Ron Rademacher is a Travel Writer, Author, Speaker, Story Teller, and a Guy,Who Holds The Record For Getting Lost On The Back Roads Of Michigan.

Around Michigan

 

Upper Peninsula:

Wilderness Destination of the Week – Lime Island. 

Lime Island is across from Raber MI.

Sit atop a bluff overlooking the St. Marys River and watch Great Lake freighterspass by, hike on the trails, fish from shore, relax on the sandy beach. Cottages andrustic tent camping. Other than that, the island is completely covered in forests,home to a population of black bears.

Visitors to the Island must charter or navigate a boat three miles across the St.Mary’s River. There are several smaller islands that surround Lime island.

North.

Alpena. Alpena Disks.Unusual artifacts have been dug up all over the Great Lakes Region. The BesserMuseum in Alpena, Michigan houses a rare collection of hundreds of prehistoricshale discs. Nothing like them has been discovered anywhere else. The discs areunique to Alpena. Before the disks were verified as prehistoric, none had beenrecorded in archaeological reports.

A single disc was found at an archaeological site on Georgian Bay on the Canadianside of Lake Huron. The purpose of the discs remains unexplained. Some haveinscriptions, but most are blank. The inscriptions appear to be spiritual images.Some are said to be important in the cosmology of the Algonquian people.The discs were first discovered by Robert E. Haltiner in the 1940’s.

South.

Freeland. Baynes Apple Valley opens on the 18th. Many varieties ofMichigan apples – family owned bakery, cafe, and gift shop.

South Haven. National Blueberry Festival and Craft Fair, August6-9, 2020, South Haven, MI Music, farm days and blueberry everything!!

Some events are cancelled but the festival is on. still happening, including Farm Day onAug. 7, when you can visit various growers; a photo contest; a scavenger hunt forkids and a virtual 5K.

Check out blueberry vendors and the national Blueberry Festival booth at thedowntown pavilion on Aug. 8.