Mackinac Island is home to many cultural
events, including an annual show of American art from the Masco collection of
19th-century works at the Grand Hotel. There are at least five art galleries on
the island. Mackinac Island has been the setting of two feature films: This
Time for Keeps in 1946 and Somewhere in Time, filmed at the Grand Hotel and
various other locations on the island in 1979. Mackinac Island has been written
about and visited by many influential writers including Alexis De Tocqueville,
Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Edward Everett Hale, Mark Twain, Bill
Bryson, Herman
