by Manistee VB | Feb 10, 2016 | Historic Tours, Local History, Self Guided Tours
In 1941, a unique home was built in Kaleva out of 60,000 glass bottles by John Makinen. Mr. Makinen owned the local pop bottling factory so he used chipped or flawed bottles from his pop bottling factory for his house. It was designed with artistic placement of the... 
by Manistee VB | Feb 10, 2016 | Adventure Sports, Conversations, Outdoors
Multi-kilometer bicycle cruises, northern Lower Michigan scenery, campfires and camaraderie. It seemed like a success story just waiting to be written for Manistee County native Bob Schuelke. He turned a love of cycling and the community he grew up in into a... 
by Manistee VB | Feb 10, 2016 | Adventure Sports, Conversations, Outdoors
If spending weekends on ATVs climbing vertical rock walls, barreling through boulder gardens and mud bogs, joining in beat downs, truck pulls, dog parties and winter snow wheeling is your kind of fun, Twisted Trails Off Road Park is the place for you. “We get it... 
by Manistee VB | Feb 2, 2016 | Entertainment & Culture, First Time Visitors, Historic Tours, Local History, Self Guided Tours
Built in 1938, in the then popular Art Deco Style, the Vogue was part of a large Midwestern chain owned by the Butterfield Theaters. The 935 seat theater continued to operate as a single screen until Butterfield Theaters sold it in 1985 and it was changed into a two... 
by Mark Fedder | Feb 1, 2016 | Local History
As a general rule of thumb, the phrase “Main Street” is normally given to a road in a city, town, or village that runs through a specified area where the foremost business was being done in that community. The main streets of Manistee County are in essence no... 
by Mark Fedder | Feb 1, 2016 | Historic Tours, Local History
While salt was more or less discovered in Manistee, sand, on the other hand, was an abundant problem that residents of the city have had to, more or less, endure. In the past, the area’s sand dunes gave the city a unique reputation for being pretty to look at... 
by Mark Fedder | Feb 1, 2016 | Local History
When examining a grain of salt or a grain of sand, it is difficult using the naked eye to gauge which one is actually bigger than the other. In terms of Manistee’s industrial past, both mineral and sediment have played reasonably equal roles throughout the... 
by Manistee VB | Jan 27, 2016 | Winter, Winter Trails & Slopes
During the dead of winter, there is one light that is shining brightly in the heart of the Manistee National Forest. At the Big-M Recreation area, there are two “moonlight ski night” that take place on the full moon evenings in January and February... 
by Mark Fedder | Jan 27, 2016 | Local History
Prior to the late 1860s, there was no easy access across the Manistee river channel. This meant that the town was actually made up of two areas and two communities, those that resided North of the city limits and those that resided South of the city. The only way to... 
by Mark Fedder | Jan 27, 2016 | Local History
One can imagine that after enduring the Great Fire of 1871, people of Manistee would be extra concerned about fires. Since there was only one bridge to cross the river a theory arose that if the bridge were open for boating traffic or by some chance damaged then there...
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