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It's Garden Time in Michigan

Monster Garden by Senor Velasco Last week's HUB had a nice feature on getting your garden going. In addition to some tips for when to start vegetables (now) and garden size (any size will do) they also list some herbs and vegetables that…
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Numbers show food & wine travel a winner for Michigan

Greeny Goodness by Sarah Steffens Sunday's Saginaw News had a brief feature on culinary tourism that says a recent survey from the Travel Industry Association found Michigan ranked in the top 15 states for food and in the top 12 for wine-related…
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Photo sharing and public history

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…
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SE Michigan Flickr photographers featured on Michigan Radio

Flickr Royal Oak Rove by Ashley Dinges A number of photographers whose work appears on Absolute Michigan & Michigan in Pictures will be featured in a Michigan Radio item by Jen Guerra tomorrow (Friday, April 20). It will run during…
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The Last Barn at Mentha: The Decline of Michigan's Mint Farming

Last Barn at Mentha by John Clement Howe John Clement Howe went to the ghost town of Mentha and also dug up the fascinating story of Michigan's now vanished mint industry. As the very detailed article about Mint in Michigan from Michigan…
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This Month in Michigan: April 2007

Despite the fact that things are a lot more productive (not to mention happier) since I stopped chasing the news around every day, I kind of miss having a place to post interesting Michigan news stories and columns. I've also been thinking…
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Women Lightkeepers: Elizabeth Whitney Williams

In most cases, being a lightkeeper was a man's job. Yet, at least 19 women, including Elizabeth Whitney Williams, kept Michigan lighthouse beacons burning bright. As a child, Elizabeth was friends with the lighthouse keeper's children at…
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Culinary tour of Grand Traverse County's Old Mission

Check out Absolute Michigan keyword "Old Mission" for more web sites and articles about Old Mission. A Vintage Year? by oddzen Lake Magazine has a nice feature by Emily Bingham on Northern Michigan's Old Mission Peninsula that focuses…
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A Marshall Plan for the auto industry?

We may need to rename our blog "Dig Michigan as Dug by GROW Detroit". They tipped us off to something that most media in the state seems to be ignoring: approval by the state House labor committee to call on the U.S. Congress to create a "Marshall…
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Michigan's Curriculum among the best for college

The High by DA2Brian From the Silver Lining Department: GROW Detroit called out this Detroit Free Press article (Michigan does good job of preparing kids for college, survey finds) saying that Michigan was cited as one of the three states…
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Time for the Great Lakes State to stand tall

I looked around and around for something to post today. Everywhere I looked things were on vacation, offline or crashing my browser. The news has become something that - for the most part - I can't bear to spend time with. There are only…
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Michigan Lighthouses shine on

Sun come up Moon go down by curlyson What unique architectural structure have most Michiganians seen-either from a boat or from land? If you answered "lighthouses," you are correct. As the 2007 navigation season begins, lighthouses…