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Berrien County, Michigan

Berrien County is located at the southwest corner of Michigan along the shores of Lake Michigan and shares a state border with Indiana. Read on for history and links! St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights Courtest Archives of Michigan Berrien…
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Blogs We Dig: 18thC Cuisine

Wishing you could time travel? 18thC Cuisine does, join Carolyn Smith-Kizer as she explores 18th century French cuisine as a women of that era may have cooked it. Her blog is a filled with a rich assortment of historical facts and recipes.…
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Lapeer: A tale of Two Courthouses

Lapeer County Courthouse by Larry the Biker (click for a closeup of the marker!) In the summer of 1831, brothers Alvin N. and Oliver B. Hart left New York state and headed west in a quest for land. They camped along the fast-moving Flint…
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Lighthouse preservation and the DeTour Reef Light

Interlochen Public Radio's Peter Payette reports that the state of Michigan and lighthouse preservation community have been wrangling for years over the terms for taking abandoned offshore lighthouses from the Coast Guard and preserving them. Peter…
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Rock Stars, Cars & Guitars at the Henry Ford

This summer the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn presents Rock Stars' Cars & Guitars (has loudish music, a very cool presentation!). It opens to the public on June 9 and continues through Sept 30, 2007. The exhibit includes legendary cars…
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Michigan's First MEMORIAL DAY

On May 30, America will pause once again to remember the men and women who have died in defense of this nation. Memorial Day officially started in 1868 when Major General John A. Logan, head of the postwar Union veterans' group called…
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Michigan Memorial Day Runup

The lighthouse at Frankfort MI by OddZen It's time to cast our net around the state and see how the media is promoting the big travel weekend. The Lansing HUB has decided that the best way to encourage travel given the high price of…
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Converse With The Slain: Will Carleton's Visit to Arlington National Cemetery

Today, we call it Memorial Day. However, in the days immediately following the Civil War, the annual May remembrance of the soldiers who died saving the Union and ending slavery, was known as Decoration Day. Not surprisingly, one of the most-recognized…
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Super picture of Detroit's Penobscot Building

Head over to Michigan in Pictures for a Superman/Penobscot Building mashup in which everything somehow gets tied in to Michigan. I have no idea how it happened, but it did.
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Michigan Week and 2007 Michigan Week Celebrations

Michigan State Capitol Post Card by Marxchivist Michigan Week is an annual celebration that seeks to to embrace, explore and celebrate the history, resources and opportunities that set Michigan apart as an ideal state to work, play and…
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When the President said "no" to Mackinac Island

Before mechanical air conditioning, U.S. presidents often left Washington, DC during the hot and steamy summers for cooler locations in the Appalachian Mountains or along the Atlantic Ocean. By the early twentieth century, Michiganians began…
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Five Things you need to know about Michigan for Monday, May 14, 2007

Been a while since I got the old 5 out of the bag. Great Lakes Blogger Dave Dempsey gets a stand-up double with this stunning satellite view of the Great Lakes, of which NASA says: At the very top of the image is a round white patch - this…