The Best Stories, Sites and Fun From Around the Great Lakes State.
by Mid-winter, the Michigan coyote is looking for love. Those midnight howls are coyote love songs and signal that matting season is here on Valentine’s Day.
Once the female coyotes have selected a mate, the pair can be in a couple for two to three months before mating. Even in locations with high coyote numbers and enough food, the Michigan coyote remains monogamous.
by Starting in 1919, Henry Ford’s village industries was an exploration of sites that could be set up for small factories primarily throughout Southeast Michigan
by Captain Aaron Peer founded Grindstone City as a company with quarry operations in 1834.
Peer, is one of the earliest settlers of Huron County and holds title to many of the “firsts” in the Upper Thumb.
by Turnip Rock has been deemed one of the Amazing Rock Formations in America by CNN. But can you climb Turnip Rock for that amazing photo? We take a look.
by The major roads and highways that we take for granted were once Michigan Indian Trails. The routes were perfect. Chances are you traveled on one of those ancient trails today.
by A large Midwest map of the Pere Marquette Railway for Michigan’s Summer Resorts 1913
by If you find yourself in the Motor City for a few hours and want to catch the highlights without blowing a lot of time or money, then this little tour of Detroit will have you feeling like a Motown native in a few hours.
by The Huron Milling Co. has dredged a channel from deep water in the harbor the US Coast Guard maintained the station just south of the dock.
by We ran across this unique picture postcard of Zingarella on Facebook. Due credit to Barry Holdship, who collects old photographs of the Upper Thumb. Is the Daredevil Zingarella in Coney …
by President Nixion visits Bad Axe Michigan to campaign for a special election during April 1974, just days before the Watergate scandal hits his administration.
