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Why this story today: The U.P. State Fair opens this afternoon at 5 p.m. in Escanaba and runs through August 23, and the story explains why it is the only state fair Michigan has left: every U.P. county and the Hannahville Indian Community took it over when the state cut both fairs loose in 2010, and it drew its biggest crowd on record, 87,750, in 2017.
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Michigan has one state fair. It is not in Detroit, it has not been in Detroit since 2009, and the reason it still exists at all…
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History & Culture · 4 minThe Mill at Gay Shut Down in 1932. Its Waste Sand Never Stopped Moving, and It Is Headed for the Whitefish.
Outdoors & Travel · 4 minMichigan’s Tallest Waterfall Was Off-Limits for Years. The State Finally Built a Way In.
History & Culture · 3 minThis Toast Is So Hard You Have to Dunk It. Yoopers Have Loved It Since 1928.Start with the lead. We’ll keep your place on this device.
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Edition note: Curated the evening before, at the publisher's request, so the email could be scheduled ahead of the 5 a.m. turnover. Followups: Gay stamp sands (Aug 15, first appearance), Douglass Houghton Falls (first appearance), Trenary Toast (matches the morning Facebook post). Nothing published on Aug 17 could be included.