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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 01/10/2026

Put this menuboard and some Vienna Beef signage on an establishment within a half mile of my home/office and I will put your kids through college

Photo of a hole in the wall eating establishment, with an old school, greasy Pepsi letterboard hanging on the wall behind the two dudes that run this given place

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 09/09/2026

Paying my respects to il santo del lato sud

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 09/09/2026

Gotta say, not a great start to $5 beer night!

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 02/09/2026

This is a solved problem.

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 27/08/2026

I'm never going to financially recover from this news cycle

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 25/08/2026

The Grind is peering around the corner, silently plotting its return.

Stern top deck of a large ferry with an American flag attached pulling away from beaver island

Sea trail of the ferry as it leaves st James harbor

Liminal shot of the top deck of the ferry

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 24/08/2026

Whiskey Point, the brewery

White wooden bench in front of a brick building, behind the window glass is a small chalkboard that reads WHISKEY POINT BREWERY COMPANY with some American flags next to it

Interior of the bar with some old wood planks holding things up and a naked woman masthead attached. Some nautical flags are draped from the ceiling

A chalkboard that reads Michigan's most remote brewery

More king strang memorabilia, this one a sign reading KING STRANG MORTALLY WOUNDED HERE JUNE 16, 1856

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 24/08/2026

Whiskey Point, the natural island feature

Old brick lighthouse from the 1840s that is still in use today

Naval flagpole with the American, Michigan and beaver island flags waving in the wind in front of the harbor

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 24/08/2026

It should also be noted that these guys were aligned with The Cause

Pretty much how I would draw a new great lakes secessionist country on a map

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 24/08/2026

Found in their reference library: Chicago mentioned.

An old green leatherbound book with gold lettering THE AMERICAN LAKES SERIES with an embossed map of the great lakes and LAKE MICHIGAN underneath that

A page with a print of an ornate 6 story baroque building with a large flagpole on the roof. Under that a caption: EARLY CHICAGO, The corner of jackson and Michigan boulevards in the 60s. (Presumably the 1860s)

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 24/08/2026

Some select items at the print museum

WPA era mural of three fishermen trying to dock a small boat on a wooden pier

A portrait of the man the myth the legend James Jesse strang

Old plat survey of the island from 1862 in a wood and rope frame

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 24/08/2026

Nvm found it beaverisland.click2stream.com

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 24/08/2026

Haven't seen this before either, best guess is that the moon was setting when this one fired and the cam picked up some weird artifacts

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 23/08/2026

Old-heads may recognize this guy too. I haven't found this camera yet, which may explain why the last post from it came two months ago bsky.app/profile/lake...

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 21/08/2026

The islands and bays are for sports(folks)

Cloudless view looking east along a deserted beach near iron ore bay on the southern shore of beaver island

Cloudless view looking south along a deserted beach with a fire pit in the foreground and the shoreline beyond, near iron ore bay on the southern shore of beaver island

Cloudless view looking west along a deserted beach near iron ore bay on the southern shore of beaver island, some trees line the beach and some large rocks are in the water

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 19/08/2026

Decent arrangements for the cook tonight

Firing up a Weber grill with some trees and lake Michigan as a backdrop

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 18/08/2026

This is the background to one of those is-god-real billboards that only have 6-digit phone numbers

Eastern shoreline of beaver island as the sun is rising on a partly cloudy day on the right side of the pic, on the left storms look to be brewing in the distance

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Eric Mazzone @the.mazz.zone · 17/08/2026

Lol version control, you give me way too much credit. Long story short is that there was a power event last night and no one is around to cycle the raspi bsky.app/profile/the....