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 3: Jack of All Docks
Summer of 1989. Jack is 21 and has become what he always wanted to be: a dockporter. We meet his motley gang of luggage hounds as they hustle for tips, discuss the day's important issues (mainly bungee cords) and deliver the luggage to the island's hotels. But a dark cloud arrives in the form of Jack's old friend Gordon, now a smooth-talking developer. His big idea? Replace dockporters with golf carts.