The name "Petoskey" is said to mean "where the light shines through the clouds" in the language of the Odawa Indians (Little Traverse Bay Band), who are the original inhabitants. The Petoskey stone and the city were named after Chief Ignatius Petosega (1787-1885), who founded the community. Petosega's father was a French Canadian fur trader and his mother was an Odawa (Ottawa) Indian.
This Michigan organization was formed in 1979, to protect the waters in Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, and Emmet Counties.
Today in Michigan history:
1942 - Max Stephan of Detroit is found guilty of treason for assisting a Nazi prisoner.
A German prisoner-of-war escaped from Canada to Detroit in April 1942 and was introduced, by a former American pen pal, to Max Stephan, a leader in Detroit's German community. Stephan gave the Nazi POW a several-day tour of Detroit evening entertainment spots then sent him by bus to Chicago.
Convicted of aiding and abetting the enemy in wartime, Stephan was the first American sentenced to execution since George Washington's administration. President Franklin Roosevelt commuted Stephan's sentence to life in prison. Via Michigan History Magazine
