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| Author | : Gerald Dumas |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780814320396 |
An Afternoon in Waterloo Park evokes feelings, sights, and textures of experience of a bygone period. Prompted by the emotional strain of his mother's death in 1968, Gerald Dumas contemplates three generations of his family and lyrically records impressions of life on Dickerson Avenue in Detroit. This is a complex family story, recollected from the surface of childhood and pondered from the depths of mature experience. Dumas' poetic form allows for closely packed images not possible in prose. What Our Town did in its attempt to find a value for the smallest events of everyday life in early twentieth-century New England, An Afternoon in Waterloo Park achieves for midcentury mid-America-a real and honest evocation of going home.
| Author | : Henry Hobart |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780814323427 |
Hobart centered his narrative on Cliff Mine, one of the leading producers of copper in the world and the primary employer in the town of Clifton.
| Author | : R. Alan Douglas |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780814328675 |
Uppermost Canada examines the historical, cultural, and social history of the Canadian portion of the Detroit River community in the first half of the nineteenth century. The phrase "Uppermost Canada," denoting the western frontier of Upper Canada (modern Ontario), was applied to the Canadian shore of the Detroit River during the War of 1812 by a British officer, who attributed it to President James Madison. The Western District was one of the partly-judicial, partly-governmental municipal units combining contradictory arisocratic and democratic traditions into which the province was divided until 1850. With its substantial French-Canadian population and its veneer of British officialdom, in close proximity to a newly American outpost, the Western District was potentially the most unstable. Despite all however, Alan Douglas demonstrates that the Western District endured without apparent change longer than any of the others.
| Author | : Fred W. Dutton |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780814322611 |
Fred Dutton's story tells of the time before the gyro when ships were steered by magnetic compass and men had to estimate the degree of error in navigational calculations. Dutton recounts the terror of ships meeting and passing in the fog and the subtleties of handling ships at the docks. Serving under many captains on a dozen and a half vessels, he spices his account with profiles of ships' officers and crew and with details of deckhand work. Life on the Great Lakes provides a concentration of information that otherwise would need to be assembled in fragments from a hundred sources. Historians, folklore buffs, and ship lovers will discover details of vessel operation usually available only in the dialogue of a passing generation of very elderly sailors.
| Author | : Mark Pattison |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780814330401 |
A wide-ranging compilation of facts, statistics, stories, and entertaining speculation, this book will surprise even the most avid fan of the Detroit Tigers. Published in the wake of the Tigers' American League centennial, it pays tribute to the team of Ty Cobb, Al Kaline, and Hank Greenberg, to name but a few of Detroit's Baseball Hall of Famers. Here two longtime Tigers experts—journalist Mark Pattison and statistician David Raglin—have distilled a hundred-plus years of Detroit baseball history into more than four hundred lists. In this entertaining and fascinating collection, readers will find information not available elsewhere, such as the starting eight Mayo Smith used for all seven games of the 1968 World Series, or the 1987 "Showdown Series" where the Tigers and the Toronto Blue Jays battled for the AL East pennant. "Inside this book," writes Dale Petroskey, "is the stuff that young baseball fans grew up on, and the stuff that older baseball fans get to relive their youth with."
| Author | : Michael Delp |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : American poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780814327975 |
An anthology that offers a sampling of the best poetry written by Michigan writers.
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| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780814327128 |
Michigan in the Novel records 1,735 novels published from 1816 through 1996 that are set wholly or partially in the state of Michigan. Consulting literally thousands of novels and visiting scores of libraries, Robert Beasecker spent more than twenty years researching this exhaustive bibliography. Works included are mainstream fiction, mystery and romance novels, juveniles, religious tracts, dime novels, and other marginal or popular genre literature. Omitted are short stories, poetry, drama, screenplays and pageants, and serially published novels with no subsequent separate publication. Through its six indexes, Michigan in the Novel provides literary and cultural access to Michigan novels, classifying novels by to title, series, setting, chronology, subject and genre, and Michigan imprints. Intended to serve as a guide for students, teachers, scholars, and readers to explore Michigan's vast, varied, and rich literary landscape, Michigan in the Novel is the most expansive compilation of its kind.
| Author | : Napier Shelton |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 1999-06-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0814336485 |
Huron is pleasurable reading for any student of natural history or the Great Lakes region, or for anyone who has ever spent time at a summer cottage or wished to do so. Napier Shelton takes us on a journey as he spends a year at his family's cottage on the lake. Having visited Lake Huron for over thirty years, Shelton weaves family memories into his evocative and informed account of the seasons on this great lake. In 1995, Shelton spent a year at the cottage more fully exploring Lake Huron and its varied shores. He writes about Native American fishing rights, small towns, the fearsome ice, and the migration of birds. He follows the seasonal changes of life in the water. We accompany him on commercial fishing boats, a research vessel studying lake trout, and a Coast Guard icebreaker. We experience the travels and tragedies of venturers on Lake Huron over the past four centuries. Huron is pleasurable reading for any student of natural history or the Great Lakes region, or for anyone who has ever spent time at a summer cottage or wished to do so.
| Author | : Mark L. Thompson |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780814323595 |
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships, and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken place in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact that the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years.
| Author | : Richard Bak |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780814325827 |
Stearnes established virtually all of the team's individual and career records during his nine seasons with Detroit.
