Family Trips by brandonjb
Michigan's Adventure, the state's largest amusement park was originally founded as the 'Deer Park', a petting zoo in 1956. It eventually was renamed 'Deer Park Funland' and then in 1988 after a coaster, the 'Wolverine Wildcat' was added, it obtain it's current moniker of 'Michigan's Adventure'. The park was bought by [...]
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You can get a higher quality version from the official web site Asparagus: Stalking the American Life (where you can also buy the DVD which supports family farmers) and also at Media That Matters, where you can also read an explanation of this interesting project from director/poducers Kirsten Kelly and Anne de Mare, who write:
Three [...]
By farlane
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As part of our celebration of Michigan Wine Month, we'll be featuring excerpts on each of Michigan's five wine trails (and one taking you beyond the trails) from the Michigan Notable Book award-winning From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries.
(Lake Michigan Shore and Fennville AVAs)
The Lake Michigan Shore viticultural area, with its blend of northern continental [...]
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March 14, 2008 – 10:24 am
Renowned author Carl Sandburg loved Lake Michigan. In many ways, it influenced his writing. From 1928 until 1945, Sandburg and his family, which included three daughters, called Michigan home. During these years, he lived in the sand dunes in the southwestern Lower Peninsula. It was there that he produced some of his best known [...]
By farlane
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January 11, 2008 – 8:59 am
Southwest Michigan is the first stop on our tour of Michigan's great new and used bookstores. As always, we love it when you let us know about the ones we've missed in the comments!
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 Springs
This will is [...]
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September 7, 2007 – 9:09 am
Seth & May at Dunegrass by Andy McFarlane
The Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun is sending blogger Eric Baerren and photographer Lisa Yanick to this year's Wheatland Music Festival. They'll be sending us updates as we have them and we'll try to pass them along to you from this page. You can also check the Morning Sun's [...]
By farlane
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pig races by radiospike
A sampling of Michigan festivals & events for the month of September. 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.
August 18 - September 30
Michigan Renaissance Festival- Holly (Open Weekends and [...]
Train to Kalamazoo by P4T
We've been slacking a bit in stocking our Absolute Michigan station on chime.tv, but our video team has just unveiled a veritable videographic Kalamazooapalooza (see also Kalamazoo, Michigan photos on Michigan in Pictures).
We have an EDC style tour of Kalamazoo from Southwest Michigan First, Katie Couric looking at the Kalamazoo [...]
By farlane
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Surfing Michigan by farlane
We've pulled together a great collection of Great Lakes surfing videos on our Michigan Station at chime.tv including:
The best of the bunch is what appears to be a TV special on Grand Haven filmmaker Vince Deur's movie Unsalted. the 7 minute short introduces you to the history and present day of Great [...]
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