Download or read book Bob Lo written by Annessa Carlisle and published by Royal Oak, Mich. : Momentum Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been a picnic ground, an amusement park and home to million-dollar mansions, but few know the complex story behind the Canadian island adopted by Detroiters as their own. Bob-Lo: An Island in Troubled Waters brings to life with vivid detail not only the numerous changes that have swept over the island with the tides of time, but specifically the impact it has had on its longest-residing private citizen, Dorothy Tresness. Her story is as turbulent as the history of the island itself. The beloved Bob-Lo Boats are gone, the rides are dismantled but the story of Bob-Lo is far from over as Dorothy, in her 80s, steadfastly holds claim to her private slice of island paradise.
Download or read book Bob Lo Revisited written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Agency and Memory in Historical Understanding written by Gordon P. Andrews and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first in a series entitled Historical and Pedagogical Issues: Insights from the Great Lakes History Conference, addresses historical and pedagogical issues. It explores the agency of historical actors tied to larger movements, demonstrating the efficacy and power of individuals to act with historical impact. It also describes the nuanced role of memory, often neglected in larger national or global social movements. This volume explores these powerful themes through a broad range of topics, including the research and pedagogy of revolution, reform, and rebellion as they are applied to race, ethnicity, political movements, labour, reconciliation, memory, and moral responsibility. The book will interest researchers that have an interest in both, or either, history and pedagogy.
Download or read book Mackinac Adventures and Island Memories written by Thomas W. Pfeiffelmann and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summer Dreams written by Patrick Livingston and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive history of Bob-lo Island, a Canadian amusement park in the mouth of the Detroit River and a favorite recreation spot for generations of Detroit-area residents.
Download or read book Hey Long Island Do U Remember written by Stacy Mandel Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hey Long Island . . . Do U Remember? began in 2008 when two lifelong friends from Oceanside, New York started a Facebook group to share pictures and history of Long Island's iconic places, themes and landmarks. Hey Long Island . . . Do U Remember? is now one of the largest New York history groups on Facebook with more than 142,000 members sharing pictures and information about Long Island's colourful past. Hey Long Island . . . Do U Remember? offers us a window into the past, showing life as it was then, and stirring in us the emotions of wonder and curiosity about those who have gone before us and the lives they lived. With more than 130 photographs, many of them seen here for the first time, Hey Long Island... Do U Remember? offers a stunning portrait of this one-of-a-kind place.
Download or read book Detroit Time Capsule written by Gregory A. Fournier and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detroit Time Capsule is a collection of seventy-five articles that first appeared as Fornology.com blog posts. The original posts have been revised and re-edited for inclusion in this anthology. Topics vary from significant historical events to biographical profiles of people who left their mark on Detroit history. Although this collection can be read from beginning to end, most chapters are self-contained with no narrative thread binding them. This eclectic collection makes a great springboard for readers interested in learning more about Detroit's rich past.
Download or read book Ecorse written by Kathy Covert Warnes and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French explorers called the Ecorse River the river of bark, or Ecorces, because the Huron Indians who lived in the villages surrounding it wrapped their dead in the bark of the birch trees that grew along its banks. White pioneers settled on French ribbon farms along the Detroit River, and a small village called Grandport sprang up where the Ecorse River met the Detroit River. By 1836, Grandport, now known as Ecorse, had grown into a fishing and farming center, and, by the 1900s Ecorse had gained fame as a haven for bootleggers during Prohibition, an important shipbuilding center, and the home of several championship rowing teams.
Download or read book Memories written by Marty Civin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My writing of " Memories" has been a labor of love for several seasons. The first section covers the years from 1932 to 1951. The second edition details 1951 to 1964, and the third covers 1964 to the present. The day after Labor Day in 2002 marked the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Civin family in Spencer. It was in the heart of the Great Depression when my parents established a tiny dry goods store at 47 Mechanic Street in Spencer, MA. Marty Civin http: //memoriesbymartycivin.blogspot.com/
Download or read book Our Downriver River written by Rockne P. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breath Eyes Memory written by Edwidge Danticat and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th anniversary edition of Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, now an established classic--revised and with a new introduction by the author, and including extensive bonus materials At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary debut, Danticat evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti—and the enduring strength of Haiti’s women—with vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people’s suffering and courage.
Download or read book Starting from Staten Island Memories of Peace and War in the 1930s and 1940s written by George T. Wright and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My earlier book, The Wrights of Vermont (Wheatmark, 2013), reported the search I began about ten years ago for my father's Vermont forebears. I had learned a lot, especially about my grandmother's heroic efforts to save her shaky marriage. Eventually she left Vermont to begin a new life on Staten Island for herself and her two sons, Dad and Uncle Ray. This book shows Dad and Mother starting their family on Staten Island and describes our home, our neighborhood, the boarding house where we sometimes dined, the schools we attended, the songs we sang, how we learned to think about money, work, fun, guilt, and politics, and our experience, especially mine, of illness, solitude, and books. Later chapters show our horizons expanding. They tell where we went on outings and how we spent our summers (ours at a riverside cottage near the New Jersey coast, and mine at an unusual summer camp in upstate New York), and they sketch the different world we found when we moved to Manhattan in 1941. I entered Columbia then and began to discover new realms of literature, philosophy, and music. Then at eighteen, with other young men of that time, I was swept up into military service in the U.S. Army and war in France and Germany.
Download or read book Picnics and Porcupines written by Candice Goucher and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey to the edges of the Great Lakes in this engaging history of picnicking, wilderness, and foodways. This stunning venture into the American picnic explores how innovation, exploitation, and the changing wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula have shaped the experience of eating outdoors. From a photo of her grandmother picnicking in 1911, to the outdoor lunches of miners and loggers, to the picnics of vacationing celebrities like Henry Ford and Ernest Hemingway, author Candice Goucher opens an aperture into historic memories of picnics past to consider what the picnic sparks in our senses and to bring the borderlands of humans and nature into view. Through pictures, postcards, paintings, and recipes, Goucher traces the creation of a modern notion of wilderness as it emerged in the North American imagination and popular culture to navigate an entangled environmental and culinary history of the Upper Peninsula. Drawing on themes from Indigenous knowledge and the African American experience to labor activism and women's history, this tantalizing chronicle offers a taste of Americana, seasoned by the changing global forces of industrialization, transportation, immigration, tourism, war, and climate.
Download or read book The Fabian Sweater and Others Stories of a Faulty Memory written by Ed Sabatino and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic look at small town life in the 50's.
Download or read book The Hollyhock Dolls A Memoir Growing Up in Michigan written by Diane G. Wrobleski and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Take a step back and look into the experiences of a little girl growing up in Detroit with her two older sisters. - When the Shrine Circus was in town, her dad brought home clowns in costume, a bear trainer and a trapeze artist. - The adventures of the author and her sisters at boarding school. - The tragedy of losing her daughter Julie in a head-on collision, leaving a young husband and two little boys. - You'll laugh at the incident of the elephant on the roof, the wasp and the negligee, and the police almost arresting Santa Clause. - The happenings at their son Steve's wedding was so unusual and funny it could be an SNL skit. - The antics of a grandmother who seemed to have no filter when it came to her off-hand remarks. - You'll learn why this family loves Michigan and especially their beloved hometown, Detroit.
Download or read book Many Mansions written by Alexis Soleil and published by Alexis Writer Press. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successful real estate tycoon reunites with his long-lost brother who's homeless and lives under the New York subway system. Moses and his fraternal twin brother, Isaac, dreamt of entering real estate as kids. They loved watching beautiful homes on TV, social media, in magazines, and real-time. During their childhood, Moses and Isaac were close because Isaac was albino, and he always came to his brother's defense from the evil in the world. The twins became teenagers, and their brotherly bond broke due to Moses getting popularity, good grades, parental favoritism, and the girls. After graduation, Isaac ran away from home and never returned. At the same time, Moses moved on with life. He got his college education, and real estate license and built his business. He enjoyed the good life while his brother, Isaac lived in the murky, filthy sewage of the subway tunnels. One day, Moses and his soon-to-be wife, Shawnette were shopping at the supermarket when a destitute gentleman a few customers ahead of them couldn't afford to pay for his food. Moses offered to pay for the items, recognizing his brother Isaac. The brother's reunion wasn't easy because there was still lots of jealousy, envy, and betrayal. But, Moses and Isaac did realize that the stepfather was the root of their broken relationship. After getting rid of this monster from their lives, they focused on their passion. The twins sold luxurious homes and also created homes for the homeless population.
Download or read book Detroit Masonic News written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
