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The Swifts, Armours, Wrigleys, Gambles (Procter & Gamble), Fords and Wilsons (GM) all called northern Michigan's Harbor Springs-Petoskey area their summer home. The 1930s era of northwest lower Michigan was particularly a time of gala summer resort tourism despite the United States being in the throes of a deepening Great Depression.
Thomas F. Schweigert (September 29, 1917 – July 9, 2001) was an American politician who served as a member of the Michigan Senate and as acting lieutenant governor of Michigan. Early life and education
Ernest Jack Petoskey [1] (October 15, 1921 – March 3, 2017) [2] was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Hillsdale College from 1949 to 1950 and Western Michigan University from 1953 to 1956, compiling a career college football record of 19–32–3.
The Ernest Hemingway Cottage, also known as Windemere, was the boyhood summer home of author Ernest Hemingway, on Walloon Lake in Michigan, United States. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968. [2] [3]
Petosegay or Biidassige (Ottawa: Light that is Coming) (c. 1787 – June 15, 1885) was a 19th-century Odawa merchant and fur trader. Both present-day Petoskey, Michigan, Petoskey State Park, and nearby Emmet County park Camp Petosega are named in his honor.
One of the top summer resort towns in the northern Michigan area, known as the "Tip of the Mitt," was Petoskey. The small city of 5,000 people was located on the eastern and southern shoreline of Little Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan. It was the first northern Lake Michigan town to draw a summer clientele of Midwestern city dwellers beginning in 1875.
Started in 1878 as the Petoskey City Record, after subsequent mergers it became The Petoskey Evening News. In 1953, this paper merged with The Northern Michigan Review to become the Petoskey News-Review. In 2006, the paper, along with its sister publications, was purchased by Schurz Communications of South Bend, Indiana.
Herbert Vaughn Orvis (October 17, 1946 – August 14, 2020) was an American professional football player who was a defensive tackle for the Detroit Lions and the Baltimore Colts in a ten-year career that lasted from 1972 to 1981 in the National Football League (NFL).