The weather couldn’t have been better for Constantine’s Harvest Festival this past Saturday. The annual event was originally scheduled for September 13th, but was washed out by the rainy weekend courtesy of the remnants of Hurricane Ike. This is a nice festival that has improved with age. It started out pretty small [...]

Constantine in the fall, originally uploaded by All Things Michigan.

The past couple of cooler and rainy days have me thinking about fall. Constantine’s Fall Festival is the second weekend in September with September 13th also the kickoff of the farmer’s market that will run Saturday mornings this fall.

Andria Baker made a deal with her dad when she was in the 4th grade. She saw in the paper that an area senior with perfect attendance got a new car when he graduated because he had perfect attendance all through school. She had perfect attendance up to that point and made the [...]

I just received a postcard in the mail about an eBay Day clinic in Constantine, Michigan. The free event on Tuesday, November 20 is open to the public, but you must register due to limited class sizes. The sessions will take place at the Constantine Village Hall.
My postcard said that you should register [...]

Or is it?
Saturday October 13 at 7 p.m. Constantine and White Pigeon will meet up for the 86th and perhaps final time on the gridiron. Constantine is leaving the St. Joseph Valley Conference for the Kalamazoo Valley Conference and will not have room in its schedule to accommodate a non-conference game with White Pigeon [...]

Yesterday I posted pictures of the new mural painted in downtown Constantine. Since then I have put together a little (only 5 seconds) animation showing present day downtown Constantine morph into the older downtown depicted in the mural. I think it’s kind of neat.

Watch it here if the video player does not appear.

A lot of folks from the community participated in the design and painting of this mural in downtown Constantine. Hardly a day went by this summer where I drove by and did not see someone or a group working on the mural. There is too much detail in it to show here in this shot.

Here is a panorama I created by stitching three closeup photos together. To get a better view, click on the photo and it will take you to flickr.com where you can click the ‘all sizes’ button at the top of the photo.

Click the blue marker in the map below for directions to the mural:

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Tomorrow I’ll post some detail shots of the mural showing how much work went into this plus a comparison shot of the actual downtown versus the one painted in the mural.