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Product Category: Local History

Beyond My Dreams, An Immigrant’s Story

UPPAA Webmaster October 12, 2022 October 12, 2022

Author: Julie Dickerson Vitalis VanRaemdonck grew up in Belgium poor, hungry and with no hope of being anything else. But his life changed when rumors spread of a way to get to America. Summoning the courage to overcome great obstacles, Vitalis sailed into New York harbor in 1907 with the…

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150th Jubilee St. Joseph Church: Lake Linden MI 1871-2021

UPPAA Webmaster June 26, 2022 June 26, 2022
150th Jubilee St. Joseph Church: Lake Linden MI 1871-2021

  Author: Deborah K. Frontiera Description: Since 1871, Roman Catholics of Lake Linden, Hubbell, Tamarack, and the surrounding rural areas have worshiped at St. Joseph Church. While the founding group of families were mostly French-Canadian, the parish became very diversified as the years passed. Through two different buildings, numerous repairs,…

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World War II Conscientious Objectors: Germfask, Michigan the Alcatraz Camp

Victor November 21, 2020 November 21, 2020

A small group of World War II political dissidents reveal how they survived what they called America’s Siberia Concentration Camp. Before the Vietnam War Americans considered conscientious objectors equal to criminals. This book sheds much needed light on the little known conscientious objector camp at Germfask, Michigan, how the local…

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My Marquette: Explore the Queen City of the North

Victor November 9, 2020 November 9, 2020

  Author: Tyler R. Tichelaar My Marquette is the result of its author’s lifelong love affair with his hometown. Join Tyler R. Tichelaar, seventh generation Marquette resident and author of The Marquette Trilogy, as he takes you on a tour of the history, people, and places of Marquette.Stories of the…

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Picturing Fayette, a Nineteenth-Century Company Town

Victor June 7, 2019 June 7, 2019

  Authors: Fred and Donna Winters More than 50 full color photos of Fayette Historic Townsite offer readers a step back in time to a nineteenth century company town.  ISBN: 9780923048549 Publisher: Bigwater Publishing LLC (2013) Format: Paperback More details…  

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