At a hundred and four years old, the State Theatre still stands as one of Bay City's most recognizable landmarks. Despite floods, fires, and a century's worth of history, the theater proudly remains and operates on Washington Street. Dozens of events are put on there each year. Orchestras, Vaudeville, various musical groups, and comedians are just a few of the thousands of acts that have been housed within its walls. The building inside has been remodeled various times over the last few decades,
younger brothers. She also had an elder brother who died before she was born. Due to her father’s work, she had to move from one place to another frequently with her family. She traveled to various places like Delaware, Michigan, Clarkston, Claymont, Shreveport, California, Oklahoma City and Louisiana. According to Valerie Bertinelli wiki, she completed
ThunderBay In the Thunder Bay, the outdoors is not simply someplace you visit, it is a way of life. The area provides quality opportunities for adventure enthusiasts of all ages and skill. With the regions history there are many great options for learning and exploring. With records of fur trade dating back as early as 1683, the Thunder bay area has a rich history of people, places, events and culture.”Trading and supply boats routinely passed Thunder Bay on their way to outposts at Mackinaw
The Bay City Rollers It was the 1970s and a lot of rock bands or single rock singers were springing up all over the place to the delight and adoration of many teenage girls. One band that had great voices and likeable music was The Bay City Rollers. This was a Scottish pop/rock band that had a string of hits in the 1970s and their songs became popular in the U.S. as well. When it came to choosing a name for the band they randomly picked a spot on a map of the U.S. That spot pointed to Bay City, Michigan
miles Southeast of Green Bay they would run into a small town known as Two Rivers. Two rivers is located on the coast of Lake Michigan. Two Rivers is surrounded on three sides by the majestic Lake Michigan. Not far from Two Rivers is its sister city Manitowoc. French Canadians as well as the Chippewa Indians founded two Rivers. The Chippewa Indians called the area Neshotah that means “a junction of 2 rivers”, since the twin rivers join together before entering Lake Michigan. The Chippewa Indians also
states. Michigan leads in the manufacture of automobiles. Detroit, Michigan's largest city, is called the Automobile Capital of the World and the Motor City. The Detroit area produces more cars and trucks than any other part of the nation. Flint and Lansing also are important automaking centers. Michigan is a leader in food processing and steel production. Service industries, such as health care and retail trade, employ many people in the state. Lansing is the state capital. Michigan touches four
people living in Florida as of 2012 were not born in the sunshine state. As of July 20th, 2015 I became a part of the majority in this tropical peninsula. I am originally from another peninsula, but to identify it as tropical would be ludicrous. Michigan, from its people to its climate, shaped me to be who I am now. For eighteen years I was surrounded by all the family I had ever met, friends whose parents were friends with my parents, and fresh water most often in the form of snow and ice. Even
Pittsburgh receiver also set records for the team. Such as, the most receptions in a two-game span, and the most receiving yards in a two-game span. But, in the beginning he had some hard times growing up in Liberty City, Miami Florida . Antonio Brown was born on July 10, 1988, in Liberty City, Miami Florida. The famous Pittsburgh receiver
One of the most storied franchises in all of professional sports the Pittsburgh Steelers have put this steel town on the map as the city of champions. “The Chief” Art Rooney a southwestern Pennsylvania native founded the Steelers in 1933. However, the team would be named “Pirates” at first and would be the 10th team to join the NFL. The first game the “Pirates” ever played in franchise history was against the New York Giants, which they lost. In 1940 the “Pirates” finally renamed and became the
this paper will attempt to explain chronologically, which Native American inhabitants lived or migrated throughout what is known today as the Great Lakes Region. This region includes lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Ontario, & Erie as well as surrounding U.S. state territories including Michigan, a significant portion of Wisconsin, small portions of Minnesota & Indiana, a small part of Illinois and the Canadian providence of Ontario toward the north. In terms of chronological dates, this paper
deeply. They have each been married twice in which neither marriage worked out. These women are iconic legends who made way for other women who pursued a career in music and showed us how success can be achievable. Diana Ross was born in Detroit, Michigan on March 26, 1944. She began her career in 1960 when her and two friends formed the group The Supremes. The other group members were Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard. In 1961 the group was signed to Motown Records by Berry Gordy Jr. (Diana Ross)
Gender Roles in Hemingway’s Up in Michigan Ernest Hemingway was an American 20th century writer, renowned for his simplistic writing style and seemingly macho ideals (Hemingway, 2012, 430) (Putnam, 2006, para.2) (Ziff, 1978, 417). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 because of his ‘mastery of the art of narrative’ and influence ‘on contemporary style’ as demonstrated in one of his later works, the short novel The Old Man and the Sea which also won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize (Bracker
there he wrote a letter to Maxwell Perkins which states he has a idea on a new novel called The Old Man and the Sea ( Nelson and Jones 139). Hemingway first got his idea for The Old Man and the Sea from the stories that he had heard in the small fish cities in Cuba by a man named Carlos Gutierrez. He had known of this man for about twenty years and the stories of the fighting marlins. It was then that he imagined that man under the two circumstances and came up with the idea. After about twenty years
with the Gulf of Mexico. To achieve this goal, the French built forts and missionaries along their surest way of travel, rivers and lakes. By the middle of the eighteenth century, settled populations were beginning to take hold at Detroit and Green Bay and in what was called the Illinois country (<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov">http://lcweb2.loc.gov</a>). The great currency of the French empire in North America was, however, the fur trade. Canoes were used to float the furs down a series of
succeed and protect their lives! Works Cited "How Much Sleep Do You Need?" Sleep Cycles & Stages, Lack of Sleep, and How to Get the Hours You Need. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Mar. 2014. Moore, Lynn. "Michigan Ann Arbor Bay City Detroit Flint Grand Rapids Jackson Kalamazoo Lansing Muskegon Saginaw All Michigan." The Muskegon Chronicle. N.p., 14 Dec. 2011. Web. 10 Mar. 2014. "Teen Car Accidents Linked to Early School Start Time." DNews. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2014. "Teenagers and Sleep." Better Health
Ford Jr. was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska, but kept neither his name nor his hometown for long. In just weeks, he was whisked away by his mother, Dorothy Ayer Gardner, to her parents' home in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A plucky woman who would not tolerate abuse, she divorced his father, Leslie Lynch King Sr., within the year, and less than three years later, was married to Gerald Rudolff Ford, a local paint company salesman, from whence "Jerry" Jr. got his name—although
Completed only 5 months after the promised date in 1937 and a total cost of $27 million, the Golden Gate Bridge benefitted society not only around the San Francisco area, but also around the world. Originally conceived in August of 1919, San Francisco city officials requested to Engineer Michael O’Shaughnessy if he could build a bridge that crossed the Golden Gate Strait. He would then consult numerous engineers across the U.S. about building such a bridge. Many of these engineers speculated that the
Shortly after, Bear and his former co-worker, Chuck Adams Worked on raising $1,200 to open an archery business in a garage. In 1933, the company was founded and named “Bear Archery” Shortly after Fred and his wife, Henrietta Bear, moved to Grayling, Michigan where they held residence in a tent in order to save money for their developing business. This became his favorite place to hunt and fish. During this time he had a significant shortage of funds to pay for his everyday expenses, his archery company
burning river now has become the greatest ecosystem recovery of the world. Lake Erie is one of the first of the Great Lakes formed by the glaciers receding between 1 and 12,600 million years ago. Lake Erie borders New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Canadian Province, Ontario. Lake Erie is about 241 miles long, about 57 miles wide and has about 871 miles of shoreline. The length of Ohio's shoreline is about 312 miles. It has three basins: the western which averages about 24 feet, central
Volunteers Risk Management. Risk Management Center , n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2013. Hartman, Rachel. "Rewarding volunteers." Rewarding Volunteers. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2013. Johnson, Adrian. "Michigan Ann Arbor Bay City Detroit Flint Grand Rapids Jackson Kalamazoo Lansing Muskegon Saginaw All Michigan." The Kalamazoo Gazette. N.p., 7 Feb. 2009.