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Image via WikipediaMichigan Vacation Rentals: Fun Michigan Facts –
Here are some fun Michigan facts to read that might give you some interesting new ideas on what to go see while planning your Michigan vacation rentals trip.
~ There is an ancient law on the books in Michigan that prevents married couple from living in separate homes. If the married couple is caught sleeping apart, they are imprisoned. This is an old, old, law that is not enforced today. Vacationing married people in a Michigan vacation rentals area may sleep anywhere that they wish.
~ Back in the old days in Michigan vacation rentals areas it was against the law for a woman to lift her skirt more than six-inches while walking through a mud puddle. This old law is also still on the books in Michigan today, but is no longer enforced.
~ It was reported in the news some time back that the notorious Jimmy Hoffa might be buried in the Bay City, Michigan vacation rentals area. It just might be possible that singer Madonna, who grew up in Bay City, Michigan, played hopscotch as a child near where they excavated a potential location for the Hoffa grave in July, 2003.
~ Singer “Bob” Robert Clark Seger was born in Detroit, Michigan at the Henry Ford hospital. Diane Ernestine Earle Ross (Diana Ross) was born in the Detroit, Michigan Woman’s hospital in 1944. Theodore “Ted” Nugent was born in South Detroit in 1948. This Michigan vacation rentals area is noted for producing singers.
~ Comedian Dick Martin of the old hippy ‘Laugh In’ show started off as a Detroit, Michigan baby, and so was Charles ‘Lucky Lindy’ Lindbergh.
~ Magic Johnson the famous basketball player comes from the Lansing, Michigan vacation rentals area. Magic Johnson’s father worked at the General Motors plant that competed with the Michigan industrialist Henry Ford’s products for the American dollar. Michigan vacation rentals area vacation homes often had have their roots planted in families who have worked for the American auto industry.
~ The world’s largest cherry pie is gone, but the world’s largest cherry pie pan remains near Traverse City, Michigan. There appear to be two of these pie pans about 45 minutes apart, from two Michigan vacation rentals area towns that are in constant competition with each other to hold the world records for cherry items. The biggest cherry pie pan is believed to be the one that measures 17 feet, 6 inches, and 28,350 pounds.
~ In the Kalkaska, Michigan vacation rentals area, they’ve got a shoe tree. This interesting full-sized big tree has shoes hanging all over it, some with notes. One local legend tries to explain that the high-school graduating students started throwing their shoes up in the tree. Although nobody is really sure how this incredible shoe tree got started.
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