![Artful Adventure in Ann Arbor](https://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/umma_4555--470x140.jpg)
If Suzanne Witthoff’s idea hadn’t taken root, the museum shop at the University of Michigan Museum of Art might have been filled with $67,000 worth…
![Finding Tallulah’s Folly in Lansing’s Old Town](https://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Old-Town-Lansing-jewelry0439-470x140.jpg)
I was looking for a cup of joe to fuel the ride back to the 313 from a quick trip to Lansing and figured there’d…
![Air Zoo is Something to Sing About](https://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/air-zoo_0350-300x140.jpg)
If a tour of the Air Zoo, Michigan’s flight and space museum near Kalamazoo, had a soundtrack it would be an eclectic mix to cover…
![Pig Out with Plath's](https://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Plaths-historic-267x140.jpg)
Achin’ for good bacon? Head to Plath’s Meats, a Tip of the Mitt institution since 1913. Emil Plath, Sr., an immigrant from Germany, opened the original…
![Good with Wood: Shrine of the Pines](https://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/shrine-room_3778-470x140.jpg)
This shrine is not dedicated to a saint, or affiliated with any organized religion. The fine print on the entrance sign states that it’s a furniture…
![British Fix at The English Inn](https://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/english-inn_9657-470x140.jpg)
If you’re experiencing “Downton Abbey” withdrawal, or Kate and William have you thinking things British but a trip across the pond isn’t in the budget,…
![Sweet Water Café: It's a Natural](https://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/crop-sweetwater_8401-470x140.jpg)
It seemed like such a radical idea at the time, especially in the meat-and-potatoes land of the Upper Peninsula near the Lake Superior shore. Way…
![To Market, To Market...](https://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/market-van_4166-470x140.jpg)
Planning to work in your yarden and need flowers, herbs or other plants so you can build your own Michelle Obama kitchen garden? Looking to eat…
![Elsie the Cowtown](https://www.greatlakesgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/elsie-cow_3756-470x140.jpg)
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…