The Dockporter: a Mackinac Island Podcast
Read by The Dockporter co-author and enriched with summer sounds and music, this podcast is an offbeat, nostalgic coming-of-age story that appeals to anyone who ever had a summer job. If Rushmore director Wes Anderson remade Caddyshack, but it emerged as a hybrid of Footloose and Meatballs (and was a book), it would be The Dockporter. Set on Mackinac Island in northern Michigan, The Dockporter is genre-smashing, hilariously fresh, yet refreshingly familiar—a novel about friends, family, love, luggage, and the summers we never forget. Adapted from the novel of the same name, this is the first of many Mackinac Island stories to come.
The Dockporter: a Mackinac Island Podcast
Chapter 1: Great Lake State (Of Mind)
Chapter One finds our hero, Jack McGuinn, stuck in a rut in Los Angeles, a working fashion photographer and hating it. He receives a letter from an old friend about a wedding on Mackinac Island and dumps it all, and hits the road. On the ferry ride to the island, he's persuaded to spin a yarn that takes him back in time.