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Get ready for a gem of a day. Michigan’s beloved state stone is taking center stage as the 19th Annual Petoskey Stone Festival returns to Barnes Park on May 17. This free, family-friendly event ...

Let’s begin with the geological celebrity that shares the town’s name—the famed Petoskey stone. ... with the legendary Tunnel of Trees on M-119 drawing leaf-peepers from across the region. This narrow ...

Charlevoix, 17 miles southwest of Petoskey, features the famous “mushroom houses” designed by Earl Young—whimsical stone structures with undulating rooflines that look like they emerged from a fairy ...

A couple of my Petoskey Stones. I briefly touched on the Petoskey Stone earlier. But it’s important that you know a little more. The Petoskey Stone is the state’s most famous stone, and it can only be ...

The Petoskey stone is Michigan's stone and the mastodon, named Michigan's state fossil in 2002, ... "Iris W.," from Traverse City, with a color drawing of the sunrise with fossils.

The class, offered by the Chippewa River District Library in partnership with Art Reach of Mid Michigan, will be held at the Veterans Memorial Library on Nov. 12 at 2 p.m.

The stone was named Petoskey, after the Ottowan landowner, because of its pattern of thin brown lines that radiate out from the dark eye center like the name's meaning.

Even though they’re found in the Great Lakes, Petoskey stones are actually fossilized coral. You can tell a Petoskey stone by its honeycomb pattern (in fact, the word “hexagon” is part of ...

Petoskey stones can be found along the shores of Charlevoix, Petoskey, Frankfort, Manistee, and Leelanau County, according to My Michigan Beach and Michigan Mineralogical Society. Charlevoix Stone ...