The holidays are a time for celebration, food, festivities and traditions. Michigan has unique connections to many of these. During the 12 Days of Michigan, we celebrated all that our state has to office with a Michigan holiday fact each day. To learn more about all of the great things Michigan has to offer, visit http://www.Michiganbusiness.org.

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The holidays are a time for celebration, food, festivities and traditions and Michigan
has unique connections to many of these. During the 12 Days of Michigan,
we celebrate all that our state has to offer with a Michigan holiday fact each day
DAY 2
DAY 3
Two HoneyBaked hams
Three dreidels spinning
DAY 1
A partridge in a
cranberry shrub.
Michigan grows more than
300 farm commodities,
including more than
260 acres of cranberries!
In 1957, Harry J. Hoenselaar
opened the first HoneyBaked
Ham Company in Detroit, and
it has since grown to more
than 400 stores nationwide.
DAY 5
DAY 4
Four twinkling lights
Visit the world’s largest
Christmas store at
Frankenmuth’s Bronners
CHRISTmas Wonderland,
or view one of the 1.5 million
twinkling lights at Rochester’s
Big Bright Light Show.
DAY 7
Seven candles buring
Kwanzaa is celebrated each
year between December 26
and January 1. In Detroit, many
families gather to reflect and
honor its founding principles.
The Charles H. Wright Museum
will pay tribute to this holiday's
rich cultural heritage with a
candle lighting each night
followed by evening festivities.
DAY 10
December 4 marked the
third annual Menorah it the D
on the last night of Chanukah.
A 24-foot menorah at Campus
Martius was designed and
built by brothers Frank
and Israel Nordin.
DAY 6
Five Christmas trees
Six Michigan Businesses
Michigan ranks third in the
nation in the number of
Christmas trees harvested
and produces a wider variety
than other states, supplying
three million fresh Christmas
trees nationally each year.
If every family in the US shifted
$10 a month to locally-owned,
independent businesses,
over $9.3 billion would
be directly returned to
local economies.
DAY 8
DAY 9
Eight skiers skiing
Nine poinsetta flowers
December 12 is National
Poinsettia Day, and many of
the holiday plants are grown
here in Michigan. The state
is seventh in the U.S. for
poinsettia production and
produced 2.3 million plants
last holiday season.
Michigan winter recreation brings
in about $2.5 billion to the state’s
economy. In Michigan, you are
never more than two hours away
from a ski area, and there are
more than 6,500 miles of interconnected snowmobile trails in
the state.
DAY 11
DAY 12
twelve chestnuts
for roasting
Ten railcars chugging
Did you know that Polar Express
author, and Grand Rapids native,
Chris Van Allsburg used a Michigan
train for inspiration? When the
movie was made in 2004, Michigan’s
Pere Marquette 1225 locomotive
was used for the prototype.
Michigan has
the largest
number of
chestnut growers
and the most
acreage of
any state.
Eleven wool sweaters
A northern Michigan company is
supplying the wool that will be
used to make sweaters for Team
USA at the Olympic Winter
Games in Sochi.
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