All Things Michigan — Michigan happenings, places, and travel

What are your plans for the summer?

June 7, 2010

We already have plans for a lot of short trips around the state. We’re taking the kids to Great Wolf Lodge in Traverse City this month. In July we’ll be camping up at White River Campground – one of my favorite privately run campgrounds in the state. Towards the end of July and in early [...]

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Old Mackinac Bridge photo

June 4, 2010

Love the look of this old photo of the Mackinac Bridge. You can view more of these great old slides at my Flickr photo page.

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Armando Galarraga teaches us a lesson we all need

June 3, 2010

I’ll admit, my first reactions to the blown call by first base umpire Jim Joyce were no where near Armando Galarraga’s as he lost his bid at a perfect game. Armando just smiled wryly, stepped back up on the mound, and threw five more pitches to get the 28th out of the game. Armando could [...]

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Sailboats at Mackinac Island

May 28, 2010

This is yet another slide I have scanned from the box of old slides from around Michigan in the 1950s and 1960s. Still many more to come. The image of sailboats on the water kind of spoke to me of summer and with the recent summer weather we have had and it being Friday and [...]

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Do you have plans for Memorial Day Weekend?

May 25, 2010

Memorial Day Weekend is always thought of as the unofficial start to summer and with the warm weather this week if even feels like summer. I know a lot of folks will be heading to one of Michigan’s beautiful state park campgrounds for a weekend of camping. The forecast would appear great for the droves [...]

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The Mackinac Bridge under construction ca. 1956

May 21, 2010

Included in the slew of old photos I found quite a few gems from Michigan’s past. There are about 16 or 18 shots of the Mackinac Bridge during its construction in 1956, the year before it opened. Watch a slideshow of all of the photos I have uploaded so far –

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Sailboats at the docks on Mackinac Island, September 1959

May 18, 2010

This is another great shot that I found in a box of old slides that were purchased at an estate sale. I love the reflections on the water. I have added more slides from Mackinac Island and the Holland Tulip Festival from the late 1950s to my Flickr account. Coming later this week – photos [...]

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Photo of Downtown Detroit from 1957

May 14, 2010

This is one of many great old photos that I am in the process of scanning from slides. An entire box of slides purchased at an estate sale has yielded a treasure trove of pictures from all over Michigan during the 1950s. I’ll be posting many more as I get them scanned. For now, you [...]

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The House by the Side of the Road

May 11, 2010

One last post about the late Ernie Harwell. As a youth, Ernie had a speech impediment and one of his exercises was to recite this poem by Sam Walter Foss. As a baseball announcer, Ernie kept a piece of this poem as a catch-phrase for when someone struck out looking, “He stood there like the [...]

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