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Vintage Old Mission Peninsula farm photos; Johnson Farms on Center Road

Happy Labor Day: Vintage OMP Farm Photos and Hardworking Farmers

Jane Louise Boursaw - September 4, 2023 6

Chateau Grand Traverse, aka Winery Hill, on the Old Mission Peninsula | Jane Boursaw Photo

Growing Pains on the Old Mission Peninsula – Where Are We...

Jane Louise Boursaw - March 4, 2025 0

Robert C. Tompkins honored at the Garland-Tompkins American Legion Post 399 in Old Mission, Michigan

Old Mission History: Robert C. Tompkins, Killed in USS Mount Hood...

W. William Rudolph - November 11, 2023 2

Brit Eaton holds a photo of the infamous sailboat that flipped over in West Bay on one stormy day in 1964 | Jane Boursaw Photo

Old Mission Stories: A Neahtawanta Sailboat, a Storm Over West Bay,...

Brit Eaton - April 8, 2024 2

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A Brief History of Mexican Migrant Workers on the OMP

Jane Louise Boursaw - July 26, 2017 29

Peninsula Cellars on the Old Mission Peninsula | Karen Rieser Photo

Three Ghostly Hauntings on the Old Mission Peninsula

Karen Rieser - October 11, 2023 0

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The Saga of ‘Misadventures Aboard the Metropolis’

Jane Louise Boursaw - March 16, 2018 5

Winter on Bluff Road, Old Mission Peninsula | Jane Boursaw Photo

An Old Mission Poem: We Live Here Content (An Ode to...

Jane Louise Boursaw - February 25, 2025 4

New Panther Arctic Cat Snowmobile delivered to Walter Johnson house in Old Mission in 1969

Jane’s World: Johnsons Get a New Arctic Cat Snowmobile in 1969

Jane Louise Boursaw - February 13, 2020 4

Letter from Army to Stella Edgecomb about Frank Edgecomb's death in WWI | Jane Boursaw Photo

Old Mission History: WWI Letters Discovered in Back of Closet

Jane Louise Boursaw - February 24, 2020 22

1943-1945, Cutting Ice in Old Mission Harbor: Chum Reay and Brud Reay on the Ice-Cutting Machine

Old Mission History: Marty Reay on Chum’s Ice Business, Iconic Truck...

Tim Boursaw - March 16, 2019 20

Mexican Drive-In Poster; Bowers Harbor on the Old Mission Peninsula, 1960s | Poster Courtesy of Katy Kern

I Was a Guard at the Mexican Drive-In at Bowers Harbor...

Tim Boursaw - July 22, 2020 14

A Guide to Pronouncing Family Names on the Old Mission Peninsula: Kroupa Family 1920

The Official Guide to Pronouncing Old Family Names on the Old...

Jane Louise Boursaw - June 28, 2019 2

Tim Boursaw on the steps of the Old Mission school house, 65 years later; log church on the right and Deb's former house across the road | Jane Boursaw Photo

So It Begins, Part 2

Tim Boursaw - March 15, 2021 5

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UPS Guy Retires After 18 Years on the Old Mission Peninsula (38 Years Total!)

The Haunting of Bowers Harbor Inn – Is It Genevieve Stickney’s Ghost?

Interview: Vi Solomonson Talks 60+ Years With Peninsula Telephone Company

Celebration of Life Planned for Marty Reay

A Tribute to Big George Foreman, That 1968 Fight with Jonas Cepulis, and...