June 28, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 11:30 am EDT Event Series Michigan Governor’s Summer Residence Tours Michigan Governor’s Summer Residence Tours Explore the Governor's Summer Residence on Mackinac Island on select Wednesdays June through August. Built in 1902 as a private summer cottage by Lawrence A. Young, it has served as the Governor's summer Residence since 1945. The residence was listed in the Michigan Register of Historic Places in October 1975. In November 1997, the house... Read more »
June 28, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT Artist-in-Residence Workshop with Composer Andrew Perkins Station 256 Conference Room Above the MISP Visitor's Center, Mackinac Island Perkins is a composer, conductor, and music educator from Fenton, MI. In 1938, a young folk music collector named Alan Lomax came from Washington, DC to record Michigan’s folk music traditions for the Archive of American Folk-Song at the Library of Congress. Lomax was particularly interested in the trove of ballads remembered by aging lumberjacks and... Read more »
July 5, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 11:30 am EDT Event Series Michigan Governor’s Summer Residence Tours Michigan Governor’s Summer Residence Tours Explore the Governor's Summer Residence on Mackinac Island on select Wednesdays June through August. Built in 1902 as a private summer cottage by Lawrence A. Young, it has served as the Governor's summer Residence since 1945. The residence was listed in the Michigan Register of Historic Places in October 1975. In November 1997, the house... Read more »
