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Michigan Voices
Our State's History in the Words of the People Who Lived It

Compiled and Edited by Joe Grimm		 Joe Grimm of the Detroit Free Press has combined a fascinating collection of old family letters, diaries, journals, photos, and other memorabilia in this rare glimpse at Michigan's past. Based on a series of articles that appeared in the "Chronicles" column of the Detroit Free Press Sunday magazine from 1985 to 1987, Michigan Voices introduces the reader to a more personal side of the state's history.
Excerpts from historical documents include Cadillac's proposal of 1700 to establish Detroit and Roger Andrews' crusade for an independent Upper Peninsula in 1916. Among the chronicles Grimm has uncovered are humorous letters from a World War I recruit, an engaging series of correspondences between a Flint schoolgirl and Detroit Mayor Frank Murphy during the Great Depression, and an interview with Kenneth C. Welch, the revolutionary architect and planner who developed the mall/shopping center concept in 1946.		 1.Into the Wilderness
2. Fight for Statehood
3. Growing Pains
4. Here to Stay
5. Water, Wood and Rock
6. Car Capital
7. Citizens of the World
8. Hard Times
9. Arsenal of Democracy
10. On the Move
11. Into the Future
 
Great Lakes Books Series

$25.95l paper / ISBN 0-8143-1968-8

208 pages / 7 x 10
122 illustrations and 2 maps

1987

Co-published with the Detroit Free Press