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Author | : Frances Trix |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2020-04-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781950843169 |
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Growing up on Grosse Ile is the story of life on a border island between Michigan and Canada, downriver from Detroit. What was it like to be young in a place surrounded by water and Great Lakes freighters in mid-twentieth century America? We grew up outside, and the island shaped our youth: both its unique provincial qualities-we all missed the same word on the fourth grade spelling bee-and its ties to the mainland-with the many "bridge stories" like the early bridge built to allow horses from the island to pull beer wagons in Detroit. With our ups and downs, we learned the lesson of the fragility of island life, and finally the hardest lesson of all-that those who grow up on the island must leave it.
Author | : August Rokicak |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2010-12-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1456800310 |
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Author | : Ph D Rosie Kuhn |
Publisher | : Rosie Kuhn |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2011-05-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0983552207 |
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Kuhn reflects on her life as a noncustodial mother of infants, as someone who crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a 93-foot schooner, then acquired three master's degrees and a Ph.D., and wrote a book about self-empowerment.
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Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738550503 |
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Grosse Ile Township today is made up of a dozen islands in the Detroit River. The largest island was given the name Grosse Ile by early French explorers who found it being used by the Native American tribes as a fishing and hunting ground. In 1776, Detroit merchants William and Alexander Macomb purchased Grosse Ile from the Potawatomi Indians and, to help establish their ownership rights, built a home and a gristmill and secured tenant farmers to till the land. Later acreage was sold off and settlement began in earnest, although it remained largely an agricultural community. The railroad came to Grosse Ile in the 1880s and attracted both visitors and new residents. Hotels sprang up to accommodate summer visitors who were drawn to Grosse Ile by its healthful climate, natural beauty, and opportunities for outdoor recreation. Today Grosse Ile is home to more than 11,000 residents who have come here to enjoy many of those same unique qualities--all in close proximity to a large metropolitan area.
Author | : Emery C. Walters |
Publisher | : JMS Books LLC |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2015-08-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1611528070 |
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Who said you can't go home? When Peter promises his folks he’ll come back to Grosse Ile for his tenth high school reunion, he has second thoughts. Can he face his old bullies? He’s bigger and stronger now, true, but is his newfound confidence strong enough to overcome his old resentments? Then Peter’s sister's boyfriend Ned turns out to be not as straight as he first seemed to be. Now Peter has a better reason to go back home -- to show off the new man in his life. During a boat trip to Canadian waters, Peter rescues the pregnant wife of his high school nemesis at the same time his new love collapses with appendicitis. Can Peter surmount these crises and still make it to the reunion on time?
Author | : Julia J. Hyde Keith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Grosse Ile (Mich.) |
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Author | : Robert Vanderzee |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1663209987 |
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Paul Steiger learns of the death of his closest friend in a shocking phone call from his friend’s mother. “Happened four days ago,” Sarabella said. “Last Friday. They’re calling it suicide. They’re full of shit.” Sarabella Norbeck was a very delicate society matron, filthy rich, and never wrong—or so she had always said. “The funeral’s tomorrow at two. Tomorrow night after the funeral, there will be a dinner at my home for special guests. I want you to attend.” Paul discovers it is a dinner with six persons who have motive and opportunity to kill his closest friend. The death happened on an island in the Detroit River connected to the mainland by two old narrow bridges. To find the killer, Paul must peal back a scab hiding social rot, old forgotten murders, and an international crime syndicate dominating the island community.
Author | : Peter B Mersky |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2014-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 087021084X |
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Whitey is the first complete biography of one of the last surviving World War II U.S. Navy aces, and one of the Navy’s most respected officers of any period. Following a typical American, mid-western boyhood, Whitey Feightner was in the vanguard of the huge group of young men thrust into World War II. Upon receiving his commission and his gold wings, he was assigned to a fighter squadron in the Pacific and soon found himself flying with the likes of Jimmy Flatley and Butch O’Hare, two leaders who imparted their own brand of flying skill and leadership to the young ensign. He flew through many of the war’s most hectic and dangerous campaigns, such as Guadalcanal and the Marianas, gaining nine official kills. There were times he should not have returned from a mission, but his own skill and positive outlook helped him make it through all the dangers. After the war, Whitey became a member of the Regular Navy and was assigned to several of the Navy’s most secret and action-filled projects at Patuxent River, Maryland. He flew and helped develop legendary fighters like the F7U Cutlass, F9F Banshee, and Cougar and the attack aircraft AD Skyraider as they joined the fleet, and was one of only two men who flew the radical F7U Cutlass in Blue Angels colors. Returning to the fleet in command of a squadron, and later of an air group, he continued to develop fighter tactics. In between tours at sea, he served in the Pentagon dealing with all the personalities and political turmoil of the time while trying to bring naval aviation into the future. Working with such luminaries as Hyman Rickover and Elmo Zumwalt was not for the feint-hearted, and even Whitey did not come away unscathed. Yet, through it all, he retained the affable demeanor that characterized this rare and highly skilled naval aviator. His life story could serve as a model for any young aviator to follow.
Author | : Maureen Dunphy |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2016-05-16 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0814340415 |
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Anyone interested in island travel or learning more about the Great Lakes will delight in this comprehensive collection.
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1907 |
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