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A leisurely Look at Michigan’s stories and traditions from yesterday to yesteryear.

Archive for June, 2010

Cooler By the Lake

This content of this image is pretty universal to those who live in the Great Lakes State. It exhorts all lake lovers to, “gather the family, hitch up the boat and take to the road, it’s summer.”

The Art of War

The origins of airplane nose art go back at least as far as World War I. It is World War II, however, that is the true “Golden Age” of the form.

Everything New is Old Again

On June 15, 2010, Apple began taking orders for its new iPhone 4. Fifty years ago, the men in this photo might well have felt the same flush of excitement that an iPhone 4 purchaser feels today!

Rare Bird

Visitors heading north this summer have a new reason to stop and see the marker celebrating the decades-long work of conservationists to save the Kirtland’s warbler.

A Tale of Two Buildings

This stereograph of a Mackinac harbor view dates c. 1870. The Flint Photographer J.A. Jenny captures the old Agency House in the foreground, with the Indian Dormitory to its right. Each of these buildings has an interesting history.


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