Somewhere In Time

In many ways, Dave and I have a shared past.  For instance, we had a romantic vacation on tiny - 3.8 square miles - Mackinaw Island, north of Michigan, where cars don't exist and the favorite modes of transportation are horse drawn carriages and bicycles .

 More specifically the romantic vacation was spent at the magnificent one hundred plus year old Grand Hotel.with the world's largest front porch and five course dinners.

My romantic trip was with Ken on our honeymoon in 1960.  Dave's was with his wife, Audrey, in 1997.

We both have great memories.

Dave had never seen the extraordinarily popular 1980 movie  "Somewhere In Time," staring Christoper Reeve and Jane Seymour.  So last week I found it on Netflix and we sat on the couch and held hands and watched it.  It's very sad and romantic and takes place on the island.  More specifically, at the Grand Hotel.  This movie was and is so popular that the "Somewhere In Time" fan club still meets annually at the Grand Hotel.

1960 Taking the ferry to Mackinaw Island

Here's another interesting tidbit.  Here in the city of Winter Park Florida lives an elegant old lady named Flossie.  I've been friends with her family for many years.  For about 30 years Flossie and her husband managed an elegant hotel on Park Avenue in Winter Park in the winter months.  In the summer months they managed the Grand Hotel on Mackinaw Island.  After the movie came out Flossie's husband was constantly asked if he was "Arthur."  (If you've seen the movie Arthur is the little boy with the ball.)  Of course there was no Arthur because (of course) the movie was fiction.

After watching "Somewhere In Time" last week Dave and I wondered how Christoper Reeve would have handled knowing what his future held....great fame as Superman and, later, a devastating injury leaving him paralysed for decades.

I wonder, as well, if the barely 21 year old girl in this photo, on her way to Mackinaw Island, could have handled knowing what her future held?


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