Vol. 2

A Sleeping Bear Collection

Oral History, Photographs, and Maps from the Sleeping Bear Region: Volume 2

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Live nearby?

If you live near here, you can pick up a copy at my produce stand by my driveway. Or you can email me and tell me who you are and what you want. I can probably drop one off next time I pass your way.

Let the people of the Sleeping Bear Region—past & present—tell you about themselves. Through oral histories, memoirs, and old photos, you can meet the early settlers and those who followed: the store-keeper’s free-spirited daughter; a hermit jack-of-all trades; a community grandmother; a midwife’s daughter; and others. What did they have to say? How did they go about their activities? How did they get along with one another? What did they look like? How did they talk? What did they think? Those are the kinds of things that are addressed here.

This is Volume 2 in the Oral History, Photographs, and Maps from the Sleeping Bear Region 2-part set, published in partnership with Sleeping Bear Forever. It covers the surrounding territory. An Internet link to audio excerpts from some of the interviews is included, so you can hear the participants tell their stories in their own voices.