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2022 Pure Michigan Milestone Celebrations!

January 4, 2022 Dianna Stampfler anniversary, celebration, centennial, pure michigan

Michigan was founded on January 26, 1837 as the 26th state of the United States of America…making this year our

FAREWELL TO BACHELORHOOD: Ernest Hemingway’s Wedding in Northern Michigan

August 1, 2021August 3, 2021 Dianna Stampfler 100 years, 1921, centennial, Ernest Hemingway, hemingway, Historic Wedding, horton bay, michigan, michigan history, northern michigan, pure michigan, walloon lake

It should come as no surprise that Ernest Hemingway chose northern Michigan as the setting for his first wedding. This rural countryside was his first real love, so it was fitting that he and his muse would begin their marriage alongside the towering trees and flowing rivers which shaped his life. This year – September 3 – marks the 100th anniversary of the marriage between Hemingway (at the time, a life-long summer resident on Walloon Lake) and Hadley Richardson.

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2021 Milestones for Pure Michigan Businesses

December 29, 2020January 15, 2021 Dianna Stampfler centennial, history, lighthouse, michigan, pure michigan, Sesquicentennial, state park

Michigan was founded on January 26, 1837 as the 26th state of the United States of America. Currently home to nearly 10 million people, spread out throughout two peninsulas, Michigan is the Great Lakes State – the Mitten of Plenty – the Wolverine State. Michigan’s early business history is centered in industries that benefited from its proximity to the Great Lakes: fishing, lumbering, mining, fur trapping and agriculture.