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Dianna Stampfler July 2, 2017July 3, 2017 grand hotel, historic hotel, mackinac island, pecan ball, pure michigan, westminster

Three Decades of Grand Mackinac Memories

This year, Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island celebrates its 130th year of serving seasonal guests. As the world’s largest summer hotel, the Musser family’s Grand Hotel boasts 385 rooms, is a member of Historic Hotels of American, is listed with the National Register of Historic Sites, holds countless other distinctions for its time-honored hospitality and is considered one of the top family-run tourist businesses in the state.

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Dianna Stampfler October 1, 2016October 1, 2016 christopher reeve, grand hotel, grand rapids symphony, jane seymour, mackinac island, richard matheson, Sergei Rachmaninoff, somewhere in time

Discovering the Familiar in the Unfamiliar

Novelist, short story writer and screenwriter Richard Matheson (1926-2013) was regarded as one of the world’s premier science fiction writers—yet, his isn’t a household name to many. Ray Bradbury once called Matheson “one of the most important writers of the 20th century.” Stephen King said Mathewson was “the author who influenced me the most as a writer.”