New edition of this guide to Detroit’s renowned open-air farmers market, featuring stories and recipes from four generations of families.

Manufacturer: Painted Turtle Book
Written By: Lois Johnson, Margaret Thomas

In 1823 William and Amanda Ferry opened a boarding school for Mtis children on Mackinac Island, Michigan Territory, setting in motion an intense spiritual battle to win the souls and change the lives of the children, their parents, and all others living at Mackinac. Battle for the Soul demonstrates how a group of enthusiastic missionaries, empowered by an uncompromising religious motivation, ...

Manufacturer: Michigan State University Press
Written By: Keith R. Widder

The breathtaking beauty of the Charlevoix-Petoskey region is richly presented with nostalgic views from the past.Hundreds of historic postcards and photographs from days gone by illustrate the grandeur of this picturesque Michigan region as it was, revealing the reason why earlier generations were so attracted to this northern Michigan location. Historical newspaper articles, copy ...

Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press/Petoskey
Written By: M. Christine Byron, Thomas R. Wilson

In 1830, William and Mary Butler entered the Saugatuck harbor and began the first permanent settlement of Allegan County. Within half a century of the Butlers' arrival, the mysteries and grandeur of the Saugatuck-area landscape were legendary and were incorporated into the prose and poetry of many writers, including Carl Sandburg, James Fennimore Cooper, and Edgar Lee Masters. By 1910, an unending ...

Manufacturer: Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society
Written By: James Schmiechen, William Kemperman

Manufacturer: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co
Written By: May Francis Heath

Steven C. Brisson, chief curator for Mackinac State Historic Parks, has hand selected over 250 of Gardiner's images for this book. Brisson has created an elegant, visually striking compilation of turn of the century images of Mackinac. Because the images in the collection are comprised of large format negatives (most are 5X7 or 8X10) they provide spectacularly detailed prints.Brisson introduces ...

Manufacturer: Michigan State University Press
Written By: Steven Brisson

Elmwood Endures provides a visual journey of the cemetery's history and landscape. The guidebook features nearly one hundred photographs, along with brief biographies of notable occupants who make up a virtual who's who in Detroit history. Many of those buried--governors, explorers, doctors, mayors, inventors, senators, civil rights leaders, distillers and brewmasters, and civil war ...

Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press
Written By: Michael S. Franck

Merging narration with exhibit-quality photographs—weaving history, nostalgia, and even a touch of romance around good graphic evidence of what the canal has become today—Jim Redd takes us on a highly personal journey down the Illinois and Michigan Canal as it follows the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers from Chicago to La Salle.In order to understand the whole of what ...

Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University Press
Written By: Jim Redd

Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press

The traditions of the Sicilians and Italians have been present in Detroit and Holy Family Church since the early 1900s. The church being the very root of their soul, they have maintained their ancestors’ culture and the rituals they brought with them over 100 years ago. Some of these customs date back hundreds of years in their homelands of Cinisi, Terrasini, Trapani, and many other cities.

Manufacturer: Arcadia Publishing
Written By: Bonnie Leone