Home Sweet Houghton

The City of Houghton, Michigan wants your thoughts on what can be done to improve the downtown area – what kind of stores should be added, what other improvements would make it better, what makes you head downtown to do business – or doesn’t.  They’ve packaged it all in a brief survey, and they’re looking [...]

Congratulations to Michigan Tech, which has just been listed one of the Princeton Review’s Best 371 Colleges.  The story on the subject from Michigan Tech News said the university was recognized for having exemplary fire safety (they rank that?), quality of life and “green” policies and procedures, and that students praised both the school’s academics [...]

Sunday’s Detroit Free Press has a great article on Isle Royale, Michigan’s only national park and one of the least-visited parks in the entire system.  The Free Press’s travel writer, Ellen Creager, spent a couple of days on this remote island, something that apparently only about 14,000 people do every year.  I’m actually a little [...]

Forgive the silence, we’ve just spent almost three weeks visiting cherished friends and favorite spots in St. Louis and the Ozarks.  Immersed in all that heat, humidity and Cardinals baseball it was hard to think much about our very different life in the Upper Peninsula, where the air conditioning sits blessedly idle for most of [...]