Event Series Artist-in-Residence Program

Artist-in-Residence Program

The Richard & Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum Mackinac Island

Join our resident artist for a free program detailing work done during the artist residency. This is a free program held at the Station 256 Conference Room, located above the Mackinac Island State Park Visitor's Center. Schedule or resident artists to be posted in late winter, 2025. ABOUT THE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM: The Mackinac State Historic […]

Event Series Hay Cutters & Summer Pasture

Hay Cutters & Summer Pasture

Historic Mill Creek Mackinaw City

This week, special programs at Historic Mill Creek explore hay making at the Straits of Mackinac. Learn about wild wetland plants which fed the King’s cattle in 1781. See which tools were used to harvest “tame hay,” and hay-making artifacts uncovered at Historic Mill Creek. You may leave humming the barley-mowers’ song, with fresh appreciation […]

Event Series Hay Cutters & Summer Pasture

Hay Cutters & Summer Pasture

Historic Mill Creek Mackinaw City

This week, special programs at Historic Mill Creek explore hay making at the Straits of Mackinac. Learn about wild wetland plants which fed the King’s cattle in 1781. See which tools were used to harvest “tame hay,” and hay-making artifacts uncovered at Historic Mill Creek. You may leave humming the barley-mowers’ song, with fresh appreciation […]

Mackinac Island State Park Commission Meeting

Post Hospital 7029 Huron Road, Mackinac Island, United States

A regular meeting of the Mackinac Island State Park Commission at the Post Hospital Administrative Building on Mackinac Island. #thisismackinac

Event Series Hay Cutters & Summer Pasture

Hay Cutters & Summer Pasture

Historic Mill Creek Mackinaw City

This week, special programs at Historic Mill Creek explore hay making at the Straits of Mackinac. Learn about wild wetland plants which fed the King’s cattle in 1781. See which tools were used to harvest “tame hay,” and hay-making artifacts uncovered at Historic Mill Creek. You may leave humming the barley-mowers’ song, with fresh appreciation […]

Vintage Base Ball

Fort Mackinac Mackinac Island, MI

A vintage game of “base ball” as it was meant to be played, barehanded and by gentlemen’s rules on the old Fort Mackinac ball field behind Fort Mackinac, the oldest continually used ball field in Michigan. Learn an old-fashioned cheer, watch players fined for smoking cigars on the field, and enjoy a good old-fashioned rivalry! […]