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The Grand Hotel's 660-foot front porch, the fourteen fudge shops producing copper-pot confections from marble slabs, the Fort Mackinac limestone fortification commanding the straits from the island's central bluff, and the 8.2-mile perimeter road that circumnavigates the island past Arch Rock and the Sugar Loaf limestone pillar all exist within a landscape where the specific smell of fudge and horse manure and cedar forest combines into a sensory register that is, against all logic, the most distinctive in the Great Lakes region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe colors are the palette of a Great Lakes summer: the deep cobalt of Lake Huron on a clear afternoon, the clean white clapboard of the Grand Hotel against a blue sky, the warm amber of the cedar and birch forest interior in late September, and the specific grey-green of the Mackinac Formation dolomite limestone at the island's bluffs and arch formations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mackinac-island-michigan-digital-watercolor-hardboard-coaster","title":"Mackinac Island, Michigan | Original Series Hardboard Coaster | The Painted Passport®","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMACKINAC ISLAND, MICHIGAN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMackinac Island sits in the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan — a car-free island where horse-drawn carriages set the pace and the Round Island Lighthouse, a deep red Victorian structure on a rocky shoal at the southern edge of the island, catches the morning light above the brilliant turquoise of Lake Huron. In autumn, the dense hardwood forest turns the hillside above the lighthouse into a wall of orange, gold, and crimson that reflects in the cold clear water below.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis premium coaster not only protects your surfaces but also serves as a beautiful small window to a far-off place. 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The island was a center of the American fur trade under both French and British colonial control before becoming, in the 1880s, the summer resort destination of the American Midwest, and the Victorian architecture of the Grand Hotel, the oldest hotel in Michigan and one of the longest front porches in the world, together with the painted clapboard cottages and the smell of Mackinac fudge drifting from the Main Street shops, creates a sensory environment that has no equivalent anywhere else in the Great Lakes region. 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