Cheboygan gave us an opportunity to share a Vintage Car Show, it's 30th year of coming together and an arts and crafts show this sunny Saturday. It was so warm and humid that Rose couldn't stay in the car so she walked both events with us. It was a good place to see (the art and craft show) how people in Michigan manage the long winters. There were very painstakingly done things like plastic flamingos that had been covered in very small colored glass pieces. Work working was represented by carved bowls and many key hangers and picture frames. I met a granddaughter about 12 and her grandmother who are traveling the summer craft shows with their little dog in a trailer selling grandma's jewelry. They were great sales people and the conversation was the best part. There were all kinds of needlework to include quilting.
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| So many people visiting and enjoying, the cars were just a gathering place. |
Down further on Main Street was the Car Show with
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| Mackinaw Coast Guard Ice Breaker |
Main Street blocked off. It is a little too much reality to see that vintage cars include Chevy IIs, El Caminos, VWs as well as 1953 Buicks. In our defense of being the oldest coots, there were cars that preceded World War II but Mom would be familiar with those sweeties. Mustangs and Covettes were also well represented. People were having the best time. Met one woman who was showing her late husbands car and she brought out an album to show us what it looked like when he brought it home. It was a muscle car, a bright red Mustang he found rusted in a field. It took him 6 years to restore it. He got sick as he sent it off to his friend to paint. He lived to see it come home but then she lost him. With the help of his old friend, she now tries to take it to car shows around Michigan.
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Amazingly restored Ford Hairline at the Cheboygan Car Show |
Later today, we went on to Mackinaw City, and Jim toured the retired Coast Guard Ice Breaker, the Mackinaw. It was built right after Pearl Harbor to a assure a ice free port and retired just a few years ago. I enjoyed my time waiting for him with Rose, as I made calls home and caught up on news and watched the lake and Mackinaw Bridge traffic. Later we went on to the Fort Michelimac which is under one end of the bridge. The Fort was originally built by the French in the early 1700's as a trading post and presence in this part of the Americas. They closely cooperated and traded with the Native Americans. Later the British, 10 years before the Revolutionary War used it and then demolished it during the Revolution so the Americans couldn't take it. They rebuilt it on Mackinac Island and then burned what was left. There was been an been an archeological dig going on since 1959 to determine where the building were and rebuild them. They have recovered thousands of items and recovered much of what live was like during that time. They had docents dressed as people of the time, Native Americans, French fur traders, British soldiers and women of the time who talked very engagingly about their lives. Rose got to go with us into the Fort, thank goodness as we couldn't leave her in the car and was so well mannered. We were very proud doggie parents! Oh, forgot to mention had the traditional pastie for lunch which reminded me of Grandma Herrmann's strudels without the dill. We had a lesson from the locals. It is pastie with a short a not a long one like the little private parts covers!
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| Rose just climbed up on the table to help Jimmy write post cards. This dog is thinking she is people. |
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