Category Archives: Offbeat

Michigan morels and the Boyne City Mushroom Festival

April 20, 2009 – 7:30 am

morel mushroom by Latitude 45 The Boyne City National Morel Mushroom Festival takes place May 14-17, 2009. This year is the 49th 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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Backstage at Ann Arbor’s FestiFools Parade

April 1, 2009 – 5:04 pm

Where’s Waldo? by murn On her blog Relish, photographer Myra Klarman has posted Marching toward FestiFools 2009, a great collection of photographs from snooping around the studio over the last several weeks to document the massive “behind-the-scenes” effort that goes into creating the 1-hour spectacle that is the annual FestiFools. FestiFools 2009 takes place in [...]

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Weird Wednesday: The Joker’s Ghost

February 25, 2009 – 10:58 am

The last Wednesday of every month is a “Weird Wednesday” on Absolute Michigan. According to maritime historian Wes Oleszewski – via Haunted Great Lakes where you can read about their investigations and perhaps a second ghost at “Wobble Shanks” – the ghost story belonging to Waugoshance is always the first told by lighthouse enthusiasts and [...]

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Motoring through Michigan’s snow

February 19, 2009 – 8:47 am

Snow Plow by Seeking Michigan As the wind howls through the state this morning, I thought it might be a good time to shovel out a few stories – you can see a photo a snowplow in Bessemer from the Archives of Michigan over on Michigan in Pictures this morning! Last week mLive reported that [...]

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Ride the Luge in Muskegon

February 9, 2009 – 12:11 pm

Byron Goggin of Wild Weekend TV has a cool feature from one of only 3 Olympic class luge complexes in the United States. It’s in Muskegon and open to the public – check it out! Here’s a link to part two of the program. More about the Luge run at the Muskegon Winter Sports Complex [...]

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Cold enough for ya?

January 29, 2009 – 11:02 am

A friend & Michigan expatriate sent me the Michigan Temperature Conversion Chart. I thought it might be nice to pair with some photos, and also that you might enjoy COLD, as performed by the Absolute Michigan Pool. I’m told that sculptor Jim Gavril of East Lansing deserves the credit for the chart! Click the photos [...]

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Weird Wednesday: Michigan Claims World’s Worst Poet

January 28, 2009 – 9:47 am

The last Wednesday of every month is a “Weird Wednesday” on Absolute Michigan, when Linda Godfrey brings you 100% of the USRDA of Michigan weirdness. You can listen to Linda’s latest podcasts and read her blog at uncannyworld.com and also check out her books including Weird Michigan & Strange Michigan. In anticipation of Valentines Day, [...]

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Weird Wednesday: The Giant Wolf of Flint

December 31, 2008 – 9:23 am

The last Wednesday of every month is a “Weird Wednesday” on Absolute Michigan, when Linda Godfrey brings you 100% of the USRDA of Michigan weirdness. You can listen to Linda’s latest podcasts and read her blog at uncannyworld.com and also check out her books including Weird Michigan & Strange Michigan. One consistently described feature of [...]

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Blogs We Dig: Black Coffee at Sunrise

December 22, 2008 – 12:42 pm

Snowshoeing by nasunto Billed as a blog about camping, hiking, nature and Michigan with occasional sarcasm and embellishment, Black Coffee At Sunrise was recently recognized at Backpacker Magazine in their Daily Dirt section online. We think the recognition is well deserved. Blogger Nina describes her blog: Despite the unstable times we are facing, there is [...]

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Final Frontier Wednesday: Star Trek in Detroit, Agreements in DC

December 10, 2008 – 10:10 am

Star Trek – TOS Bridge Set by tkksummers The Detroit Free Press reports that: “Star Trek: The Exhibition” is to make its first Midwest stop at the Detroit Science Center beginning Feb. 14, the museum is to announce today. Tickets are to go on sale Friday, in time for people to buy as Christmas gifts [...]

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