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Michigan Word of the Week: Turkey

turkeys by The Amazing Mr. Keebler The fall turkey hunting season ended yesterday (November 18th). The spring season is from April 23 to March 31 (so that means you'll have to continue the hunt for your holiday feast below). The Michigan…
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Shop Michigan: Sugar Scrub & Jump Start Soap from Fionnar

I suppose we can feature 2 items here. For the women, Fionnar Sugar Scrub balances the body and is made from essential oils of clary sage, geranium and fennel. For men, check out their Jump Start soap for a morning wake up call for your skin! Fionnar…
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Blogs We Dig: Detroit Bad Boys

Detroit Bad Boys is a production of Matt Watson & Ian Cameron (and the occasional guest writer). It features great analysis and in-depth articles from the mainstream media and other blogs ... and they sell T-shirts too. DBB also brings a…
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Shop Michigan: Birdseye Maple Photo Albums from Birdseye-Connection

You spent the whole summer taking great photos, now it's time to organize them. The front and back covers of these beautiful photo albums are made of highly polished bird's eye maple from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, bound together with a walnut…
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Shop Michigan: Morning Peppermint Pure Olive Oil and Beeswax Soap from Country Bee Soaps

Morning Peppermint soap is part of the Saving Grace line of soaps made specifically for babies. A soothing soap with calming properties, it is made with a blend of pink grapefruit and peppermint, grade A olive oil, organic palm oil, coconut…
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Michigan Word of the Week: Honey

Honey by kamerakara The Word of the Week is honey. The hardworking bees & beekeepers have done their work and as the weather turns cold, it's time to think about ways to can use all that Michigan honey! The Michigan Department of Agriculture…
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Shop Michigan: Mick Morris Myth Solver #4: Grudge Of The Gremlins!

Mick Morris Myth Solver #4: Grudge of the Gremlins! is a captivating young adult book in which Mick, Sissy and Nathan are in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan at night, "It's creepy and scary being in a …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Word of the Week: Pumpkin

Extreme Pumpkin by John Clement Howe I realize that we did a pretty good job of covering the official October veggie in our Michigan Pumpkins feature a couple weeks ago, but I want a pumpkin on the Absolute Michigan homepage, so there.…