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By Gregg Mitman. 312 pp., illustrated. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2007. $30. ISBN 978-0-300-11035-7.

The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in Michigan is a magnificent structure, or so it appeared to me when I visited as a graduating senior on a high school trip. I wondered why such a huge hotel was situated in such a remote area. Mackinac Island is far to the north, where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron come together. Gregg Mitman clears up this mystery in his book with a photo from the 1890s highlighting Mackinac Island as a haven for persons with hay fever and showing a steamer that well-heeled patients were about to board for their trip back . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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