Reflections Celebrates Independence

Michigan likes to start celebrating early, so Reflections' Independence Day engagements began the last weekend in June with 3 days and over 3,000 visitors at the Stars and Stripes Festival in historic downtown Mt. Clemens, MI. Once again, Traci Lee was at the event, and provided this report:

"The Reflections trailer was set up on Thursday morning just outside of the main food court area and across the street from one of the main restaurants in downtown Mt. Clemens. We were also close to one of the smaller music stages.
The event was very well-attended. From what the festival organizer said, there was 150,000 people on Friday and he had expected about 500,000 people to attend the event over the entire weekend.
Because our location was in a very good spot, we saw a lot of people throughout the festival. We had a very wide variety of people of all ages that came through the exhibit. A few WWII veterans, who had just come back from Washington DC, came through the exhibit and they enjoyed it. Since we have had many events in the area, we had a lot of people come through that had already seen the exhibit and spoke of seeing it at Kaul's funeral home or in the Grosse Pointe area.

As the weekend progressed, we had people come in telling us that they had heard that the exhibit was very cool (and not just because of the air conditioning)!"

For the actual 4th of July, Reflections was on display in Wyandotte, MI. This downriver community has a real small-town feel, with a true sense of community. Their Independence Day Parade took place at 10am, and Reflections was parked right along the parade route for visitors to view before, during, and after the parade.

Even with a brief show, Reflections saw over 300 visitors in Wyandotte.

A very family-oriented event, the parade was a great location for Reflections, and since it was early in the day, the drivers had time to see some fireworks that evening!