Category Archives: Offbeat

Michigan Ghost Stories: The Ada Witch

October 17, 2007 – 9:21 am

It was a rather stormy, wintry day... thus begins a cool and chilling recollection that is my favorite video so far of the Halloween season.
Shadowlands Haunted Places of Michigan relates:
Sometimes you can see a misty blue figure floating within a 3-mile radius of the Ada Cemetery on 2 Mile between Egypt Valley and Honey Creek. [...]

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Haunted Michigan

October 16, 2007 – 8:23 am

A Haunting on Hemingway by Arace
We'll keep track of the haunting highlights from Michigan on this page as we find them! If you have any to add, please post a link in the comments below or send us an email!
Five (spooky) Things you need to know about Michigan
Our special Halloween prequel edition of Five [...]

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Five things you need to know for Wednesday, October 10, 2007

October 10, 2007 – 8:06 am

Welcome to a special "Big Wednesday" edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan.
Big Surf in Grand Haven
The Grand Haven Tribune has a feature on meteorologist Will Beaton, who has realized his life-long dream of surfing and reporting weather at the new web site surfgrandhaven.com developed by Masana, LLC of Grand Haven. The [...]

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Michigan: Great Lakes Surfing Capital

July 10, 2007 – 8:05 am

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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Michigan History: Soaring Beneath the Bridge

July 6, 2007 – 10:42 am

U.S. Air Force Captain John S. Lappo had the heart of a jet pilot--skillful, bold and committed. However, the personality traits that served him so well on bombing missions during the Korean War and covert spy-in-the-sky missions over the Soviet Union also “grounded” him after a playful-but dangerous-stunt that involved the Mackinac Bridge.
On April 24, [...]

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Old Time Base Ball at Mackinac Island

July 5, 2007 – 9:26 am

The Mackinac Island Vintage Baseball Club will host the Rochester Grangers for their fourth annual vintage baseball game on Saturday, July 21, 2007 The evening begins with a pre-game concert by Traverse City's Northwind Brass quintet followed at 6:30 PM by the game at the Scout Barracks ballfield behind Fort Mackinac. Congressman Bart Stupak [...]

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Five Things you need to know about Michigan for Wednesday, June 27, 2007

June 27, 2007 – 9:58 am

Vacation Time?
There's an interesting speech by Sen. Mark Schauer (D-Battle Creek) wondering if now is a good time for members of the Senate to take a summer recess, pointing out (quite rightly) that schools, local government and others are waiting for hard numbers for the upcoming budget year. To see it, go to the Michigan [...]

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Kite Cam at the Kite Festival

May 21, 2007 – 8:52 am

DigitalSkyPilot.Com took some great aerial photos taken with a kite-mounted camera at the Grand Haven Kite Festival.
Click to see his photos from the Grand Haven Kite Festival.

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Great Lakes Kite Festival in Grand Haven

May 7, 2007 – 9:22 am

KITES! by yerffej9
(updated April 9, 2008!) The annual Great Lakes Kite Festival will be held May 16-18, 2008 at Grand Haven State Park in Grand Haven, Michigan. The event benefits the Children's Leukemia Foundation and features:

Giant kites including the Giant Octopus and Trilobite kites (over 90 feet long)
Demonstration field featuring kite ballets, performances and stunt [...]

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Photo sharing and public history

April 23, 2007 – 9:01 am

Barbershop helper from Joey Harrison
Michigan Radio's Jennifer Guerra has an interesting feature about how online photos sharing websites like Flickr (where most of the photos on Absolute Michigan are housed) can impact people interested in public and personal history.
Since some of the people in the feature have photos on Absolute Michigan or Michigan in Pictures, [...]

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