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Mission Point Resort – Purple Pig Roast – June 10 & 17, 2017

Purple Pig RoastMission Point Resort celebrates Mackinac Island’s Famous Lilac Festival with the Purple Pig Roast.

Enjoy delicious food along with lilac lemonade, lilac inspired cocktails, and craft beer flights.

Live music. Located on the spectacular waterfront lawn at Mission Point’s Bistro on the Greens.

Saturdays, June 10 and June 17, 1-4 PM
Bistro on the Greens, Mission Point
Cost: $25

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Mission Point Resort On Facebook

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A Taste of Mackinac – June 15, 2017

Mackinac Island’s most anticipated culinary event.

Located at the Harbour View Inn, tickets are $20. Tickets available at Tourism office across from Star Line Ferry.

This award-winning luncheon also features products from Coca Cola, the official soft drink of the Mackinac Island Lilac Festival, along with award-winning Michigan Beer & Wine (for those 21 & over with proper I.D.) and delicious coffee and tea from our local Starbucks.

Live music and entertainment provided by Ardan Academy of Dance and Local singer/songwriter Michelle Chenard.

Tickets are available online through My North February 15 through June 14, 2017. You can purchase them here. Be aware that tickets do sell out quickly.

Past Restaurants Have Included:
1852 Grill Room – Island House Hotel
Bistro on the Greens – Mission Point Resort
Cawthorne’s Village Inn – A Grand Hotel Restaurant
Goodfellow’s Italian Chophouse – Lake View Hotel
Harbour View Inn BBQ
Island Slice Pizzeria
Mary’s Bistro
Millie’s on Main
Pink Pony – Chippewa Hotel

Past Wineries Have Included:
Black Star Farms
Leelanau Cellars
Mackinaw Trail Winery

Past Microbreweries Have Included:
Arbor Brewing
Arcadia Brewing
Bell’s Brewery
Cheboygan Brewery
Founder’s Brewing Company
Frankenmuth Brewing
Keewanau Brewing
Petoskey Brewing Company

Refreshments:
Coca Cola
Starbucks

Fudge:
Joann’s Fudge
May’s Fudge
Murdick’s Fudge
Ryba’s Fudge

2017 – A Taste of Mackinac
June 15, 2017
Harbour View Inn
6860 Main Street, Mackinac Island, MI 49757

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10th Annual Round Island Lighthouse Open House – July 9, 2016

Round Island Lighthouse

Come visit us at the Annual Round Island Lighthouse Open House on the second Saturday of July. Transportation from Mackinac Island is available by private fare.

Round Island Lighthouse is located on Round Island, which is part of the Hiawatha National Forest. For more information, visit the United States Forest Service website.

To see a virtual tour video of the inside of the lighthouse, click here.

2016 OPEN HOUSE: The 10th Annual Open House is scheduled for July 9, 2016 from 10AM till 4PM.

ABOUT THE ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE: Since 2007, an annual Open House has been hosted at the lighthouse each summer. This year Round Island Lighthouse Preservation Society and Boy Scout Troop 323 of Freeland, Michigan greeted over 200 people at the 9th Annual Open House. The scouts gave tours of the grounds, the Oil House and Privy, and of the 121 year old lighthouse. From 10AM to 4PM EST on July 11th, 2015, guests explored the historical lighthouse and learned about the history of the light station and the surrounding area.

PLEASE NOTE: In the event of bad weather, or waves that are too dangerous to navigate by our volunteers, we will have to cancel the open house, or close it down temporarily until conditions improve. Sometimes a cancellation comes about abruptly with sudden changes in conditions. We will do our best to convey a cancellation to the Mackinac Island Visitors Center and to the various ferry lines.

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Round Island Lighthouse – Photos From Instagram

Here are the latest photos of Round Island Lighthouse via instagram. If you have an instagram photo to share of your visit to Round Island Lighthouse, tag it with #roundislandlighthouse and your photos will appear in the photo stream below.

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Mackinac Island Festival of the Horse – (No Festival For 2016)

The Mackinac Horsemen’s Association holds an annual Mackinac Island Festival of the Horse to celebrate the horse’s role on the island. In the past we have held lectures, workshops, pony rides, carriage parades, demonstrations, stable tours and the ever-popular Breed Show. Events take place at the Borough Lot beneath Grand Hotel. Proceeds from the festival support MHA projects. The 2016 Festival is TBD – tentative dates are

MHA will not be hosting Festival of the Horse in 2016. Watch here for notices for 2017.

———- Information Below is from 2015. ———–

The 2015 Mackinac Island Festival of the Horse will be featuring Betsy VanDyke and her Danish Warmblood, “Tanner”

Festival of the Horse Quick Links

• Festival Events Schedule

• Videos From Previous Years

Please check back or click through to the Mackinac Island Festival of the Horse website for the latest information.

Interested in helping us preserve Mackinac’s horse culture? Become a sponsor of the festival.

Festival of the Horse News Links

• Mackinac Island Festival of the Horse – Part II (The Breed Show) 7/27/2010 (via Bree’s Mackinac Island Blog)
In a copy of the Mackinac Horsemen’s Association publication, “Mackinac Hoofbeats”, Phil Porter (Director of the Mackinac Island Historic State Parks) talks about the importance of the horse on the island. He says, “I don’t think people always realize the full impact of the auto ban,” referring to the 1898 prohibition of automobiles. “Because cars were banned so early, the island never changed to accommodate an automotive world.

• The Festival of the Horse – Part I 7/26/2010 (via Bree’s Mackinac Island Blog)
If you love horses (which I do), can ride them (which I can’t), and can’t seem to ever get enough of them (which I never do) – the next two days of this blog are for you!

Learn more about Mackinac and horses at our Mackinac Horsemen’s Association website.

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Mackinac Island Festival of the Horse On Facebook

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