Absolute Michigan Word of the Week: Shipwreck
Sandusky by Michael Schout
The word of the week is shipwreck, and all November on Absolute Michigan we'll be featuring tales of the dangerous side of Great Lakes. A staggering 6,000 vessels have been lost to the fury of these inland seas,…
Blogs We Dig: RandomSPACE by Lars Jensen
RandomSPACE features the musings and photography of Lars Jensen. Lars explains:
Well, I'm not sure what to say about this place. As the title suggests it is mostly random stuff, although in recent times it has mostly focused on photography…
Petoskey's C.S. Lewis Festival
Aslan by Michael Morris
The annual C. S. Lewis Festival is a month-long exploration of the life and works of C.S. Lewis held in Petoskey, MI. While Lewis is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, he was also a leading theological…
Five (spooky) Things you need to know about Michigan
Welcome to a special Halloween prequel edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. You can find more spooky stuff at our Haunted Michigan page and also at the Michigan Word of the Week: Halloween! Know a ghostly tale or link that…
Michigan November Event Calendar
Parade 2 by joojanta
Here's a few Michigan festivals & events for the month of November. As usual, there's no way to get them all, so please add links and information about the one's we've missed (or reviews of ones we have here) in…
Fall Color Tours: Lansing - Grand Ledge - Hastings - Battle Creek - Eaton Rapids
Our next fall color tour from Travel Michigan, Lansing - Grand Ledge - Hastings - Battle Creek - Eaton Rapids, starts where the photo the the right (maplepath by Aunt Owwee) was taken: at the Fenner Nature Center in Lansing (once known as…
Fall Color Tours: Old Mission, Traverse City, Leelanau & Benzie
Our next stop (as designed by Travel Michigan) is the region of Northwest Lower Michigan containing Traverse City - Northport - Frankfort. This also appeared on Michigan in Pictures. There's a lot of links on Absolute Michigan that can add…
Photo Friday: McLain Lighthouse (Close up) by useful fiction
The word of the week this week on Absolute Michigan was lighthouse, so I thought I'd go to the Absolute Michigan pool and search for "lighthouse". As of this morning, there are 714, and they make a pretty nice slideshow. Rather than taking…
Five things you need to know for Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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…
Fall Color Tours: Mackinaw City - Charlevoix - Petoskey
outside east jordan, mi. by redmudball
The photo to the right is of the St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church of East Jordan (link) and is part of Casey's Fall in East Jordan set.
While the color is still in full bloom in the Upper Peninsula,…
Warm weather makes Michigan a little giddy
Pier jumpers in October by Five eyes
Michigan has experienced a record run of heat, with many places such as Mt. Pleasant (which topped a 100+ year old record for the hottest October day) shattering their record temps over the last few…
Word of the Week: Lighthouse
Betsie Lighthouse by wuji9981
The word of the week is lighthouse, and with 116 lighthouses (more than any other state), Michigan could well be known as the Lighthouse State. More lights means more preservation needed, and the Michigan Lighthouse…