Michigan History Magazine reports that on August 19, 1951 The Detroit Tigers pitched to the first midget, Eddie Gaedell and the Christian Science Monitor reports that web access may be as close as an electrical outlet. Electric Midget ... band name?

Celebrate Great Lakes Traveling Show
***An Absolute Michigan Editor's Choice***

The Saginaw News reports that on Sunday (Aug 21) at 3 PM, Ann Arbor's Attic Theatre will perform Celebrate Great Lakes 2005. The show sweeps through Michigan events from 10,000 years ago through the late 1990s and features folk band Song of the Lakes, historians Larry & Priscilla Massie, singer/songwriters Kitty Donahue & Claudia Schmidt, dancer Sheila Graziano, storyteller LaRon Williams and a group of American Indian drummers/dancers/storytellers from the Munsee tribe in London, Ontario. The show is based on the touring Chautaugua shows from the 1800s and early 1900s that incorporated history, local singers, dancers, actors and story-tellers into each city's script. The other 4 performances are Sep 2 @ Sault Ste Marie's-Sesquicentennial Celebration-Brady Park (12 Noon), Sep 4 @ Connections Festival- Ann Arbor (11am and 5pm), Sep 10 @ Wyandotte Heritage Festival (11am and 3pm) and Sep 11 @ Howe Field-Eaton Rapids.
Visit the Celebrate Great Lakes 2005 web site for details

Web Site to Highlight Ethnic Diversity of Copper Country
In the first of two articles helpfully archived by CyberMichigan, the Houghton Mining Gazette has a feature about Michigan Tech University's work on building a web site called An Interior Ellis Island: Ethnic Diversity and the Peopling of Michigan's Copper Country. The site is funded by a Michigan Humanities Council grant and will be launched this fall feature about 2,000 images from the 100,000 photo MTU archives
MTU Archives & Copper Country Historical Collections

Michigan Author Uses Internet to Self-Publish
The Hillsdale Daily News reported on Jonesville author Susan Carpenter's self-published fantasy novel Curse of the Lyrestone that has been riding a wave of positive reviews after she self–published her book via the internet in May.

Junior League World Series in Taylor
The Detroit News has a feature on the Junior League World Series baseball tournament (played in Taylor since 1981) and the hundreds of volunteers who make it possible. It's under way at Heritage Park, has grown from four teams to a 10-team international showcase. The International final is at 5 p.m. today, followed by the U.S. final at 8. The championship game will be at 5 p.m. this Saturday.
Junior League World Series info from LittleLeague.org

Metro Detroit Sees (online) Job Market Increases
The Great Lakes IT Report tipped us off to a report from internet job site Monster.com that found the Detroit metro area saw the greatest month-to-month increase in online job availability in July, rising three points and continuing a two-month growth trend. White-collar jobs within management; business and financial operations; and computer and mathematical occupations all saw strong growth in online job demand in the Detroit market, while production occupations remained flat.

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