Category Archives: Offbeat

Blogs We Dig: Big Binder

May 14, 2008 – 7:29 am

Wanna Blueberry? - Tahquamenon Falls State Park,
Paradise, Michigan by jfactor1
Big Binder is billed as a blog is for anyone who is looking for activities to do with young children in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area. The author writes:
An almost frightening lack of ability in the crafting area forced me 'outsource' fun things to [...]

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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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Michigan's Humongous Fungus

April 30, 2008 – 10:05 am

It's probably fitting that we close out Garden Month with the largest lifeform in Michigan: The Humongous Fungus. According to the Crystal Falls, Michigan web site (which also provided the photo):
Crystal Falls is "Home of the Humungous Fungus", perhaps the world's largest and oldest living organism. It covers 38 acres beneath an Iron County [...]

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Canadian Freeze Ray wreaks havok on Michigan

April 1, 2008 – 8:37 am

Residents of the Straits area were stunned Sunday afternoon when the Mackinac Bridge was mysteriously encased in huge blocks of ice, rendering it totally impassible. While proponents for the 51st State of Superior seized upon the event to renew calls for U.P. secession, most folks on either side of the Mighty Mac were wondering if [...]

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Weird Wednesday: Michigan UFO Sightings

March 26, 2008 – 7:39 am

Michigan is full of UFO's, from numerous sightings over Lake Superior (especially around Saulte Ste. Marie) to the tale of a radio announcer who observed one over the freeway near the Detroit airport in 1978, so close that the radio host, Marc Avery, described it as "looking up into the belly of a craft." [...]

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Michigan History: Harriet's Daring Flight

March 18, 2008 – 11:11 am

Harriet Quimby by Aerofossile2012
Harriet Quimby was always ready for a challenge. One of her biggest came on April 16, 1912, when she flew across the English Channel.
Born near Manistee, Michigan, on May 11, 1875, Harriet Quimby moved with her family to San Francisco, California, when she was a teenager. In 1903, she moved to New [...]

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Michigan Video: Iceboating on Elk Lake

March 12, 2008 – 7:20 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPguVj_4HzI

Jack & Kelly added this video of ice boating on Elk Lake from March 6, 2008 to the Absolute Michigan group on YouTube. If you have a Michigan video to share, you can do the same!
They have a lot more ice boating videos on their YouTube page and also run the Michigan Iceboat group.


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Ice Climbing and the Michigan Ice Fest

March 10, 2008 – 9:19 am

Eben6119 by ETCphoto
The Chicago Sun-Times has a cool feature on ice climbing and the annual Michigan Ice Fest by Felicia Schneiderhan. The Ice Fest is held in Munising (home to over 100 climbable waterfalls) and celebrated its 25th anniversary this year. Schneiderhan says:
Ice festivals are great for beginners since the cost of admission -- $25 [...]

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Full Moon (cabin) Fever - February 20, 2008 Eclipse

February 13, 2008 – 9:24 am

ode to moonball by postpurchase
postpurchase writes:
another image from the full moon rise from last november. unfortunately, ann arbor is located just in the right spot to receive seemingly continuous cloud cover generated by lake michigan in the winter months. i want to test my new lens out on something other than gray... aarrghh. hoping [...]

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Weird Wednesday: The Mysterious "Bad Egg" Exorcist of Utica

January 30, 2008 – 10:28 am

The latest of our Absolute Michigan "Weird Wednesdays" (held the last Wednesday of every month) is an excerpt (I think) from the forthcoming Strange Michigan: More Wolverine State Weirdness by Linda S. Godfrey and Lisa Shiel. Linda is the author of Weird Michigan.

In May, 2005, in Macomb County Circuit Court, one Elaine Lee, aka Elaine [...]

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