On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 19:33:49 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:


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Everybody has heard of the State of Michigan with its capital city of
Detroit. I have always thought of it as an industrial state similar to
my own area of the city of Birmingham and the surrounding Black
Country of England. It is the manufacuring areas which produce the
REAL wealth of this World of ours. Not forgetting the farmers.

Reg, G4FGQ.


Reg, I grew up in Michigan, and spend 6 mo a year here, the other 6 in Florida.
In all the time I've spent in Michigan I wasn't aware that Detroit is the
Capitol. When was it moved from Lansing? Perhaps Mac can help you out in this
dilemma you're creating.

Walt

Walt,

We are all sentimentally attached to the area where we were born. I
find it intriguing you were brought up in the same sort of industrial
region as I was dragged up in. There are a few descriptive paragraphs
in "A bit about Reg" in my website.

Please forgive me for assuming the largest city of Detroit to be the
political capital of Michigan when it is actually Lansing.

Again there is a similarity. The political capital of Warwickshire is
not the largest city of Birmingham but the small ancient town of
Warwick with its castle, not far from Shakespeare's
Stratford-upon-Avon.

Is Michigan named after an Indian tribe?
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Reg.