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Couple of Moderate Joes Ousted in Primary By George Weeks Out East and in the Midwest, a couple of moderate Joes on Capitol Hill took it on the chin last week from extremes of their parties. More ...
BY JEANNETTE DOUD It's Tuesday, August 15, another beautiful summer day on Mackinac. Sadly, we're getting closer and closer to Labor Day, and our pleasant weather will soon change as we welcome in the month of September. It has passed so quickly. Schools will be opening soon, but the Mackinac Island Public School More ...
Mary Milton's Last Horse War Xeno To Retire After 20 Years by Candice C. Dunnigan Young Colton Fisher of Mackinac Island has a horse sense beyond his tender age. At last week's Mackinac Island Horse Show, he noticed a lean, lone, bay gelding tied to a white birch tree, half asleep in the afternoon sun. As I walked past Colton in search of a bridle, he said to me, petting the dozi More ...
Messenger Pigeons Carry Long Historical Human Connection By Patricia Martin Just the other day I received a note and a photograph from Clark Bloswick, who had seen a pigeon hanging around the State Park maintenance barn for more than a week. He said that it was quite tame, and he thought that it might be a racing pigeon as it had a band on each of its legs. Pigeons, or as t More ...
Mackinac Furs Served as Security Identifiers in Low-tech Era BY FRANK STRAUS One of the biggest changes that has occurred in the United States in recent years has been the growth of public security infrastructure, the barriers in many public, private, and mixed spaces that are meant to bar people who cannot display evidence that they are who they are supposed to be. An incre More ...
Insomnia Can Affect Your Health By Yvan Silva, M.D. More than 50 years ago, a seminal medical treatise on sleep defined it as a "periodic temporary cessation or interruption of the waking state, the latter being the prevalent mode of existence of the healthy adult." An English poet called sleep, "the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the ind More ... |
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