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The Week for September 29 – October 5, 2008

September 29, 2008 – 12:44 pm

US 41 Fall color drive by Snazzy It’s that time of year and Michigan’s great outdoors is putting on it’s annual color show. Colors in the UP are peaking and filling in fast in the Northern Lower Peninsula. The Lansing Sate Journal has a nice article featuring some key areas to take a color tour [...]

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S.S. Badger passing the Ludington Lighthouse

July 7, 2008 – 9:02 am

.Doug Coldwell added this video of the S.S. Badger car ferry coming home past Ludington lighthouse to our group on YouTube. Also check out his video of the Badger from up in the lighthouse, learn more about this vessel at ssbadger.com and have a look at Shaun Davis’s videos from the Badger’s engine room. The [...]

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May is Travel Month

April 25, 2008 – 7:11 am

Oval Beach 2 by shqipo / Ledio Anyone who has been following the news will know that with high gas prices, a lagging national economy and a still-depressed local economy, Michigan’s summer travel forecast isn’t the best. We could advocate hiding in the backyard with a couple of cans of gas, nervously listening for Mel [...]

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The Frankenmuth Oktoberfest: sanctioned by the Parliament and the City of Munich

August 30, 2007 – 8:04 am

oktoberfest by leigh wolf Every September, Frankenmuth celebrates their German culinary and musical heritage with the Frankenmuth Oktoberfest. In 1990, Frankenmuth, “Michigan’s Little Bavaria,” celebrated its first Oktoberfest. The Frankenmuth Oktoberfest celebrates German culture, heritage and love. Our goal is to incorporate as many of the sights, sounds, taste and traditions of the original Munich [...]

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Culinary tour of Grand Traverse County’s Old Mission

April 13, 2007 – 8:01 am

Check out Absolute Michigan keyword “Old Mission” for more web sites and articles about Old Mission. A Vintage Year? by oddzen Lake Magazine has a nice feature by Emily Bingham on Northern Michigan’s Old Mission Peninsula that focuses on the culinary attractions of this orchard and vineyard filled peninsula that divides the East and West [...]

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Michigan Tourism Strategic Plan unveiled

March 28, 2007 – 10:18 am

The Michigan Tourism Strategic Plan was unveiled Monday at the Driving Tourism 2007 conference by the Michigan Tourism Planning Council. Michigan’s tourism industry generates $17.5 billion dollars in annual revenue, 200,000 jobs and almost $1 billion in state tax revenue, and the architects of the plan have set the goal of growing Michigan to be [...]

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Michigan Valentine’s Day – How Sweet it Is!

February 13, 2007 – 9:46 am

If you’re looking for something unique for your sweetie this year for Valentine’s Day, Dianna Stampfler of Promote Michigan has 14 gift ideas and activities to consider. As usual, we’d love it if you’d add any other suggestions in the comments! Share this:

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Impact of Pure Michigan tourism promotion

February 12, 2007 – 9:45 am

Late Afternoon Beach by nomm de photo The Detroit News feature Mich. aims more cash at tourism credits the $13.2 million “Pure Michigan” marketing effort for helping the state to hold serve in a tough tourism market, saying that: Travel Michigan used half of a two-year, $15 million grant it received last year to help [...]

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Vol I, No. 1: Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization!

January 25, 2007 – 9:16 pm

This is a page where we asked folks to say hello. Lots of them did! The current version of Introduce Your Michigan Business or Organization is right there. Share this:

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Michigan Solar Tour

September 20, 2006 – 1:28 pm

Michigan Solar House by DC Rob From the Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association: The 2006 American Solar Energy Society’s National Solar Tour offers a first-hand look at the successful uses of renewable energy and energy efficiency in buildings, both private and public, across the state. Tour participants in communities nationwide will visit buildings incorporating solar [...]

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