4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (693+ words) Sept. 12, 1984 — Millage vote saves Houghton Lake schools from closing After a string of failed tax proposals placed the district in danger of shutting down, Houghton Lake voters approved a millage. Sept. 11, 2018 — Torch Run raises $1,150 for Special Olympics Gerrish Township Police…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (303+ words) In 1985, reports of a moving statue of the Virgin Mary drew thousands of people to the village of Ballinspittle in County Cork, Ireland. Helen Ledwick speaks to Ita Dungan, who travelled there as a teenager and remembers the crowds gathering…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago   (1043+ words) WorldAtlas Michigan does weird well. Behind the postcard lakeshores and cherry orchards sits a state that crowns a magic capital, builds a town out of an imported Dutch windmill, and hides fine art on its public restrooms. These nine towns…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (360+ words) Michigan has quietly shaped everyday life in ways most people never think about, from the litter box to the snowboard to the painted lines on every road you drive. As a person who was born and raised in Michigan, of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (501+ words) AI has the potential to make that process considerably more intuitive. One of the biggest challenges in genealogy is that historical records rarely tell a complete story. A person’s name may have been spelled differently across several documents. Dates can…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (260+ words) The 1990s in Lubbock, Texas- "what a time to be alive." Lubbock, like the rest of the world, has changed tremendously since, as the kids would say, "the nineteen hundreds". I do feel that change has been ever more steep for…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (504+ words) “Killing the Kingfish: The Huey Long Assassination” depicts, reminiscent of Charles Dickens’ opening of “A Tale of Two Cities,” the best of times and the worst of times. The history is riveting and explains intricate details: “everything that you ever…...