Betty BeebyBetty Beeby was commissioned to paint the fifty-foot mural at the Orientation Center at Fort Michilimackinac in Mackinaw City in 1974. In a long and distinguished career, she won numerous awards while illustrating fourteen children's books and severa other volumes. She also was the cover artist for thirty book jackets. She was born in 1923 and raised in Detroit, but she called the house on Torch Lake in Eastport home. She was a graduate of Cass Tech in Detroit and, aided by a Booth Scholarship, from Pratt Institute in New York. She worked as a staff artist for Time Life magazines before marrying Jim Beeby and moving back to Michigan in 1944. They raised their four children in Kalamazoo. She discovered the Peterborough archive in the family barn in the 1970s, and created the lithographs illustrating the book that followed. She lived to see it presented as a tone poem in 1988 and as a ballet in 2011. She died in 2015. Read More Read Less