2021-07-15

Enjoying Time Together Again

Gideon Westblade (left), Liam Porter, and Oscar Miller arrive at Great Turtle Park for Vacation Bible School. This year’s vacation Bible school, organized by volunteers from Island churches, took place at Great Turtle Park from Tuesday, July 6, to Thursday, July 8, for two-and-a-half hours each day. Program leaders said they aimed to bring the good news of God’s love […]

A Look at History

  Friendship’s Alter In a secluded grove, less than 1,000 feet from crowded British Landing, stands a 13-foot-high limestone rock. “Friendship’s Altar” is one of the erosional rocks or “stacks” that can be found around the Straits of Mackinac. Geologically, it is a breccia isolate that was cut off long ago by water and ice from a larger rock mass […]

Ready, Set, Go! Chicago Racers Head to Mackinac

Sailors depart during the 2019 Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac. The race did not run in 2020 owing to the covid pandemic. (Chicago Yacht Club photograph) Thousands of sailors will be making their way to Mackinac Island beginning Friday July 16, in the Chicago Yacht Club’s Race to Mackinac classic. The yacht race fleet is projected to begin arriving […]