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- MOOmers is Michigan’s Premium Homemade Ice Cream. Would you like a sample of Cherries MOObilee?
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- Who needs plastic balls when you can play in a pile of cherry pits?
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- Ice cream samples: the gateway drug to a triple scoop.
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- My favorite parade entry – the Second Time Arounders marching band. What a blast to see that lady in a wheelchair tearing into the drums.
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- During the Cherry Festival, bathrooms are pit stops, of course.
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- Invented in Michigan: Gerber baby food, Frosted Flakes and Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix. Also fiber optic cable, auto assembly lines and traffic lights.
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- Each Traverse City elementary school had a float, complete with a prince and princess!
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- Cherries are in EVERYTHING here.
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- Built in 1918, the State Theater has been refurbished thanks to Michigan’s own Michael Moore.
We landed in Traverse City, smack in the middle of their National Cherry Festival. Music, art and did we mention cherries? Tasting, cook-offs, pie eating, parades and marching bands. The best of summer in Michigan.
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