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Dennis O. Cawthorne, lawyer, legislator, chairman of the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, businessman, saloonkeeper-restaurateur, chamber of commerce manager, and carriage driver, knows the famed Great Lakes destination, its people, and its idiosyncrasies like few other people. For a great part of each of the last 62 years, he has lived, worked, and played on iconic Mackinac Island.

He is also a world traveler, having visited seventy countries on six continents. He has served as an official United States delegate to international conferences of government leaders in Moscow, Beijing, and Brussels. Mr. Cawthorne is a graduate of Albion College (Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard Law School.

When not on Mackinac Island or globe-trotting, he makes his home in East Lansing, Michigan. He and his wife Cynthia have two sons and five grandchildren.

Dennis Cawthorne’s half-century of working and living on Mackinac Island provides a cohesive and comprehensive history of the social, economic, and political currents sweeping Mackinac Island, past and present. He reveals events behind the scenes, important political moments, a look at island residents at work and at play, and chronicles both local and nationally notable political events and controversies. As Chair and member of the Mackinac Island State Park Commission for more than twenty years, he knows about the Inside of Island politics; the Up Close in decision making, and relates his Personal involvement and that of his island neighbors in preserving and protecting the place they hold dear, Mackinac Island. Cawthorne brings it all home to his home, Mackinac Island: Inside, Up Close, and Personal.

Newspaper 
United States, Tryon, North Carolina
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Headline: Dennis Cawthorne Relaunches “Mackinac Island: Inside, Up Close, and Personal,” and Shares Endearing Memories From Fifty-Years of Residence on the Island

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