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Mackinac Island's Grand Hotel is history's front porch

Brandy Baker / The Detroit News


The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island boasts what is said to be the world’s longest front porch, which has been visited by five U.S. presidents and 23 presidential hopefuls.

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Dan Musser, left, owner of Grand Hotel, greets Hillary and Bill Clinton and an aide during a visit to the hotel in 1987.

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Democratic party operative Billie Farnum, left, former U.S. President Harry S Truman and W. Stewart Woodfill, then-owner of the Grand Hotel, stroll down its famous porch.

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Nelson A. Rockefeller and his wife, Happy, ride bicycles during a visit to the Grand Hotel.

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