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Girls of Summer
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The stories below are featured in the Mar/Apr 2008 issue of Michigan History.
Summers at the Wigwam
By Susan Truitt
A Chicago family who escaped the big city’s summer heat, made lasting
memories at their cottage on Portage Lake.
Interlude on Mackinac Island
By Sylvia May Burrell Brooks
In the late 1930s, one Ypsilanti family moved to Mackinac Island where
life was “very different.”
Sluggers in Skirts
By Gordon Beld
When professional male baseball players went off to war in the
early 1940s, women took their place. More than fifty Michigan women
joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, playing for
the Lassies, the Chicks and a myriad of midwestern teams. These women
not only played ball, but they looked good doing it.
Righting History
By Gerald P. Wykes
The Brownstown Historical Society faced a dilemma when they were
entrusted with restoring a War of 1812 memorial. The original etchings
on memorial’s marble plaques contained errors, inaccuracies and
political incorrectness. Should the monument be restored with these
flaws or should they be corrected?
Hoop Dreams at Lawrence Tech
By Vince Agul
Despite having a nationally recognized basketball team at a small
engineering school in Detroit, Coach Don Ridler needed to increase fan
attendance at his games. His strategy of combining winning basketball
with the sound of big-time entertainers worked wonderfully.
The Voice of the Lone Ranger Rides Again
By Sheryl James
The Lone Ranger, on radio and, later, on television, mesmerized children
for decades. Detroit native Fred Foy, whose distinctive voice introduced
this popular western, shares his memories on the seventieth-fifth
anniversary of the show’s creation.
Carving a Living at Michigan State University
By Val Berryman
During the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New
Deal programs created jobs for the unemployed and earmarked funds for
art projects. Two Detroit sculptors, Samuel Cashwan and Leonard
Jungwirth, created works of art under such programs that still stand
today at Michigan State University.
Breaking Barriers in Journalism
By Kimberly Wilmot Voss
A pioneer among female journalists, Roberta Applegate served as
press secretary for a Michigan governor, earned numerous awards as an
editor at the Miami Herald and finished her impressive career as a
university professor. This spring, Applegate will be inducted into the
Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.
Taverns of Early Detroit
By Joel Stone
Several years before the American Revolution, a veteran of the British
army opened Detroit first tavern. Others taverns followed, and soon
these public houses were among the city’s most important social centers.
Newberry
By Richard Shaul
The Upper Peninsula town of Newberry began when Detroit entrepreneurs
chose the wilderness of Luce County as a site for an iron-smelting
furnace. The town quickly filled with lumberjacks who earned a steady
paycheck and businesses that were eager to help them spend it.
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