Michigan’s Iron Man
While he makes his living from his 37-year-old business, Moran Iron Works, Tom Moran has had a second career as a teacher. His first...
Spotlight On Co-op Entrepreneurs
Michigan Country Lines is proud to feature entrepreneurial movers and shakers from co-op territory. Click through to meet entrepreneurs from eight different businesses (listed...
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
The recent discovery of the wreck of the Nucleus is just one of many stories brought to light by the museum.
The Gordon Lightfoot song...
Biomass Fuels Renewable Energy
This is fifth in a series on how electricity is generated. The others covered clean-coal technology, nuclear, wind power and natural gas. Watch future...
Celebrated Art May Be As Close As Your Post Office
A busy post office isn’t where you’d expect to see wall murals and other artwork, but if the building was constructed during the 1930s...
Music to Our Ears
So many of us have fond memories of art and music classes in our school days. So often, it was a chance to decompress...
Camp Grayling: Michigan Is Home To World-Class Training Center
Northern Michigan is a destination for outdoor lovers—paddlers, campers, fishermen and cross-country skiers—and for military convoys carrying camo-clad soldiers to the largest National Guard...
‘Black Sheep’ Family
Cherry Scott gazes out at her Leelanau County “Field of Dreams.”
Gazing, in itself, is something of a miracle because she was going blind before...
Use Your Own Money: How To Start Your Child On An Allowance
A teen magazine caught my daughter’s eye in the store recently. She wanted it, but not enough to spend her allowance. This is exactly...
Magic Meets The Mitten
Many small towns in rural Michigan are quaintly magical. But in the tiny hamlet of Colon (population 1,100-ish), magical is more than an adjective,...











