Little Venice

At its peak, Little Venice consisted of a country store, a tiny motel, and a handful of houses--all surrounded mostly by cornfields. I'd occasionally stop at the store when I was bicycling between Kalamazoo and Lansing. It was never really a village, just a named place on Clinton Trail (M-50) between Charlotte and Lake Odessa.

The store's been converted to a home. The motel's rooms are now teensy apartments. There's still a few houses....