Hi. I'm the managing editor for the websites of Townsquare Media in Kalamazoo, Battle Creek and Lansing. In a previous life I was lead explorer of Season 1 of the Haunts and Legends of New York video series (http://bit.ly/HauntsAndLegendsNYS) and host of Foodamazoo (http://bit.ly/Foodamazoo).
Eric Meier
Bless Their Hearts, This North Carolina City Has a Street Named for Mackinac Island
It's a 15 hour drive from Raleigh, North Carolina to the Straits of Mackinac, but that didn't stop a subdivision developer in the Tar Heel State from naming a street after Mackinac Island.
‘Wizzo the Wizard’ from the Bozo Show has Passed Away
One of The Bozo Show's longstanding performers, Marshall Brodien, who portrayed Wizzo the Wizard has passed away.
This Obscure Michigan Location is the Westernmost Point in the Eastern Time Zone
Michigan's time zone boundary gives us a geographic oddity - the westernmost point of the Eastern Time Zone in the United States.
This Wisconsin TV Station is Very Confused About Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
You'd think Wisconsinites would know a thing or two about Michigan's Upper Peninsula. After all we're Wisconsin's elegant, class-up-the-joint hat. But no, it seems they're a bit confused.
George Fisher is a Strange Michigan Missing Persons Case That Needs Your Attention
How does a person go missing for more than 4 years before police get notified? That is the troubling question as the heart of the case of George Fisher, a Michigan man missing for over 15 years.
This Video of a Semi Crossing the Mackinac Bridge During the Polar Vortex Is as Extreme As…
This video, recording during the Polar Vortex storm from January 2019 will give you the same on-the-edge-of-your-seat feeling you likely got watching Ice Road Truckers.
More Great Lakes Mothman Sightings – This Time in Indiana
A winged-manlike creature, like the infamous Point Pleasant Mothman has been sighted around Lake Michigan, and now in east-central Indiana near Muncie.
Michigan’s Exit 343 is an Exit to Nowhere And Everything
Exit 343 on Interstate 75 in Michigan could be considered an exit to nowhere. There is no highway, no connection to anyplace other than an amazing view of the Mackinac Bridge.
Yoopers, If You’re Not Cooking Sausage In Your Sauna, You’re Doing it Wrong
If you're lucky enough to own a sauna, we have a question for you, have you ever used those hot coals to cook sausage?
These 8 Upper Peninsula Locations Are Actually South of the Mackinac Bridge
Maybe being "Up North" is just a state of mind, when you consider how many spots in the Upper Peninsula area actually south of the Mackinac Bridge.
Ice Balls Are Back on Lake Michigan – Watch Them Roll Along the Shore
The Great Lakes create some incredible natural phenomena each winter. Perhaps nothing is more amazing than the ice balls that occasionally float to the shore.
1641 Thought This is What Michigan Looks Like
Call is the "oddest depiction" of Michigan you've ever seen. Just try to pick out Michigan from this 1641 map.