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Old Time Base Ball at Mackinac Island

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…
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MCS 7.2.7: Transformers co-star Michigan Central Station

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…
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Michigan History: They Paid the Highest Price

Louis Stepman was lucky. His desperate hold on thin strands of metal was the only thing keeping him from a 400-foot plunge to a watery grave. Two other men who were with him were not so lucky.On the afternoon of June 6, 1956, Louis "Big…
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Van Buren County, Michigan

Moving up the Michigan shoreline from Berrien County, we come to Van Buren County. Read on for much more about Michigan's fruit basket! History from Southwest Michigan Directory Steamer on the Black River (LC-D4-42466) Library of Congress…
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Featured Link: Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located at Whitefish Point. Fitting, because the area is know as the "Graveyard of Ships," more vessels have wrecked in the area than in any other part of Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is…
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Five Things you need to know about Michigan for Thursday, June 21, 2007

OK Michigan, I have to level with you. I love to find five things about Michigan to tell you. I remember days like Tuesday, July 25, 2006 and ... well ... the day before yesterday and I can't see how I can avoid doing Five Things. Every…
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Michigan History: Bridging the Straits

As early as the 1880s, Michiganians talked about building a bridge across the Straits of Mackinac. When the Grand Hotel opened on Mackinac Island in 1888, railroad and shipping magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, a member of the hotel's board of directors,…
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June 19, 2007: Baseball, birds, biking, Bad Axe ... and pensions

I have to say that as a web developer, I really admire the dynamic ways in which the web team at the Detroit News presents complex information. A great example of this is their interactive teacher pension costs presentation. It makes it point…
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Michigan's Mackinac Bridge

2007 is the 50th Anniversary of the Mighty Mac. We'll be telling the story of the Mackinac Bridge piece by piece here on Absolute Michigan and on Michigan in Pictures and we'll post links to the photos and stories below. If you have some links…
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Photo Friday: Mackinac Bridge by maproomsystems

Brett takes some amazingly diverse photos and is the Director of Operations for the even more amazingly diverse Maproom Systems. I don't know what else to say, so I'll stop now.
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Michigan Video: Caseville Michigan History 1850-1960

Michiganhistoryvideos.com visits Caseville, a town that got its start as a lumbering town. Each spring the Pigeon River would be filled with white pine logs. When the trees were gone, farming and commercial fishing established the base of trade.…
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Justin Verlander pitches 1st Tiger no-hitter since 1984!

The only thing better than throwing a no-hitter is doing it at home, and Justin Verlander's no-hitter in a 4-0 vistory over the Milwaukee Brewers on June 12, 2007 was the first ever for Comerica Park and the first by a Tiger pitcher since…