Paw Paw Foot Bridge

The Paw Paw Foot Bridge is a unique foot bridge crossing the Black River in Zeeland, MI.

Photo by Greg Vedders

Pure Michigan Ads

A new crop of exciting Pure Michigan Ads are now available on the Pure Michigan Page on YouTube. For a sampling of the 2011 Pure Michigan Ads, checkout the Pure Michigan Blog entry featuring the latest ads in this award winning series.

Grand Rapids Lip Dub

Grand Rapids is neither down nor out. Grand Rapids responded to recent accusations that it is a dying city by creating a nearly 10 minute Lip Dub video telling the story of what the city has to offer. The video which Roger Ebert calls "the greatest music video ever made" features Don McLean's chart topping hit, American Pie. Here it is in it's full uncut, one take glory.

Grand Rapids, The Good Life

A new Pure Michigan Commercial has been released featuring Grand Rapids, MI.

Butterflies Are Blooming

A butterfly rests on a leaf at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park's Butterflies Are Blooming Exhibition.  The annual exhibition continues until the end of April.

Photo by Greg Vedders

Pure Michigan: A Chance of Snow

Winter appears to be here to stay, might as well enjoy the plethora of winter activities that Michigan has to offer.

Featured photo - "GR" by Derek Nevenzel

An entry from Art Prize 2010 in Grand Rapids. This piece entitled "GR" by Derek Nevenzel was located at the Gerald R. Ford Federal Building US Courthouse. The sign was really quite impressive to see and was a favorite among many.

Photo by Greg Vedders

Michigan: A Qwiki

For fun, the other day I tried a search for Michigan on Qwiki (a quick online visual search engine that scours the web for answers to questions http://qwiki.com). I've embedded the result of that search below.

Be sure to check qwiki.com for more Michigan topics (and other topics as well).

Happy Birthday Michigan!

Image: Idea go / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

On this day in 1837, Michigan became the twenty-sixth state to join the Union. Please join us in wishing the glorious State of Michigan a Happy 174th Birthday.