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Bigwater classics ; v. 2Summary: Journey back to the 1800s and celebrate Christmas on Mackinac Island with a young French woman. Relive Christmas in Detroit when streetcars took you Christmas shopping. Travel to the Upper Peninsula during the Depression when money and food were scarce - but not the Christmas spirit. Re-enter the kitchens of your mother and grandmothers. Read and remember their baking powder biscuits, ginger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eberly Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.568 CHRCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977 EBECrane, Carol
Summary: Describes the annual voyage of the Rouse Simmons ship bearing Christmas trees to Chicago, highlighting its final tragic voyage in 1912, when the captain, crew, and cargo were all lost, and the ship's wreckage not recovered until 1971.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2011
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E CRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE Holiday CraneNeuschel, Fred.
Summary: The true, tragic story of the schooner, Rouse Simmons, provides a window into the robust but oft-forgotten communities that thrived along Lake Michigan from the Civil War until WWI. Tales are included of the burgeoning immigrant groups and rapid industrialization of the Midwest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 386 NEUThoms, Susan Collins.
Summary: On each of the twelve days during her Christmas visit with her cousin Will, Katie writes home describing the history, geography, animals, and interesting sites of Michigan that she has explored. Uses the cumulative pattern of the traditional carol to present amusing state trivia at the end of each letter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: E THOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Holiday ThomsCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE THOGearhart, Cliff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: C.R. Gearhart 1991
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 635.9775 GEAPennington, Rochelle
Summary: Every year Captain Herman Schuenemann and his 'Christmas Tree Ship' would bring a load of fresh Christmas trees from Michigan to Chicago. But in 1912, the fully loaded ship was unable to withstand a winter storm and sank in Lake Michigan near Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guest Cottage/Amherst Press 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Holiday PenningtonPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: Frankie and his eight brothers and sisters learn lessons about giving, family, and tradition during a snowy Michigan Christmas long ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2004