Some more trivia tidbits from my library copy of the Michillaneous book containing all sorts of strange facts about Michigan. Today I bring a list of some strange ways people have crossed the Mackinac Bridge as well as how not to cross the Mighty Mac.
June 1973
An Amish family was traveling from Maine to Colorado [...]

The current special at Great Wolf Lodge runs from April 23 through June 10, 2006. Family suites start at $139. Go to tc.greatwolflodge.com and use the promotional code TSPRING to receive the discount.
If you have never stayed at Great Wolf Lodge you just don’t know what you are missing. Just [...]

Cherry Republic has some great cherry recipes that I will definitely be trying out. We get a lot of our cherry products that we carry from Cherry Republic. You can get similar items for less at your local grocery store, but I firmly believe that once you try their cherry products you won’t [...]

The 80th National Cherry Festival takes place this year July 1-8. Traverse City will be bustling with all kinds of cherry-themed items and thousands of visitors. The festival’s mission statement is, “to promote cherries, tourism and community.”
They definitely do that. 9,000 pancakes will be served up for breakfast on the 4th of [...]

April 22, 2006, is Earth Day. A day to focus on ways to better the environment. In honor of this day, I thought I would mention former Michigan Governor, William Milliken, a pioneer in taking care of Michigan’s natural beauty.
I did not know it, but it was Gov. Milliken who campaigned for the [...]

Someone shot some 8mm film of Detroit in 1954 while driving around. It is amazing to see the vibrant businesses and the huge number of people walking around downtown. Detroit was clearly in its heyday.

Watch for a shot of Briggs Stadium (Tiger Stadium) in the beginning of this film. What a neat peak at how Detroit looked in its glory days.

Just caught this news flash on the Detroit News website that states - “You’ll almost certainly be paying $3 a gallon at Metro Detroit gas stations by the end of the month (next week, folks).” Expect things to be even worse in May. The price per gallon is expected to hover around $3 [...]

Stranded at the Corner, premiering April 24 at the Gem Theater, is a documentary that looks at the history and fate of Tiger Stadium. Tiger Stadium is baseball’s oldest playing field still in existence (although unused) and will turn 100 years old in 2012 only if it is still standing.

The documentary covers Tiger [...]

Pictured Rocks, originally uploaded by kjjahnke.

Here is what Miners Castle looked like before the turret on the right broke off on April 13, 2006. Now only the larger turret on the left remains.

As my son calls it - pretty water. It is some of the most beautiful country in Michigan.

I just read on The Mining Journal that the northeast turret of Miners Castle at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore broke off and fell into Lake Superior last week. Evidently, the annual freezing and thawing had taken its toll on the crumbling layers sandstone and led to its ultimate demise.
Miners Castle is probably [...]