Petoskey

City Park Grill in Petoskey, Michigan

Ernest Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, but few know that he spent every summer of his childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood in Northern Michigan. The Hemingway family built and maintained a vacation home on Walloon Lake near Petoskey on the southern shore of Little Traverse Bay. Hemingway was a summer resident of northern Michigan from 1899 until his marria…