Nice article about Mackinac Island. Just wanted to clarify the vinyl siding comment. All of the historic buildings are wood sided. In the 1960's a few houses creeped in with alumninum siding but the City doesn't permit vinyl siding on anything. The things that changed since we were all kids is that the buildings are now being resorted to their old colors. Back during the depression no one could afford to paint with anything but whitewash, so the old white washed buildings of old are now being brought back to their former glory. There are a few new hotels and shops downtown due to the fire in the late 1980's and that's about all that is new.
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