A Michigan soldier wrote his brother: `` I am well at present with the exception I have got the Dyerear and I hope thease few lines find you the same ''.

Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota have many superb stretches of color which reach their height from the last few days of September well into October, especially in their northern sections, e.g., Wisconsin's Vilas County whose Colorama celebration is Sept. 29-Oct. 8.

Ohio built many miles of canal, Indiana had working canals for a few decades, and the Illinois and Michigan Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River system until replaced by a channelized river waterway.

Most football historians agree that a few schools, notably Saint Louis University ( under coach Eddie Cochems ), Michigan, Carlisle and Minnesota, had passing attacks in place before Rockne arrived at Notre Dame.

Parma was originally located a few miles east of its current location along the Michigan Central Railroad at a stop known as Gidley's Station.

The only casualty of the conflict was a Michigan deputy sheriff — stabbed in the leg by Two Stickney during the arrest of his elder brother, One Stickney — and the loss of two horses, two pigs and a few chickens stolen from an Ohio farm by lost members of the Michigan militia.

" While the details of the attack are disputed — Michigan claimed it fired no shots and had only discharged a few musket rounds in the air as the Ohio group retreated — the battle further infuriated both Ohioans and Michiganders and brought the two sides to the brink of all-out war.

Tecumseh is also home to Skydive Tecumseh one of the few turbine skydiving centers in the midwest and home to the largest formation skydive in Michigan history.

This is one of the few areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border.

The town of Utica had previously been established on the banks of the Illinois River during the 1830s, but flooding and the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal a few miles north encouraged redevelopment of the village there as North Utica.

Michigan City is the home of the Old Michigan City Light, one of Indiana's few lighthouses.

Royalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U. S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph.

Harbor Springs is just a few miles from neighboring Petoskey, Michigan, which is on the other side of the bay and is visible with the naked eye, and offers a wider variety of activities including a multiplex movie theater, a thriving downtown area of its own, and several big-box stores.

Noel is one of a few " Christmas Cities " in America, along with North Pole, Alaska, Christmas, Michigan, Santa Claus, Indiana and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Classes are in session from mid August until mid May, when many students return to their homes for the summer, many of which are in Michigan, Utah, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Montana, Washington and Colorado, to name a few.

A few places in Michigan were once named Logan:

The 2005 Alamo Bowl ended on one of the most controversial plays in bowl game history, a multi-lateral play in which almost the entire Nebraska team and coaching staff ( as well as a few Michigan players, Michigan coaches and media ) entered onto the field, and Nebraska gave their coach the Gatorade Dunk before the play was blown dead, bringing up memories of 1982's " The Play ", 2000's " Music City Miracle ", and 2002's " Bluegrass Miracle ".

Marquette Mountain is a winter sports area for skiing and snow boarding, located a few miles south of Marquette, Michigan, the major city in the state's Upper Peninsula.

He then spent a few years learning the trade at radio stations in Joliet, Illinois, and Kalamazoo, Michigan.

In 1944, the GI Bill ( officially the Serviceman's Readjustment Act ) guaranteed Veterans Administration ( VA ) mortgages to veterans under favorable terms, which fueled suburbanization after the end of World War II, as places like Levittown, New York, Warren, Michigan and the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles were transformed from farmland into cities occupied by tens of thousands of families in a few short years.

The resulting currency and credit scarcity left island residents with few options other than to create a local currency.

Having recruited a few thousand volunteers, he organized the blockade of the 100, 000 Jewish residents of Jerusalem.

It has all come about in a few months .... All stairways lead to the roof, where residents are arranging to rig up a loudspeaker, connected with instruments below.

The life expectancy of Shanghai's registered residents in 2010 reached 82. 13 years ( 79. 82 for men and 84. 44 for women ), the highest in mainland China and higher than all but a few countries in the world.

According to Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, authors of The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, at the time of the kingdoms of David and Solomon, Jerusalem was populated by only few hundred residents or less, which is insufficient for an empire stretching from the Euphrates to Eilath.

Very few knew the wedding was taking place apart from the witnesses and a small group of residents of Haifa.

Police and Village residents had a few altercations, as both groups antagonized each other.

A few weeks later, he was charged by the Iraqi Special Tribunal with crimes committed against residents of Dujail in 1982, following a failed assassination attempt against him.

For New Zealand residents entry to most courses is open, with a few exceptions.

It was an event frequently referred to afterwards amongst the residents, and to this day there are a few of us who still speak of it .”

In fifty years, Yerevan was transformed from a town of a few thousand residents within the Russian Empire, to Armenia's principal cultural, artistic, and industrial center, as well as becoming the seat of national government.

When he takes the 250-year-old Armenian capital, Corbulo gives the residents a few hours to collect their valuables and burns the city to the ground.

The number of legal permanent Nepalese residents in the late 1980s may have been as few as 15 percent of the total population, however.

The notorious First Ward ( encompassing downtown, which had many businesses but few residents ) was tied to the local mafia or crime syndicate, but Daley's own ward was supposedly clean and his personal honesty was never questioned successfully.

A few ghost towns get a second life, often due to heritage tourism's generating an economy able to support residents.

In response to the closure of schools, residents organized home schooling sessions to help students make up missed material ; this became one of the few symbols of civil disobedience.

It referred to a real Captain Spaulding, an army officer arrested a few years earlier for selling cocaine to Hollywood residents.

These were small in size, typically providing for a few thousand residents.

Though some sources claim that colonial American houses often lacked closets because of a " closet tax " imposed by the British crown, others argue that closets were absent in most houses simply because their residents had few possessions.

Niagara Falls has long been a source of inspiration for explorers, travelers, artists, authors, filmmakers, residents and visitors, few of whom realize that the falls were nearly to be solely devoted to industrial and commercial use.

Such stanitsasoften with a few thousand residents, were usually larger than a typical selo in central Russia.

Despite these assurances, residents have been very vocal in their concerns that the neighborhood will lose its unique eclectic appeal and have panned what they call the destruction of one of the few locally owned business districts in the valley.

:: Located just a few minutes walk from the city center, this is a popular trekking trail for the local residents of Bandar Seri Begawan.

Most families have their own car ; few residents ride bicycles.

The book recounts the tale of a party of dwarves ( consisting of a few of the original residents of the Lonely Mountain and their descendants ) and Bilbo Baggins ( the titular hobbit ) to recapture the mountain and kill the dragon.