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Shop Michigan: Mackinac Bridge 50th Anniversary Posters from MDOT

August 2, 2007 – 9:23 am

The Michigan Department of Transportation is selling four beautiful Mackinac Bridge 50th Anniversary Posters.
To celebrate The Mighty Mac's 50th anniversary, artists have designed four posters, each with different views of The Mackinac Bridge. Each poster costs $4.00 and are all well worth the price - get yours soon as there are only limited quantities available.

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Shop Michigan: Petoskey Wide Bracelet Top from Becky Thatcher Designs

July 25, 2007 – 7:40 am

The Petoskey Wide Bracelet Top features Michigan's state stone set in sterling silver. It is designed to fit their sterling silver wide bracelet base. Becky Thatcher explains the bracelet top concept:
Most often, the phenomenons which occur in nature are my inspirations, but sometimes a different technical presentation is needed. In 1991, the idea of a [...]

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Shop Michigan: Guglia Zip Hoody from Moosejaw

July 18, 2007 – 9:00 am

A nice lightweight fitted hoody, even has a man sleuthing around on the back, theJaw Women's Guglia Zip Hoody is lightweight and stylish.
Moosejaw is a Michigan company supplying high quality gear from the best brands out there. Not only does Moosejaw have sweet clothes from other companies, they also have their own with cool logos [...]

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Blogs We Dig: Michigan Sweet Spot

July 17, 2007 – 9:10 am

Michigan Sweet Spot shares the secret spots of Northern Michigan with brief passages and biiiiiiig photos, from beautiful barns down dusty dirt roads, to glorious spring forests tucked away on a forgotten trail.
Author & photographer Ann Teliczan grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and always dreamed of traveling to Michigan. In 1980 she moved [...]

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Blogs We Dig: Great Lakes Guy

July 12, 2007 – 10:33 am

Great Lakes Shore II by Phoenix828979
Andy Guy is the Great Lakes Guy. On his blog, he is tracking the trends transforming the Rust Belt into the Blue Belt. He has called Gov. Granholm for Michigan's failure to develop a green energy strategy and praised Marquette, MI for starting a transformation for its downtown waterfront.
The Great [...]

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Shop Michigan: UP Copper License Plate from Copperland

July 9, 2007 – 8:36 am

The UP Copper License Plate is a beautiful copper plate that's perfect for letting them know where you're from ... or want to be.
Copperland is located in Lake Linden, Michigan (Houghton County) and is operated by the Gariepy family. Founder Jake Gariepy worked twenty-eight years as a furnace operator for the Calumet & Hecla Mining [...]

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Shop Michigan: Shout Sister Shout by Steppin' In It and Rachael Davis

July 5, 2007 – 9:14 am

Shout Sister Shout by Patrick T Power
Shout Sister Shout, the first album by Rachael Davis and Steppin' In It, "focuses on old-time American Jazz featuring torch swing numbers alongside bluesy ballads."
Rachael Davis and Steppin' In It came together by the fall of 2006, after playing at many concerts as a double-bill and now, by [...]

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Blogs We Dig: The Hometown Invasion Tour

June 28, 2007 – 10:04 am

The Hometown Invasion Tour is a documentation of the travels of Justin Sailor (a Michigan native) and friend (Rice the plastic squirrel) through each of the 50 states, staying "with a different family in each state, documenting hometown life through photography, interviews, and journal writing." His project is online so that people can follow [...]

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Van Buren County, Michigan

June 27, 2007 – 8:23 am

Moving up the Michigan shoreline from Berrien County, we come to Van Buren County. Read on for much more about Michigan's fruit basket!

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Featured Link: Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum

June 22, 2007 – 2:15 pm

The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is located at Whitefish Point. Fitting, because the area is know as the "Graveyard of Ships," more vessels have wrecked in the area than in any other part of Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is the only museum "dedicated to the perils of maritime transport on the Great [...]

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