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 2: Young Jack Dreams
We whip back to 1976 and meet a young Jack McGuinn on Mackinac Island. He's got his eyes on his future, even as a kid. Someday he will haul luggage like the dockporters he admires weaving through the busy streets of Mackinac. But for now, he's content to scam fudge and hustle signed Gordie Howe hockey pucks for his Gramps.