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Detroit Boat Show Might See $50 Million In Sales, Organizers Say
The Detroit Boat Show celebrates its 60th anniversary Feb. 17-25. The annual event offers some free admissions on special promotion days.

Rebecca Golden is a longtime writer and editor whose work has appeared in Salon, the Times of London and the Atlantic. Previously editor for Curbed Detroit, she lives in Grosse Pointe Park, where she's completing her second nonfiction book, Welcome to Detroit. Rebecca holds an MFA in nonfiction writing, and undergraduate degrees in journalism and history from Boston University.
The Detroit Boat Show celebrates its 60th anniversary Feb. 17-25. The annual event offers some free admissions on special promotion days.

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