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Michigan Hidden History, 128 episodes. Page 1 of 2.

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Built to Last: The Story of Trinity Episcopal Church

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The Bongas: The First Hosts of Mackinac Island

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Furs, Fortunes, and a Hole in a Man's Stomach: Market Street and the American Fur Company

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The Biddle House: Where Two Worlds Built One Life

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Sentinel: The Story of the Round Island Lighthouse

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The Little Stone Church: Built from the Island Itself

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The Porch Where History Was Made: The Mackinac Conferences

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Still Grand: The Musser Era, the Movies, and the Legacy of the Grand Hotel"

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The Grand Gamble: How the Grand Hotel Almost Didn't Make It"

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Scouts, Soldiers & Sluggers: The Hidden Stories of Fort Mackinac

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Rerun The Starr Family: Cowbells, Bricks, and the Spirits That Never Left

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Rerun St. Paul Lutheran Church: When Your Church Started as an Orphanage and You Built It Yourself

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Rerun The Saginaw Trail: Michigan's Most Important Road- From Dirt Road to Boulevard.

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Rerun The Saginaw Trail: Michigan's Most Important Road- The Ancient Highway.

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Rerun The Perry Hotel: Fireproof Dreams and the Last Dance in Petoskey

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Rerun: Little Traverse Bay: Petoskey Stones, Dry Forests, and the Chief Who Named a City

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Rerun: Fred A. Baker: The Lawyer from Holly Who Built the Bronx

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Rerun: The Charlevoix Chronicles: Sacred Stones, Secret Missions, and Survival

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Rerun: First Presbyterian Church of Northville: When a Revolutionary War Veteran Said "We Need a Church"

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Update on the reruns

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Blood on the Bluff: The War of 1812 and the Battle for Mackinac Island

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Sacred Ground: The Anishinaabek and the Soul of Mackinac Island

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Northville: From Grist Mills to Henry Ford's Village Industries (And Where Joe Louis Trained)

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"The White Plague: Maybury Sanatorium and Michigan's War on Tuberculosis"

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Detroit Edison in Northville: From Gas Lamps to Wind Farms (And Teaching People How Toasters Work)

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First Presbyterian Church of Northville: When a Revolutionary War Veteran Said "We Need a Church"

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Royal Oak: From Royal Tree to Greenwich Village

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St. Mary Catholic Cemetery: When Your Bishop Has Drama and Your Statue Takes a Road Trip

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Royal Oak Township Cemetery: Where Everyone Was Equal (Even If America Wasn't)

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St. Paul Lutheran Church: When Your Church Started as an Orphanage and You Built It Yourself

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The Detroit Zoo: Elephants, Ethics, and the World's Largest Penguin Palace

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The Saginaw Trail: Michigan's Most Important Road- Then and Now

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The Saginaw Trail: Michigan's Most Important Road- From Dirt Road to Boulevard.

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The Saginaw Trail: Michigan's Most Important Road- The Ancient Highway.

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The Starr Family: Cowbells, Bricks, and the Spirits That Never Left

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Fred A. Baker: The Lawyer from Holly Who Built the Bronx

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Petoskey: Sunrise, Stones, and the Stories We Almost Forgot

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The Perry Hotel: Fireproof Dreams and the Last Dance in Petoskey

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Little Traverse Bay: Petoskey Stones, Dry Forests, and the Chief Who Named a City

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The Charlevoix Chronicles: Sacred Stones, Secret Missions, and Survival

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The Bell, the Glass, and the Stick Style: Charlevoix’s Hidden Church Gem

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Decades of Cheese: The Green Bay Packers from the '60s to Now

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Lambeau Field: The Frozen Cathedral of Football

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The Minnesota Vikings: Almost Legends, Always Purple

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Whistles and Waterfalls: The Story of Minnehaha Depot & the Minnesota Central Railway

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Badlands National Park – Part 2: Bombs, Bison, and a Big Mess

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“Badlands National Park – Part 1: Dirt, Dinosaurs, and Displacement”

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Mount Rushmore: Carving Controversy and Legacy

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Bighorn Canyon: Untamed Beauty and Hidden Histories

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Grand Teton National Park: Peaks, Pioneers, and Preservation

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Yellowstone Part 2: From Wilderness to National Treasure

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Yellowstone Part 1: Uncovering Ancient Roots and Early Explorations

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Lahood Park: Mass, Motels, and the Men of the CCC

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O! The Joy: Lewis & Clark Hit the Road

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Before the Trail: Lewis & Clark’s Wild Origins

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Whistles, Flags, and One Very Popular President: McKinley Comes to South Dakota

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The Oldest Teenager in Sioux Falls: Hazel O’Connor

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Rock Solid: Sioux Quartzite and the Billion-Year-Old Superstar

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Coldwater Unfrozen: Horses, Cigars & Opera (Oh My!)

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The Charm of Quincy: From Log Cabins to Electric Lights

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“Portraits, Paint, and Persistence: The Story of the H.C. Lewis Art Gallery”

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From Wool Mills to the Governor’s Mansion: The Cyrus G. Luce Story”

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Love, War, and Real Estate: The Wing House Museum

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Courthouse Chaos and Cabinet Gossip

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“Books, Bricks, and Girlbosses: Coldwater’s Library Glow-Up”

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Steeples & Suffragists: The Church That Outshined Coldwater

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The Billionaire Snub: How Quincy Picked Heart Over Hype

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Feuds, Trains, and Skyscrapers: The Spicy History of Jackson, MI

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The Mic is Back (And So Am I!)

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Unveiling the Legacy: Ella Sharp, the Woman Behind the Museum

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One Room School Houses still Operate in MIchigan?

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Camp Blair

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Update on Podcast

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History of the Democratic Party

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Under the Oaks- The Founding of the Republican Party

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Austin Blair

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Jacksonburg Public Square and First Methodist Episcopal Church

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Horace Ismon

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Seymour Treadwell

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Abolitionist In Jackson

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First Congregational Church and St Marys Star of the Sea Church

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Michigan's First Prison

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The Three Church's in Jackson

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City of Birmingham Michigan

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Academy of Sacred Heart and Pontiac's War

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Kresge Foundation with Mario Spica

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Greenwood Cemetery with Mario Spica

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Fred Baker/ Saginaw Trail and John Almon Starr House

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Louis Kamper

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Orson Starr Home and Roseland Park Cemetery and Mausoleum

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Royal Oak Methodist Church and Ridge Road

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Royal Oak Womens Club

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First Baptist Church of Royal Oak

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Update

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Gros Cap, St Helena Island and Lake Michigan

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US Army Dearborn/Detroit Arsenal

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History of Romeo

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Flint Pere Marquette Railroad

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Simpson Park Campground

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Loren Andrus and his very famous Octagon House