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Askin’s Men and Women at Michilimackinac, 1780

Colonial Michilimackinac Mackinaw City

Askin's Men and Women at Michilimackinac, 1780, will explore the lives of the men and women, both free and enslaved, who worked for the merchant John Askin at Michilimackinac in the 1770s. Join the staff at Michilimackinac as they demonstrate the various work performed by Askin's employees, who included sailors, bakers, gardeners, cooks, voyageurs, laundresses, […]

$5 – $14.50

Artist-in-Residence Workshop Painter John Dempsey

Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac Island

Painter John Dempsey will give a presentation on Military Field Drawing during the time of the British and American occupation of Fort Mackinac. The discussion would focus on methods of drawing from direct observation and the training that was given military personnel during 18th and 19th centuries in order to communicate important military field information. […]