Michigan's MLive.com profiles the Colon Magic Festival in the Travel News section this weekend.
For 51 weeks of the year, Colon is a sleepy little town of about 1,000 residents tucked along the shores of Sturgeon Lake and boasting one stoplight and the occasional Amish horse and buggy clip-clopping through town.
But for the past 73 years, that other week finds rabbits jumping out of hats, women levitating off the ground, men eating streams of fire and voices coming out of the mouths of marionettes and other objects — all happening when performers take to the streets and stages during the Colon Magic Festival, this year Aug. 4-7.