Basketball Madness: ‘Floored’ By Michigan Companies
Tom Izzo surveys the basketball court in Michigan State University’s Breslin Center and still relishes what that court represents. Fifteen years earlier, Izzo led...
Small Town To Capital City: Rural Michigan’s Political Couple
Down a country road in Ionia County, not too far from where she grew up on a sesquicentennial farm, Julie Calley lives a fairly...
You Can’t Make Me: Tips for Bringing Out the Best in Your Strong-willed Child.
For 22 years, 6 months and 21 days, I was a perfect parent. I knew exactly how to get babies to sleep, toddlers to...
Chippin’ Away With Great Lakes Potato Chip Company
Eddie, what happened to my blankets?” said Ed Girrbach’s mother when she noticed they were missing. Ed jokes that after he explained he’d been...
Going to the Edge for Perfect Shots
She’s dangled over an icy wall and rappelled its glassy facade, come dangerously close to the edge of several cliffs, and inched along narrow paths in the pitch-black...
Legacy On The Lakes
“I’m a water guy,” said Jim Hogan. “That’s who I am.”
It’s not just that Hogan likes water, or has lived and worked on it...
Interlochen: Making Beautiful Music In Northern Michigan
In Interlochen, Michigan, nestled within 1,200 acres of woods with not one, but two crystal blue lakes sparkling with glints of light, is an...
Clean Up With Dirty Girl Farm
I was the weirdo with the weird products helping the weirdos,” jokes Heather Rosencrantz, owner of Dirty Girl Farm, a line of all-natural, vegan...
Marathon Paddler: ‘Amazing Al’ is Ready to Go the Distance
There is little to compare with the spectacle at the start of the annual AuSable River Canoe Marathon. Thousands of cheering fans line the...
Ready, Set, Roar
It’s hard to visit the small town of Boyne City, Michigan, and not conjure up words like “quaint” and “charming.” A town of around...