September 3, 2002

no world is more air conditioned

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This photograph shows the first of the two main towers supporting the Mackinac Bridge that joins the Lower Peninsula of Michigan to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  Though rain showers threatened, we enjoyed wonderful weather as we hiked the five miles across the bridge.  Click here to find everything you wanted to know about the Mackinac Bridge, but were afraid to ask.

New Slide Show!

45th Annual Labor Day Mackinac Bridge Walk (28 Pictures)

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No world is more air-conditioned than the one in which today's American men and women spend their lives.

Marsha E. Ackermann, lectures in history at Eastern Michigan University, from her book titled Cool Comfort : America's Romance with Air Conditioning.

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