In my crisscrossing of the state I’d never visited the village of Elsie, a dairy area not far from Ovid (a more familiar landmark might…
If you’re looking for one book to help you understand the Great Lakes, spend some time with The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of…
Just my luck. I finally found the neighborhood bar of my dreams, and it’s not in my neighborhood. O’Duffy’s Pub is the kind of joint where…
Detroit’s Eastern Market, a local landmark in the heart of the city that’s been a farmer’s market and gathering place since 1891, is enjoying growth with…
Taste the tropics at Frita Batidos, which dishes a dash of Cuban street food in Ann Arbor. The informal restaurant is the creation of Eve Aronoff, a…
You don’t have to be a protester rallying for a cause or a grade school student on a class field trip to walk the marble…
It seemed like a good idea at the time: swing through Lansing for breakfast en route from our home in the 313 to Blue Skies,…
Some kids grow up to be firemen, some become ballerinas. Others own and operate their own copper mine and tours. Matthew and Victoria Portfleet earned…
When did pieces of my past become museum material? On a tour of the Michigan Historical Museum in Lansing I saw the Mackinac Bridge souvenir tray that’s pictured…
Worn—but gleaming—wooden floors, workhorse elevators and the exposed structural elements of an industrial building reveal the manufacturing past of the sturdy, four-story structure known as…
