Monthly Archives: June, 2012
Music students join Alex Graham for your entertainment
One of the things that I’ve enjoyed the most these past few seasons at Grand Hotel has been the opportunity to bring my students to Mackinac during the summer to study music and perform at the hotel’s many venues. This year has been particularly fantastic, and I am now working with seven amazing students from Belmont University [...]
MagiCAL … How Art in Public Places Transforms Communities!
Have you ever wondered how public art is created for site-specific locales? Would you enjoy learning about the conception and creation of a public artwork from the artist’s perspective? Public artist Anne Marie Karlsen will be here with the Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters, to provide insight into just that. Ms. Karlsen [...]
Margaret’s Garden
Have you paid a visit to Margaret’s Garden, Grand Hotel’s flower shop? If not, you should! They have an amazing variety of roses, fun yard and garden accessories, and flowers in every scent and color imaginable. They even have rainbow roses where each petal is a different color. The staff at Margaret’s Garden are very [...]
The Texas Girls’ Choir to Perform at The Grand Hotel
An ensemble group from the Texas Girls’ Choir is scheduled to perform on the East Front Porch, at the world-renown Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island on June 25, 2012 at 11:30 AM. The sixteen girls who are part of the 200+, Internationally Famous, Texas Girls’ Choir will be participating in the Voices Without Borders International [...]
Snyder reappoints Gnodtke and Musser to Mackinac Bridge Authority
Snyder reappoints Gnodtke and Musser to Mackinac Bridge Authority – Official Press Release LANSING, Mich. – Gov. Rick Snyder today announced the reappointments of William Gnodtke, of Charlevoix, and Dan Musser, of Petoskey and Mackinac Island, to the Mackinac Bridge Authority. Established in 1950, the seven-member Mackinac Bridge Authority authorizes the employment of legal and financial [...]
Grand Memories of Major Pond…
Grand Hotel has had millions of guests over the course of the past 125 years. Each of these guests has taken with them a memory to pass on to their family and friends of their experience on Mackinac. One of these guests, Major James Burton Pond, would take with him an experience of his own. [...]
Percy Smith, Come On Down!
Any of you who watched The Price is Right when Percy Smith won a trip to Grand Hotel saw that he was quite the character. I am here to tell you he is just as much fun in person. Percy and his wife Marilyn won a 6 night stay with us here on Mackinac and [...]
Music With Her Silver Sound : A concert of music inspired by Shakespeare
Guest blogger Jason Painter Price gives a glimpse of the musical entertainment for the 2012 Arts Weekend. From Henry Purcell to Leonard Bernstein composers have been inspired by the ideas and writings of William Shakespeare. Trumpeter Jason Price and pianist John Orfe will perform a variety of music from the 1600′s all the way to a World [...]
Grand Golf on The Jewel
We are pleased to add a few new features at the Jewel this year. Last week we received 12 news sets of Titleist AP1 irons and 910 Driver and Fairway woods. These clubs are a nice addition to the 8 sets we brought in at the end of 2011 season. We offer rentals for men and [...]
VP Mimi Cunningham appointed to the Michigan Historical Commission
Governor Snyder Appoints Grand Hotel Vice President Margaret “Mimi” Cunningham to Michigan Historical Commission MACKINAC ISLAND, MI— Gov. Rick Snyder has announced the appointment of Margaret “Mimi” Cunningham, vice president of Grand Hotel, to the Michigan Historical Commission. “My family has enjoyed a long involvement in preserving Michigan’s historic landmarks, beginning with my Great Uncle Stewart [...]
