More About Bay View

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_View,_Michigan

It turns out that I only had a vague idea of what Bay View is all about.  That's not surprising since I am a generalist by nature.  I know a little about a lot of things, but I don't know a lot about anything.  It appears that the lawsuit was settled last year when the membership voted to drop the requirement that only Christians may join the association.  The requirement that members be of "the Caucasian persuasion" was dropped back in the 1950s, so they were a little ahead of their time on that one.  The Wiki page shows pictures of some of the buildings in Bay View.  None of them looked shabby to me, but some are fancier than others.  Turns out that they are not all Victorian either.  Silly me, I thought that anything that looked elaborate and old fashioned was Victorian.

The Victorian era was the golden age of tourism in the Tip of the Mitt region.  That was when the railroads came in and opened the area up.  Before that, the only way to access God's Country was by boat because there were no decent roads and airplanes hadn't been invented yet.  The region was originally marketed as a haven for hay fever sufferers, I suppose because the lake breezes blew most of the pollen away.  There was a study done, I believe it was part of the International Geophysical  Year in 1959, and it was determined that the cleanest air in the country was on the front porch of the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island.  Of course they didn't take samples everywhere, but that was where they took the cleanest sample.  Last I heard, folks on the island were still bragging about that.

That Biker shootout in Waco, Texas happened about five years ago, and they have just now given up trying to prosecute anyone for it.  The article didn't say why, and what I said about the witnesses was just my theory.

There was a multiple murder case in neighboring Emmet County, I believe it was in the 50's or 60s, that went unprosecuted for years.  The State Police did all the investigating and turned the evidence over to the county prosecutor, believing that he would take it from there.  They were surprised when the prosecutor said there wasn't enough evidence as they thought they had a pretty good case.  Turned out that Emmet County was too cheap to pay for a trial.  Since the victims and the main suspect were not permanent residents, Emmet County figured that their home county should pay the cost.  Some years later, when a new prosecutor was elected, he vowed to prosecute, but the suspect committed suicide before he could be arrested.