Did you know that Grand Rapids had been the first city in the world to have commercial electric lighting service? I had no idea of this amazing, local history! My husband, Chuck, had been walking along the Grand River last Tuesday, August 20th when he came upon a curiously large […]
Monthly Archives: August 2024
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Standing on a reef of limestone, off the shore of Alpena, Michigan is the second oldest lighthouse in Lake Huron, Thunder Bay Island Lighthouse. The treacherous reef has earned the label “Shipwreck Alley.” This island has been draped in stories of human tragedy and heroism. All of these tales are […]
Did you know that there had been a Great Black Swamp southwest of Lake Erie? In 1813 a soldier had written that his “comrades slogged through water six inches deep, underlain by ice. Often the ice broke, dropping them neck-deep in the swamp.” Can you even imagine being stuck in […]