January 25, 2008 – 10:39 am
The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft edited by Robert Dale Parker (University of Pennsylvania Press) brings to the public for the first time the complete writings of the first known American Indian literary writer, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (her English name) or Bamewawagezhikaquay (her Ojibwe name), Woman [...]
January 23, 2008 – 9:17 am
Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison (Grove Press) is Harrison's ninth novel. It's the tale of Donald Burkett, a 45-year-old, terminally ill Chippewa-Finnish man who is determined to chronicle his family's history before he dies. An excellent review of Returning to Earth in the New York Times says that:
..."Returning to Earth" represents an interesting new [...]
December 10, 2007 – 11:34 am
We'll be featuring each region of Michigan this week with our Michigan Ski Tour. The first is the first place the snow falls and the lifts open: Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Read on for ski area and ski resort information & links! As always, if you have something to add: a story to tell, a helpful [...]
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November 29, 2007 – 9:12 am
...but this photo is quite delightful! The siskokid took this photo on November 22nd but I swear it could have been taken today outside my office! He says that this why they call the western end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan "Big Snow Country".
Coming in December 2007 Absolute Michigan will be helping you get [...]
November 28, 2007 – 9:12 am
The latest of our Absolute Michigan "Weird Wednesdays" (held the last Wednesday of every month) is an excerpt from the forthcoming Strange Michigan: More Wolverine State Weirdness by Linda S. Godfrey and Lisa Shiel. Linda is the author of Weird Michigan and also took the photo, which you can see larger if you click it!
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November 13, 2007 – 7:12 am
Last year we ran a story on the Manoomin Project, a program in which at-risk teens restore wild rice to Michigan's Upper Peninsula with help from American Indian tribes. Click through to read a feature by Greg Peterson about this ground-breaking Michigan initiative that's now in its 4th year. You can also scroll to the [...]
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October 24, 2007 – 11:05 am
RandomSPACE features the musings and photography of Lars Jensen. Lars explains:
Well, I'm not sure what to say about this place. As the title suggests it is mostly random stuff, although in recent times it has mostly focused on photography from my travels. I try to only put stuff on this page that is interesting [...]
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October 12, 2007 – 8:55 am
The word of the week this week on Absolute Michigan was lighthouse, so I thought I'd go to the Absolute Michigan pool and search for "lighthouse". As of this morning, there are 714, and they make a pretty nice slideshow. Rather than taking the most recent or the most interesting, I thought I'd go back [...]
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October 4, 2007 – 9:21 am
Miners Castle - October 2006
Let's jump over to the eastern side of the UP for the next color tour of Munising - Newberry - Grand Marais ... and the Pictured Rocks.
The highlight of this tour is of course the stunning Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore., (be sure to check out Lars Jensen's other Pictured Rocks galleries). [...]
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September 27, 2007 – 9:47 am
Our second fall color feature (in conjunction with Michigan in Pictures) is the Keweenaw Peninsula, way up north and surrounded by the icy waters of Lake Superior, is one of the first places in Michigan to be touched by autumn's paintbrush.
Michigan.org's Color Tour of Houghton, Eagle River, Copper Harbor starts you in the city of [...]
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