The bats have been put away for some teams while others prepare to play on in the NCAA baseball tournament. But, nearly 48,000 fans saw 15 good games during the Big Ten conference tournament at Omaha’s TD Ameritrade Park. The opportunity to cover the event as part of the league’s media pool proved to be […]
It looked more like a battle between two top seeds rather the lowest and highest seeded teams. In a pitching duel, eighth-seeded Iowa managed to score a 4-2 victory over the league’s regular season champion Indiana in Wednesday’s opening round of the Big Ten baseball tournament. Following a day when all four lower seeded teams […]
Want to learn about day trips from the Omaha area? Maybe check out places where legends and celebrities called home in the Midwest? How about checking out some of the natural beauty we have in the region? These and more are the focus of a Midwest Travel class that we and Metropolitan Community College are […]
About a third of American Presidents (15 of 44) have Midwestern roots. Can you name them? Only kidding. The quiz comes at the end of the post. We’ve visited seven locations related to our presidents, with six of them belonging to the Midwest. In addition, Rapid City, SD, is home to Mount Rushmore, honoring four […]
The Midwest has long been considered “Flyover Country” between the coasts. But, if people take the region for granted, they miss out on a lot of interesting attractions and some of the nicest people in the world. For instance, did you know that the Midwest is home to the world’s largest buffalo? Or bull? How […]
The last leg of our Northlands vacation was Duluth, Minnesota, and the scenic North Shore drive. The drive from St. Ignace, Michigan, to Duluth was supposed to be about 7.5 hours, according to Google Map. I wanted to see the bell from the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, since the museum it was in was […]
Mackinac Island is so small… How small is it? Well, by the middle of summer, the number of horses matches the number of year-round residents. That would be 500. However, during the peak of the tourism season during July and August, thousands of people will visit the island. One person told us it gets so […]
The “Yooper,” as northern Michiganders call the upper peninsula, is a beautiful area. A mix of forests and lakes gives this region its unique identity. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (hence, Yooper) should be its own state, in my opinion. That’s just my opinion. I don’t mean to step on any Wolverine or Spartan toes. The drive […]
