Michigan Archives – wayfarersoliloquy

This year, I had the honor of helping my friend Barry O’Brien in his vineyard in Grand Traverse County’s Old ….(read more)

As the weather in Northern Michigan turns gloomy, what could be better than learning how to make beer on a ….(read more)

The Anishinaabek people spoke of a legend in which three bears, one mother and two cubs, swam across the big ….(read more)

For three days in September, during a blustery summer-fall seasonal transition, I drove south to the town of Manistee to ….(read more)

Michigan is not just about heavy water and shipwrecks. Much of the state’s aquatic charm comes from its inland lakes ….(read more)

It’s been a far greater task writing about my hometown than an unfamiliar destination thousands of miles away. You can ….(read more)