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A 1963 LaSalle High School graduate and former foreign exchange student, Countess Marianne Hamilton (right) of Uppsala, Sweden, returned to St. Ignace to make her second walk across the Mackinac Bridge Monday, September 1. As an exchange student, she stayed with the Herman Ellis family. He was the chief photographer for the Mackinac Bridge Authority. While living with them, she said, she learned a lot about the bridge. When she leaves St. Ignace Tuesday, she will visit Marcy (nee Ellis) Fry in South Haven. Now a freelance writer, she is a former attorney and newspaper reporter and is visiting her friend, Barbara Brown (left) of St. Ignace. This is her sixth trip back to the area. "I love it up here," she said. "I would say probably this is the most beautiful place in the world. I always considered St. Ignace my second hometown."
A 1963 LaSalle High School graduate and former foreign exchange student, Countess Marianne Hamilton (right) of Uppsala, Sweden, returned to St. Ignace to make her second walk across the Mackinac Bridge Monday, September 1. As an exchange student, she stayed with the Herman Ellis family. He was the chief photographer for the Mackinac Bridge Authority. While living with them, she said, she learned a lot about the bridge. When she leaves St. Ignace Tuesday, she will visit Marcy (nee Ellis) Fry in South Haven. Now a freelance writer, she is a former attorney and newspaper reporter and is visiting her friend, Barbara Brown (left) of St. Ignace. This is her sixth trip back to the area. "I love it up here," she said. "I would say probably this is the most beautiful place in the world. I always considered St. Ignace my second hometown."
