They celebrate fruit, cheese, beer, wine, music, the arts, holidays, seasons, cultures, industries, hobbies, geography, history and … well, pretty much all things Michigan. They go by all sorts of names — fairs, festivals, events — but the roughly 4,000-5,000 such gatherings annually share an important attribute: the generation of millions of dollars for the […]
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O, brave new world that has such people in it
Considering the works of William Shakespeare have been performed everywhere from Central Park to American prisons, the production of “The Tempest” entering its final weekend at Detroit’s Park Bar doesn’t qualify as particularly strange. But the story of how it came to be is one that anyone interested in economic development or the nurturance of […]