You get to return to one place you visited before age 10 that you have never returned to since. Where do you go and why?
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Mike says
“Tip of the Mitten” was the house where my father’s best friend, Fory, was raised in their hometown, Mackinaw City, Michigan. A rambling, mid 19th century, three story affair, Tip of the Mitten’s back windows and widow’s walk looked out over a long sloping lawn to a sandy beach, to Lake Huron and in the distance, on a clear day, the Upper Peninsula.
The house itself was full of marvels, artifacts peculiar to the fresh-water, maritime economy and profound, snowy cold that defines the area–brass telescopes, handmade snow shoes, animal traps—but its best feature for a 10 year old boy and his best friend, Steven, Fory’s son, (our fathers had gone to college together, doubled dated with the down-state women they’d eventually marry, and moved to the same mid-state town) was its proximity to Fort Michilimackinac State Park, a short walk to the admission gate for fools willing to choke up 3 bucks better spent on candy, OR just a 300 yard dash from Tip of the Mitten’s beach in a mostly seaworthy, keel-less wooden duck boat. After pulling hard through the windy chop of the Straits, Steven and I would tug the boat ashore and pretend to be paying customers. A year later, Tip of the Mitten was sold and my family moved downstate.
rpeters says
Thank you for this lovely remembrance of a special place. I particularly liked this: The house itself was full of marvels, artifacts peculiar to the fresh-water, maritime economy and profound, snowy cold that defines the area–-brass telescopes, handmade snow shoes, animal traps
rpeters says
Thanks for being the first person to submit, Mike!