Category Archives: The Michigan Pages: History

of Farms & Folly: Michigan Department of History, Arts & Libraries

August 5, 2009 – 8:01 am

Over on Michigan in Pictures there's a post this morning titled Farming in Michigan in the 1880s that features an excerpt from a Michigan farmer's diary from the 1880s.
It also looks at the proposed elimination of the Michigan Department of History, Arts & Libraries (HAL). In a move that lies somewhere between shortsighted and Visigoth, Michigan's [...]

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Cruising the Great Lakes Past, Present and Future

May 19, 2009 – 6:16 pm

A Brief History of Cruising the Great Lakes
Although pleasure boating and shipping have held steady over the years another form of once popular vacation travel is making a regal comeback - seeing the Great Lakes by passenger ship. According to the Great Lakes Cruising Coalition it was 1865 when it first became established upon the [...]

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Blogs We Dig: Dusty Diary ….An Exploration of the Ypsilanti Archives

May 13, 2009 – 10:36 am

'Dusty Diary ....An Exploration of the Ypsilanti Archives' is billed as a blog that seeks to unearth and expose both the historical and quirky items founds in it's official archives. We found ourselves immersed in some of the more odd posts on the blog such as an old ballot proposal that sought to permit the [...]

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A belated 97th birthday tribute to "The Corner"

April 21, 2009 – 4:59 pm

Last "Everything" at Tiger Stadium by RichKD
Tiger Stadium from Wikipedia
Tiger Stadium (formerly known as Navin Field and Briggs Stadium) is a stadium located in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan. It hosted the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team from 1912 to 1999, as well as the National Football League's Detroit Lions from 1938 to [...]

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Remembering Mark "The Bird" Fidrych

April 14, 2009 – 6:59 am

Yesterday Mark "The Bird" Fidrych died in an accident on his Massachusetts farm at the age of 54. I read a lot of words about Fidrych, who had one magical season in 1976 at the very height of my own love of baseball. I think the best were written by Michael Rosenberg who also wrote [...]

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Trout Fishing in Michigan in the 1950s

April 13, 2009 – 10:46 am

Seeking Michigan has a cool video from the 1950s by Walter Hastings about trout fishing, trolling, spincasting, and fly fishing on Michigan lakes.

Fishing Fun from Seeking Michigan on Vimeo.
Much more Michigan history at Seeking Michigan.

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Talking Baseball … Detroit Tigers Opening Day 2009

April 6, 2009 – 9:19 am

What better way to get in the mood for Opening Day that the Detroit Tigers classic Talking Baseball featuring some classic Detroit Tiger baseball cards?

Justin Verlander gets the start at 7:15 PM in Toronto. The Tigers home opener is Friday at 1:05 vs the Texas Rangers.

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Seeking Michigan: Your Michigan History super site!

March 20, 2009 – 7:24 am

Computers in the 1950s by Seeking Michigan
The Department of History, Arts and Libraries has launched the Seeking Michigan Web site (www.seekingmichigan.org), a growing collection of unique historical information that - through digitized source documents, maps, films, images, oral histories and artifacts - creatively tells the stories of Michigan's families, homes, businesses, communities and landscapes. The [...]

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Weird Wednesday: The Joker's Ghost

February 25, 2009 – 10:58 am

The last Wednesday of every month is a "Weird Wednesday" on Absolute Michigan.
According to maritime historian Wes Oleszewski - via Haunted Great Lakes where you can read about their investigations and perhaps a second ghost at "Wobble Shanks" - the ghost story belonging to Waugoshance is always the first told by lighthouse enthusiasts and [...]

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"I've Got a Home in Glory Land" Free Lecture and Book Signing – Feb. 8, 2009 Lansing, MI

February 4, 2009 – 2:53 pm

In celebration of Black History Month, the Michigan Freedom Trail Commission is sponsoring a free, public lecture by Dr. Karolyn Smardz Frost, author of "I've Got a Home in Glory Land" - an account of the experiences of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, two Kentucky slaves who made a daring escape, only to be recaptured in [...]

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