History – Page 2 – The Betsie Current Newspaper

2021 , Featured Stories , History , Issue 11 , Print Editions

Time Travel Back to Your Hometown

Jed Jaworski September 16, 2021September 16, 2021 1 comment

The Sanborn map collections for Benzie County

2021 , Featured Stories , Issue 11 , Maritime History , Music , Musician , Print Editions

‘Song of the Lakes’ Keeps Sailing Onward

Staff Reports September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 0 comment

Iconic band celebrates 40 years

2021 , Featured Stories , Historical , History , Iconic Person , Issue 10 , Maritime History , News , Print Editions

Roaring Dan Seavey

Staff Reports August 20, 2021February 6, 2022 1 comment

The pirate of Lake Michigan

2021 , Canoeing , Featured Stories , History , Issue 10 , Native American Culture & History , Nature , Print Editions

A Manistee River Adventure

Staff Reports August 14, 2021August 14, 2021 0 comment

From Buckley to Lake Michigan

2021 , Featured Stories , History , Issue 10 , Print Editions

Rival Rings

Aubrey Parker August 13, 2021August 13, 2021 0 comment

Missing for 32 years, found just weeks apart

2021 , Businesses , Featured Stories , History , Issue 9 , Maritime History , Print Editions

A Tale of Two Ships

Jed Jaworski July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 3 comment

An odd dock

2021 , Featured Stories , History , Issue 9 , Maritime History , Non-Profit , Non-profits , Print Editions

The Makings of the “Crown Jewel” of South Fox Island

Staff Reports July 27, 2021July 27, 2021 1 comment

How volunteers make it happen

2021 , Businesses , Featured Stories , History , Issue 8 , Maritime History , Non-Profit , Non-profits , Print Editions

A Three-hour Tour

Staff Reports July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 1 comment

Tours to North Manitou lighthouse crib begin

2021 , Featured Stories , History , Issue 8 , News , Print Editions , Railroad History

The Well-Traveled Painted Lady

Staff Reports July 1, 2021July 3, 2021 1 comment

Copemish Depot finds new home near Glen Arbor

2021 , Featured Stories , Historical , History , Iconic Person , Issue 5 , Print Editions

A Memorial Day Story

Staff Reports May 28, 2021June 3, 2021 0 comment

Northern Michigan daughter strives to bring home MIA airmen from a World War II mission

2021 , Businesses , Farmers , Farms , Featured Stories , Historical , History , Issue 5 , Print Editions

Farming, Family Style

Nicole L. Bates May 23, 2021June 3, 2021 0 comment

Sixth generation of Lindgrens raise bovine in Benzie County

Featured Stories , History , Iconic Person , Issue 4 , Print Editions

History of Harriet Quimby

Staff Reports April 28, 2021June 3, 2021 0 comment

First licensed U.S. female pilot, queen of the Channel crossing

2021 , Historical , History , Iconic Person , Issue 3 , Law Enforcement , Print Editions

Murder and Manhunt in March 1930

Staff Reports March 19, 2021June 3, 2021 1 comment

Officers and vigilantes search the hills of Honor

2021 , Featured Stories , History , Issue 2 , Maritime History , Print Editions

The Royal Frontenac

Jed Jaworski February 22, 2021June 3, 2021 6 comment

A brief, golden age of Frankfort… but not the last

2021 , COVID-19 Heroes , Featured Stories , History , Issue 1 , Print Editions , Skating , Sports

Benzonia Ice Rink: If You Build It, They Will Come

Aubrey Parker February 3, 2021February 4, 2021 1 comment

Longevity of the ephemeral ice rink

2021 , Baseball & Softball , Essays , Featured Stories , Historical , History , Iconic Person , Issue 1 , Print Editions , Sports

Not Getting Hank Aaron’s Autograph

Staff Reports January 29, 2021January 29, 2021 0 comment

Reconciling with the past

2020 , Baseball & Softball , History , Issue 8 , News , Print Editions , Sports

Lumberjacks and Cracker Jacks

Staff Reports December 2, 2020June 24, 2023 0 comment

A Northern Michigan ghost town and America’s favorite pastime

2020 , COVID-19 Heroes , Essays , Featured Stories , History , Issue 7 , Medical , News , Print Editions

Comparing COVID-19 and the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Greta Bolger July 8, 2020December 21, 2020 1 comment

What can history teach us

2020 , Historical , History , Iconic Person , Issue 6 , Maritime History , Print Editions , Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Frankfort or Ludington? The Mystery of Father Marquette’s Death, 345 Years Later

Staff Reports June 4, 2020July 10, 2020 1 comment

2019 , Featured Stories , History , Issue 12 , Maritime History , Print Editions , Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Unburied Treasure

Jed Jaworski December 15, 2019 1 comment

Erosion from fall storms and record high water levels revealing shipwrecks

2019 , Essays , Featured Stories , History , Issue 11 , Print Editions

Finding Lizzie

Staff Reports November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 1 comment

Locating a family member’s grave, with the help of a community

2018 , Businesses , Doctor , Featured Stories , Historical , History , Iconic Person , Issue 8 , Medical , Print Editions

Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital

Kelly Ottinger December 10, 2018December 11, 2018 0 comment

Maintaining health in a climate of failing rural hospitals

2017 , Featured Stories , History , Issue 4 , Maritime History , Nature , Print Editions , Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Preventing Drowning Deaths

Jacob Wheeler April 3, 2018 0 comment

National Park increases water-safety awareness

2017 , Featured Stories , History , Iconic Person , Issue 4 , Nature , Non-Profit , Print Editions , Scientist / Researcher / Ecologist , Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

The Once and Future Otter Creek

Staff Reports April 3, 2018April 6, 2018 0 comment

An ode to brook trout and the river ecologists who study them

2017 , Featured Stories , Historical , History , Iconic Person , Issue 4 , Print Editions

Little-known local history from WWI

Staff Reports March 30, 2018March 31, 2018 0 comment

A Polar Bear Returned to Russia