Hemlock
Hemlock, MI · Arts & Culture
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The Magical Michigan Railway Museum That Turns Even The Most Serious Adults Into Wide-Eyed Kids Again
Adults who claim they’ve outgrown the thrill of a massive steam locomotive have simply never stood next to one, and the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso, Michigan is ready to prove that point. This place doesn’t ask for your enthusiasm. It just takes it. There’s a particular kind...
MLive
Freemasonry documentary screening set for November in Bay City
BAY CITY, MI — The Free and Accepted Masons, in partnership with the Historical Osgood Preservation Society, will host a public screening of a documentary exploring two centuries of Freemasonry in Michigan. The film, “A Light On The Lakes,” will be shown Thursday, Nov. 12, at the Osgood Event...
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This Charming Wooden Bridge In Michigan Will Whisk You Back To A Simpler, Bygone Era
Somewhere in Michigan, tucked between the rustling trees and the gentle current of the Flat River, there’s a wooden bridge that makes you forget what decade you’re living in. The Historic Fallasburg Covered Bridge in Lowell, Michigan is the kind of place that stops you cold, makes you...
mt-pleasant.net
midmichigannow.com
Saginaw businesses host fifth annual trunk-or-treat at Celebration Park
SAGINAW, Mich. — Costumes, candy and decorated cars helped kick off the spooky season in Saginaw as local businesses and families packed Celebration Park for a Trunk or Treat event. People decorated their vehicles and handed out treats to hundreds of trick-or-treaters at the park. The city-hosted event marked...
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Youth mental health documentary screening held in Saginaw
SAGINAW, Mich. (WJRT) - A documentary focused on youth mental health and suicide was screened Wednesday evening at the Temple Theatre in Saginaw, followed by a community discussion about mental health and available support. The Great Lakes Bay Region Mental Health Initiative at CMU Health hosted a free screening of...
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clarecountycleaver.net
‘Longmire’ Creator Craig Johnson Draws Packed Crowd for Book Talk
CLARE – When do best-selling authors visit a small theater in rural Clare County? When Sheila Bissonnette invites them. For the third time Bissonnette, director of the Pere Marquette District Library and the Harrison District Library, has brought a nationally best-selling author to Clare along with area library partners and through a grant from the Michigan Arts and Culture Council.
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A Red, White & Blue CHRISTMAS • Positive Results Light Up Saginaw Nov. 20 & 21
The Christmas Holiday Season is one time of the year when expectations run high, and happiness is harmoniously generated through the numerous possibilities that surface when people make connections with one another throughout our community. This is the goal of organizers from Positive Results in Downtown Saginaw, use pulling all the metrics together when planning a pair of stellar celebrations to kick off the holiday season that have become an ingrained tradition throughout the Great Lakes Bay region.
Midland Daily News
THROWBACK: He remembers his first Midland meal
George Albert Moll recalled in 1949 for a Daily News reporter the first meal he ate in Midland as well as an annual occurrence for 70 years of his life. It was 1879, and just before Moll would turn 10 years old. He and his mother made the train trip from Cincinnati to Midland. "Father met us at the station and I well remember the first meal I ever ate in Midland," he recalled in an article published in October 1949. "It was at Maggie Cunningham's well-known eatery on Main Street, a place where many a logger and traveler in those days stopped to get a good square meal in Midland." The Midland housing situation was critical. "The only building father could find empty was the old tannery then located at the foot of the upper bridge (Currie Parkway) so we fixed it up and moved in. I can remember later helping dig out the big curing vats in the back yard with their thick solid planking as good as the day it was laid." At 17, Moll worked in the woods as a lumberman and recalled the"biggest rollway ever known" in Red Keg (Averill) during the lumber industry's peak