Day 20 Landed in Petoskey (waiting for the northern lights)

• Steve Goldman
• 13-07-2023
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After a 7 hour motor sail which was quite fun. We had another interesting interaction with a motor boat captain. He raced us to the mouth of the harbor when he should have let us go first.
We had already been talking to the Marina, so they raced in and asked for his slip assignment. The deck hands said they were busy and the big motor boat would have to wait. We scurried right past and into our slip. There is justice in the world.

We went over to Harbor Springs with Dion and Jamie. What a nice place that is. $$$$$$

Petoskey, once again stolen from the Native Americans. It was call Bear River until it was renamed after the Ottawa Indian Chief Ignatius Pe-to-se-ga meaning “Rising Sun”. Petoskey was officially granted a charter in 1879. 

Early industries included mining and lumber. An interesting tid-bit is that lumber from Petoskey area was used to rebuild Chicago after the Chicago fire.

Another tid-bit is that an early vacation visitor was Ernest Hemingway. The Hemingway family had a cottage on Walloon Lake where young Ernest spent the first 22-years of his life here every summer. He went on to write a series of short stories based on his northern Michigan experiences featuring a character named Nick Adams.  His first novel, Torrents of Spring was set in Petoskey.