page_title: Pinckney, Michigan
section_title: Cultural life and recreation
hierarchical_section_title: Pinckney, Michigan / Cultural life and recreation
caption_attribution_description: English: Rolling Thunder, a non-profit organization that works to address POW-MIA issues, performs in the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Pinckney, MI.
context_page_description: Pinckney is a village in Putnam Township, Livingston County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,427 at the 2010 census.
  Among the first American pioneers in the area around Pinckney were William Kirkland and his family, who moved from New York in the late 1820s. Kirkland named the community after his brother, Charles Pinckney Kirkland. Platted in 1837, Pinckney was incorporated as a village in 1883.
context_section_description: Pinckney hosts annual parades on Saint Patrick's Day and Memorial Day. Pinckney Community Schools student musicians join with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra for an annual Side-by-Side concert at the high school. Nearby the village (to the west) is the Pinckney State Recreation Area, and also the popular tourist destination of Hell, Michigan.  Lakelands Trail State Park passes through Pinckney.
caption: St. Patrick's Day Parade in Pinckney, Michigan
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