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| Organization Works to Preserve, Promote Fishtown History |
On your standard Michigan summer day, Fishtown is flooded with visitors. Teenagers dive in and out of each wooden, weather-beaten shanty. Families parade outside of the ice cream shop, bellies full, and a father and son make memories fishing off the dock.
Although thousands of people visit Fishtown each year, few are aware of the rich history and stories those shanties could tell.
“The first time I had gone down there, I had the feeling it was supposed to be really important and I didn’t know why,” admits Amanda Holmes, executive director of the Fishtown Preservation Society (FPS). “People need to know this present place has an important past.”
| Great Michigan Read Feature |
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As a first-time Great Michigan Read partner, the Michigan Supreme Court Learning Center has big plans for the Capital City.
The Learning Center, located in the Michigan Hall of Justice, will work with Lansing-area high schools to host a reenactment of the Sweet trials portrayed in the Great Michigan Read selection, “Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age,” by Detroit-native Kevin Boyle. |
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Humanities Pic of the Month
On July 8, the Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library was proud to host the Equinox Celtic Band for a two-hour outdoor concert. The event drew in more than 200 people and families and was intertwined with the Summer Book Club theme, “One World, Many Stories.”
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