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Northern Michigan Kids: Build a Megalith for Raven Hill's New Exhibit

Northern Michigan Kids: Build a Megalith for Raven Hill's New Exhibit

Northern Michigan Kids: Raven Hill Discovery Center won a 2012 MCACA grant for their Blurred Boundaries exhibit and wants you to help build it, here's how!

Northern Michigan Preservation: Vote for Leland's Fishtown Society

Northern Michigan Preservation: Vote for Leland's Fishtown Society

Raise $10K for a Northern Michigan historical landmark- vote for Leland's Fishtown Preservation Society in Dwell magazine's Rethinking Preservation contest!

Northern Michigan Sports: The Basketball Mystery That Endures

Northern Michigan Sports: The Basketball Mystery That Endures

Northern Michigan Sports: Ed Burling sill holds the Michigan state record for most basketball points in one game. We're talking 97 points. In one game.

The Cottage Book Shop Brings World Book Night to Northern Michigan

The Cottage Book Shop Brings World Book Night to Northern Michigan

Northern Michigan Events: Help the Cottage Book Shop spread reading in our community! Sign up by Feb. 1 for 20 free books to give away on World Book Night.

Traverse City Attractions: Lake Michigan Shipwreck Identified

Traverse City Attractions: Lake Michigan Shipwreck Identified

Traverse City Attractions: The Sunken Barge, Identified as the B West, was Recently Discovered in Lake Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay.

Northern Michigan News: Governor William and Helen Milliken Honored

Northern Michigan News: Governor William and Helen Milliken Honored

Northern Michigan News: Governor William and Helen Milliken Honored at Crystal Mountain Resort near Traverse City.

Wine Rebellion in Northern Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Wine Rebellion in Northern Michigan's Upper Peninsula

One month into the National Prohibition Act, federal agents packing 600 rounds of ammunition descended on the Upper Peninsula to seize barrels of red wine.

A Christmas Pilgrimage From Glen Haven to Traverse City

A Christmas Pilgrimage From Glen Haven to Traverse City

Going Christmas shopping in Traverse City—by sleigh and train through the Sleeping Bear Dunes in the early 1900's.

Explorers Set Out to Find the Fabled Northwest Passage From the Straits of Mackinac

Explorers Set Out to Find the Fabled Northwest Passage From the Straits of Mackinac

In 1766, Fort Michilimackinac in Mackinaw City, was the portal to the American West. Forty years before Lewis and Clark's famous expedition, two men named Carver and Tute headed out from the...

Beaver Island’s King

Beaver Island’s King

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...

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