History
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2,000 watched Brown Bridge Dam begin
The partial draining of Brown Bridge Dam Pond last year attracted its share of onlookers, but nothing like the crowds that gathered when the earthen dam's construction began 91 years ago.
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Boardman River dams helped city grow
Dams along the Boardman River helped make Traverse City what it is today.
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The Boardman, shaped by glaciers, dams
If Grand Traverse Bay is Traverse City’s front door, then the Boardman River Valley must be its backyard. Bay and river share a long history, one that started about 16,000 years ago when the fourth and final ice-age glacier slid over what today is Michigan.
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Grayling perished with virgin forests
A remnant species of the ice-age Arctic grayling, it existed only in Lower Peninsula rivers north of a line drawn from Muskegon across the state to Tawas Bay and in a single Upper Peninsula stream, the Otter River in Houghton County.
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Terry Wooten: Max Ellison, Rascal Poet
The headline of The Detroit Free Press read, "Poet took His Art to the People." On the front page of The Record-Eagle, Loraine Anderson called him The Rascal Poet. Last week Max Ellison would have turned 98 years old.
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Terry Wooten: WWII and women's rights
March is Women's Herstory Month. To celebrate the leap, here are three women's voices from my Elders Projects.
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Old Mission history recorded on tape
Retired attorney interviews the descendants of peninsula’s pioneers, makes a two-hour video.
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Book sparks overdue honor for veteran
Local pioneer Aaron B. Page, a Civil War veteran buried in an unmarked Colorado grave 93 years ago, finally will get a headstone.
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Terry Wooten: A time of big snow
The winter of 1957-58 was a doozie. I was in fourth grade. Snowbanks were higher than school bus windows along sections of the back roads.
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Loraine Anderson: Heroes in back yard
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day today, we don't have to look far in northwestern lower Michigan to find tragic examples of prejudice and discrimination.
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TC celebrates Hickory Hills' 60th
As Traverse City celebrates Hickory Hills' 60th anniversary, we take a look at the ski area's past and future.
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Terry Wooten: Small town help
Your hometown stays with you like the marrow in your bones. I hail from the highlands of northern lower Michigan. It's a rolling land of plains, artesian wells and trees populated with more wild animals than people. That's where the poet in me grew up. ... Ellsworth, the site of my latest Elders Project, is a lot like my hometown and many others.
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Historian did her part to raise awareness
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Vets recall Battle of the Bulge
Clifford Merrick knew something big was happening when they issued him a rifle.
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Traverse Corridor: A prehistoric crossroads
Anthropologist Charles Cleland and his students found a string of prehistoric villages
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