For our first episode, we wanted to focus on some history from our home state of Michigan. Having both worked for Mackinac State Historic Parks, we had, of course, heard of James Jesse Strang and the rivalry between Beaver Island and Mackinac Island. Since we were already familiar with Strang from a gentile perspective, we consulted a lot of sources produced by Strang and his followers to more fully understand how they viewed themselves and their situation. In researching Mi