When you think about summer, do you think about trips to a lake or a river?
If you do, you are part of a Michigan tradition that is thousands of years old.
This Time Traveler takes a look at Michigan's first peopleswho went to the lake or the river
long before there were cars or highways.
Click on a topic at the left to begin your travel in time.
"A Summer in Time" originally appeared in the Lansing State
Journal on May 9, 2001, as part of the Lansing Newspapers In Education
(NIE) program.