December 2011
1 post
2 tags
November 2011
5 posts
2 tags
Magic: Alpena, Mich., 1992
Thanksgiving Is Extra Awesome When You’re One of the Kids
By Elissa Englund
[The author (third from right) with her cousins and sister (right) at Thanksgiving, circa 1991.]
Note: All week long we’ve been posting one appetizer-sized Thanksgiving essay per day in the lead up to the holiday. You can read the Monday’s, Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s essays on our blog....
3 tags
My Boyfriend's Mother's Amazing Midwestern...
On Tradition, Abundance, and Midwestern Corn Casserole
by Emily Bingham
Note: All week long we’re bringing you one appetizer-sized Thanksgiving essay per day in the lead up to the holiday. You can read the first and second essay in the series in previous blog posts. Bon appetit!
This Thanksgiving, just like every Thanksgiving since I first met my boyfriend Lou four years ago, I will pause to give...
2 tags
My Life as a Turkey Farmer, or, How Turkey Poop...
By Sarah Cook
[Photo via Flickr user powerpigsetups]
Note: All week long we’re bringing you one appetizer-sized Thanksgiving essay per day in the lead up to the holiday. Click here to read the first essay in the series. Bon appetit!
My friends Matt and Eleanor own a 120 acre farm in Missouri and raise chickens, bees, vegetables and — pay close attention her — turkeys. When I...
2 tags
Oh Yoko
Why Thanksgiving at the Blouins is always a good exercise in cultural insensitivity
By Lou Blouin
[The kids’ table at the Blouin Thanksgiving, circa 1990.]
Note: All week long we’re bringing you one appetizer-sized Thanksgiving essay per day in the lead up to the holiday. Here’s the first.
For most families maybe, Thanksgiving is strictly a family affair, but as has...
October 2011
1 post
3 tags
July 2011
1 post
4 tags
June 2011
2 posts
3 tags
The Fear: Are You Afraid of Detroit?
by Emily Bingham A few weeks ago, I signed a one-year lease on a home in Detroit. The signing was a culmination of a long search — of both Craigslist and my soul — to decide where I wanted to plant my roots in Michigan. So, when I put my signature on that piece of paper, I felt relieved. And excited: The house was gorgeous, the price was right, the neighborhood was charming and yet...
3 tags
Where We've Been
Finding Michigan, it seems.
Reacquainting ourselves with Lake Michigan …
… and Lake Huron …
… signing a lease on a home in Detroit, and rediscovering all the treasures of the Motor City …
… planting a veggie garden and going for lots and lots of walks and loving spring/summer’s return…
… and of course, eating our way across metro...
May 2011
1 post
3 tags
Checkout Counter Culture: East and Midwest
My struggle to regain top form at the supermarket.
By Lou Blouin
[Contributor Lou Blouin, overwhelmed at Trader Joe’s in Portland, Maine.]
I love supermarkets. I love everything about them. Even the things that I probably shouldn’t. The light rock on the store PA system. How they seem to have a little of everything — even random stuff like rope and sweatshirts and potting soil. I...
April 2011
1 post
5 tags
Rustilicious: A Primer on Catching & Eating...
March 2011
5 posts
5 tags
Midwest is Best: Part Deux
[A defunct pasty shop in Michigan’s U.P. Photo by James Marvin Phelps.]
Last week we started musing about the adage “Midwest is Best,” and asked a handful of friends to let the saying inspire a piece of writing to appear here on Found Michigan. This week we finish up with the essays, with contributions from Portlandia, the Windy City, Indianapolis (by way of the Rockies), and...
3 tags
Midwest is Best
Our return to Michigan is just nine days away, and we’re beyond ready to be home amongst our fellow Midwesterners: people who love things like Big Ten football, who don’t take themselves too seriously, and who actually pronounce R’s at the ends of words (if you hear us saying “cah” instead of “car” you have permission to smack us). So for this week’s...
5 tags
5 tags
Born in Michigan: The Lost History of Pro Hockey...
3 tags
The Paradox of Paradise
Why I hope to spend more time up north by living in Detroit. Growing up as one of the many metro Detroiters who clog up I-75 on summer weekends to get away from the swelter of city life, I developed a serious infatuation with certain places up north. It started with my family’s cottage, and over the years expanded into an entire list of secret and sacred spots that felt refreshingly far away...
February 2011
3 posts
4 tags
Why Detroit: Answers from a Recent Returnee
Last...
1 tag
Get Well, Stewie, or, Why I’m Moving Back to...
I can pinpoint the exact moment Michigan’s gravitational pull officially reeled us back into orbit. We were lounging on a hotel room bed during a post-Thanksgiving getaway to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and for evening entertainment, all we could focus on was hunting down a pirated web feed of that night’s Red Wings game. Since then we’ve only missed one regular season game. And I’ve started...
2 tags
