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Dianna Stampfler March 26, 2023March 26, 2023 cindy birk, cynthia birk, finding lilacs, llilacs, mackinac island, michigan, novels, romance

The Sweet Smell of Success…

When Cindy Birk was a second grader at Reid Elementary School in Grand Blanc, Michigan, she attended a Young Authors

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Dianna Stampfler May 27, 2021May 28, 2021 mackinac island, mackinaw city, memorial day, memorial weekend, pure michigan, straits of mackinac

Memorial Day has always been an important day in our family – given that my brother and me were both born on May 30 (5 years apart, 1964 and 1969 respectively). As a young child, I always felt the parade was just for us…in celebration of our birthdays.

New Inn on the Block

It isn’t often that a new building is constructed on the ever-historic Mackinac Island…where Victorian-era cottages, homes and hotels fill the downtown streets and a few locales off the beaten path.

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Dianna Stampfler June 20, 2019June 21, 2019 ghost stories, haunted, mackinac island, michigan history, mission point, paranormal, pure michigan, straits of mackinac, witch

Shedding Light on the Spirited Stories from Mackinac Island’s Mission Point

During our most recent trip to Mackinac Island, we had the honor of staying at the newly renovated Mission Point

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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 May 16, 2017May 30, 2017 colonial michilimackinac, decoration day, fort mackinac, historic re-enactment, mackinac bridge, mackinac island, mackinac state historic parks, mackinaw city, memorial day, memorial weekend, michilimackinac, might mac, northern michigan, pure michigan, sheplers ferry, star line ferry, straits of mackinac

Make it Mackinaw for Memorial Weekend

First held in 1962, the 55th Annual Memorial Pageant Weekend is recognized as the longest-running, free Memorial Day historical program in the United States. This year’s festivities run Saturday, May 27 through Monday, May 29. There is no admission charge for the historical reenactment pageant or related events.

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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.”