Category Archives: Hobbies, Toys & Games

Shop Michigan: Travel Folding Cribbage Set from Drueke

November 29, 2007 – 9:01 am

At just under four inches long when folded, the Travel Folding Cribbage Set is great to take on any trip, and it even comes with playing cards. It's a must-have for any cribbage fan.
The Drueke Company was founded in 1914 in Grand Rapids, filling the gap left when World War I made it impossible to [...]

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Shop Michigan: Grey Poncho with Boucle Accents from Oak Grove Alpaca

September 20, 2007 – 7:40 am

This Grey Poncho with Boucle Accents is hand woven using Michigan alpaca, and a tiny bit of mohair for some color and is warm and soft and perfect for a night around a bonfire.
Oak Grove Alpaca is a small alpaca ranch near Howell that is committed to raising world-class Huacaya Alpacas. They write:
We are [...]

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MCS 7.2.7: Transformers co-star Michigan Central Station

July 2, 2007 – 8:00 am

Today Transformers opens at screens across the country, and we thought it would be a good idea to give a shout out to the city of Detroit in general, and Detroit's Michigan Central Station in particular. As the still above shows, MCS gets some face time in the summer blockbuster. The building is a favorite [...]

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Vol I, No. 1: Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization!

January 25, 2007 – 9:16 pm

This is a page where we asked folks to say hello. Lots of them did!
The current version of Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization is right there.

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Blogs We Dig: Adventures of a Brit Abroad

January 10, 2007 – 9:08 am

Holga: Ford Lake by Matt Callow
It's no secret that here at AbsoluteMichigan we dig photos. A blog that we've been keeping our eye on for a while is Adventures of a Brit Abroad
Matt Callow is originally from the other side of the Pond, and has been living and working in the Ypsilanti area for the [...]

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Make it a Michigan gift this holiday season

November 24, 2006 – 10:22 am

Absolute Michigan would like to help you find great gifts that are made in Michigan - and also to ask you to help us find them and share them with others!

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Aerial Videos of Metro Detroit, Lansing and East Lansing

September 21, 2006 – 10:00 am

The Detroit Free Press has a feature on something we stumbled on the other day: a collection of aerial videos of the Lansing & Detroit areas taken with a model plane. In and around Detroit, there videos of Belle Isle (above), Ford Field and the surrounding area, Tiger Stadium, Woodward Avenue, the Detroit Yacht [...]

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