When photos were posted of eight year-old Nante Niemi being piggybacked out of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park on Eli Talsma’s back this past spring, a combined sigh o…
The recent floods that sometimes plague Ewen and Chassell are a reminder that we are not immune to weather related problems here in the Upper Peninsula. Annual flooding of the South…
Sometimes an unfamiliar name used as a title for an FTV article doesn’t have enough information to be a real ‘grabber’. On the other hand, filling out the title of this instal…
When an article about Jim ‘Kimo’ West appeared in Guitar World magazine’s April 2023 issue, parts of his story sounded real familiar. It occurred to me that I just might have …
We begin this month with a rather unique observing challenge known as ‘opposing crescent Moons’. This happens when the last faint crescent Moon of the latest cycle of phases is …
Sing the following to the tune of My Way (with apologies to Old Blue Eyes): Flat Tires, I’ve had a few, everywhere from Melstrand to Timbuktu . . . Okay, I have had more than a fe…