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...hopes this bucolic vista will lure buyers to the adjacent plots she owns. Best of all, her migraines are gone. "Since I've been up here," she says, "my whole physiology has changed." Deel, however, now has a different sort of headache. Alternative-energy companies Michigan Wind Energy and Mackinaw Power plan to build dozens of wind turbines--290-ft.-tall white steel pinwheels--across the county. Some may stand just a quarter-mile from Deel's new house, and she believes that their looming presence will erode the value of her property. She and her neighbors will...
Randall Swisher, executive director of the American Wind Energy Association, says complaints about noise from turbines are grossly exaggerated. "If you ever visit a wind farm," he says, "you will notice that the wind often makes more noise than the turbine." Still, Invenergy, the firm that will develop Mackinaw Power's part of the western Michigan initiative, often pays homeowners who live near its turbines $800 to $1,000 a year in compensation, says Invenergy's senior development manager, Joel Link. As for the putative threat to scenery posed by towering turbines, wind-power supporters point out that tourists often...
...first guests to arrive at Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Island's Grand Hotel in 1887 were met at the pier by horse-drawn carriages. When they ventured forth from the hotel, it was by horse or buggy or bike. And so it is today, as a ban on automobiles enacted a century ago remains in force. Like those early travelers, today's Grand guests sit in big, wooden rockers on what, at 660 ft., is still the world's longest hotel porch...
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...
...know you're getting close when you see the Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge. Since no cars are allowed on the island, you'll have to park your car at Mackinaw City. Those who do not want to cross the bridge can take one of the ferries from St. Ignace, just across the straits. Before you go, be sure to visit Colonial Michilimackinac, a reconstructed French fur-trading village and military outpost...