Swan, Jill.

Summary: Explore the history of Traverse City football through photos, articles, and the words of those who have been a part, and are a part, of one of Traverse City's greatest athletic traditions. Traverse City Football Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow features: History of Thirlby Field, Team photos, action shots, and other memorabilia. Includes coach biographies, including Jim Ooley, and interviews with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Swan Publishing 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 796.332 SWA
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 796.332 SWA

Johnson, Heidi.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2001

Copies Available at Interlochen

2 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI 362.2 Johnson
Call number: MI Local Johnson

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 362.21 JOH

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MIC 362.21 JOH

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 362.21 JOH

LeClaire, Virginia

Summary: Compiled collection of materials on Anthony "Bundy" Brief, widely considered the most famous professional sports player to come from Traverse City, Michigan. He played professional baseball from 1912-1928, with the Milwaukee Brewers and the St. Louis Browns.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 0000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 921 BRI

Woodward, Bill.

Summary: History of lumbermen and lumbering operations during the 1800s, and on Civilian Conservation Corps activities from 1933 to 1942, in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Woodward & Woodward Publishing 0000

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI History Woodward

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4 WOO

Anthony, David

Summary: The heroes' baseball team, the Traverse City Salmon, are playing the Garden City Sprouts in the little league championship game. The Sprouts throw a curve ball and turn into pinch-hitting plant monsters.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sigil Pub. 2009

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ANT

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ANT

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANT

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANT

CenturyLink

Summary: Includes -- Bear Lake -- Benzonia -- Beulah -- Burdickville -- Cedar -- Elk Rapids -- Empire -- Fife Lake -- Glen Arbor -- Glen Lake -- Hannah -- Honor -- Interlochen -- Karlin -- Kingsley -- Lake Ann -- Lake Leelanau -- Lime Lake -- Little Traverse Lake -- Maple City -- Mayfield -- Northport -- Summit City -- Suttons Bay -- Traverse City -- Williamsburg.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: CenturyLink 0000

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1 available in Reference, Call number: R PHONE 2017 CenturyLink

Johnson, Heidi.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 362.21 JOH

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1 available in Local Author, Call number: OVS 362.21 JOH

Steele, Earle E

Summary: From horse-drawn wagon rides to school through five decades of tending majestic trees at the gothic Traverse City State Hospital, Earle Steele colorfully and compassionately shares tales of life and how it was lived at The Asylum, a city-within-a-city that once housed 3000 mentally ill patients.Steele's first affiliation with the hospital was at age nine when his father began employment at the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Denali 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 362.21 Ste

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 STE

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 362.2 STE

Summary: Depicts the history of the festival designed to promote area tourism from the May 1925, first Blessing of the Blossoms, to the first summer harvest festival 1n 1928, into the Depression years when it manipulated the media and thrust itself into the nation's limelight, and beyond. It is the story of Traverse City community volunteering and sacrificing to make the city hospitable and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Forgotten Films & Video, (P.O. Box 229, Traverse City, MI 49685) 1995

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHE

Alterman, Sharon.

Summary: Congregation Beth El's centennial year reflects upon the history of Jewish life in the Grand Traverse Region: a history that was woven by the fabric of families that settled here. -Sharon Alterman

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Congregation Beth El 1985

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R GEN 929.377464 Alterman
Call number: R NEL 977.464 Alterman

Wakefield, Lawrence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: s.n.] 1978

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 728.0977 WAK

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 WAK

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 728.0977 WAK
1 available in Reference, Call number: R 728.0977 WAK

Summary: This silent film showcases the people and places of Traverse City, Michigan in 1940, featuring local churches, schools, businesses, families and social gatherings. In the film, The Traverse City Exchange Club invites famous Hollywood director "Gary Owens" to preside over a Movie Queen contest in which the winner will receive a Hollywood contract. The film was originally produced as a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: History Center of Traverse City 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 917.7464 WER

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WE'RE
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4 We're

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local We're

Decker, William A.

Summary: Interviews by William A. Decker, M.D. ; Reverend James Brammer, TCSH Chaplain ; Shirley Rogers, TCSH Nursing Department ; Ms. Mini Minervini, Administrator of Village Commons.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 362.21 NOR

Maurer, Vickie.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vickie Maurer 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FROSTIC, GWEN MAU
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 811.54 FROSTIC, GWEN MAU

Decker, William A.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 362.21 NOR

Summary: The High School Review contains issues of Traverse City High School newspapers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse City High Schoool 0000

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2 available in Nelson Room Oversize, Call number: OVS R NEL HIGH 1886-1889
Call number: OVS R NEL HIGH 1889-1894

Decker, William A.

Contents: Construction of the asylum (Building 50) -- The colony system (cottages) -- Mental health statutes -- Governance -- Administrative support services -- Additions and improvements to the asylum -- Farming operations -- Non-patient buildings -- Employee living quarters -- Closing of the hospital : divesiture, demolition, preservation, and restoration -- Causes of mental illness(es) -- Treatment...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arbutus Press 2010

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 362.21 DEC

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 DEC

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local Decker

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 362.21 DEC
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 362.21 DEC

LeClaire, Virginia M

Summary: This volume tells the story of the Traverse City State Hospital Training School for Nurses. The doors opened in 1906 and were closed in 1947. Over four hundred students graduated from this institution. You will meet them and the families from which they came. You will also witness the effects of the political and health concerns of the days on their lives, and learn about the various paths they...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 0000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.21 LEC
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 362.2 LeClaire
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 362.21 LEC

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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 362.21 LeClaire 2012

Tompkins, Molly.

Summary: This book was written by two high school seniors as a community service project, in order to record the 60 year history of the ski area Hickory Hills in Traverse City, Michigan, and preserve the community-owned area for future generations. The book is based on more than seventy interviews and extensive research, and enhanced by numerous photographs shot by local photographer Jack Bensley.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Preserve History 2011

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 TOM

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.464 TOM
2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.464 TOM

Traverse City East Junior High School (Traverse City, Mi.)

Summary: Yearbooks from Traverse City East Junior high ; highlighting school activities, student life, sports, drama, staff and student portraits.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS), [distributor] 0000

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10 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL TC EAST JR 1993
Call number: R NEL TC EAST JR 1994
Call number: R NEL TC EAST JR 1995
Call number: R NEL TC EAST JR 1996
Call number: R NEL TC EAST JR 1997
Call number: R NEL TC EAST JR 1998
Call number: R NEL TC EAST JR 2000
Call number: R NEL TC EAST JR 2001
Call number: R NEL TC EAST JR 2002
Call number: R NEL TC EAST JR 2007

Schrader, Robert Ellis

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: R.E. Schrader 1985

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 977.464 Schrader

Wright, C. S.

Summary: Cradled in the East and West Arms of the Grand Traverse Bay, Traverse City is nationally known as the Cherry Capital of the World, and locally known as a four-season playground with a rich agricultural heritage and a thriving, urban vitality. Since settlers first populated the area in the late 19th century, the Traverse City community has cherished and cultivated its natural resources, from the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2003

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local Wright

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 WRI

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 WRI
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 WRI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.46 WRI

Shumaker, Heather

Summary: A history of Grand Traverse County, Michigan libraries, beginning with an early Traverse Township Library and a Ladies' Library Association established in 1869. Emphasis is on community support of its libraries through 140 years and how libraries continued engaging the public and remaining an integral part of the community. More recently local libraries needed to reinvent themselves to provide...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: CRSTAL Publishing 0000

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 SHU
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 977.464 SHU

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 SHU

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 SHU

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.464 SHU

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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local Shumaker

Morgenstein, Henry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Between The Bays 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.464 MOR
1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.464 MOR