A Hiking We Will Go?
Did the Detroit Chamber of Commerce go hiking on Isle Royale in June of 1937? A series of photographs from the Edwin T. Brown Collection appear to document such a trip.
Wolfe Walk
Peter H. Wolfe decided to “take a good, long walk.” In 1974, he began hiking the North Country Trail.
The Son Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams stories stem from his boyhood experiences on Walloon Lake, near Petoskey, Michigan.
Decisions, decisions…
This week at the Archives of Michigan we are piloting a new and exciting education program. With generous and valuable assistance from the staff at the White House Decision Center, Truman Presidential Library, the Archives has developed a program titled “The Governor’s Decision Room.”
The Sounds of Summer
One could argue that the beautiful northern Michigan woods makes it own kind of music. Imagine human beings adding more beautiful music to such a scene. In 1928, three men imagined exactly that.
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.
Yamasaki remains an important part of our international architectural heritage. This is part one of a two part blog on Yamasaki and his life as written by guest blogger Dale Allen Gyure, Ph.D.
