With the Vogue Theatre showing 1927’s epic film, “Wings” (directed by William Wellman) for this Wednesday’s (March 8) classic film...

Many, even with a passing history of Manistee, have heard of the many saw mills around Manistee Lake and the channel out to Lake Michigan....

A view of the Chippewa Brewing Company circa late 1930s. In April of 1937 it was announced that Manistee’s brewery was to be reopened...

(The Fowler Building, formerly located at the southwest corner of Water and Maple street, were once home to city offices. We, in the...

As a child, whenever I would go to the office of my former dentist, Dr. Kitson, located at 84 Cypress St., I can’t ever remember thinking...

When I was younger and someone older started out a conversation with the words, “Back when I was a kid…”, I can remember on several...

ABOVE PHOTO: A drive down Merritt's Hill One of the challenges of scanning photos is figuring out where they were taken. Some are easy....

As regular readers of this blog know I volunteer at the museum to scan the 25,000+/- historic photos. (I’m now a bit over 10,000 photos...

By the 1920s, the local economy had declined due to the collapse of the sawmill industry. With several smaller industries attempting to...

As a rule of thumb, the “responsibility” of a bell is to signify when something has begun or ended. However, much like the ding-dong,...

BY MARK FEDDER Right before last year’s Christmas season I purchased a film to digital convertor in an attempt to upgrade all of the...

Many years ago I was host of visitors to Manistee County. We were driving around the county and I was helping them with the county’s...

Dating old photos is a skill. Back in May 2020 I wrote an article about using the existiance of highways (when built) and if they were...

When people decide to go into business for themselves, it is often a genial mix of experience, service, and product that sustain their...

The older I get, the more I seem to notice how the summer light changes as the months wear on into fall. As I am typically an early...

No matter what era a building is constructed in, it is doubtless that those (i.e. architects, contractors, etc.) who assembled said...

When going through newspapers for the daily “Looking Back” column published in the Manistee News Advocate, I often come across things...

During a normal year, a right of passage for high schoolers is the opportunity to attend the big year end dance called the Prom (short...

The street names in every community run from the mundane (First Street, Second Street, etc…) to the obvious (Main Street), to the ones...

The Manistee County Historical Museum’s main building is in what used to be the A. H. Lyman Drug Store. This was the largest drug store...