“We are pleased to continue the tradition of Decoration Day at Fort Mackinac as the soldiers would have done historically,” said Steve Brisson, Mackinac State Historic Parks Director. “We encourage all to attend this simple and solemn commemoration with us.”
Costumed interpreters will lead attendees from Fort Mackinac to the Post Cemetery and perform a short ceremony and salute, following in the footsteps of what the soldiers stationed at Fort Mackinac in the 1880s would have done. Brisson will speak at the ceremony while interpreters lay a wreath on Captain Edwin Sellers’ grave. Soldiers will then play taps, fire a rifle salute, and sing songs. Afterwards, the procession will march back to Fort Mackinac.
