Twelve Mile Circle – An Appreciation of Unusual Places

Tag: St. James

  • Beaver Island Travel Index

    Beaver Island, Michigan, USA (September 2000) Beaver Island is the largest island in Lake Michigan and the third largest in the Great Lakes, at about 6 miles wide and 13 miles long. It is located 18 miles from Michigan’s lower and upper peninsulas. Native Americans settled Beaver Island originally and Irish immigrants began arriving by…

  • Beaver Island Lighthouses

    Beaver Island, Michigan, USA (September 2000) There are a multitude of lighthouses in Lake Michigan within vicinity of Beaver Island.  Two of them can be visited on the island itself. Beaver Island Harbor (St. James) Lighthouse A lighthouse came into view as the ferry approached Beaver Island. The ferry pointed straight towards St. James, the…

  • The Only One

    I started playing a little game over the weekend using a search engine and the exact phrase “The only one in [name of a country].” Much of the time this query resulted in lists of exotic automobiles for some odd reason, or vacation properties with excessive hyperbole. More amusing results floated to the surface every…