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Blue Water Fest

July 16, 2010 Pure Michigan Ads

The Pure Michigan team is on the ground at the Blue Water Fest in Port Huron. Check out these pics from the event!

Tomorrow morning, our own George Zimmermann is setting sail aboard Runaway in the Pure Michigan Bayview Mackinac Race. All the boats are equipped with a GPS tracking system, and we are proud to [...]

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Michigan: The Great Beer State

July 16, 2010 Events & Festivals

Thanks to John Palmer of www.MichiganMicrobrews.com for helping us celebrate Michigan craft beer month!
July… It’s easily one of the greatest months of the year (in my opinion). Summer vacation is in full tilt and people are out enjoying all that Michigan has to offer; the immense state parks, the vast amount of freshwater coastline, the [...]

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Tagged as: Festivals, Guest Blogger, Pure Michigan, Summer, Summer Celebration

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Get Ready for the Volksparade at Tulip Time

May 5, 2010 Events & Festivals

Special thanks to guest blogger, Dave Lorenz for this post on the Volksparade at the Tulip Time Festival.
It’s a beautiful day in Holland! Perfect weather to welcome bus-loads of fans to Holland’s annual Tulip Time Festival.
I’m here today, preparing to emcee the Tulip Time luncheon, which is one of the community highlights during festival [...]

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Tagged as: Events, Festivals, Guest Blogger, Spring, Things to Do

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Something Old, Something New at Holland’s Tulip Time Festival

April 29, 2010 Events & Festivals

Jen Wilson, Michigan Travel Ideas contributing writer, shares experiences from a trip to Holland, home of the annual Tulip Time Festival.
Like many other travelers, I arrived in the southwest Michigan coastal town of Holland expecting two things: wooden shoes and windmills. The tidily landscaped, downtown-centric city 186 miles west of Detroit delivers both.
Celebrating Holland’s Dutch [...]

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Pure Michigan Blossom and Mushroom Events

April 13, 2010 Events & Festivals

With the arrival of spring, it’s time to enjoy blossom and mushroom season.  How better to celebrate the coming of spring than attending a Pure Michigan Event.
Blossomtime Festival, Benton Harbor/St. Joseph, April 25-May 1, 2010
Since 1906, the southwest corner of Michigan has heralded spring with the Blessing of the Blossoms and a multi-community celebration of [...]

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Motown Winter Blast

February 12, 2010 Events & Festivals

The 6th annual Motown Winter Blast kicks off this afternoon, and this is an event you don’t want to miss.  All weekend long, people gather in Campus Martius Park to celebrate and enjoy winter.  This year, the Winter Blast is also celebrating the Motown Museum’s 25th anniversary with even more special events and activities for [...]

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Pure Michigan Events – February 2010

January 29, 2010 Events & Festivals

Black History Month, Detroit, February 2010
 The Museum of African American History plans a month-long series of special programs in celebration of Black History Month.
 Winter Carnival, Houghton, February 3-7, 2010
 This year’s snow sculpting theme is “A Frigid Place Gets a Blast from Space”.  As well as the sculpting, enjoy hockey and broomball games, human [...]

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Pure Michigan Events January 2010

December 29, 2009 Events & Festivals

Ice Sculpting Competition, Holland, January 8-9, 2010
Culinary students create works of art from 150-pound blocks of ice throughout downtown Holland.
Winter Fest, Watervliet, January 8-10, 2010
Cool ice carvings, hot chili cook-off, fun run and fireworks to celebrate winter.
SISU Ski Fest, Ironwood, January 9, 2010
“Sisu,” is the Finnish quality of determination. The festival includes [...]

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Simple Holiday Pleasures

December 15, 2009 Attractions and Museums

At Crossroads Village in Flint, Michigan Travel Ideas editor Barbara Morrow experiences an old-fashioned Christmas and reflects on the joys of holidays past.
As dusk settles on Crossroads Village, a re-created 1800s town in a wooded county park just north of Flint, 275,000 tiny bulbs wink on.  The village opens in the evenings each winter for [...]

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Tagged as: Family, Festivals, Guest Blogger, Pure Michigan, Things to Do, Winter

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Dickens Holiday

December 8, 2009 Events & Festivals

Thanks to Barbara Morrow, Midwest Living magazine Deputy Editor, for this guest blog about the annual Dickens Festival in the quaint village of Holly.
“ ’Appy ’olidays,’’ calls a somewhat pasty-faced but pretty blonde in flowing robes. Scurrying to overtake a dour, gray-haired gentleman, she hurries along historic Battle Alley in Holly. “E-e-ey!’’ she implores, [...]

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