rain off the hat, photo by Boston Fan in Michigan.
Boston Fan in Michigan says that you might have to see it large, but you can actually see raindrops spanging off the band hat here.
This photo is part of a set from Saturday’s UM v CMU game and on her excellent Blue Cats and Red Sox blog, Sam says that the band helped keep the fans at the Big House from mutinying during a 45 minute rain delay.
Note that she also talks about the Lions game so of course there is mild profanity.
Abandoned Cabin, Cross Village MI, photo by Latitude 45
Flickr (where most of the photos seen here on Michigan in Pictures reside) has recently added a nifty feature that allows you to view a map of all photos in any pool. Try the Michigan Pool and the Absolute Michigan pool for example. It also works on tags like michigan or lighthouse. Here’s where Flickr explains how geotagging works (apparently you can do it without carting around a GPS unit)
Very cool.
You can also view maps of whole sets of photos. Click the pic below to view the locations of more photos of this cabin and the rest of the photos in Martin’s “Abandoned” set.
Sunflowers, photo by rckrawczykjr.
I’ve been wanting to blog a photo from Ralph Krawczyk Jr for the longest time. Here you go and be sure to check out his other photos including this 2006 Holga Goodness set.
A movie produced by General Motors in 1936 called Master Hands that Christine Barry posted to her blog provided the impetus for today’s Labor Day holiday post. She dedicates it to her grandfather and it’s likely that many of us in Michigan have some relative who took some part (for or against) in the tumultuous labor struggles. Below are several links about Michigan’s most famous strike, the Flint Sitdown Strike of 1936-37 at GM’s Fisher Body #1 plant in Flint.
According to Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike at HistoricalVoices.org (an amazing web site that includes recordings of workers recalling the strike):
Working on the line at General Motors in Flint was a job many men needed desperately in the 1930’s, but it was also tremendously difficult. Terrible working conditions, combined with unfair and devious payroll practices, made the auto plants of Depression-era Flint into ripe locations for union organization.
The union was the United Auto Workers. The UAW pages on the 44-day strike that ended Feb. 11, 1937 say that it was the most pivitol event the early history of the UAW. The result was the first UAW contract with General Motors and the establishment of the UAW as the sole bargaining representative for GM workers. This account has a lot of details on the political events surrounding the strike.
A couple more excellent resources are Michigan Epic’s multimedia exploration of the Flint strike, The historic 1936-37 Flint auto plant strikes from the Detroit News, Wikipedia’s entry on the Flint Sit-Down Strike and this great slideshow of the monument commemorating the strike in Flint Sitdowners Memorial Park.
Note: The above photo is credited to the Walter P. Reuther Library of Wayne State University. The keen of eye will see that the striking workers are sitting on car seats.
Also check out The Reo Ramblers at the 1937 sit-down strike from Michigan in Pictures & the Archives of Michigan.
Mission Point Lighthouse, Lake Michigan, photo by JSE_Imaging.
Speaking from experience, I have to say that the Old Mission light is one of the hardest to take a picture of. Probably all that fencing.
The lighthouse was established on March 3, 1859 and sits at the tip of Old Mission peninsula (the eastern peninsula that forms Grand Traverse Bay). Lighthouse guru Terry Pepper has a page on the Mission Point Lighthouse that includes an account of the taking of lands around the light from the Ottawa.
Wikipedia’s Mission Point Lighthouse entry is pretty limited, but it does have a link to an article that says the Old Mission light was a twin to the now destroyedMama Juda Lighthouse in the Detroit River (a/k/a Mamajuda).
Across the Tracks, photo by anikarenina.
The Krappy Kamera Club has the goal of bringing together people with the love of Krappy Kameras in the greater Ann Arbor, Michigan area. Holga, Diana, Brownie – these are a few of their favorite things.
On a related note, KKC member and newspaper photographer Bill Bresler will present Plastic Fantastic: Toy Camera Photography in the Digital Age on Sunday October 22, 2006 at 2 PM at the Michigan Historical Museum in Lansing.
The Michigan Renaissance Festival is an annual affair held on weekends in Holly (between Detroit & Flint). It features full contact armored jousting, almost 200 artisans and tons of costumed entertainers of all kinds.
You can visit the Michigan Renaissance Festival web site for more information (click the photo above to jump straight to their photo gallery), click for a ton of photos from Flickr and check out Michigan Renaissance Faires and Festivals on Absolute Michigan.
Fishing at Sunrise, photo by DetroitBikeBlog
Mac took this photo of a fisherman on the Detroit River. He maintains the very cool Detroit BikeBlog where more photos of the D can be found.
This photo of the ghost town of Fayette by Paul Rose is one of many that appears in Absolute Michigan’s profile of Fayette Historic State Park. The Fayette Townsite is located on the UP’s Lake Michigan shore and is an excellent restoration of a historic village that features 20 historic buildings against the beautiful background of Big Bay De Noc.
This photo shows a sailplane being winch-launched from the beach near Frankfort in the 1930s. It is one of many photos that appears in Soaring and Gliding: The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Area by Jeffery P. Sandman and Peter R. Sandman. The 127 page, oversized softcover uses archival photographs from the 1920s to the present day along with brief text passages to tell the story of the rise of the Sleeping Bear Dunes area in northwest Michigan as a soaring and gliding mecca.
Reprinted with permission from Soaring and Gliding: The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Area by Jeffery P. Sandman and Peter R. Sandman. Available from the publisher online at www.arcadiapublishing.com or by calling 888-313-2665.
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