IT’S A REALLY HARD CLASS: MSU professor Kris Berglund stands amid some of the work product of the Artisan Distilling Program at the university. Berglund predicts that Michigan-made liquor will soon have similar economic impacts to craft brewing in the state (Bridge photo/Nancy Derringer) Kris Berglund’s business cards identify him as a distinguished professor of […]
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Festivals haul in $700 million for Michigan
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 […]