Getting Hooked
Man holding brown trout and fly rod.
Angling has a long and storied past in Michigan including authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Robert Traver (John Voelker). There is also a somewhat cultish group of artisans who make bamboo fly rods and tie fishing flies. Seeking Michigan can cure your fishing jones by linking you with great images, books, and maps. Explore Michigan.
Seek–and you will find:
- Gates Au Sable Lodge Fishing Report
- Search for Flyfishing and Fishing resources at the Library of Michigan
- Michigan fly fishing photographs on Flickr
- Read about Michigan’s favorite fly fisher John Voelker
- Trout Unlimited began in Michigan in 1959.
- Watch a video on Michigan’s Commercial Fishing Industry
Joan Slocombe 
One of the best known agencies from the Great Depression was the WPA, or Works Progress Administration (”Work Projects Administration” after 1939). The reach of the WPA projects is legendary–from bridges to stream improvements to roads to arts, crafts and writing projects. The WPA even thought about holiday planning.
Are there any plans to put marriages on-line,my family is from Kent County in Ontario and many of them went to Michigan to be married.