When I say witch’s ball I am not referring to Professor McGonagall’s keg party with Spud’s MacKenzie doing butter beer shots at Hogwarts. I am talking about a real life marble sphere in Michigan that mysteriously turns on its pedestal. In the back corner of the Memphis Cemetery, South of Memphis Michigan, is an enormous black marble spere
Readers have said they like my restaurant reviews, so here is another place I ate at and really enjoyed. The Village Cheese Shanty located in historic Fishtown is the place to go for some awesome sandwich. If you didn’t already know Fishtown is in the town of Leland in the Leelanau Peninsula. The Village Cheese Shanty next
An old train depot stands quietly in a park near the town of Kingston. I stopped to take a photo and that is when I read the sign telling its amazing story. The citizens were proud of their little depot, and were excited when it was completed in 1893. It put the little town on the
A large stone chimney stands tall marking the spot where the little logging town of Bell once stood. The remains of the town can be found in the Besser Natural Area north of Alpena near Presque Isle. A mile-long hiking trail loops through the area. You can see the remnants of the town along the
I saw this old farmhouse north of Horton Bay. I had to stop and take a pic of it. I wonder what its story is. Like a lot of places I see while roaming the backroads, I am left to wondering and will probably never know “the rest of the story” as Paul Harvey would say. P.S.
One of my readers told me about a place hidden behind the Tyrone Memory Gardens Cemetery on White Lake Road Southwest of Fenton. Down in a small valley is the Tyrone Sunken Gardens containing rocks from all fifty states and arranged in a Stonehenge type configuration. Some of the stones were quarried over 200 years
Thank you to everyone who commented on my post as to what your favorite college is. I figured it would be mostly MSU and U 0f M, but you guys posted a plethora of different colleges from all around the state. A few people even posted my college, Delta where I went for 7 years. No,
Thank you all so much for taking the time out of your busy day to read my posts. I wish I could send everyone a gift for your kindness but I will send some to a lucky winner. Here is your chance to win a set of Lost In Michigan wall calendars. I will send
The Boekelodge is in the southern part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The cabin was originally built in the 1930’s and then left abandoned after a few years. In 1945, the cabin was purchased by the Boekeloo family and updated. A canal was dug from the plat river to flood the low-lying areas
I hope you will come out and see me at my upcoming presentations. The second week of October I will be talking about my travels around Michigan at two Mid-Michigan libraries. I hope you will join me to listen to some of my stories and how I got started doing what I do. I will
