Remember when you were growing up and kids from around the neighborhood would gather and embark on spontaneous summertime adventures? That’s still a daily occurrence in the residential areas of Mackinac Island. Whether they end up playing games at Great Turtle Park, swimming in the pool at Grand…
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With “a wrist flick so fast it defies physics,” Dana “Launching Panda” Olson won the 2025 W.T. Rabe Stone Skipping Competition, held July 4 on Mackinac Island’s Windermere Point. Each contestant skipped six stones, with judges recording the number of skips on each toss. The winner was the competitor…
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Thanks to William Beaumont, Alexis St. Martin lived into his 70s and fathered many children before going to the grave near Montreal. Also because of Beaumont, the French-Canadian fur trader who got shot on Mackinac Island endures in the annals of history as somewhat of a tortured soul. The two men…
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You might remember in 2019 when then-Vice President Mike Pence visited Mackinac Island to speak at a Republican leadership conference at Grand Hotel. The former Indiana governor broke with Mackinac Island tradition by traveling in an 8-vehicle motorcade back and forth from Mackinac Island Airport…
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