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Postcard from… Mackinac Island, Michigan
Christine Chitnis returns with her kids to Mackinac Island, the cinematically nostalgic Michigan summer escape she grew up visiting. She found the four-square-mile pretty unchanged, with no cars but lots of bikes and horse-drawn carriages, grand Victorian cottages and State Park hiking trails.
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Postcard from… Southeastern Sicily
Jewelry designer Lizzie Fortunato headed to the golden Baroque towns of Noto and Modica with her twin sister and their six-year-olds. Instead of summer overcrowding, they found low-key beach clubs that still felt undiscovered by Americans.
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Conrad Athens The Ilisian, Athens
Eugenia González checked into this glamorous revival of a 1960s modernist landmark and found an elegant solution to the perennial problem of the Greek-island stopover.
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Transitional Shorts
Summer may be unofficially over, but fall is still a ways off—that in-between stretch of cooler mornings and warm afternoons, when you’re not ready to retire that tan but not prepared to bust out trousers yet either. These longer shorts are the perfect transitional piece for this weather limbo.
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Double-Duty Nightdresses
Picture this: it’s August in some sunbaked Mediterranean seaside town or medieval village and the air is almost too hot for clothing. This is where the nightdress comes in…
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Yolo Journal Summer Issue 22
Summer 2026
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