Mackinac Island (Pronounced Mackinaw)
Returning with Jenny to a special place.
The story, Somewhere In Time, takes place in California if you’ve read the book. In the movie, the story unravels in Michigan, on the Island of Mackinac. The book is different from the film in that the protagonist, Richard Collier, is a television writer diagnosed with a brain tumour and sets out to travel in his car, flipping a coin and leaving his destinations to chance. In the book, he arrives at the Coronado Hotel, a 19th-century establishment where Collier comments, “The Past Haunts this hotel”.
But let’s concentrate on the movie we are all most familiar with. In the movie, Richard Collier is a writer who hopes to find someone willing to put his play on stage. On his last day in university, a woman approached him from behind at a farewell party and touched him on the shoulder. Richard turns to find an incredibly old, grey-haired, serene woman. Richard is momentarily spellbound. The woman opens the palm of his hand and places in it a beautiful timepiece. The old woman says, “Come back to me” and leaves. Richard is intrigued. The watch must mean something.
The old woman books into The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island.
The rest, as they say, is history. More than about time travel, Somewhere in Time is a beautiful romance movie if you’re the sort to let go of reality. The deceased Christopher Reeve played Richard Collier. Elise McKenna, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer perform excellently as her aggressive manager.
The setting for the movie is the beautiful Grand Hotel on the island.
Returning to the island best known for fudge, not movies, was enormous fun. The only means of transport on the island is by horse, carriage, or bicycle. In this respect, it is like stepping back in time.
The island is a thriving tourist destination, a fifteen-minute ferry ride from the mainland. The first ferry runs early in the morning until late in the evening. Many hotels and bed and breakfasts are on the island, and horse-driven taxis and bicycles are rented by the hour. ($17)
The Grand Hotel revels in period furniture and artwork of great painters. There are a myriad of halls and rooms to explore. Naturally, they will occasionally have a Somewhere in Time experience in the evening. Once a week, there is formal dining; guests are invited to dress spectacularly.
Down in the town is the usual hustle of memento shops, ice cream, fudge, fudge and more fudge. It is, nonetheless, a beautiful harbour town with good restaurants and pubs.
We’ll sleep and see how tomorrow goes. I promised this post to Adrienne ❤️
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