A short tourism documentary from 1949 on Northern Michigan:
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Roaming Through Michigan
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Frankenmuth: Lager Mill and Historical Museum
When we visited Frankenmuth last weekend, we of course knew about the Frankenmuth Brewery, Zehnder’s famous fried chicken, and the giant year-round Christmas store Bronner’s. What we hadn’t been to before though was the Lager Mill and the Frankenmuth Hisotrical Museum.
Lager Mill is not just a beer store, but also a brewing museum with lots of old milling equipment, info on the brewing history in Frankenmuth, and a huge German beer glass selection.
The Frankenmuth Historical Museum was another great find, especially considering the $2 admission to the brewing museum also included admission to the historical museum.
Trevor
Frankenmuth: Downtown
We usually try to take a small trip every winter, but between moving and Mary starting a new job, it just didn’t happen this year.
Now that we’re finally about settled, we took an early spring trip to Frankenmuth, America’s little Bavaria. Since Frankenmuth is only a little over an hour away and has multiple breweries, it seemed like the perfect weekend retreat.
We loaded up our bikes only to have a chilly, overcast weekend, but we still had a great time walking around downtown and enjoying the alpine architecture and scenery.
Trevor
The Great Lakes States Project
I’m a sucker for anything Michigan or Great Lakes themed. So I fell in love with this kickstarter project for posters of all of the Great Lakes states. Meng Yang, the Chicago based graphic designer behind the project, has until March 20 to raise enough money to produce the posters.
Mary
Designer Love: Below the Boat
I’m always on the lookout for cool laser cut or etched projects, so when I found these great wooden maps of U.S. lakes from Below the Boat, I was blown away. They’re made to be bathymetric charts (the underwater equivalent of a topographic map), so each layer is laser cut as its own piece and then glued.
Of course the Great Lakes maps are the best looking, but maybe I’m biased?
Full map of the Great Lakes
Straights of Mackinac
Lake Washington
Mount Desert Island
All images from Below the Boat.
Trevor
On the Move
Mary and I have been neglecting the blog recently due to a sudden move to Hamtramck. Being busy setting up our new home and not having internet yet has led to blog updates being a little harder to post than normal. Hopefully order will be restored within the next week and the internet with flow once again.
In the meantime, here’s an ode to our new home of Hamtramck.
Hamtramck Disneyland from Detroit Moxie
Polish Village Cafe from Yelp
Hamtramck in the 70′s from Detroit Memories
Kowalskis from Flickr
A post dedicated to Hamtramck is especially fitting today as it’s Paczki Day and Hamtramck is known for having the best Paczkis pretty much anywhere. I’ve learned that Paczki Day isn’t well known outside of the midwest, so if you don’t know what this wonderful and gluttenous holiday is, see here.
Paczkis from Hamtramck.us
Trevor Walters
Lumbering in Ypsi
While at my parents’ this past weekend I found a 1959 catalogue for a Fingerle, Hollister, and Wood Lumber Co., an old lumber company that once existed on E. Michigan Ave. in my hometown of Ypsilanti, MI.
While the Fingerle Lumber Company still exists in Ann Arbor, the Fingerle, Hollister, and Wood joint store has been gone long enough that my Dad is the only family member who remembers it, having grown up in the area in the ’60′s.
I loved looking through the catalogue to see the ads, illustrations, design, tools, and lumber of the 1950′s.
Trevor
Rat Fest at the Corner Brewery
Mary and I had the privilege this past weekend of attending Rat Fest at the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It was an event that featured nine local brewing guilds, each making four different types of beer for everyone at the event to sample. That’s 36 beers we got to sample!
This year the brew clubs were The Ann Arbor Brewers Guild Hopheads, The Ann Arbor Brewers Guild Yeasters, CraftBeerinMi, Brighton Home Brew Club, Detroit Draft Divas, Motor City Mashers, Muskrat Mashers, The Sons of Liberty, and The Ugly Mug.
from Corner Brewery
We got to vote on several categories and Mary and I both agreed The Motor City Mashers had the best all around selection with their Salty Dog Grapefruit Gose, Peanut Butter Cup Stout, Winter Spice Ale, and Toasted Coconut Porter. Some of our other favorite brews were the Twice Baked Potato DIPA from the Sons of Liberty and the Bombs Away Stout from the Brighton Brew Club.
One of our favorite logos from the Sons of Liberty Homebrew Club
Trevor
Michigan Decals and Pennant
I got these cool Michigan decals and pennant for Christmas and have been trying to come up with a cool project the decals could go on that wouldn’t damage them. There are a few doubles that I might put on an old suitcase I have, but for most of them, I’ll just have to keep brainstorming.
Trevor
Homeward Bound
This Saturday I’ll be heading back to Michigan from Chicago for good. I am so happy and excited to be in the cutest shaped state and the only place I’ll ever feel truly at home. I thought I’d share a few of my favorite things about my favorite state in honor of the move.
In no particular order…
Sleeping Bear Dunes.
Pointing to your hand to explain locations.
The Earthen Jar.
Tahquamenon Falls.
Going “Up North.”
Proximity to Canada.
Sidetrack.
Trevor.
The copious amounts of classic rock you hear everywhere.
Mary
