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    Making a Splash

    May 31, 2022 4 minutes
    By Frances Smith

    “Why do we always have to go to Michigan on vacation?” I’d complain every summer. “Can’t we go to Disneyland instead?”

    Mama’s explanation was always the same: “Going to Michigan in the summer is what folks in Ohio do to escape the heat. It’s cooler.”

    Heading north, we’d stay each night at a different motel, like a Holiday Inn or a Howard Johnson’s Motor Lodge. I’d look for motel billboards advertising “Heated Pool.” However, the summer of 1957 was different. I was 7 years old, and it was a vacation we never forgot.

    My thrifty Scotch-Irish

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