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Historic Old U.S. 27 Motor Tour Returns to Greater Lansing August 23

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LANSING, Mich.--The Greater Lansing Convention and Visitors Bureau (GLCVB) is pleased to announce that Michigan’s Capital Region will be a key stop for one of the premier automotive events in the state for 2023: The Historic Old U.S. 27 Motor Tour.

This six-day motor tour stretches from Coldwater, Michigan, and heads all the way up to scenic Cheboygan along historic U.S. 27. The theme of the annual event is to re-live the good old days of scenic summer vacation trips up north in the family cruiser. Classic cars participating in the tour will be on display at each tour stop.

Downtown DeWitt, near Old 27, is the host location for the motor tour’s passage through the mid-Michigan area. The public is welcome to view the vintage automobiles in DeWitt just off Old 27 from 5:00 – 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. Area auto-enthusiasts may also register their classic car at this Lansing-area stop and join the tour for just $20!

“This is always a great event, full of classic old-time nostalgia,” said Julie Pingston, President and CEO of the GLCVB. “Michigan’s automotive heritage is important to its residents, and that is most certainly the case in the home of Oldsmobile, Greater Lansing, Michigan.”

In addition to the car show, there will be entertainment, numerous food options and much more.

For more information about the Old Historic U.S. 27 Motor Tour, visit www.old27tour.com.

For over 60 years, the mission of the Greater Lansing Convention & Visitors Bureau has been to promote Greater Lansing as a visitor destination to impact the area’s economy. We strive to be the leading voice for the hospitality industry in mid-Michigan. Our central location in the state makes us an attractive destination for weekend getaways, conventions/meetings and sports tournaments. As home to the State Capitol, Michigan State University and world class attractions, dining and lodging – it’s easy to inspire visitors to love Lansing as much as we do.

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Thursday, August 22

St. Louis is a stop on the Old US-27 Motor Tour. Hundreds of cars–many of them fully restored antiques–traverse the state, stopping in 13 cities along the way.

The cars typically fill three blocks in downtown St. Louis.

This car show is free and open to the public. For more information, follow them on Facebook: Michigan Old US 27 Motor Tour | Facebook

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Cider, Hiking, & Cars: Cruising Michigan's Old U.S.-27 Route

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Michigan’s “Old 27″ – Photos From the 1920s-1960s

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We have our own version of America's Route 66 right here in Michigan. Sure, there is a different 'Route 66' here, but Old 27 is the true successor to that original, country-wide highway.

Old 27 signs are frequent along US-127 and many times we take it just for the adventure. Many of the original structures from the 1920s are still along the road, making it all the more enjoyable.

On November 11, 1926, routes M-29 and M-14  were combined into US-27 which led from the state line to Cheboygan. For a brief time, it even extended to Mackinaw City, across the Straits of Mackinaw (no bridge yet), and into St. Ignace.

Over the years, Old 27's route kept changing and changing; so much so, it boggles the mind to read it's history. If you have the patience, you can read all those changes here .

Classic car roadtrips are taken on Old 27 every August. “The Old US 27 Motor Tour” was started by Lansing area resident Craig Parrish after he successfully got the Michigan House of Representatives to designate Old 27 an Historic Highway in 2010.

The annual tour begins in Coldwater and ends in Cheboygan, with towns participating by welcoming the convoy as the classic cars pass thru. Along the classic route you'll find remnants of old road-stop eateries, cafe's, food stands, and gas stations...some open, some shut down...plus plenty more to see when you go thru the many village downtowns.

I was proud to call Craig my friend...he passed away on July 29, 2021, but the cruises continue every year. You can read more about the annual Old 27 cruise here .

The gallery below shows some old images of Old US-27 from the 1920s to the 1960s!

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The 16th annual Old U.S. 27 Motor Tour will begin next week and include stops in four mid-Michigan cities.

The six-day event kicks off Monday, Aug. 22, with a cruise-in and movie night in Coldwater.

On Tuesday participants will travel to Waterloo, Ind. where they will have the opportunity to take part in various activities, including go-kart races and putt-putt golf at the Adventure Zone before returning to Coldwater that evening.

Wednesday will feature a poker run and scavenger hunt beginning at 10 a.m. followed by lunch before heading to DeWitt at 2 p.m. for a downtown cruise-in at 6 p.m.

After spending the night in Dewitt the tour will be in St. Johns from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 25, before traveling to Gratiot County with stops in Ithaca from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and in St. Louis from 2 to 4 p.m. There will be no stop in Alma this year.

After leaving St Louis the caravan will head to Clare for a downtown cruise-in from 5 to 7 p.m. and an overnight stay.

On Friday, Aug. 26, the tour will go to Harrison for a cruise-in and street fair from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. then travel to Grayling where there will be additional activities.

After spending the night in Grayling the tour will conclude its final day with a cruise-in at 10 a.m. in Gaylord and another at 1:30 p.m. in Wolverine before the event ends in Cheboygan at 3:30 p.m.

The Old U.S. 27 Motor Tour was the brainchild of the late Craig Parrish of Lansing, who passed away in July 2021 after a long battle with cancer.

However, he was successful in one of his major goals of getting the state House of Representatives to pass a resolution declaring the route from Coldwater to Cheboygan an historic highway in 2010. Since then several other states have followed suit.

Those wishing to take part can join at any tour stop. The cost is $20 and participants can begin and end at any point.

The registration fees are used to purchase historic signage to place along the route.

To sign up or for more information email Kim Davis at [email protected] or Julie Pingston at [email protected].

More information is also available on the Old US. 27 Motor Tour Facebook page and website.

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'This is a jewel': Olde Towne East homes tour channels neighborhood pride

In 1999, when Olde Towne East resident David Fleisher set out to buy his current home on Franklin Avenue, everybody thought he was "absolutely insane." He said they may have been right.

"When I got here, not one bathroom fully functioned, so I had to shave in one bathroom, the toilet in another bathroom worked, the shower in a third," Fleisher said. "So my morning regimen was a lot of exercise."

The property, a single-family home that had been converted into a duplex, had been boarded up for months. There was leftover food still sitting in the oven, previous tenants had kept the water running in the upstairs kitchen and water damage would eventually bring down the ceiling in the dining room — a sight that would have any prospective homeowner running away in horror.

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Now, when guests walk into Fleisher's Queen Anne-style home, Fleisher said, a chorus of wows and round eyes greet him; an appropriate response to a functioning 1926 Wurlitzer theater pipe organ in the foyer.

This weekend, Fleisher and his partner Mike McKinley's home, along with 14 others in the neighborhood, will open their doors to the public as part of the annual Olde Towne East Sumer Tour of Homes. A neighborhood tradition going strong since 1982, the tours came about at a time when the area was beginning to see a resurgence.

In the late 1800s, the neighborhood began to take shape as a wealthy suburban enclave occupied by prominent figures in politics, architecture, business and the arts thanks to innovations in transportation.

But with the rise of the middle class and new suburbs in the 1920s , homeowners began moving to more distant suburbs, the new Interstate 71 divided the neighborhood from the city center and white flight had deeply affected the economic wellness of the area.

Homeownership was down, mansions were gutted, turned into apartments, boarding houses and nursing homes. But by the 1970s and '80s, the area began to attract a new crowd drawn by the neighborhood's unique housing stock of Victorian mansions and rich historical significance with relatively cheap prices.

The Olde Towne East Neighborhood Association (OTENA), a nonprofit organization, was founded in 1975 to promote civic pride and cultural awareness, serving a growing community of residents with a vision to bring these homes to life, along with the surrounding neighborhood.

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"There was (a) one-bedroom suite that wasn't damaged and that's where we settled," Larned said. "Every day, we were doing something on this place for years. It was worth it, you know? I love my neighborhood. I love my community. I can't think of any other place I’d want to live besides here."

According to Larned, who was instrumental in getting the first tours up and running, the tradition was initially a way for residents to share where their properties were in the rehabilitating and restoring process, sharing ideas, inspiration and exchanging different solutions for different issues they faced. For Fleisher, it was this spirit of sharing that helped him through renovations .

While Fleisher recognizes that his restoration project was not normal or easy, he said he hopes visitors of the tour will become inspired to pursue their own visions, just as he was by his neighbors.

"This was the place where I could do some things that I wanted to do, as far as restoring and decorating it, and of course having huge amounts of help," Fleisher said.

"I think people should feel free to, if they want to restore something, if they want to have a particular interest or passion, follow it. I think this house is kind of a testament to that for me."

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The self-guided tour will include a total of 15 stops, and though walkable, free shuttle buses will be available throughout the day at stops indicated on the map.

Tickets are $20 each and are available for purchase at oldetowneeast.org/tour. .

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Why does Robert Macintyre feel drawn to Oban, Scotland? A visit to the PGA Tour standout’s home

OBAN, Scotland — You are born into a world surrounded by wonder, walking out the back door of the greenskeeper’s house, your home, to look up at the mountainous 12th fairway hoping someday to make that climb. You go into town peering at the horseshoe-shaped Oban Bay protected by the mounds of the island of Kerrera, just shy of the Isle of Mull. Awe is your norm. Beauty is your base. So no matter how far you rise, how much your gift takes you to each corner of the world and provides you with a lavish lifestyle and mind-boggling opportunities, it just doesn’t quite feel right. You crave normal. Your normal.

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You win tournaments in Cyprus and Italy. You play in a Ryder Cup. You make the PGA Tour . The great game takes you places, and it feels appropriate to commit to your future by moving to Florida. There comes a point in many lives when you have to choose whether home is who you are or home is what propels you to your potential.

You contend for a PGA Championship. Two weeks later you win your first PGA Tour event. Your life is becoming everything you dreamed.

But you aren’t happy.

You long for the Glencruitten Golf Club clubhouse, the cozy little one-story shack in Oban where a reporter can walk in to find eight men leaning back in a semicircle of chairs, pints in hand at noon on a Tuesday, looking up with a smirk as they’re asked if they know Bob Macintyre.

“Bob who?” a white-haired man asks with a straight face.

Bob Macintyre. The pride of Scottish golf. The 27-year-old lefty developing into one of the better golfers in the world.

“Who’s he?” the man asks again.

Neil Armour maintains the stare until he pulls up his phone which already has a photo of the boyish, soft-featured Macintyre in a sleek, well-tailored suit sitting in the Royal Box at Wimbledon the day before. They’re passing the phone around chuckling the way dear friends and family really do when humbling a member of the tribe who’s made it big. Yes, they know Macintyre all too well. These are the men who watched Bob, Dougie the greenskeeper’s son, grow up at Glencruitten. They watched him learn the game “as a wee lad” playing Glencruitten’s back four holes on the other side of the road on a constant loop until Dougie felt he was ready for the rest. They saw him hit a hole-in-one by age 12 and win the local junior tournament four years in a row. They drove him to tournaments and some helped out financially when it was necessary. They play shinty with him at Oban Celtic and clamor for his mother Carol’s scones.

“Aye, he’s a great boy,” Neil MacDougall says. “Well grounded. Nice young lad.”

This is why Bob Macintyre isn’t happy. He’s living in Orlando. He’s a member at the prestigious Isleworth Golf and Country Club. He’s made $3 million the last seven months alone. But it’s just different. It’s less communal. In America, the pros travel in teams with their swing coach, physiotherapist, psychologist, manager and so on. It’s a business. Whereas coming up in Europe they’d travel with other pros spending evenings learning about each other’s lives most nights over lunch in the clubhouse or dinner and drinks. He admits he and his girlfriend, Shannon, feel lonely.

He goes back home whenever he can, spending three weeks back in Oban before his breakthrough win at the Canadian Open in June. Instead of taking that victory into the signature event, the Memorial, he flew right back home the next week for a party.

This week, Macintyre plays the Scottish Open in North Berwick before heading to Royal Troon for an Open Championship in Scotland. So as Macintyre finds himself torn between the two parallel paths of who he truly is — as he tries to decide where he wants to spend his life —  I felt compelled to drive from Edinburgh to this little fishing town on the western coast of Scotland to find out why this 8,000-person town has such a hold on the man. We learned something about home.

“I just find I get brought back down-to-earth …,” Macintyre says. “When I go back to Oban, I get treated as Bob, one of the boys, not Robert Macintyre, the golfer. I think that’s the way it should be.”

The moment has gone viral now — you’ve surely seen it — but watch it again, specifically the minute before the microphone goes to Dougie Macintyre. He hovered a few feet away from his son, slowly scanning his head around the scene in Hamilton, Ontario. He had a look of awe, taking in his son’s first PGA Tour victory while carrying his clubs. Macintyre needed a caddie for just the Canadian Open. Most caddies didn’t want a one-week gig, so he called his father up in Oban. Dougie hopped on a flight to Ottawa. Five days later they were victors. Together.

As CBS reporter Amanda Balionis motioned toward Dougie to ask him a question, he seemed to slightly back away. He’s not a talker. But Dougie was, whether he liked it or not, the story of the week. Maybe even more than his son. She went to the other side and cornered him. He could hardly get the words out.

“Unbelievable. I’m a grass-cutter,” Dougie said, pausing to turn and hold back tears with Bob lovingly patting his head. “Not a caddie. Not a caddie. Honestly, it’s unbelievable.”

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Back home, they were packed into the clubhouse watching and cheering. They knew how surreal this was for Dougie, who is more than a grass-cutter. They knew how special. Dougie was an athlete, a great shinty player but good at soccer and golf too. He didn’t have the finances to chase it. He became a greenskeeper at Glencruitten and raised four kids in the house by the 12th hole and brought in foster kids too. Bob’s two older sisters were skilled horse riders, and they also made sacrifices to give Bob the opportunity. Bob was the one with the opportunity to do more, and Dougie coached him.

“He was the only one,” Armour said. “You’ll hear other people say they coached Bob but they didn’t. Bob’s dad coached him.”

On this Tuesday, Dougie was on the mower cutting the grass on an ugly day of Scottish weather. The course is a beast, a short but absurdly hilly 18 holes of steep inclines and tight fairways. “You can see how Bob got so good,” club captain Kenny Devine said. They only have three mowers and the equipment is in need of updating. Dougie doesn’t complain. He hopped off the mower as he saw a stranger approaching. He’s used to reporters being here by now, but he’s not used to it.

He turned red only to smile and say in the sweetest way possible, “No, no, I don’t do interviews. Feel free to talk to anyone. I just don’t… yeah …  I’m sorry.”

Dougie and Carol raised their kids to be humble. Macintyre wasn’t able to play much junior golf because they couldn’t afford it. Members took turns driving him to the events he could play and some carried his bag. Raising a golfer was a communal endeavor, but it meant they were all part of it.

James Forgrieve was a great golfer here in his own right and a prominent figure in the area. When asked what a young Macintyre was like, he dryly quipped, “Oh, a cheeky —” before laughing and correcting himself. “No no, always a very quiet lad.”

“James was really supportive to Bob and all the juniors,” his nephew Duncan Forgrieve said. “When Bob was coming through and maybe things weren’t so good, a lot of people helped him in various ways and James is in that category.”

It’s not the norm for a golfer to take this much pride in their home. They might get announced by the starter as from their town or speak fondly of it, but they all tend to live in Florida or Arizona now. Few feel as intertwined with home as Macintyre. It’s at the core of his identity — Bob from Oban — and it works both ways. Macintyre has helped put the place on the map. It’s a little resort town, a stop for tourists on their way to the isles to the northwest. It has a strong fishing industry and beautiful sites like McCaig’s Tower, which is made of Bonawe granite and overlooks the city and bay. Suddenly it boasts itself as “The Home of Robert Macintyre,” with signs throughout the town. People come to Glencruitten just to play his home course. Scotland is known for golf, but at its core Oban is more of a shinty town. It’s a physical, intense game. Duncan described it as “hockey without the rules,” and Macintyre still plays for Oban Celtic. He learned not to keep jewelry on a few years ago when it got caught and nearly took off his finger.

“Aye, very good. Very good,” Duncan said. “He’s strong and determined. Resourceful.”

“And hot tempered!” another man shouted across the bar.

These are Macintyre’s people. When he earned the final automatic qualifying spot for the 2023 Ryder Cup, he flew 15-20 of them to Rome and set them up in a villa. Instead of flying back privately like most of his peers would, he switched to a commercial flight and flew home with the crew. When they returned, Macintyre went from school to school in the area with the cup to speak and show the kids. That night, they had a party “busting at the seams” at Glencruitten with a band playing and everybody posing for pictures, Macintyre happily smiling the whole night.

“It was a good west coast cèilidh,” Duncan said.

But as Macintyre left Oban this year to play full time on the PGA Tour in America for the first time, the homesickness didn’t go away. He went back and forth as much as he could. He clarified he wasn’t having severe mental health issues, but “I just didn’t have my mojo.” It always took returning to Oban to spark his game. One couldn’t help but wonder if it was sustainable.

“He still has wee spells,” James said. “If he hasn’t got the girlfriend there or something, he’s a bit of a loner. He’s a social guy, but he’s a loner at times. The thing he looks forward to is getting home.”

Here he is, back in Scotland at his national open, sitting down in an argyle hat to represent a local foundation and ready to speak to a bunch of reporters. He sees a collection of veteran Scottish reporters in the front row. “There he is,” he says to one with a smile. He’s comfortable here.

He talks about going back home again recently, how when he’s home he doesn’t pick up a club and doesn’t go out much at all. He just sinks into the normalcy of home, eating some of Carol’s baking (after one of his first wins he bought his mother a new kitchen) and having lunch with the guys at Glencruitten.

But he’s asked about Florida. About how he balances trying to make Florida a new home while staying connected to the place that made him.

“My rent is up I think about the end of August, and I don’t think I’ll be getting it renewed to be honest,” Macintyre says. “Scotland is my home, and yeah, I’ve joined Isleworth. That will always be a place I go and practice in the wintertime but there’s nothing like home. Scotland, this is where I want to be.”

He’s staying on the PGA Tour. His move back won’t change his professional career. He’ll maybe rent a house in Florida during winter months so he can practice more but deep down, it’s not home and he doesn’t think it ever will be.

In this decision, Macintyre found the path in between. Home can be the place that holds you back. Comfort builds confidence, but comfort can also stop you from expanding into who you’re meant to be. Macintyre took the risk. He left home and tried to take the leap into becoming an elite golfer. In reality, home was never holding Macintyre back. Oban, Glencruitten and all the people in between? They were the ones who got him here. They’re the ones pushing him forward.

So before I made the drive back to Edinburgh, I walked the course that made Bob Macintyre. It was grueling but beautiful, a green canvas filled with daunting hills and challenging approach shots. Two Oban men were walking up the 12th fairway that feels like it’s on a 100-yard incline. “This is the hole Bob learned to play golf on!” Declan Curran said. They explained how it’s a course of choices, with risks and rewards based on figuring out how to play the wind and the elevation.

Bob Macintyre grew up learning how to make the choices in order to become a great golfer. This time, he chose Oban.

(Top photo: Andrew Redington / Getty Images)

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Brody Miller covers golf and the LSU Tigers for The Athletic. He came to The Athletic from the New Orleans Times-Picayune. A South Jersey native, Miller graduated from Indiana University before going on to stops at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Indianapolis Star, the Clarion Ledger and NOLA.com. Follow Brody on Twitter @ BrodyAMiller