Once in a while an event comes along that we just have to crow about. This month it's a rare opportunity to see an important piece of history up close and personal. For only two days The Henry Ford will display the original Emancipation Proclamation. How rare of an event is this? The last time this Civil War document came to Michigan was more than half a century ago.

With warm weather comes bugs, and with bugs come bats. Maligned and misunderstood, these furry flying creatures have found friends and supporters at the Organization for Bat Conservation, the only program of its kind in the country. Open your mind and enter Cranbrook's Bat Zone...