Author : Mike Sonnenberg
Publisher : Huron Photo
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Curiosities and wonders
ISBN : 9780999433201
Based on the popular Lost In Michigan website that was featured in the Detroit Free Press, It contains locations throughout Michigan, and tells their interesting story. There are over 50 stories and locations that you will find fascinating.
Author : Philip Marchand
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1551991756
History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle. This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in the present day for vestiges of France’s lost North American legacy. After he explored the Great Lakes and the entire Mississippi, La Salle was murdered by his own men when he led them on a disastrous mission to Texas. The vast land beyond Quebec that he claimed for France could have become — but for a few twists of history — an alternative North America: a French-speaking, Catholic empire in which native peoples would have played a prominent role. Marchand probes the intriguingly flawed character of La Salle and recounts the astonishing history of the Jesuit missionaries, coureurs de bois, fur traders, and soldiers who followed on his heels, and of the Indian nations with whom they came into contact. He also reports on the survivals of this diaspora from late-night bars, battle reenactments, parish churches, and wayside restaurants from Montreal to Venice, Louisiana. And throughout he draws on memories of his own Catholic childhood in Massachusetts to interpret the lingering attitudes, fears, hopes, and iconography of a people who, more deeply than most, feel the burdens and the ironies of history.
Author : William Meyer
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1534103023
In The Search for the Lost Prophecy, the sequel to The Secret of the Scarab Beetle, Horace continues to search for more information about the Time Keepers and his role in this secret order. After he discovers that the tree portal at his grandparents' farm is destroyed, Horace, along with his friends Anna and Milton, travels back in time to 1920s Detroit, hoping to learn more. There they meet keeper Herman at the Scarab Club and learn that someone is threatening the Time Keepers and the order's mission. Horace finds out that the mystical Benben Stone is being stored in a crypt back in present-day Niles, Michigan. And Horace is now tasked with keeping the sacred stone safe. Will the person or persons threatening the Order learn of Horace's true identity?
Author : Jeri Holland
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2023-08
Category : History
ISBN : 146714777X
Monroe County is home to some of the creepiest, most haunted sites in Michigan. Soldiers killed in the Massacre at River Raisin in 1813 continue to march through those battlefields today. Just south of the battle-scarred fields, entrepreneur Jimmy Hayes haunts Angelo's Northwood Villa, a roadhouse with a questionable past. Down the road at Frog Leg Inn, once a bawdy house, the ghosts of the Licavoli gangsters still linger looking for a good time. Then, there's Lake Monroe, waiting for the next of its endless drowning victims. Join author Jeri Holland on a spine-tingling tour of the area's most paranormally active locales.
Author : Richard Emmons
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 1830
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : Anne Christen
Publisher : Author House
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 2011-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 146785848X
Anna Morgan is an ordinary fifteen-year-old who handles her best friend's whining and older sister's insults as gracefully as possible. She is careful not to speak her mind so as to avoid unnecessary arguments with those around her. But her world is suddenly flipped upside down when she begins having strange and vivid dreams that seem to foretell the future. To further complicate matters, Anna is unknowingly in love with a popular boy who used to be her best friend. On a whim, Anna one night enters the local candle shop that's rumored to be haunted. Her unsettling discovery leads to ruined friendships, an escalated rivalry with her sister and the opportunity to change her life forever. But first Anna must face her fears and call upon new friends, and the boy she loves, for help. Only after a climactic battler of good versus evil will she discover who she is and what she wants from life.
Author : Richard Emmons
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 1830
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Victor Hogg
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 10,5 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN :
Author : Jerold W. Apps
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2012-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0299288838
When journalist Josh Wittmore moves from the Illinois bureau of Farm Country News to the newspaper’s national office in Wisconsin, he encounters the biggest story of his young career—just as the paper’s finances may lead to its closure. Josh’s big story is that a corporation that plans to establish an enormous hog farm has bought a lot of land along the Tamarack River in bucolic Ames County. Some of the local residents and officials are excited about the jobs and tax revenues that the big farm will bring, while others worry about truck traffic, porcine aromas, and manure runoff polluting the river. And how would the arrival of a large agribusiness affect life and traditions in this tightly knit rural community of family farmers? Josh strives to provide impartial agricultural reporting, even as his newspaper is replaced by a new Internet-only version owned by a former New York investment banker. And it seems that there may be another force in play: the vengeful ghost of a drowned logger who locals say haunts the valley of the Tamarack River.
Author : Jeff Belanger
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2006-08-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1601639740
Ghosts of War is where history and mystery meet. Phantom U.S. Civil War regiments still march through Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, before vanishing into the evening sunset. The beaches of Normandy, France still echo with the cries of the men who gave their lives storming the beaches on D-Day. The disembodied clip-clop of horse's hooves and the clank of swords from the British Civil War battle of January 25, 1644, are still heard in Nantwich, Cheshire. Wherever battles were fought and people perished, ghost legends have followed. Ghosts can be found wherever tragedy left its mark. Where men'?s and women'?s lives ended so quickly that their spirits may not even realize that they're dead. Where soldiers, focused on duty, still patrol the front lines of long-finished wars. The world's battlefields are imprinted with the passions, fears, and horrors of the soldiers who took their enemies? lives and often sacrificed their own. Battlefields are still rife with spirit activity, centuries after the last cannon was fired and the last casualty lost. Ghosts of War is a history book told through the eyes of witnesses who have experienced the ghosts who still haunt these locations. Featuring nearly two dozen battlefields from around the world and throughout the centuries, each chapter includes first-hand accounts of the battle (where available), important facts and dates, historic and ghostly photos of the site, and first-hand ghost sightings and supernatural experiences that still occur.
