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Kelly Johnson in front of F-80 scale model

Angle of Attack

In 1910, seven years after Wilbur and Orville Wright made history with the world’s first powered flight in their Kitty Hawk Flyer, Clarence L. Johnson was born in Ishpeming in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.As a...
Downtown Gaylord

Winter Wonderland

In May 2022, a tornado packing winds of 150 mph slammed into a mobile home park before ripping through a section of a strip mall on Main Street/M-32 near downtown Gaylord, the Alpine-themed town...

Tow the Line

As general manager of Frog Holler Produce, a Detroit company that operates a 25-truck fleet that delivers fresh produce daily to clients across the state, Clay Verkaik routinely deals with traffic accidents, breakdowns, and...
Herbert Dow portrait

Midland Marvel

The 42,000 residents in the prosperous mid-Michigan city of Midland are fortunate their most prominent benefactor, Herbert Henry Dow, outgrew a boyhood fascination with raising ostriches in South Africa.Instead of focusing his genius on...
Capital Grille bar

Capital Return

A fire last year at the Capital Grille on the north side of the Somerset Collection in Troy, which closed the restaurant for nearly a year until it reopened in June, is proving to...
Anna Bissell Portrait

Seminal Leader

One of the oldest companies in Michigan and the United States grew out of a couple’s frustration with cleaning sawdust and straw trapped in the carpeting on the floors of their crockery and china...

Mulligan Rhapsody

After enduring a 15-year purgatory in Grand Traverse County, the High Pointe Golf Club — once one of the state’s most iconic golf attractions — is experiencing an unlikely revival.Things got so bad at...

Ottoman Empire

In more than a century of selling home goods in metro Detroit, Gardner White Furniture Co. in Warren has racked up a number of firsts in the industry: the first retailer to provide free...
Man in front of machine

Scherer Force

Unlike many inventors whose patents never earn them lasting fame or fortune, Robert Pauli Scherer revolutionized the pharmaceutical industry in the 1930s with his rotary die encapsulation machine that manufactured soft gelatin capsules for...

Pin-Seekers

For more than 400 professional golfers around the world, the confidence they need to make that one crucial putt to win a tournament and millions of dollars in prize money comes from a pastoral...

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