Michigan balloon

This balloon of Michigan comes from JR whose mother and grandmother

helps him to learn about the world through postrossing.

Thank you for this great balloon card!

Sent: 12 November 2014   Received: 24 November 2014  Travelled: 12 days

Sleeping bear dunes

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a United States National Lakeshore located along the northwest coast of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan in Leelanau County and Benzie County.
The park is named after a Chippewa legend of the sleeping bear. According to the legend, an enormous forest fire on the western shore of Lake Michigan drove a mother bear and her two cubs into the lake for shelter, determined to reach the opposite shore. After many miles of swimming, the two cubs lagged behind. When the mother bear reached the shore, she waited on the top of a high bluff. The exhausted cubs drowned in the lake, but the mother bear stayed and waited in hopes that her cubs would finally appear. Impressed by the mother bear's determination and faith, the Great Spirit created two islands (North and South Manitou Island) to commemorate the cubs, and the winds buried the sleeping bear under the sands of the dunes where she waits to this day. The "bear" was a small tree-covered knoll at the top edge of the bluff that, from the water, had the appearance of a sleeping bear. Wind and erosion have caused the "bear" to be greatly reduced in size over the years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Bear_Dunes

 

Thank you April for the legend of the Sleeping Bear!

Sent: 4 November 2013
Received: 18 November 2013
Travelled: 14 days

Grand Rapids, MI

West Michigan's leading city, was settled by

Dutch immigrants along the Grand River. Pictured are: Skyline

along Grand river, Van Andel Museum Center, the Calder

Stabile, DeVos Place and Gerald R. Ford Museum.

Thank you to the Poll family for this card.

Detroit

Detroit, Michigan,also known as "The Motor City", is

located along the Detroit River, which is in the U.S and

Canadian border.

Thank you Rachel for the Detroit view card!