It’s my younger brother Gordon’s birthday, and although our roots are in Finland we’ve been called Irish twins due to our birthdates just 14 months…
June is National Accordion Awareness Month, and if you’re asking why this musical instrument needs an awareness month, you’ve just answered your own question. And…
It’s a good thing St. Urho didn’t have Twitter, or we may not be celebrating his heroic act each March 16. St. Urho, of course,…
President Andrew Jackson added the 26th star to Old Glory on January 26, 1837, when he granted Michigan statehood. But the designation didn’t come easy,…
This is one of my favorite posts to update each year, and I was excited to learn of something special launching in 2026. Keep reading….
Bone chilling cold. Gusty winds. Snowfall. When the weather outside is frightfull, it’s mojakka time! Mojakka (say MOY-ah-kah) is our Finnglish (Finnish-English) word for beef…
In 1978 when Norm and Dorothy Snyder opened their tiny greeting card shop in Warsaw, Indiana, they never dreamed it would evolve into a tourist…
As the white stuff blankets the state, I thought you might enjoy some snow-related facts and tidbits about Michigan, the Water-Winter Wonderland, to occupy you…
Pickles pack a punch in the Great Lakes State. Michigan is the top U.S. grower of pickling cucumbers, thanks to, in long short, its sandy…
On a stormy November evening half a century ago, the crew of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, 29 men who thought they were on the last run…
