The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts . f terracesrising one back of another from the shore, and giving the hundreds ofcottages which make up the town an outlook over the bay, and the benefit ofthe cool breezes which temper the summers heat. The resort is the prop-erty of the Michigan Camp Ground Association of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch. The annual camp meeting of the Association is held here inJuly and August. Prompted and guided by a purpose to make the weeksspent at a summer refort something more than a period of idleness, orprofitless activity in playing games.
The standard guide; Mackinac Island and northern lake resorts . f terracesrising one back of another from the shore, and giving the hundreds ofcottages which make up the town an outlook over the bay, and the benefit ofthe cool breezes which temper the summers heat. The resort is the prop-erty of the Michigan Camp Ground Association of the Methodist EpiscopalChurch. The annual camp meeting of the Association is held here inJuly and August. Prompted and guided by a purpose to make the weeksspent at a summer refort something more than a period of idleness, orprofitless activity in playing games. Bay View has developed a series ofinstitutions which make for higher culture. The Bay View Summer LTni-versity has an academical department and a school of methods designedto provide teachers with all the advantages of a normal school. The BayView Assembly has its lecturers and entertainments for which it calls uponthe best talent of the country. The Bay View Reading Circle follows sys-tematic courses of reading and study; it has State and local branches, and. j^JH^^S PETOSKEY 51 the membership runs into the thousands. Bay View is in effect a MichiganChautauqua. Harbor Point is a narrow tongue of land which puts out from the northshore of Little Traverse Bay, and separating it from Lake Michigan, en-closes an admirably protected harbor. It is owned by the Harbor PointAssociation, whose cottages adorn the curving shores. Nearby on the mainshore is Harbor Sprjngs. the site of the early Jesuit mission of LAbre Croche(the crooked tree), whose records run back two hundred years. Ittakes its present from the beautiful springs which are among thenative attractions which have made it a favorite resort. Back from thebay the land rises in high bluffs, from which a noble prospect greets theeye, the view extending over harbor and bay and lake and the rising hillsbeyond Petoskey. A mile east of Harbor Springs is the Presbyterian Re-sort of We-que-ton-sing, its name the Indian designat
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