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Michigan morels and the Boyne City Mushroom Festival

May 6, 2008 – 10:30 am

morel mushroom by Latitude 45
The 2008 Boyne City National Morel Mushroom Festival takes place May 15-18, 2008. This year is the 48th annual, and the 4 day celebration of the morel mushroom includes a morel seminar and guided mushroom hunt on Friday and of course the Boyne Valley Lions National Mushroom Hunt on on Saturday [...]

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Marquette, Michigan - 'Paradise Found'

March 27, 2008 – 7:22 am

NW vista by DA2Brian
Marquette, MI has been named one of the top 200 places in the U.S. for sportsmen and women to put their roots down in the April edition of Outdoor Life magazine.
These places exist in every state, towns where you can step out your back door with a fly rod or a shotgun [...]

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Photo Friday: Holloway Reservoir Dam-Genesee County, MI by Terry Doyle

February 8, 2008 – 12:43 pm

Terry doesn't have a whole ton of photos online yet, but he offers some neat views of the Flint area from Stepping Stone Falls to scenes from around Genessee to everyday life.

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Ice Fishing: Bass, Pike & Pat Benatar

February 7, 2008 – 8:13 am

It was pointed out that Absolute Michigan had a complete lack of music videos featuring fish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMir9dVYXlA

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Weird Michigan: Antlers Taxidermy Restaurant, Sault Ste. Marie

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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Michigan Word of the Week: Turkey

November 19, 2007 – 11:29 am

turkeys by The Amazing Mr. Keebler
The fall turkey hunting season ended yesterday (November 18th). The spring season is from April 23 to March 31 (so that means you'll have to continue the hunt for your holiday feast below). The Michigan DNR's wild turkey page has more info about Michigan's turkeys and there's more from Michigan [...]

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Roundup: Opening Day of Michigan deer hunting season

November 15, 2007 – 9:20 am

Buck on the run by oakwood
Opening day of deer season probably ranks pretty high in the list of Michigan holidays. I know a lot of businesses that will be closed for the next few days in recognition that their employees would just be out sick with deer fever. As I write this, the light rain [...]

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Senate hands Bush first veto on water bill

November 8, 2007 – 3:15 pm

A Peaceful Ending by suesue2
The Detroit News just reported that the US Senate voted 79-to-14 to override President Bush's veto and authorize $23 billion of water projects nationwide. The override is the first of the Bush Presidency and the Senate followed the House's 361-54 vote to override. Michigan's entire delegation in the Senate AND House [...]

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Five Things You Need to Know for Tuesday, November 6 2007

November 6, 2007 – 7:35 am

It's an off-year Election Day edition of Five Things You Need to Know about Michigan. Despite the lack of big name offices to decide, there's a lot of the nuts and bolts decisions to make about schools and local government. The Secretary of State reminds you to bring your photo ID to the polls for [...]

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Michigan History: Up North with the Hemingways

October 29, 2007 – 6:47 am

After entirely too long, we welcome back Michigan History Magazine!
Spending time "up north" in Michigan is one of summer's special delights. The rituals are repeated year after year--making friends (and saying goodbye), enjoying beautiful water and longing all winter for the next summer.
A century ago, the Clarence and Grace Hemingway family summered in northern Michigan. [...]