Who better to understand mental illness than one who had been seized by authorities and hospitalized five times over a twenty-two year span? Dr. Ferguson led a troubled life of addiction and psychotic breaks. In 1954 he arrived at Traverse City State Hospital, but not as a patient, but rather […]
Monthly Archives: November 2020
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Have you ever wondered about the Traverse City Asylum? As a youngster we’d drive by it on our way to Lake Leelanau to visit relatives on my mother’s side of the family. As we passed this marker, my mom would share that she had gone to ‘the insane asylum’ every […]
Noah and I explore the inland waterway in northern Michigan. It has a 3,000 year history and starts in Conway, Michigan to Cheboygan Michigan. We lock through two sets of locks in Alanson and Cheboygan. We pass the world's smallest swinging bridge and complete the 38 mile route just before [...]
I turned onto 8th street and before me was a HUGE Catholic shrine with marble statues. This stunning display is in the small village of Mio, Michigan. (east of Grayling) There are only 1,884 residents, yet there’s this impressive European structure. I slid my car to the side of the […]