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You Can’t Take it with You | Mackinac Island Community Theater Stages Reader’s Theater Production of Classic Play
Mackinac Island’s theater season began early again this year with the production of “You Can’t Take it With You,” a one-night reader’s theater performance held Thursday, September 17, at the theater in Mission Point Resort’s Center for the Arts. “You Can’t Take it With You” is a…
Arts Dockside Attracts Many Vendors, Visitors
Labor Day weekend is always a time of creativity in St. Ignace via the city’s annual Arts Dockside craft fair. This year’s 49th annual show took place at the St. Ignace Public Marina and its neighboring waterfront park Saturday, September 5, and Sunday, September 6, including…
MichMack HiSTORIES
The portrait of Cherokee Chief David Vann is featured this month in the Michilimackinac Historical Society’s McKenney-Hall Portrait Collection. David Vann was born in the East Cherokee Nation, Georgia Province, in 1800 and became a consequential leader of the Cherokee people. He…
Music on the Trail Celebrates the Arts, Nature’s Wonder
Art and nature came together in a celebration of culture with the Mackinac Art Council’s Music on the Trail event Sunday afternoon, September 13. The free, five-hour event took place along the Mackinac Island Botanical Trail featuring performances by Michigan musicians, dancers,…
Mackinac Maritime Memories
Michilimackinac, Anishinaabek for the “place of the great turtle,” has a complex, rich, and illustrious maritime history with its port cities and islands that lie within the emerald, turquoise, and sky-blue waterways of the Straits of Mackinac. The meeting of Lakes Michigan and…
A Look at History
At Colonial Michilimackinac, costumed interpreters show how a 1700s public-private partnership brought together uniformed British troops and enterprising fur traders. This means that the buildings within the stockaded walls of the fort housed officers, soldiers, and civilians,…