From a drive-in movie screening in Honor to celebrating lilacs on Mackinac Island, here are 4 of our favorite ways to say hello to summer in Northern Michigan.
Changing Great Lakes Latest Threat to Michigan’s Cherished Fishtown. For 100-plus years, Fishtown has persevered. The village of shanties along the Leland River on the Leelanau Peninsula has endured through the collapse of commercial fishing and rise of invasive.
Preservationists in a tiny lakeside community in Michigan are using new approaches to fight the threat of flooding caused by climate change. While the fishing industry has struggled in the region, saving the historic buildings in Fishtown is critical to the region’s local economy. Hari Sreenivasan reports as part of our ongoing series ‘Peril & Promise: The Challenge of Climate Change.’. The story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.