Blog Posts Across Manistee Talks

We have a webcam that we'd like to install in the Manistee area. You need to have Charter internet, won't work with Verizon, sorry. And a decent view you can share, preferably a nice lake view, anything on the river would be great. The camera is very small, sits on a window ledge quite nicely and is wireless. We have a wireless router we can supply. Email me at Manistee Talks if you're interested. Continue

I remember when I first moved to Manistee after graduating from CMU in 1996. There was talk of a pool then, thanks to the incredible generosity of the Paine family, the pool will soon (in a relative way) be a reality. Very cool. Share your thoughts of how the pool might impact the community. Continue

The first night I spent in Manistee was at the Lakeshore Inn, down at the First Avenue beach. My wife and I had purchased a house a year before, and I had come to see it for the first time. When I got up in the morning and went into the bathroom, I was hammered by a smell that made me wonder, geez, who stunk up the place. Turns out that the smell is part of the Manistee ambiance. It comes and goes, but has been a regular feature of Manistee's olfactory life for years. There are a lot of theori… Continue