Category: Michigan

• Kalamazoo County Characters by Dianna Higgs Stampfler

  

  This fascinating book, featuring profiles of 50 notable figures in the Kalamazoo area history, will be released by The History Press in January 2025. Since its founding in the early 1800s, Kalamazoo has welcomed a variety of notable individuals who have shaped the community’s legacy in their own special way. From founding fathers to early…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  January 7, 2025

  #books, #BookTok, Author event, Biography, Book signings, Michigan, Non-fiction, The History Press

  #books, 1, art, Author events, book signing, Dianna Stampfler, Jim Higgs, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County Charaters, lifestyle, movies, Non-fiction, Promote Michigan, The Eagles, Travel

• Enjoy a Lakeside Chat with the Grandson of Ernest Hemingway–Author John Patrick Hemingway

  

    Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author (and Walloon Lake’s most noted summer resident) Ernest Hemingway came from a family of creative types and has since left a legacy of writing that extends for generations. Among those is his grandson, John Patrick Hemingway, author of Strange Tribe (The Lyons Press, 2007) – a memoir that details the turbulent, love/hate relationship between…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  February 28, 2023

  #books, #BookTok, Adventure, Book signings, Cocktails, Ernest Hemingway, Michigan, Walloon Lake

  #books, Author event, Book event, book signing, Cocktails, Ernest Hemingway, John Patrick Hemingway, Michigan, Northern Michigan, Pilar's Rum, Talcott Event Center, Travel, Walloon Lake, Walloon Lake Inn

• Haunted Lighthouses: Scary Tales of the Great Lakes

  

  Michigan is home to more lighthouses than any other state and about 40 of those are rumored to be haunted by the spirits of former keepers, mariners and others with ties to these historic beacons. Inside the pages of Michigan’s Haunted Lighthouses, long-time researcher, writer and promoter of all things Michigan, Dianna Stampfler, shares stories of…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  October 5, 2022

  #books, Adventure, American History, Architecture, Author event, Book signings, Culture, Ghosts, Great Lakes, Hauntings, Historic Architecture, History, Lake Michigan, Lighthouse, Michigan, Murder, mystery, Non-fiction, Shipwrecks, Travel, True Crime

  book signing, Great Lakes, Historic Architecture, Historical Society of Michigan, Mackiac City, Marquette Harbor Lightouse, Michigan, Michigan Maritime Museum, Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses, Point Iroquois, Seul Choix Point Lighthouse, Whitefish Point, Whitehall Michigan

• Author explores the partnership between Chicago chefs and the farmers who grow food for them

  

  The stories behind 25 Midwest Farms and Farmers as well as the chefs who use their produce.

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  May 1, 2022

  Authors, Chicago, Farming, Food, Michigan

  Abra Berens, Anna Blessing, Bare Knucke Farm, Charlie Trotter, Farming, Frontera Grill, Granor Farm, Grist: A Practical Guide to Cooking Grains, Gunthorp Farm, James Beard Foundation, LaGrange Indiana, Lena Brava, Locally Brewed, Locally Grown, Northport Michigan, One Plate at a Time, Rick Bayless, Ruffage, Three Oaks MI, Topolobampo, XOCO

• Death & Lighthouses of the Great Lakes

  

  Great Lakes Lighthouse: Death, true crime, suicides, and murder.

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  March 4, 2022

  Great Lakes, Lighthouse, Michigan, Murder, mystery

  Canada, Death & Lighthouse of the Great Lakes, Dianna Higgs Stampfler, George Gentry, Gibraltar Point, Great Lakes, History Press, John Paul “J.P.” Radelmüller, Lighthouses, Michigan, Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses, mystery, Toronto

• Spilling the Beans: Abra Berens Dishes on Legumes, Beans, and More in Her Latest Cookbook

  

           A much maligned vegetable belonging, along with peas and lentils, to the vegetable class called legumes, beans are about as low on the food chain as you can go in terms of respect. Kids snicker at rhymes about beans and the gas they produce and sayings like “not worth a hill of beans” signifies…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  January 2, 2022

  Cookbooks, Food, Michigan, Recipes

  Abra Berens, Beans, C3 Seeds, Chronicle Books, Cookbooks, Farm food, farm to table, Food, Grains, Granor Farm, Grist, icotta + Chard, James Beard Award winner, Legumes, organic, Recipes, rs + Tajín Oil, Ruffage, Southwest Michigan, Spoon Pudding with Pork Chops and Cabbage Salad, Three Oaks MI