#mackinaw

The USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30) is a 240-foot multi-purpose vessel with the primary mission as a heavy Great Lakes icebreaker. In addition to heavy icebreaking, the Mackinaw has state of the art systems and multi-mission capabilities that include maintenance of aids to navigation, search and rescue, as well as the ability to deploy an oil skimming system to respond to oil spill situations and…

The USCGC Mackinaw (WLBB-30) is a 240-foot multi-purpose vessel with the primary mission as a heavy Great Lakes icebreaker. In addition to heavy icebreaking, the Mackinaw has state of the art systems and multi-mission capabilities that include maintenance of aids to navigation, search and rescue, as well as the ability to deploy an oil skimming system to respond to oil spill situations and…

Not my usual art pictures but I think they're neat so they get posted (⁠*⁠´⁠ω⁠｀⁠*⁠)

Another Mackinaw event! and trigger warning: Unethical medical experiments.

Alexis St. Martin, a Canadian voyageur was accidentally shot in the stomach. The wound never healed properly, forming a gastric fistula, basically an extra opening in the stomach that lets food leak out. (If you google this or Alexis St. Martin, you will see some pretty graphic images of the wound)

This worked out great for US Army surgeon William Beaumont, who used St. Martin to conduct experiments in digestion. He could literally watch the process of digestion by dangling food on string and pulling it out. Between 1822 and 1833, Beaumont did around 200 experiments on St. Martin.

St. Martin agreed to this because, in a very ethical move, Beaumont had the illiterate voyageur sign an contract to become the doctor's servant. When he wasn't having food-on-string pulled out through the fistula, he did normal servant chores, like chopping wood.

Below is a photo of the front of the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island off the coast of Mackinaw City, Michigan between the lower and upper peninsulas. The porch you see here is the longest porch in the world. It is also the movie location for Somewhere in Time (1980) with Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour.