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Editor's note: Road Trip is a monthly travel series by northern Michigan journalists Dave and Jeanne Barber. The series takes regional readers on easy, one-day road trips to visit Michigan museums, parks, nature sites, businesses and festivals, including many of the state's “hidden gems.”
Road Trip is a monthly travel series by northern Michigan journalists Dave and Jeanne Barber. The series takes regional readers on easy, one-day road trips to visit Michigan museums, parks, nature sites, businesses and festivals, including many of the state's “hidden gems.”
I changed my look last month. I started wearing a construction hard hat. Early one afternoon I carted a load of firewood down to Stone Circle. When I stepped out of my pickup, I heard a loud, screeching sound above my head.
Have you ever noticed that it’s really hard to change? There are a number of reasons for this — your brain gets hardwired, we like habits, we want to predict the future so we stick with what we know — but it’s actually far more simple than these answers given by neuroscience.
I got a strange thing in the mail a couple of weeks ago.
TRAVERSE CITY — Rich Powell buys a new set of shoes every 400 miles.
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FRANKFORT — The Green Team got plants into the ground for the first time last week under a cloudless blue sky.
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SUTTONS BAY — The sounds of ropes slapping the sails and waves splashing against the hull of the Inland Seas schooner were all that could be heard as a class of fourth-graders fell silent and pretended they were sailing in the 1800s.
Talk about nutrition
On Saturday our family assisted daughter Elizabeth and Tim with their work. Church services will be held at their house next so lots of cleaning is getting done. A big tent will be set up for the services to be held under that day.
There is a wonderful Edward Lear poem, "The Table and the Chair," describing how a table convinces a chair to take a walk about town: “… I’ve as many legs as you, Why can’t we walk on two?”
INTERLOCHEN — Teriyaki, cherry, barbecue and maple — they’re not bacon flavors, but beef jerky varieties. Then there are the spicier options like jalapeño and ghost chili pepper.
We’re approaching the season of blockbuster movies and highly anticipated sequels. Over the next couple of months, we can look forward to cinemas around the world showing "Shaft," "Men in Black: International," "Toy Story 4," "Spider-Man: Far From Home" and "Fast & Furious: Hobbs & S…
SUTTONS BAY — Actor and comedian Tim Allen will introduce the fourth installment in Disney’s “Toy Story” series at 6 p.m. June 20 at the Bay Community Theatre. Allen has voiced space ranger Buzz Lightyear alongside Tom Hanks, who plays the cowboy Woody, since the first film about the secret …
Cosmic Knot frontman and guitarist Tom Wall exudes positivity, something that propels the Michigan band’s “unique song structures” and “blistering level of intensity” during its lengthy stage jams.
There's horror and then there's Horror. The movies with jump scares and gore and chainsaw-wielding murderers — that's horror with a little "h," stuff that can momentarily shock you or even forestall sleep. But capital-H Horror is a monster of a different color, one that burrows.
TRAVERSE CITY — Summer reading is often light — and mystery and romance authors are among those who will visit Traverse City this summer as part of the National Writers Series. But the beefed-up season lineup also includes authors whose books range in subject from national politics to human …
OLD MISSION — If it weren’t for Peter Dougherty traveling to northern Michigan to find collaboration between the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians in the late 1800s, Old Mission Peninsula might not have its name.
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LANSING — The monarch butterfly might be on the decline, but a little milkweed-whacking can help get them back on their feet, experts say.
Ever lose a landing net overboard? I haven't, personally, but I know some who have and there's a neat product on the market to keep it from happening. The Ultra Float, from Luna Sea, is designed to fit over a net (or gaff) handle so if you lose it momentarily, you won't lose it permanently. …
BAY CITY — I do not remember a spring in which the weatherman has been so consistently wrong — as least for part of the day — as this one. Take, for instance, the other day, when the forecast called for winds of 5-10 mph with mostly cloudy skies, which is just about what the doctor ordered f…
Sometimes running makes me so happy. It can be one thing or a combination of things that triggers the mood: trees budding, flowers blooming, warm weather, a sunny day, no pain, feeling strong or gratitude to be able to move swiftly through the woods.
KALKASKA — Easy, evening hikes along local sections of the North Country Trail are part of an effort to raise awareness of the resource and lure locals into the woods for exploring.
The large and smallmouth bass opener on Lake St. Clair, St. Clair River and the Detroit River is June 15. High water levels continue to hamper fishing on the Great Lakes, inland lakes as well as the rivers and streams. While visibility may be a factor, those putting in the time have caught fish.
Glen Arbor Solstice Half Marathon and 5K
INTERLOCHEN — Interlochen State Park and Tin Can Tourists Vintage Travel Trailer Club are teaming up to bring back the good old days.
Senator hosts coffee hour
Some people just try too hard to use “good” English, by which they mean a system of rules that establish lines that should not be crossed just like those indicated by speed limits. If you go faster than the posted limit, you are doing something wrong. Similarly, if you utter a word or phrase…
“Don’t get too excited,” said Elk Rapids Cinema owner Joe Yuchasz.
TRAVERSE CITY — Answer: Grace Community Birth Center, a Traverse City nonprofit working to construct a birth center in Grand Bassin, Haiti.
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If you’re squeamish about bodily functions — human or pet — you might want to skip this.
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BENZONIA — Ned Edwards has called Beulah home for almost 30 years now. But even before moving to the area in the 1990s, Edwards, 85, summered in northern Michigan for decades. Though he attended college and divinity school elsewhere, he and his wife retired to the area.
BUCKLEY — Joe and Shirley Schichtel set up their tree farm and vineyard in southern Grand Traverse County with the goal to minimize their impact on the environment.
TRAVERSE CITY — A once bare corner at Division and Randolph streets touts a summer array of color — trucks in red, yellow, blue and pink pepper lots on both sides of the street.
Spring, summer and early fall, for the past decade, I have been happiest on Fridays. I work all day on my feet, without high-tech tools, don’t get paid (in cash) and come home spent and exhausted.
Tonight was daughter Lovina’s eighth-grade graduation. Her class has 23 students. Our school is a small public school and is very close-knit. Friday is the school picnic, then school doors will close for another term.
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‘Deep River’ talk
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When you have a 127-year history, a 10th anniversary season could sound less than significant — unless you're the City Opera House.
When Kalamazoo-bred Greensky Bluegrass, Traverse City’s Joshua Davis and other stars gather for the second annual Camp Greensky Music Festival this weekend outside Wellston in the Manistee National Forest, fans can expect to hear some songs written by Aaron Allen.
About halfway through "Deadwood: The Movie," Doc Cochran (Brad Dourif) examines a man who's been beaten and offers a prognosis that is optimistic in the literal sense but a lot heavier in the figurative one: "All bleeding stops eventually."
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- High water pushes ashore
- Salad is star at new TC eatery
- Glen Lake, superintendent separating
- Data reveals bed bugs, raw sewage, abuse at area adult care homes
- NWS: Dangerous conditions along shoreline
- Former pastor faces more sex crime charges
- UPDATE: Police request murder charges in homicide investigation
- 10 local baseball players make D4 All-State
- Pride week welcomed with art, online pushback
- Black bear population climbing
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