The women of Mackinac were overlooked leaders who ranged from fur traders to midwives, poets, farmers, and educators. Despite their ethnic and class differences, they worked together to achieve common goals. Examples include Jane Schoolcraft, Anna Jameson, and the partnership of Daisy Blodgett and nurse Stella King. Join author and artist, Melissa Croghan to take a look at the dramatic lives of these women, along with their invaluable contributions. 

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Mackinac Island resident Melissa Croghan is a writer and a multi-media artist of works on paper and canvases. As a writer, she is a poet, novelist, and memoirist. As an artist, she works with India ink, graphite, pastel, and oil paint.  In 2019, she held an exhibit on the 'Unsung Women of Mackinac'. That show spawned her research and book, "Great Women of Mackinac, 1800-1950", published late last spring by Michigan State University Press.