Summary: Depicts the history of the festival designed to promote area tourism from the May 1925, first Blessing of the Blossoms, to the first summer harvest festival 1n 1928, into the Depression years when it manipulated the media and thrust itself into the nation's limelight, and beyond. It is the story of Traverse City community volunteering and sacrificing to make the city hospitable and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Forgotten Films & Video, (P.O. Box 229, Traverse City, MI 49685) 1995

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHE

Summary: This silent film showcases the people and places of Traverse City, Michigan in 1940, featuring local churches, schools, businesses, families and social gatherings. In the film, The Traverse City Exchange Club invites famous Hollywood director "Gary Owens" to preside over a Movie Queen contest in which the winner will receive a Hollywood contract. The film was originally produced as a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: History Center of Traverse City 2012

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 917.7464 WER

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WE'RE
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4 We're

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local We're

Wakefield, Lawrence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: L. Wakefield 1987

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.2 WAK

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.2 WAK
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 394.2 WAK

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 WAK