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Come see Poppins today at the craft show at Westbrook Farmstead in Ionia, Michigan from 11 AM–4 PM!
She’s got a booth full of handcrafted treasures — blue jean tote bags, adorable felted critters, coasters, hand-painted bookmarks, bowl cozies, and more goodies than a black bear at a class reunion picnic.
If you love unique handmade gifts, cozy cottage vibes, and meeting people with genuinely joyful smiles, stop by and say hello. Poppins will be the one grinning like she just found the last antique teacup at a yard sale.
Westbrook Farmstead
Ionia, Michigan
11 AM – 4 PM
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Poppins gets her mission parameters at 4am from a hospital bed, and she executes them without hesitation. Poppins has the rare talent of making meaning in real time. You have to give it a listen.
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Mark your calendars for Thursday, May 7th. 6-8 pm. Poppins has "practically perfect" postcards on display at Flat River Gallery and Framing in Lowell. (The link is in the comments) Purchasing begins at 7:00 pm. Many area artists are highlighted in this show! Come check it out!
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Michigan-Adjacent History Trivia -
Claude Shannon, a kid from Gaylord, Michigan, helped make modern computing possible by showing that George Boole’s 19th-century Boolean algebra could be built into electrical circuits using simple on/off switching. In his 1937 master’s thesis at MIT, Shannon demonstrated how logical operations such as AND, OR, and NOT could be represented physically in relay and switching circuits. Later, through his work at Bell Telephone Laboratories, those ideas helped shape the practical design of digital systems. We still use that same Boolean logic today in computer circuits, programming, and coding
For those familiar with the binary digit, his master's thesis introduced binary theory... over "1011001" years ago (that's 89 years in binary). Shannon is still often called the father of information theory and, by many, the father of the Information Age.
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