Category Archives: Grand Rapids

Michigan Restaurants: The Fleetwood Diner in Ann Arbor, Lansing & Kentwood

February 5, 2008 – 9:21 am

Fleetwood Mohawk by aTanguay
Food at the Fleetwood Diner is, as one might expect, no-frills, hot as blazes and delicately flavored with whatever else has been on the grill all day. This is a good thing. Come here for all manner of eggs, bacon, sausage, etc., burgers the way you want them, greasy fries, BLTs, tuna [...]

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Michigan Restaurants: Rosie's Diner in Rockford, Michigan

February 4, 2008 – 10:19 am

Rosie's Diner by bellzatk
All month on Absolute Michigan we'll be featuring Michigan restaurants. Week one is Diners & Hometown Favorites and the first of these is "the original queen of diners and the most famous diner in the world." Rosie's was featured in the Bounty paper towel commercials that starred Nancy Walker as Rosie the [...]

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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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Shop Michigan: Travel Folding Cribbage Set from Drueke

November 29, 2007 – 9:01 am

At just under four inches long when folded, the Travel Folding Cribbage Set is great to take on any trip, and it even comes with playing cards. It's a must-have for any cribbage fan.
The Drueke Company was founded in 1914 in Grand Rapids, filling the gap left when World War I made it impossible to [...]

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The Ultimate Sacrifice: Remembering Michigan's Veterans

November 10, 2007 – 8:06 am

The Ultimate Sacrifice - Black and White, photo by DarrinW.
Copied from Michigan in Pictures.
Darrin took this photo at Veterans Cemetery in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I think it's a good idea for everyone to take a pause in their activity this weekend to consider the profound sacrifices that so many have made on the behalf [...]

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Michigan Ghost Stories: The Ada Witch

October 17, 2007 – 9:21 am

It was a rather stormy, wintry day... thus begins a cool and chilling recollection that is my favorite video so far of the Halloween season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPoXdiJd_Cg

Shadowlands Haunted Places of Michigan relates:
Sometimes you can see a misty blue figure floating within a 3-mile radius of the Ada Cemetery on 2 Mile between Egypt Valley and Honey Creek. [...]

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Fall Color Tours: Lansing - Grand Ledge - Hastings - Battle Creek - Eaton Rapids

October 17, 2007 – 9:06 am

Our next fall color tour from Travel Michigan, Lansing - Grand Ledge - Hastings - Battle Creek - Eaton Rapids, starts where the photo the the right (maplepath by Aunt Owwee) was taken: at the Fenner Nature Center in Lansing (once known as the Fenner Arboretum). The park is named after biologist Carl G. [...]

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Photo Friday: Ready for Picking by oldbrushes

September 21, 2007 – 9:26 am

Kathy has been a member of the Absolute Michigan group on Flickr (where we get the photos for our Photo Fridays and most of our features) for a long time.
She lives in Grand Rapids and spends a lot of time out and about with her camera, in the farms & fields of "the Ridge" (where [...]

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West Michigan Whitecaps: Midwest League Champs!

September 17, 2007 – 9:43 am

Untitled by emjsmith
The West Michigan Whitecaps of Grand Rapids, a Class A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers, are the first team to repeat as Midwest League champions in 23 years after an 11-5 victory at Beloit in game five of the Midwest League Championship Series on Saturday. It is the third title in [...]

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