Ice Bridge: Mackinac Island's Hidden Season

DVD made by island filmmaker and composer Mark Rensel and co-producer/narrator Jenifer Silvernale.

Just released!

Premier edition of a new film, a journey to Mackinac Island's other side...Experience the breathtaking transformation that happens across the ice bridge. Distilled from over five years of extraordinary footage.

DVD
Price: $22.95

A Picturesque Situation: Mackinac Before Photography, 1615-1860

by Brian Leigh Dunnigan

Review
Drawing on decades of research, Brian Leigh Dunnigan presents a stunning collection of pre-photographic images of Mackinac including maps, plans, drawings, engravings, and paintings complemented by a comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and eminently readable text. No collection of Michigan history is complete without a copy of this superb volume. --Phil Porter, director of Mackinac State Historic Parks

Hardcover
Price $75.00

Mackinac Album

by Robert E. Benjamin

Enjoy fascinating Mackinac photographs from the Benjamin collection taken from the late 1800s until the present.

Price: $19.95
Paperback

History from the Hearth: A Colonial Michilimackinac Cookbook

Outstanding collection of traditional eighteenth-century recipes are complimented by historical vignettes drawn from letters and journals of the fur trading village’s inhabitants. Many color illustrations.

210 pages. Hardbound. 1997
Price $19.95

Vintage Views of the Mackinac Straits Region
by M. Christine Byron and Thomas R. Wilson

The Mackinac Straits region with its scenic attractions natural wonders has beckoned visitors and tourists for over 150 years. Vintage Views of the Mackinac Straits Region is a pictorial history of this northern Michigan vacation hub. The book uses “vintage views” to portray Mackinaw City, St. Ignace, Mackinac Island, the car ferries, and the famous Mackinac Bridge.

Price: $40.00
Hardcover

Explore Michigan--Mackinac (Insider's Guide to Michigan)
by George Cantor

Price: $10.95
Paperback

Mackinac Island: Mecca of the Midwest

As seen on PBS, this is a unique 30 minute program providing a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the people who help create and maintain the dreamscape for a million tourists a year. It provides an opportunity to take the island home.
Price $24.95
DVD

Mackinac Bridge
by Mike Fornes

Read all about the events leading up to and the actual construction of the engineering marvel, the Mackinac Bridge.

Price: $19.99

Intriguing novel for children and adults alike!

Softcover
Price: $9.95

Softcover
Price: $10.95

Beautiful images of Mackinac Island

Hardcover
$35.00

Mackinac Adventures and Island Memories: Growing Up on Mackinac

Enjoy Tom Pfeiffelmann's entertaining stories of growing up on Mackinac. This book gives you a unique perspective on a Mackinac childhood full of adventures and misadventures!

Price: $15.00
Softcover

Keys to the Past

New Book Packed with Photos of Archaeological "Treasures"

Dr. Lynn Evans, Curator of Archaeology for MSHP, has compiled that 40-plus years of work into a beautiful publication titled Keys to the Past. Dr. Evans has hand-selected the most intriguing and unique artifacts discovered in the Straits of Mackinac and shares them in this rich, full color edition.

Illustrated

Haunts of Mackinac: Ghost Stories, Legends and Tragic Tales of Mackinac Island
by Todd Clemens

Price: $14.95

Whisperings: A Mackinac Island Mystery

by Diane Marlette

$17.98

Wish You Were Here: An Album of Vintage Mackinac Postcards
by Steven C. Brisson

Drawing from the burgeoning Mackinac State Historic Parks collections, the book provides over 200 full-color examples of postcards, from their late 19th century roots through the middle of the 20th century. Mackinac lovers will be fascinated by the way their favorite spots have changed or remained the same over the last 100 years.

Mackinac Island and fudge. Both symbolize indulgence, fantasy and escape. But there's more to fudge than sugar, butter, chocolate and cream. In this book, historian Phil Porter stirs up the past to find the hard work and sometimes bitter controversy behind this sweet souvenir. In his hunger for truth and historical accuracy, Porter dug deep into the kitchens and cupboards of the fudge culture. No appetite for history, no taste for sweet truth will be satisfied without reading Fudge: Mackinac's Sweet Souvenir.
Price $12.95
Hardcover

The Legend of Mackinac Island
by Kathy-jo Warginn
Illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen

Beautifully illustrated story incorporating Indian legends of Mackinac Island. Retells the story of the great turtle Makinauk that enlists the aid of other animals to help create the special place known as Mackinac Island.

The Flavors of Mackinac

This cookbook (compiled by The Mackinac Island Medical Center) is filled with favorite island recipes.
Price $18.00
Paperback