Hathaway, Lorri
Summary: Savor the taste of wines inspired by the Great Lakes as enthusiasts Lorri Hathaway and Sharon Keggerreis introduce passionate winemakers like Joseph Sterling, who ignited Michigan's first viable wine region in the 1800s along Lake Erie. Discover how the Detroit River was used for bootlegging during prohibition, how the raid on red wine in the Upper Peninsula generated national headlines and how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Fox Enterprises 2003
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LeZotte, Ann Clare
Summary: "As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America!...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: A mirror of great changes that were occurring on the national labor rights scene, the 1913–14 Michigan Copper Strike was a time of unprecedented social upheaval in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With organized labor taking an aggressive stance against the excesses of unfettered capitalism, the stage was set for a major struggle between labor and management. The Michigan Copper Strike received...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.49 KAUWoodward, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Woodward & Woodward Publishing 0000
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4 WOOCleland, Charles E.
Summary: For many thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans, Michigan's native peoples, the Anishnabeg, thrived in the forests and along the shores of the Great Lakes. Theirs were cultures in delicate social balance and in economic harmony with the natural order. Rites of Conquest details the struggles of Michigan Indians - the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, and their neighbors - to maintain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Michigan Press 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.4 CLEAustin, Dan.
Summary: From the Publisher: In this important book, Dan Austin and Sean Doerr have restored the real people to many of Detroit's architectural landmarks, and not a moment too soon. These "lost" buildings still stand, or rather totter, in a dilapidated state, their histories fading like the paint on their walls. The buildings might not long survive, but thanks to this book and the efforts of Austin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: History Press 2010
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Summary: "An insightful account of lifesaving services by US lightkeepers and surfmen who battled high winds and waves, frigid temperatures and icy shores during their mission to protect lives on Lake Michigan."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4635 HAWNeumann, Glenn
Contents: Issues of: 1880, 1881 and 1882
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1997
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Contents: Issues of 1870
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1996
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.464 NEUFountain, Daniel.
Contents: Early gold and silver discoveries -- The 1860s silver lead rush -- The Ontonagon County silver rush -- The Ropes gold mine -- The Michigan gold mine -- Michigan Range prospects -- Ropes Range prospects -- The Dead River Gold Range -- Other Marquette County prospects -- Baraga, Iron and Dickinson County prospects -- Gogebic Range gold and silver mines -- Placer mining -- Fables and frauds --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 622.342 FOUTadevich, D. L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Publishing Plus 2001
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Contents: Issues of: 1886, 1887, 1888 and 1889.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1996
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Contents: Issues of: 1883, 1884 and 1885
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.464 NEULeBeau, Patrick Russell
Summary: Rethinking Michigan Indian History is a teaching tool that honors the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi and the twelve federally recognized tribes of Michigan by recognizing their role and place in Michigan history--exploring what most people know (or do not know) about them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2005
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Summary: "Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the "Gossard Girls," women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ispheming and Gwinn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. Particularly as the Upper Peninsula's mines were exhausted and its stands of timber depleted, the Gossard Girls' income sustained both their families and the local economy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2022
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Summary: "In 1922, Dorothy Kraker set up a simple white roadside stand on Crystal Lake and began selling farm-sized pies made with tart cherries picked from the family orchard. A century later, The Cherry Hut has become a nationally acclaimed full-service restaurant, famous for its cherry pies, jams, ice cream, homemade sandwiches, and much more. This 100th anniversary book includes historic photos,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4632 BREBufka, Norbert
Summary: Good Harbor Michigan is about a thriving community in central Leelanau County. A lumbering town sprang up in the mid 1880’s only to die as the result of a fire. The community continued and this is their story, based on primary source material, especially the Leelanau Enterprise which began publishing its weekly paper in 1880. citations are included for the serious historian and the people data...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform] 2018
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Forster, Matt
Summary: "The best road guide to the Great Lakes State, completely revised and updated. From the Chicago and Territorial roads, home of a historic and scenic railroad, to the Lower Peninsula's Chain of Lakes area, Backroads & Byways of Michigan is the shortest route a visitor can take to knowing the state like a local. This fourth edition offers updated itineraries to scenic and intriguing places, like...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 FORAnderson, Carlotta R.
Summary: "All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LABADIE, JO ANDLewis, Kenneth E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2002