Douglass Houghton, Michigan’s first state geologist, had the task of conducting geological surveys of the state, since Michigan had entered the Union in 1837. In July, 1840, Houghton reached Keweenaw Point. Bela Hubbard, who was with Houghton that summer, kept a journal of the expedition, ...
Dear Annie: My wife, “Jill,” and I have been married for seven years, together for nine. When we first met, my wife’s daughter, husband and children lived with her, and I lived in another city with my two sons who are mentally challenged. We dated for two years and finally married on ...
By now you’d think you know what you’re getting with an Adam Sandler sports movie. “Happy Gilmore” and “The Waterboy” have conditioned us to expect silly voices and left hooks from irritated game show hosts. But in “Hustle,” Sandler’s new basketball movie on Netflix, he ...
Dear Annie: I have been in a relationship for almost nine years now. We met when I was 18 and he was 24. He was my first serious boyfriend and my only real boyfriend ever as an adult. I immediately moved in with him after starting college, which was about five months into our ...
Dear Dr. Roach: I am 77 and exercise regularly. I just got a fitness tracker to monitor my heart rate, etc. I have always been very slow to get back to a resting heart rate. For instance, if I get my rate up to 130 beats per minute during exercise, it will be at 90 half an hour later, and at 70 ...
A crewless robotic boat that had tried to retrace the 1620 sea voyage of the Mayflower has finally reached the shores of North America — this time in Canada instead of the Massachusetts coast where its namesake landed more than 400 years ago. The sleek autonomous trimaran docked in Halifax, ...