Spinners 2 by n8xd John Deere Wind Energy is now producing energy at Harvest, the state’s first commercial wind farm. The 3,200 acre installation has 32 windmills in Huron County’s Oliver and Chandler townships. According to Windmill farm starts to generate power in Huron County from mLive: A total of 32 windmills were installed last [...]
January 16, 2008 – 8:29 am
Northeast Michigan is the next stop on or bookstore tour. There must be some we’ve missed – if you know of any booksellers – with our without web sites – that we missed, add a comment! Saturn Booksellers, Gaylord Gaylord’s hometown bookstore right in the heart of the Alpine Village, is a general, independent shop [...]
December 12, 2007 – 10:19 am
The next stop on our weeklong Michigan Ski Tour is Northeast Lower Michigan… The Otsego Ski Club – Gaylord, MI As a winter destination, the Otsego Ski Club provides families with the midwests only full service private ski facility with 27 runs, 5 chairlifts and outstanding terrain for all levels of skier and snowboarder. Treetops [...]
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November 20, 2007 – 8:26 am
Exploring the wreck of the Grecian Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Most information provided by the DEQ’s Michigan Underwater Preserves page. The Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Lake Huron off Alpena was designated in 2000 as one of only 13 national marine sanctuaries in the United States. The designation created the first Great Lakes [...]
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September 19, 2007 – 9:45 am
Upper Tahquanemon Falls by JohnnyRR A sampling of Michigan festivals & events for the month of October. As usual, there’s no way we’ll get them all, so please add links and information about those we’ve missed (or reviews of ones we have here) in the comments below. October 6 The Red Flannel Festival – Cedar [...]
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August 15, 2007 – 7:44 am
Featuring Delicious locally made sausages are the best for miles around and in business since 1917, Nowicki’s Sausage Shoppe has been making homemade specialties for five generations. In 1979 Nowick’s Sausage Shoppe created the world’s longest sausage, totaling 8,773 feet. Featured in the Guinness Book of World Records, Nowicki’s Sausage Shoppe will forever be remembered [...]
Ready to start the Au Sable Canoe Marathon by JeffOYB The 60th annual AuSable River Canoe Marathon will be held next weekend (July 28 – 29, 2007). The race is billed as the longest non-stop canoe race in North America. Wikipedia’s Au Sable River Canoe Marathon entry says: The Au Sable River Canoe Marathon is [...]
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Louis Stepman was lucky. His desperate hold on thin strands of metal was the only thing keeping him from a 400-foot plunge to a watery grave. Two other men who were with him were not so lucky.On the afternoon of June 6, 1956, Louis “Big Louie” Stepman and three other workers were stringing a catwalk [...]
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2007 is the 50th Anniversary of the Mighty Mac. We’ll be telling the story of the Mackinac Bridge piece by piece here on Absolute Michigan and on Michigan in Pictures and we’ll post links to the photos and stories below. If you have some links to share, please add them in the comments. If you [...]
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Before mechanical air conditioning, U.S. presidents often left Washington, DC during the hot and steamy summers for cooler locations in the Appalachian Mountains or along the Atlantic Ocean. By the early twentieth century, Michiganians began promoting Mackinac Island as an ideal place for the summer White House.After having received a variety of Michigan appeals and [...]
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