Up the coast from the Leelanau Peninsula on Highway 31 in Michigan find vintage 19th-century summer resort towns of the Victorians, Petoskey and the old Methodist encampment of Bay View.
The nation's first summer Chautauqua arts and lecture series began here in 1887. Today, the Bay View summer arts series runs through August, which includes opera, chamber music and lectures.
We visited Stafford's Bay View inn on our honeymoon.
We visited Stafford's Bay View inn on our honeymoon.
Lit types take note: This is serious Hemingway country. The family has owned a cottage on Walloon Lake here for five generations, and it is here Hemingway wrote "Big Two Hearted River." Locals marked Hemingway haunts, the places he summered and drank - copiously it appears by the number of plaques in pubs. Try the Perry Hotel at Bay and Lewis, where the Michigan Hemingway Society gathers to toast Papa.
If You Go
The local historical museum has an Ernest Hemingway exhibit chronicling the 22 summers the author spent here on Walloon Lake. www.petoskey.com; 231-347-2620.
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