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Tag: Grand Rapids

  • Michigan, hors chemin: summer 2025 favourites

    Michigan, hors chemin: summer 2025 favourites

    From lazy afternoons on the lake to evening ballgames at Comerica Park, there’s no place like Michigan in the summer. But how to enjoy it if you want to avoid the crowds? Here’s some of the best of Michigan, off the beaten path, in summer 2025.

  • Americans are the frog in the pot, part I: Grand Rapids

    Grand Rapids is a weird place to call home. Today it’s all breweries and hipsters and weed dispensaries and overpriced apartments. But growing up, it was Bland Rapids. A place so boring and unimaginative that corporations would come to town to trial new products. If the straight-laced, God-fearing people of Grand Rapids, Michigan, will buy…

  • Thoughts from the 60th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies

    Thoughts from the 60th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies

    The 60th Annual International Conference on Medieval Studies. It all comes down to an awful lot of hurry to talk about some very old texts. But that’s America. An insistent drum whose beating makes you forget the pounding of your pulse, the rhythm of your breath, and cadence of the seasons.