Best Towns In Michigan - April 2024

Explorer's Guide 50 Hikes in Michigan: Sixty Walks, Day Trips, and Backpacks in the Lower Peninsula (Third Edition) (Explorer's 50 Hikes)

In the this completely revised third edition of the classic hiking guide to Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, noted outdoor writer Jim DuFresne leads hikers on sixty hikes through the state’s unequaled system of national and state parks, natural areas, and wilderness tracts, where the scenery and trails are as varied as anywhere in the country. Hikes range from 1.5 miles to 23 miles, from easy day hikes to extended island backpacking adventures. Complementing the trail descriptions are the most accurate and up-to-date maps available. Hikers will learn where to find the best trailside fishing, bi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1581572069
• ASIN: 1581572069
• ISBN: 1581572069
• Brand: Symantec
• Manufacturer: Countryman Press

Ghost Towns of Michigan Vol. II (Ghost Towns of Michigan)

Here is the third volume in the Ghost Towns of Michigan series, featuring 44 of Michigan's most fascinating ghost towns, along with numerous historic photographs. These are stories of land speculators, wildcat bankers, boom-and-bust lumber barons, pioneers who refused to give up, and small towns with big ideas that didn't quite pan out. Read about: • Havre, which drowned in the rising waters of Lake Erie • Eschol, a town that only existed on paper • Armed conflict between Quakers and hunters of fugitive slaves at Calvin Center in 1847 • The bizarre story of a minister-turned-murderer a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1882376196
• ASIN: 1882376196
• ISBN: 1882376196
• Brand: Thunder Bay Press Michigan
• Manufacturer: Thunder Bay Press Michigan

Weekend Canoeing in Michigan: The Rivers, The Towns, The Taverns

Twenty less paddled rivers of Michigan described and their neighboring towns and taverns.

• ASIN: 1933926090
• ASIN: 1933926090
• ISBN: 1933926090
• Brand: Brand: Arbutus Press
• Manufacturer: Arbutus Pr

Wisconsin's Best Beer Guide, 4th Edition

Somewhere in Wisconsin there is a pint of beer with your name on it. Your mission: Find it! Don't make Wisconsin beer come looking for you! Set out on a pils-grimage to pay homage to the great people and places that bring you Wisconsin's finest liquid joy. From a tiny homemade brewery hidden on the Northwoods all the way up to megabrewer MillerCoors, this road-trip manual takes you on a thirst-quenching adventure while stopping at all the fish fries and fresh cheese curds along the way. Inside you will find: Listings and directions for all the current breweries History and facts about brewing ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1933272651
• ASIN: 1933272651
• ISBN: 1933272651
• Brand: Thunder Bay Press Michigan
• Manufacturer: Thunder Bay Press Michigan

100 Things to Do in Traverse City Before You Die (100 Things to Do Before You Die)

If one of life’s major quests is for balance, it’s no surprise that Traverse City keeps topping national “best” lists. Here, visitors and locals come for the life balance—the serenity offered by the lapping of waves along hundreds of miles of sandy beach, a dark sky just made for wishing upon stars, the simplicity of picking up dinner at a roadside farm stand or from a chef who got her start at one. There’s a balance, too, of the simple and the elevated, as local chefs get noticed on the national stage, wineries scoop up international competition awards, and galleries attract accla... [Read More]

• ASIN: 168106099X
• ASIN: 168106099X
• ISBN: 168106099X
• Manufacturer: Reedy Pr

Beach Town: A Novel

Greer Hennessy needs palm trees. As a movie location scout, picture-perfect is the name of the game. But her last project literally went up in flames, and her career is on the verge of flaming out. Greer has been given one more chance, if she can find the perfect undiscovered beach hideaway for a big-budget movie. She zeroes in on a sleepy Florida town called Cypress Key. But Eben Thibadeaux, the town’s mayor, objects to Greer’s plan. A lifelong resident of Cypress Key, Eben wants the town to be revitalized, not commercialized. Greer has a way of making things happen, regardless of obstac... [Read More]

• ASIN: 125006595X
• ASIN: 125006595X
• ISBN: 125006595X
• Brand: Griffin
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

Michigan Wildflowers in Color (Wildflowers (Paperback))

This spectacular and informative guide features 278 wildflowers found in the meadows, woods, dunes, shores, and wetlands of Michigan. Each stunning photograph is coupled with a detailed plant description, including scientific and family names, habitat, growing season, and protected status. Michigan Wildflowers also features a wildflower quiz and a guide to eight of Michigan's most accessible and diverse wildflower trails, including Fernwood, Grass River Natural Area, and the Ninga Aki Pathway. Invaluable to nature lovers, this beautiful and practical book is essential for anyone who enjoys the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1882376560
• ASIN: 1882376560
• ISBN: 1882376560
• Brand: Thunder Bay Press Michigan
• Manufacturer: Thunder Bay Press Michigan

The Madison Regatta: Hydroplane Racing in Small-Town Indiana (Sports)

Each summer, a small miracle occurs in southern Indiana, when the little town of Madison becomes the hydroplane racing capital of the world as 100,000-plus people flock in for the Madison Regatta. The townsfolk, not merely content to host, also own the Miss Madison, one of the most successful hydroplanes on the circuit. In recent years, Miss Madison has emerged as the top hydroplane in the world, winning both the driver and hydroplane points standing multiple times. Roar down the Ohio with Fred Farley and Ron Harsin and revisit the long history of racing in this town and the sixty-plus years o... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1609493001
• ASIN: 1609493001
• ISBN: 1609493001
• Manufacturer: The History Press

Hooking Up: You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again Again

The blockbuster book that sent Hollywood running for cover in the 1990s is back for the new millennium, with all-new girls and all-new stories of celebrity misbehavior in the book that is not afraid to name names.

• ASIN: 1597775045
• ASIN: 1597775045
• ISBN: 1597775045
• Manufacturer: Phoenix Books

A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War I (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)

... exactly the kind of innovative, wide-ranging, theoretically informed social history that the Russian field badly needs." ―Steven Smith, University of EssexDuring World War I, millions of civilians on the eastern front, including Poles, Latvians, Jews, and Armenians as well as Russians and Ukrainians, were forcibly uprooted. This is the first book in any language to describe their experience and consider the social, political, and cultural meanings of refugeedom before and after the collapse of the tsarist empire.

• ASIN: 0253213460
• ASIN: 0253213460
• ISBN: 0253213460
• Manufacturer: Indiana University Press

Michigan Ghost Towns: Of the Upper Peninsula (Michigan Ghost Towns III)

Michigan: the way it was. Michigan Ghost Towns compiles settlements and communities that have faded into Michigan's history and legend: ""Baraga County's $2,000,000 Ghost Railroad"" (Reprinted from the September 23, 1964 Issue of the L'Anse Sentinel by permission) A few rusty nails, some old telegraph poles and a bed grown over with brush and trees in the Huron Mountain district is all that remains today of a $2,000,000 railroad which never ran a train of cars and failed to bring in a cent of revenue. For several years men labored in the wilderness to lay 35 miles of tracks through rocky gorge... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0934884021
• ASIN: 0934884021
• ISBN: 0934884021
• Brand: Thunder Bay Press Michigan
• Manufacturer: Thunder Bay Press Michigan

Reclamation (Best Laid Plans Book 4)

Trev has seen one of the first mushroom clouds of the global thermonuclear war that would come to be called the Retaliation. The world will never be the same, and neither will those who survived through it.He and his family have escaped from imprisonment and are rushing home to rejoin family and friends in Aspen Hill. As they travel their worried thoughts turn to an uncertain future and what they can do to improve their chances. Back in Aspen Hill his cousin Lewis and their friends are continuing to recover from the raider siege. Their small town remains untouched by the effects of the Retalia... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01EP908B2
• ASIN: B01EP908B2

Voice in the Night: The True Story of a Man and the Miracles That Are Changing Africa

Astonishing True Story of the Miracles That Are Changing AfricaBorn into a long line of witch doctors, Surprise ("Surpresa") Sithole was destined for a life of fear, oppression, and poverty in the jungles of Africa. But at the age of fifteen, he was awakened in the middle of the night by an unfamiliar voice. Urgent, but not harsh, it told him to get up and leave his family immediately. As Surprise stepped out into the night, away from everything dear to him, he had no idea who God was--or what he had in store for him.From miraculous signs and wonders to supernatural deliverance from certain de... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0800795237
• UPC: 884533306538
• ASIN: 0800795237
• ISBN: 9780800795238
• Brand: Baker Pub Group/Baker Books
• Manufacturer: Chosen Books

A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization (SUNY series in Popular Culture and Political Change)

A cultural study of the Flint community's response to its own deindustrialization, within the framework of the state, national, and international forces that produced it.Hometown to both General Motors and the United Auto Workers, and the setting for the documentary film Roger and Me, Flint, Michigan, is a striking example of a declining city in America’s Rust Belt. A Town Abandoned examines Flint’s response to its own social and economic decline and at the same time pursues a broad analysis of class and culture in America’s late capitalist society. It tells the story of how Flint’s lo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0791428788
• ASIN: 0791428788
• ISBN: 0791428788
• Brand: Brand: State University of New York Press
• Manufacturer: SUNY Press

Karanis, An Egyptian Town in Roman Times: Discoveries of the University of Michigan Expedition to Egypt (1924-1935) (Kelsey Museum Publication)

Karanis, a town in Egypt's Fayum region founded around 250 BC, housed a farming community with a diverse population and a complex material culture that lasted for hundreds of years. Ultimately abandoned and partly covered by the encroaching desert, Karanis eventually proved to be an extraordinarily rich archaeological site, yielding tens of thousands of artifacts and texts on papyrus that provide a wealth of information about daily life in the Roman-period Egyptian town. This volume tells of the history and culture of Karanis, and also provides a useful introduction to the University of Michig... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0974187305
• ASIN: 0974187305
• ISBN: 0974187305
• Manufacturer: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Bad Axe, Michigan, the Thumb's Best Town

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as

• UPC: 943829803

Bad Axe, Michigan, The Thumb's Best Town

Bad Axe, Michigan, The Thumb's Best

• UPC: 394761097

Bad Axe, Michigan, The Thumb's Best Town

Bad Axe, Michigan, The Thumb's Best

• UPC: 199162554

Boston, Mass. a Brief Description of Ye Ancient Town, and Also of the Best Way to Get There ...

Boston, Mass. a Brief Description of Ye Ancient Town, and Also of the Best Way to Get There

• UPC: 110144143

Bad Axe, Michigan, the Thumb's Best Town

Bad Axe, Michigan, the Thumb's Best

• UPC: 576930881

"You Would Be Welcome" in Leslie Michigan~It's Best Town in State~c1910 Pennant

• UPC: 303344965395
• Category: Michigan
• Price: 9 USD

Bannister Michigan~Best Town in the USA~Dirt Road Between Trees~1912 Pennant

• UPC: 293151155352
• Category: Michigan
• Price: 7 USD

Rare Vintage Matchbook Mackinaw Michigan Best Beer in Town Poor Richard's bridge

• UPC: 333317101250
• Category: Advertisements
• Price: 20 USD

"Best Town in the Country" is Detroit Michigan~Dime Bank~1912 Pennant Postcard

• UPC: 293046187477
• Category: Michigan
• Price: 5 USD

"Just Landed" in Midland Michigan~Best Town Struck~Man Falls From Sky~Pennant PC

• UPC: 293043181349
• Category: Michigan
• Price: 4 USD

Rochester MI Best Town In The World Felt Pennant Postcard c1908

• UPC: 372709409524
• Category: Michigan
• Price: 3 USD