Michigan Tidbits

Yesterday while I was watching the History Channel, I heard an interesting story about how Michiganders got the name "wolverine".  During the Toledo War in 1835, the folks from Ohio thought that people from  were so visious and indignant that they started calling us wolverines.  That little war in 1835, is the reason for all the anomosity at the University of Michigan and Ohio State football games.  All of that over 468 square miles of land called the Toledo strip.  What it boiled down to was water rights to the Erie Canal and since Ohio was a state first the goverment gave the land to Ohio and Michigan got Upper Penninsula which consisted or 56,000 square miles of land that has paid for itself numerous times over.  That's all for today.  Until later.
Cinda