Cawthorne's half century of living and working on the famed northern Michigan resort island provides a colorful, entertaining, and comprehensive history of social, economic, and political events which have shaped Mackinac Island in the last 50 years. The book has been described as a nostalgic and candid behind-the-scenes look part memoir, part history, and part chronicle noting the author's experiences over a half century as carriage driver, chamber of commerce manager, state legislator, restaurateur, attorney, legislative advocate, and for over twenty years, a member and chairman of the Mackinac Island State Park Commission. Favorable reviews by Governor William G. Milliken, Bill Ballenger, editor-emeritus and publisher of Inside Michigan Politics and Phil Porter, director of Mackinac Historic Parks are as follows: Governor Milliken comments, For decades Dennis Cawthorne has enjoyed an unparalleled perspective on Mackinac Island and the people who make it up. In this colorful,