One MSU Professor Singlehandedly Started Spring Break

Before Glendon Swarthout’s popular book, the annual trek south to Ft. Lauderdale wasn’t really a thing

The Bay City Dance Teacher Who Went Over Niagara Falls on Her 63rd Birthday

Annie Edson Taylor thought that if she made the plunge and lived, her fame would bring her fortune

Meet the Man Who Found Michigan’s 300-Year-Old Shipwreck

Steve Libert is still chasing his boyhood dream of finding Le Griffon, and recent discoveries suggest he’s close

Can Yoopers Spell “Tahquamenon”?

The French and Native American names of many U.P. landmarks would stump any spelling bee champion

Inmates Vs. Frat Boys, a Football Legend

In 1984, the men of Hillsdale College’s Alpha Tau Omega fraternity went to Jackson to lace up against the men of the Southern Michigan Prison

The Woman From Saline Who Completed Amelia Earhart’s Flight

Thirty years after the famous disappearance, Ann Pellegreno used the same model plane to circle the globe

Charlton Heston, Northern Michigan’s Favorite Son

The man who played Moses and Ben Hur spent his boyhood in St. Helen and took breaks from Hollywood to hunt and fish back home

Detroit’s Black Santa Needs a New Sleigh

Myron Benford has been playing Santa for 55 years and is quite probably the only one who delivers presents to your doorstep

The Greatest Canoeing Expedition Ever Ended in Lansing

A Michigander named Verlen Kruger once paddled 28,000 miles, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean, in one long odyssey