The Battle Creek Fantasy Forest at the Leila Arboretum is a park with sculptures carved from trees killed by the emerald ash borer. This one, by Mike Ayers, is titled “The Strange Disappearance of Old MacDonald.” ( Richard Selden/Chicago Tribune )
This southwest Michigan city does breakfast in a big way during its annual festival devoted to cereal.
Barista Blues Cafe is one of several eateries and pubs along West Michigan Avenue in downtown Battle Creek. ( Richard Selden/Chicago Tribune )
The arcade at the 1928 tower entrance to the Battle Creek Sanitarium, now the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center. The “San” was founded in 1866 as the Western Health Reform Institute by Seventh-day Adventists, including the father of its longtime director, John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of corn flakes. (Richard Selden / Chicago Tribune)
A 12-foot statue of Sojourner Truth by Tina Allen stands in Monument Park in Battle Creek, where the famed abolitionist spent the last 26 years of her life. ( Richard Selden/Chicago Tribune )
A wall mural depicts vegetables as rock stars at the Leila Arboretum, which runs a community-supported agriculture program. ( Richard Selden/Chicago Tribune )
