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Author: Ellyce Field
Publisher: Great Lakes Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780814325742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This greatly expanded edition of this work contains all the information parents, grandparents, teachers and scout leaders need to plan and enjoy Michigan excursions with children. There is comprehensive listing of museums, historic sites, science and nature exhibits and other events.
Author: Ellyce Field
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780814328293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Metro Detroit area has hours worth of fun and activities for its smaller residents and their parents. Detroit Kids Catalog combines over twenty-five hundred activities in Metropolitan Detroit, from short outings to daylong excursions, in a handy and easy to use guide. Detroit Kids Catalog is a welcome addition to the glove compartment of any car or minivan. This updated edition includes lots of ideas for parents, grandparents, teachers, scout leaders, and anyone interested in pulling the kids away from the television and exploring Metro Detroit. This latest edition includes: • More than 150 new sites and activities, including a list of area malls and their special family events, new museums, and new features of old favorites like the Henry Ford Museum. • Enlarged extensive coverage of eleven Southeast Michigan counties and the Greater Windsor area. • Travel tips at the beginning of each chapter to help better plan family outings. • Important information and numbers for the Michigan Travel Bureau, local recreation departments, area hospitals, and theater box offices, as well as for Amtrak, Via Rail, and local bus lines.
Author: Ellyce Field
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Metro Detroit area has hours worth of fun and activities for its smaller residents and their parents. Detroit Kids Catalog combines over twenty-five hundred activities in Metropolitan Detroit, from short outings to daylong excursions, in a handy and easy to use guide. Detroit Kids Catalog is a welcome addition to the glove compartment of any car or minivan. This updated edition includes lots of ideas for parents, grandparents, teachers, scout leaders, and anyone interested in pulling the kids away from the television and exploring Metro Detroit. This latest edition includes: * More than 150 new sites and activities, including a list of area malls and their special family events, new museums, and new features of old favorites like the Henry Ford Museum. * Enlarged extensive coverage of eleven Southeast Michigan counties and the Greater Windsor area. * Travel tips at the beginning of each chapter to help better plan family outings. * Important information and numbers for the Michigan Travel Bureau, local recreation departments, area hospitals, and theater box offices, as well as for Amtrak, Via Rail, and local bus lines.
Author: Gay Pitman Zieger
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780814330869
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of a notable children's institution founded at the turn of the twentieth century, this book looks at the lives of troubled children and those who helped them, and illuminates major shifts in America's child welfare system.
Author: Roger Rosentreter
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9780814330814
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first extensive treatment of Michigan's early military forces, this book includes the names of all known Michiganians who answered the call to arms prior to the Civil War and explains the circumstances of each major conflict.
Author: David Lee Poremba
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780814328705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Culled from a wide variety of references, Detroit in Its World Setting is a timeline that offers readers a new appreciation of Michigan history by setting life in the Motor City in the context of world affairs. For each year, readers can follow the march of time in four categories-city and state events, national and world history, cultural progress, and scientific and commercial progress-that cover countless events over the three centuries since the city's founding as well as the people involved in them. Originally published in 1953, Detroit in Its World Setting has been revised and updated to mark the city's 300th birthday in 2001. Expanded coverage includes such subjects as women's achievements, the African American community, ethnic communities, city landmarks, and public education. No other book offers the opportunity to see the city's life in this sweeping context. As entertaining as it is informative, Detroit in Its World Setting is a fitting birthday present for the city-and its citizens.
Author: Marcy Heller Fisher
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780814331439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mary Chase Perry Stratton and Horace J. Caulkins founded Detroit’s Pewabic Pottery in 1903 during the height of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Now celebrating its centennial, Pewabic is one of the few historic art potteries still operating in the United States. The pottery remains an integral part of artistic life in the Detroit area; its presence in the city is underscored by such installations as the modern tile murals in Detroit’s People Mover Stations, the fairy tale friezes around fireplaces in area schools, and mosaic-tiled ceilings in museums and churches. Fired Magic is the story of a child discovering the beauty of Pewabic tile installations in the metropolitan Detroit area. Readers accompany the main character Angie on a tour of architecturally significant historic and contemporary tiled floors, ceilings, fountains, fireplaces, and other tile installations that grace the city and its environs—such as Belle Isle Park, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Cranbrook Educational Community, and the Detroit Zoo. Readers also join Angie in taking a class at Pewabic Pottery, where she learns to make tiles and other clay objects. The book provides a glossary of ceramic terms and a comprehensive list of Pewabic installations around the United States so that readers may discover the beauty of Pewabic tile for themselves. This is the second in a series of books celebrating the cultural heritage of Detroit and the Great Lakes. Like the first in the series, The Outdoor Museum: The Magic of Michigan’s Marshall M. Fredericks (Wayne State University Press, 2001), this book is written for students from age 8 and above; however, it is enjoyable for art lovers of all ages. Through its inviting tale and rich illustrations, Fired Magic relates the history of Pewabic Pottery from its beginnings in the Arts and Crafts Movement and furthers the pottery’s present-day mission to support, educate, and foster appreciation for ceramic art.
Author: John Vincent Jezierski
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780814324516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of the most prolific African American photographers in North America.
Author: Emily Eisbruch
Publisher: Nelson Publishing&Marketing
Published: 2005-05
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781928623533
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A collection of puzzles, games and other activities based on facts about Michigan geography, history, culture, recreation and attractions"--Title page verso.
Author: Michael Delp
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780814327111
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Coast of Nowhere, Michael Delp explores the way rivers, lakes, and streams seep into our daily lives and into our consciousness. The organization of the text, a collection of short prose meditations and poetry, embraces the motion and rhythm of moving water. Through his poetry and prose, Delp demonstrates the way one can literally build an inner landscape out of the places of water one frequents. Having grown up on water and embraced it as a part of his being, he writes passionately about existing rivers, lakes, and streams in Michigan, and uses powerful metaphors to keep these places thriving in the imagination. The collection concludes with "What My Father Told Me", a powerful prose piece in which Delp reflects on the wisdom his father shared with him about the magic of water and of life during their fishing outings. Like Delp's other works, The Coast of Nowhere reveals the author's love for water and nature and captures the essence of northern Michigan's culture.
