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Michigan train stations heralded in new coffee table book
Depots are like giant scrapbooks filled with memories just waiting to be opened. Whenever I drive by the Bay City Depot I smile as I remember my first train trip. The train hauling my high school class...
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Google pays tribute to Michigan illustrator Winsor McCay
Today’s Google Doodle paid homeage to Michigan’s own Winsor McCay, one of the most influential illustrators of the 20th Century. On the search giant’s customized homepage, Google borrowed from McCay’s...
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Distinguished playwright and spouse of Marilyn Monroe was born today
The acclaimed playwright and U-M grad Arthur Miller was born this day in 1915. While attending the U-M he paid his way through school feeding lab mice. His first play, written for a contest, ended up...
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The magic of a train ride expressed in “The Polar Express”
Old 1225, a discarded steam train, was headed for the scrap heap before it was rescued from the campus of MSU, restored and became a star in the movie “The Polar Express” which had its debut in Grand...
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Michigan authors provide opportunities for interaction
Elmore Leonard If you look for similarities between authors Peter Leonard, Elmore Leonard and Benjamin Busch you would have to say it’s that they came from backgrounds that would not have been...
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Books recognize the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Photo of the hull “The lake it is said never gives up its dead…” These words are from the famous song by Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot, written about the freighter the Edmund Fitzgerald which...
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MSU’s One Community Read author wins National Book Award
Hopefully, every MSU freshman was sent an e-mail last week about Katherine Boo, MSUs “One Book-One Community” book author, who won the 2012 National Book Award for Non-Fiction for her book “Behind the...
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Mittenlit selects top 10 books
Two coming of age books one short and tart (“American Poet”); one long and luxurious (“Canada”) top the list of my favorite Michigan books this year. “American Poet” by Jeff Vande Zande of Bay City is...
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Google pays homage to Anatomy of a Murder
Google Doodle today paid homage to Michigan author Robert Traver by showcasing the graphic, advertising the movie “Anatomy of a Murder” on their homepage. By any measure the career of John D. Voelker...
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Michigan Antiquarian Book Show attracts collectors
Ray Walsh Curious Book Shop Booksellers from across the Midwest are packing boxes this week with books of all stripes for the 59th Michigan Antiquarian Book & Paper Show which will be held Sunday...
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