Organizations
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Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear
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Manitou Islands Memorial Society
A nonprofit organization which helps preserve the history and cultural resources of Michigan’s Manitou Islands by serving as volunteers and partnering with Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
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Manitou Island Transit
Fourth generation ferry service to the North and South Manitou Islands.
Publications
- All
- Backcountry Camping
- Backpacking
- Canoeing
- Do it yourself
- Gear Reviews
- Hammock Camping
- Hiking
- Historic Preservation
- Husky Dog
- Kayaking
- Lake Michigan
- Meditations on Nature
- Michigan History
- Nature Preserves
- North Manitou Island
- Oral History
- Pilgrim Haven
- Port Oneida
- Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear
- Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
- South Manitou Island
- Stories
- Traverse City
- Trip Planning
- Volunteering
- Winter
- Winter Camping
Sixties Sandstorm
Brian C. Kalt
The fight over establishment of a Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, 1961-1970.
151 pages, 2001 Purchase
The Aral Mill Murders
Richard Trevae
Historical fiction based on documented events from the late 1800s and early 1900s set in the former town of Aral at Otter Creek, in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
133 pages, 2012 Purchase
The South Manitou Story
Gerald E. Crowner
Memoir of the South Manitou Island, as told from a Surfman of the South Manitou Station, 1926-1928.
87 pages, 1982 Purchase
My Point of View
G. C. Furst
A memoir of early boyhood on North Manitou Island as part of a lightkeepers family in the early 1900s.
113 pages, 1992
From Preserve Historic Sleeping Bear Purchase
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The Manitou Passage Story
Gene Warner
An indefinitive history of the settlement of Northeast Lake Michigan
59 pages, 2007 Purchase
Aurora of North Manitou Island
Donna Winters
Fifth in the Great Lakes Romances series, this book can be read as a stand alone historical fiction account of life on North Manitou.
277 pages, 1993 Purchase
Supper in the Evening
Al Barnes
Pioneer living in Michigan, Civil War, early settlers, cultural life, logging, and recipes. Barnes is a noted Traverse City historian.
259 pages, 1967 Purchase