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Get a group of Michiganders together, add a deck of cards, and chances are pretty good you'll wind up with a game of euchre. It was once dubbed "the...
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For six years now, the Detroit Unity Temple has held a quilt exhibit in February. Many of the quilts – but not all – are tributes to African-American...
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The word “magic” may conjure images of witches and wizards casting spells in a bygone era, long before the rise of science and modern civilization....
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One way to learn history is through textbooks and lectures. Another is through the words and handwriting of the people from our past. That’s right:...
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If you walk through downtown Petoskey, you might notice some old advertising murals on the sides of a few buildings. One of them is on the Coburn building…
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Two replicas of Christopher Columbus’ ships have drawn protests from Native American groups. The boats – called the Niña and Pinta – are touring the Great…
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Grocery store shelves, restaurant menus and cookbooks are a lot different in 2017 than they were 30 or 40 years ago. Americans tend to pay a lot more...
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Eighty years ago, a few years before Bruce Wayne made his comic book debut, our nation experienced its first wave of “bat-mania.” In the 1930s, the...
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Happy 164th birthday to the man who is the personification of the "tortured artist." Vincent Van Gogh was born on this day in 1853. University of...
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For over a hundred years, the Flint Scottish Pipe Band has celebrated the Scottish highlands in mid-Michigan. It is the oldest pipe band in the state of...