Now we are down to the top 8 Michigan State parks that won the Sweet 16 round of voting. it’s going to be difficult to choose between them but we will work our way down to the final four for next weeks poll, The Polls are closed for this round, vote in the final
The United States K9 Corps was started on March 13th 1942, and there is an effort to make this national K9 Veterans Day. And although it is not recognized nationally Michigan and a few other states has declared March 13th K9 Veterans Day to honor all dogs that have served in the military, police and
When I was in Bay City I saw this old house on Center Ave near downtown and thought it looked majestic, it reminded me of the older homes in Detroit. Without knowing anything about this house I would find out just how significant it was. A few days after I took the pic I was
Located at the Hartley Outdoor Education Center coal mine No8 was one of the longest operating coal mines in Michigan. the marker reads Coal was discovered in the St. Charles area in 1896. On this site in 1917 the Robert Gage Coal Company sunk a shaft 200 feet beneath the surface. The main entry off
Voting is over for this round, now we are onto the top 8 click Here to vote Voting for the first round is over and now we are onto the sweet 16 round. Some of these matchups are going to be difficult to decide all of the parks in the running are very popular. in
When I go out on a whirlwind tour someplace I am not familiar with to get photos, I think of it as similar to fishing. I make some plans, but I never know what I am going to get. I usually start my trips with a little research, and have a destination in mind, that
This church-like white frame structure with its graceful cupola was built in 1890 as the second Arenac County Courthouse. The first courthouse on this site burned the previous year. Omer had been a part of Bay County until Arenac was organized in 1883 and this city, then a village, became the county seat. Less than
Time to pick Michigan’s favorite state park for 2014. I have not visited all of them. but a lot of them, to pic the best is going to be hard to do, but I thought it would be fun to try. There are about 80 state parks not including historic and scenic sites. I broke
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Polish refugees who escaped Prussian domination settled in Bay City. In 1874 they formed a society under the patronage of St. Stanislaus Kostka of Poland. To fill the needs of this Polish-speaking community, a wooden church was built and dedicated on December 13, 1874, on a site
The sign in Alabaster reads This area is named after a variety of gypsum, discovered offshore by Douglass Houghton in 1837. Prospectors soon began searching for other gypsum deposits, and this quarry was opened in 1862 by B.F. Smith. Used at first as fertilizer and as an ingredient in plaster, gypsum is now used principally
