The Manistee County connection to the first Best Picture winner
With the Vogue Theatre showing 1927’s epic film, “Wings” (directed by William Wellman) for this Wednesday’s (March 8) classic film...
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Kurt Schindler
- Feb 4
- 3 min
Lumber Camp versus Saw Mill
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....
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Mark Fedder
- Nov 26, 2022
- 5 min
"The life story of a glass, or a bottle of beer as produced in the local brewery" in 1937
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...
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Kurt Schindler
- Oct 8, 2022
- 2 min
City taxes from a century ago
(The Fowler Building, formerly located at the southwest corner of Water and Maple street, were once home to city offices. We, in the...
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Mark Fedder
- Aug 13, 2022
- 3 min
The Needlecraft Shop
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...
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Mark Fedder
- Jun 15, 2022
- 2 min
Vogue to celebrate Summer of '82 films this July
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...
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Kurt Schindler
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
Colloquial Names
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....
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Kurt Schindler
- Apr 2, 2022
- 2 min
Groceries, groceries, everywhere
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...
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Mark Fedder
- Mar 12, 2022
- 6 min
A ribbon of hard surfaced road
By the 1920s, the local economy had declined due to the collapse of the sawmill industry. With several smaller industries attempting to...
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Mark Fedder
- Feb 12, 2022
- 6 min
The bell of Woodrow Wilson School
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,...
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manisteemuseum
- Dec 15, 2021
- 2 min
Family members and old films
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...
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Kurt Schindler
- Nov 27, 2021
- 2 min
Red Bridge
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...
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Kurt Schindler
- Oct 26, 2021
- 2 min
Dating historic photos Part 2
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...
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Mark Fedder
- Sep 14, 2021
- 6 min
John Madison, River Street businessman
When people decide to go into business for themselves, it is often a genial mix of experience, service, and product that sustain their...
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Mark Fedder
- Aug 12, 2021
- 3 min
"Over summer's high hill"
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...
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Mark Fedder
- Jul 7, 2021
- 4 min
The Red Carpet Inn
No matter what era a building is constructed in, it is doubtless that those (i.e. architects, contractors, etc.) who assembled said...
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manisteemuseum
- May 29, 2021
- 3 min
An old article about an old rectory
When going through newspapers for the daily “Looking Back” column published in the Manistee News Advocate, I often come across things...
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Mark Fedder
- Apr 27, 2021
- 2 min
Let's go to the hop...in 1894
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...
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Mark Fedder
- Apr 14, 2021
- 2 min
Robinson Street
The street names in every community run from the mundane (First Street, Second Street, etc…) to the obvious (Main Street), to the ones...
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Kurt Schindler
- Mar 30, 2021
- 2 min
A name on a shelf
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...
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