Here are some great Midwest-related stories I read online during the past month:
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Gooseberries on ice and Ice caves of the Apostles-Folks in the northern Midwest know how to embrace the season and find plenty of winter fun. We've visited Minnesota's Gooseberry Falls State Park and the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin during past summers, but after reading these stories at Midwest Weekends, I really hope we can eventually visit these places during the wintertime.
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Minneapolis Millers Hockey-Regular Midwest Guest readers know that I love hockey and minor league sports, so it should be no surprise that I enjoyed this nostalgic look at minor league hockey in Minneapolis (with cool vintage photos) at the Nokohaha blog.
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Museums Galore: Discover the Unexpected Arts + Culture of Cleveland Plus!-Being outdoors in the cold weather isn't your thing? Check out some great museums. We visit Cleveland fairly often and we've been to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art, but I found quite a few places that sound interesting for future visits on this list of the city's lesser known museums at What Locals Like About Cleveland Plus: An Insider's Look at the Lake Erie City.
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Next Stop, Cleveland!-Matt recently took his family to Cleveland where they enjoyed some of my favorite places there, including the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Check out Matt's story at Road Trips for Families.
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Where The Honk of the Motor Horn is Heard-We visited the North American International Auto Show in Detroit early last month, and I will post some photos from that visit later. Meanwhile, I got a charge out of the vintage photos and story of the beginnings of Detroit's famed auto show at Belle Isle Home. Check out the early electric car!
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Yes There Are Grocery Stores in Detroit-It annoys James that visiting journalists continue to spread falsehoods about Detroit like the untruth that there are no grocery stores in the city. I linked to a story James previously published about a third-generation, family-owned market in the city on his Sweet Juniper blog, and I enjoyed his most recent debunking of the Detroit-has-no-grocery-stores myth hosted at the Urbanophile: Passionate About Cities blog.
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Stop Treating My City Like the Fat Kid in Gym Class-Check out Jen's equally passionate debunking of media myths about Flint, Michigan, on the University of Michigan-Flint's University Relations blog. Jen's list of Flint's positive features includes its well regarded farmers market, which is on my list of places to visit soon.
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Landmark for Peace: A tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy-Nicole writes about one of her favorite Indianapolis landmarks at the Indiana Insider Blog. The Landmark for Peace Memorial in Martin Luther King Jr. Park honors King and commemorates a speech Kennedy gave in Indianapolis on the night of King's assassination stressing the importance of honoring King by continuing to carry on his life's work.
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Good Food: Iowa's Maid Rite-Road food is a favorite topic among travelers, and it's always fun to check out some of the best in regional eats as you travel. Linda checks out a classic Maid Rite diner and its loose meat sandwiches along the Lincoln Highway in Iowa. Yup, I thought of The Lanford Lunch Box, the loose meat sandwich restaurant Roseanne owned in her television show, too!
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