Lady Slipper Festival In Full Bloom At Huron County Nature Center on May 29

Since 2001, the Huron County Nature Center’s annual ‘Lady’s Slipper Festival’ has been held on Memorial Day weekend. This one-day event is the center’s official spring opener, the start of our slate of summer programs, and, most importantly, timed to coincide with the bloom of the Pink Lady’s Slipper orchid in the park

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1881 Great Michigan Thumb Fire Is the Setting for Author’s Debut Novel

Debut novelist Carol Nickles announces Thumb Fire Desire’s international release, a fictional historical romance set in Parisville, the first Polish-American settlement in Michigan. The story begins in the Spring of 1881, and draws the reader through the hot, dry summer, climaxing during the Great Thumb Fire of 1881. The event is the state’s most significant natural disaster but ends with a note of optimism in the final month of the year. 

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