder and proprieter Mimi Wheeler. This year Mimi and her staff are introducing five brand new fruits in [...]

The Daily Michigan: Two tickets to the Winter Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival

Today’s offering in The Daily Michigan is a pair of tickets to the 3rd Annual Winter Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival (must be 21 to win). The festival has so much to offer that probably the best thing we can do is give you the poster above to click on! Click here to sign up Shadows on [...]

Fly High at the Pine Mountain Ski Jumping Tournament

Every year the Kiwanis Ski Club in Iron Mountain holds the Pine Mountain Continental Cup Ski Jumping Competition, one of the best tournaments in the United world. The first competition was held in 1939, making 2012 is the 73rd annual. The event takes place the weekend of February 11-12, 2012 and will draw top US & international [...]

The Daily Michigan: 5# of Dried Cherries from Cherry Republic

Here’s the first of our new The Daily Michigan features, and one of our readers will win 5 pounds of tart cherries! All you need to do to be eligible is to let us know you want to win. We hope you’ll sign up to receive our daily email (Monday – Friday) but if that’s [...]

Michigan and the Super Bowl

Here’s the most Michigany commercial – Chrysler’s Halftime in America spot: While there’s nowhere near the degree of Michigan hype this year as there was in 2006 when Detroit hosted Super Bowl XL, we have a few points of Michigan interest for when the New England Patriots meet the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI (46) [...]

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 [...]