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From Sleeping Bear, cross the peninsula and head north toward Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Island, on U.S. Route 31. Stop at the Music House, a 1906 barn that has antique, automated musical instruments in a reconstructed, turn-of-the-century museum. Continue north through the charming towns of Charlevoix and Petoskey and past the outstanding collection of 400 Victorian homes in Bay View. Another site not to miss: the scenic drive up State Road 119, between Harbor Springs and Cross Village...
There, just east of Traverse City, on the twin Lake Michigan bays of Grand Traverse and Little Traverse, lie the quaint resort towns of Petoskey, Boyne, Charlevoix and Harbor Springs...
...developed smaller, more efficient stoves. But poor burning practices abound. Homeowners sometimes toss green, moist wood into their fires, along with rubbish and newspapers. (The EPA recommends wood that has been air-dried at least a year.) Mark Loding, a chimney sweep who practices his Dickensian craft in the Charlevoix-Petoskey-Harbor Springs area of Michigan, is appalled by the fire making habits of his customers. Says he: "Chimneys are clogged with nasty stuff. People are putting in too much wood and not allowing enough air to reach the fire...
...takes only one season for the summer commuter to learn to book plane flights months in advance. The easiest way for Chicago businessmen to reach the luxurious lakeside summer colony of Charlevoix, Mich., is via a 250-mile flight to Traverse City, followed by a 15-minute small-plane hop to the final destination. But what happens when the airline is booked? Those left in the lurch must drive north to Milwaukee, where they catch a ferry to Ludington, Mich., a trip that takes six hours-then drive 150 miles to Charlevoix...
...rest of the Midwest solved their vacation problems simply: they went to New England. But then they discovered some treasures of their own closer at hand, notably the northern tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, which juts out between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. The result was resorts like Charlevoix, Wequetonsing and Harbor Point. Often they are patterned after classic New England counterparts. They are family oriented, many elaborately unostentatious, and no effort is made to attract outsiders?though well-sponsored families from as far away as St. Louis do not count as outsiders. Two of the choicest spots...