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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherArbutus Press
ISBN-101933926457
ISBN-139781933926452
eBay Product ID (ePID)201630779
Product Key Features
TopicGeneral, United States / General
Publication Year2014
Book TitleMackinac Island : Inside, Up-Close, and Personal
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorDennis Cawthorne
FormatHardcover
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisCawthorne's half century of living and working on the famed northern Michigan resort island provides a colorful, entertaining, and comprehensive history of social, economic, and political events which have shaped Mackinac Island in the last 50 years. The book has been described as a nostalgic and candid behind-the-scenes look part memoir, part history, and part chronicle noting the author's experiences over a half century as carriage driver, chamber of commerce manager, state legislator, restaurateur, attorney, legislative advocate, and for over twenty years, a member and chairman of the Mackinac Island State Park Commission. Favorable reviews by Governor William G. Milliken, Bill Ballenger, editor-emeritus and publisher of Inside Michigan Politics and Phil Porter, director of Mackinac Historic Parks are as follows: Governor Milliken comments, For decades Dennis Cawthorne has enjoyed an unparalleled perspective on Mackinac Island and the people who make it up. In this colorful,