Mackinac Island Town Crier

07/19/2025

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07/12/2025

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07/04/2025

Land of the free because of the brave. 🇺🇸

06/28/2025

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06/21/2025

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06/17/2025

Find out which of the 56 Lilac Parade entrants took home one of the six awards from the Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau at the link below.

  Mackinac Island visitors and residents lined the city streets for the 77th Annual Lilac Festival Grand Parade Sunday, June 15.   Hosted by the Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau, the parade is the concluding event of the 10-day festival. This year, the parade began at 4 p.m., with the parade route s...

06/15/2025

Happy Father’s Day!

06/14/2025

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06/07/2025

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06/04/2025

Flora Temple, an internationally known racehorse, garnered fame in Kalamazoo, Michigan, during the mid-1800s.

“Camptown ladies sing this song, Doo-da, doo-da, Camptown’s racetrack’s five miles long, Oh, de doo-da day. Goin’ to run all night, Going to run all day, I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag, Somebody bet on the bay.” Stephen Foster song 1850, “Camptown Races” Flora Temple was an interna...

06/03/2025

Columnist Frank Straus highlights Mackinac's historic connection to the neighboring Islands to the north in his latest "A Look at History" column.

The Les Cheneaux Islands, often called the “Snows,” cluster along the northern shore of Lake Huron northeast of Mackinac Island. Although they are only 20 miles away from our Island, geologically they are very different. Mackinac Island is a great mound of breccia: a thick, flat table of ordinar...