Trish Martin (right) prepares for her on-camera interview for Home and Garden Television (HGTV). Producer Tammy Sortor (left) of High Noon Entertainment interviewed Ms. Martin on techniques she uses to create her hand painted ornaments. Reed Riddell filmed the Christmas on Mackinac Island segment, scheduled to air next year. Mackinac Island Christmas Bazaar visitors were focused on the raffles, auctions, food, and gift sales as a producer and cameraman moved about Community Hall filming and interviewing crafters for a network show to air next year on Home and Garden Television (HGTV), as part of a series tentatively entitled, "Christmas Across America."

HGTV producer Tammy Sortor and cameraman Reid Riddell, both from Michigan, work for the production company High Noon Entertainment of Colorado.

"We are documenting how Mackinac Island celebrates Christmas," said Ms. Sortor. "The unique traditions of Mackinac and the uniqueness of the community as an Island family."

They captured the lighting of the Christmas tree and the arrival of Santa, and were especially happy at having snow on the ground.

They visited Weber's Floral, owned by Melanie and Jay Porcaro, interviewed crafters Trish Martin and Caroline LaPine and her daughter, Gwen Bagbey, checked out the 4-H Christmas tree sale, and talked with Mayor Margaret Doud about the Island's traditions.

Ms. Martin's painted animals, Island landmarks, and cottages on tree ornaments sparked the interest of the production company, which Ms. Sortor said would interest viewers.

Many people, she said, decorate trees with ornaments that remind them of special times and places they have visited.

"It brings back memories," Ms. Martin said of the scenes on the ornaments. "I have friends who collect one each year."

She began the hobby as a child by painting on rocks found along the shore.

Of particular interest with the handmade crafts of Caroline LaPine and Gwen Bagbey, said Ms. Sortor, was a dinosaur designed to hold children's crayons and scissors. The pattern for the dinosaur was found in a craft magazine, said Mrs. Bagbey, who said she had never been interviewed before and was a little nervous when the camera was rolling.

Although closed for the season, Weber's Floral is decorated with lilac colors, and the Island's relationship with lilacs will be of interest to viewers, said Ms. Sortor.

The footage shot on the Island will be shipped to the company's Colorado office, where staff will write and edit the show before it is delivered to HGTV and shown sometime next Christmas season.

"Everyone on the Island has been wonderful to us," said Ms. Sortor. "We've never been here in the off-season before. We absolutely love it. It's beautiful, and we're having a great time."