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If the trails and overlooks of the Jordan River Valley could talk they'd tell tales of loggers, death, railroad beds and men looking to get through the Depression.
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There is a shrine in the woods of Mackinac Island boasting a beautiful view and celebrating the 19th century writer Constance Fenimore Woolson, but who was she and why is "Anne's Tablet" there?
James P. Lenfesty
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In 1850 Mormon renegade James Strang
was crowned king of his Beaver Island colony. His reign lasted just six years, but tales of his five wives, his bullying of followers and his eventual...
Elizabeth Edwards
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Ludington’s Cartier Mansion Bed and Breakfast is an opulent legacy of the North’s timber-rich history, but the tale of the timber magnate who built it is richer still.
Lynda Twardowski
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7000 Years before pasties, the ancients mined copper on the Keweenaw. We go looking for evidence of Early Yooper Man.
Jeff Smith
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A half-century after Song of Hiawatha was published, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's daughter received an invitations she couldn't resist.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Take a drive that bears witness to Leelanau’s moody waterways, shipwrecks and tales of brave sailor crews.
Katie Holland
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A day on Mackinac Island includes a visit to Fort Mackinac, founded in 1780 and offering interactive history.
Emily Bingham
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In 1919, Ernest Hemingway, physically and emotionally injured from World War 1, writes a friend asking him to join him to recoup in Northern Michigan, where Hemingway spent wonderful boyhood summers.
Published in conjunction with the Crooked Tree Arts Center and the Clarke Historical Library
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Profile of Phil Nowicki from Rogers City, who made it into the Guinness Book of World Records in 1977 for making a 8,773-foot sausage.
Emily Betz Tyra
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