Category: my town monday

Livingston County is part of Michigan. Around here, we call this: In Michigan, we also have Faygo. It’s a Michigan product. And one of Faygo’s...

Livingston County is along three major crossroads in Southeast Lower Michigan. (For those not acquainted with the Mitten-shaped state, we here do tend to use...

My little part of Michigan, happens to be still mostly rural, with a swathe of so-called civilization (or at least population) running along the middle...

Like much of Livingston County, it was once farm field. Then the buildings sprouted… add water and a mall appears. Originally dubbed the Kensington Valley...

Ore Creek runs through downtown Brighton. It was on this little waterway that the first mill– the start of the town– was built. The mill...

Brighton was a small town for a long time. Before there were suburbs, Brighton was just another town in the middle of nowhere. And like...

Michigan State Sanitorium was a tuberculosis hospital built near Howell, Michigan. It was one of the first buildings constructed for the (ever hopeful) purpose of...

We’re taking a field trip today, out of Livingston County. We’ll leave the county on US-23, heading south. Somewhere south of Ann Arbor, we’ll get...

Yes, that really is what you think it is. An abandoned McDonald’s restaurant. The building has been empty for about six, seven years. It’s on...

Not only does little Livingston County have an airport– we have TWO! Yep. The “big” one is the Livingston County Airport out in Howell. It’s...