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Travelogue, made for theatrical showing and commissioned by
Chevrolet, promoting tourism by car
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Public domain film from the
Library of Congress Prelinger Archive, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and equalization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Michigan
..."
West Michigan" often refers to the area bounded by the cities of
Muskegon (in the north),
Grand Rapids (in the northeast), Kalamazoo-Battle
Creek (in the southeast) and
St.Joseph-Benton Harbor (in the southwest). However, definitions of the boundaries of the region vary widely; in some contexts, the term "West Michigan" is applied only to the counties of Allegan,
Kent, Muskegon, and
Ottawa, which together compose the
Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland
SMSA. Other definitions include the Kalamazoo-Battle Creek and
Benton Harbor-St.
Joseph regions, which can be considered distinct regions or parts of other regions such as
Michiana,
Southern Michigan, or
Southwest Michigan, in the case of Benton Harbor-St. Joseph.
The northern boundary of the region is also poorly defined; the population density, land use, economic and cultural character, and physical geography most often associated with West Michigan fades in northern Muskegon and Kent
Counties, however areas as far north as Ludington and
White Cloud may be included because of their close economic ties to the cities to the south. Other areas, such as
Montcalm County in the northeast corner of the region, are transitional areas that straddle
Michigan regions but are included for classification purposes
. In the case of Montcalm County, the area around
Greenville in the county's southwest corner is closely tied economically with Grand Rapids, while the area around Vestaburg and Edmore in the northeastern corner of county are more closely associated with the cities of
Mount Pleasant and
Alma, which are included in almost any definition of
Central Michigan...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of the five
Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the
United States.
The other four
Great Lakes are shared by the US and
Canada. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after
Lake Superior and
Lake Huron (and is slightly smaller than the
U.S. state of
West Virginia). Hydrologically, the lake is a large bay of
Lake Michigan-Huron, having the same surface elevation as Lake Huron (among other shared properties). It is bounded, from west to east, by the
U.S. states of
Wisconsin,
Illinois,
Indiana, and Michigan. The word "Michigan" originally referred to the lake itself, and is believed to come from the
Ojibwa word mishigami meaning "great water"...
Some of the earliest human inhabitants of the Lake Michigan region were the
Hopewell Indians. Their culture declined after 800 AD, and for the next few hundred years the region was the home of peoples known as the
Late Woodland Indians. In the early seventeenth century, when western
European explorers made their first forays into the region, they encountered descendants of the Late Woodland Indians: the
Chippewa,
Menominee,
Sauk, Fox,
Winnebago,
Miami, Ottawa, and
Potawatomi. It is believed that the
French explorer
Jean Nicolet was the first non-Native
American to reach Lake Michigan in 1634 or 1638.
With the advent of European exploration into the area in the late
17th century, Lake Michigan became part of a line of waterways leading from the
Saint Lawrence River to the
Mississippi River and thence to the
Gulf of Mexico.[5] French coureurs des bois and voyageurs established small ports and trading communities, such as
Green Bay, on the lake during the late 17th and early
18th centuries.
The first person to reach the deep bottom of Lake Michigan was
J. Val Klump, a scientist at the
University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Klump reached the bottom via submersible as part of a
1985 research expedition...
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