by Evan Perry | May 29, 2014 | Counties, Live Here, Towns, Vacation
When Barbara Overdier and her husband Jim Muratzki took their annual spring vacation to Mackinac Island several years ago, Overdier experienced something of an epiphany while walking the hiking trails of the Mackinac Island State Park: What about a board game? The...
by Kelly Brown | May 28, 2014 | Counties, Food & Drink, Live Here, Towns, Vacation
It’s hard to beat a warm and sunny day in Northern Michigan, especially on the Leelanau Peninsula. But when the weatherman calls for a day inside, it can be hard to come up with travel ideas on where to go and what to see. Not to fear—just because it’s...
by Kelly Brown | May 28, 2014 | Counties, Vacation |
Here is MyNorth’s sure-to-save-any Northern Michigan vacation list of rainy day activities for kids in Traverse City. Matinee at the State Theatre: Temporarily Closed. Remember the last time a movie cost a quarter? Neither do we—until Traverse City’s State...
by Kate Bassett | May 28, 2014 | Up North Essays
Making lemonade from life-gifted-lemons is easy in theory; how that analogy applies to a glitch-ridden family vacation in Northern Michigan is another story. Featured in the May 2014 issue of Traverse, Northern Michigan’s Magazine. I’m a writer. I create...
by Kris Riley | May 28, 2014 | Counties, Live Here, Towns
The Hagerty Center in Traverse City recently hosted a robotics demonstration showcasing the work of students who participated in the National Robotics Challenge, and MyNorth’s Kris Riley was on site to capture the ingenuity and industry of Northern Michigan high...
by Jeff Smith | May 27, 2014 | Counties, Events, Outdoors, Towns, Vacation
From the kids trip in the morning to the soirée sail at midnight, all day long, all summer long, the tall mast of the Nauti-Cat edges along West Grand Traverse Bay packed with people loving up Traverse City’s sparkling blue crown jewel. We reached out to Captain Chien...
by Evan Perry | May 27, 2014 | Counties, Events, Towns
The annual Red Hot Best party at MyNorth Media’s office in downtown Traverse City welcomed the winners, runners-up and third-placers in the 2014 Traverse Magazine Red Hot Best voting. More than 10,000 people logged on to MyNorth.com to vote for their Northern...