The women of the Mackinaw Woman's Club have been busy for over 90 years with projects which, in the early years, included the purchase of 3 pianos for the public school, collecting over 2000 books for the library and starting a hot lunch and milk program for the elementary school. 

For 25 years the Club sponsored a free Well-Baby Clinic which operated out of the clubroom.  They also sponsored scout troops, sent gifts and letters to the men in the military, sponsored Red Cross swimming lessons, established a Teen Town Hall, donated books to prison camps, annually gave gifts to the Newberry State Hospital, and began community auctions which evolved into the current annual Antique Show.

In 1968 the Club becane affiliated with the Northland Library Association.  In 1984 a new library was built on West Central Avenue and is now known as the Mackinaw Area Public Library. 

The Club's other activities continued with sponsoring Heritage Day during the Bicentennial; cosponsored the writing and publication of "Memories of Mackinaw"; financing the landscaping of a block on North Huron Boulevard in memory of Frances M. Fox (Mackinaw City authoress) and deceased members.

Funds were also provided for a drinking fountain at Old School Park and one on Straits Avenue near Fort Michilimackinac; and members began their annual gift-giving program to the Diane Peppler Domestic Violence Center.  The Club continues to support many of these projects and also sponsors a college scholarship and Red Cross Blood Drives.

Through the more than 90 years there were many more projects, too numerous to list -  but through them all we have followed our motto

                      "for the betterment of Mackinaw".