The Grand Hotel and Square Dancing at St. Anne's Mackinac Island, Michigan Day 37 - July 9, 2002  Back   |   Next

"The art of living on Mackinac Island is getting more artful everyday."     -- Father Jim Williams The Grand Hotel: A Veranda With a View The Grand Hotel My ankle still hurts so when I peddle up the hill to the Grand Hotel I keep the weight off my left foot. I meet with Jeremy, Anna, Ann, and Cory to help them tutor English. I work with Maria, a hotel cleaning maid from Mexico City. We spend an hour repeating words like "typewriter," "desk," and other office nouns, as well as some more conversational phrases. Looking at a piece of loose-leaf paper that is her ESL (English as a Second Language) cheat sheet I see such handy phrases as "Sex matters for women" and "Do you have a girlfriend." The phrases are next to her color list, red, white, blue, green, black, and yellow. Hace mucho calor, I say. Jeremy on the Grand Hotel Veranda      After class Jeremy and I play chess in the Grand Hotel wine bar and it is a stalemate, so we leave and he takes me on a tour of the West Bluffs. The Grand Hotel Square Dancing at St. Anne's Every Tuesday evening in the summer St. Anne's hosts a square dance. Brother Jim plays the fiddle and a caller has about twelve couples dancing the Virginia Reel. Despite my ankle I allow myself to be talked into dancing. I meet Adrienne Fritz who is from eastern Pennsylvania. She teaches English at a private Christian school near Lancaster. After alamanning left, joining hands, dosy-doeing, and promenading all around the caller announces the next dance, "It's a real hoedown." I have to bow out because my ankle is sore again, but Adrienne and I make plans to have breakfast the next morning at Martha's Bakery.   Square Dancing at Saint Anne's with Brother Jim Playing the Fiddle