Photo of the Week: Happy Birthday, Dossin Great Lakes Museum!

Large sign in front of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum announces the 65th birthday celebration dock party for the museum. Along with 250th birthday of the USA, 75th birthday of Detroit Historical Museum, and 325th birthday of Detroit.

You couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful summer day for the 65th birthday celebration of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum along the shore of the Detroit River at Belle Isle State Park in Detroit, Michigan.

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Photo of the Week: Inside|Out Program, Bank of the Oise at Auvers

A wooden kiosk features a wooden framed painting depicting a riverbank scene with dense green vegetation in the background, rowboats in the water with people in and standing next to the boats on shore in the foreground. The artist used expressive long and short brushstrokes.

When I was birding at the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge in Trenton, Michigan this weekend, I discovered they were participating in this year’s Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) Inside|Out program.

Launched in 2010, the program aims to bring art reproductions to the metro Detroit community, connecting people and showing that art is for everyone.

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Photo of the Week: 2026 Plymouth, Michigan Fourth of July Parade

A man in a blue top, red waistband, and tight white leotard spins inside a 5-6 foot wide hula hoop down Main Street as parade watchers on sidewalks look on.

Given the break in extreme heat overnight and 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence, I was excited to attend Plymouth, Michigan’s Fourth of July parade this weekend.

And was delighted to watch local groups, performance artists, scouts, marching bands, dogs, bicycles, and veterans in the parade.

The performance artist twirling inside the hula hoop was my favorite!

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