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Up North. PEOPLE | NATURE | ARTS | NOSTALGIA | BUZZ | WISDOM | CURIOSITIES
A SWEET FAMILY LEGACY by LYNDA TWARDOWSKI WHEATLEY
The delicious story of Marshall’s Fudge & Chocolate Company.
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photos courtesy of the Marshall Family
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ow’s an average mackinac island guy make his mark when he’s got a grandfather who served as the first light keeper of the Round Island Lighthouse and a great-grandfather who was not only Old Fort Mackinac’s longest-serving soldier but also its commander during the Civil War? If you’re Jim Marshall in 1952, you go after a sweeter kind of success—serving up handcrafted fudge. The founder of what was originally Marshall’s Driftwood Fudge, located then on Mackinac’s Main Street and eventually expanded to six locations throughout the Straits area, passed in 2020, but the Marshall fudge legacy lives on through his granddaughter Lori Frohoff, who learned the family craft from her parents, Jeannie and Dean Marshall, who learned from Dean’s mom and dad, Oradelle and Jim. >
top photo: Jim Marshall and wife Oradelle with granddaughter Lori bottom photo: Lori and Pat Frohoff, third-generation owners with daughter Maille, second-generation owners Jeannie and Dean, 2007 AUGUST 2023
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