Growing Up in Old Lithuanian Town - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Growing Up in Old Lithuanian Town write by Edward V. Gillis. This book was released on 2000. Growing Up in Old Lithuanian Town available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lithuanians in Michigan
Lithuanians in Michigan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lithuanians in Michigan write by Marius K. Grazulis. This book was released on 2009-03-11. Lithuanians in Michigan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Lithuanians in Michigan Marius Grazulis recounts the history of an immigrant group that has struggled to maintain its identity. Grazulis estimates that about 20 percent of the 1.6 million Lithuanians who immigrated to the United States arrived on American shores between 1860 and 1918. While first-wave immigrants stayed mostly on the east coast, by 1920 about one-third of newly immigrated Lithuanians lived in Michigan, working in heavy industry and mining. With remarkable detail, Grazulis traces the ways these groups have maintained their ethnic identity in Michigan in the face of changing demographics in their neighborhoods and changing interests among their children, along with the challenges posed by newly arriving "modern" Lithuanian immigrants, who did not read the same books, sing the same songs, celebrate the same holidays, or even speak the same language that previous waves of Lithuanian immigrants had preserved in America. Anyone interested in immigrant history will find Lithuanians in Michigan simultaneously familiar, fascinating, and moving.
Thin Ice
Thin Ice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thin Ice write by Reinder Van Til. This book was released on 2007. Thin Ice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DESCRIPTION This unique volume contains twenty-eight fascinating life stories of people -- many of whom went on to become famous -- who grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The coming-of-age stories in Thin Ice relate a range of experiences both good and bad, including happy memories and heartwarming recollections but also personal traumas, intergenerational and racial conflicts, the strictures of religious belief and practice, the joys and sorrows of young romance, and more. Above and beyond the stories of the more notable personalities -- Jim Harrison, Roger Wilkins, John Hockenberry, President Gerald Ford, Betty Ford, Al Green, Paul Schrader, William Brashler -- the book as a whole is chock-full of crisp, humorous, irreverent, and moving writing. Reinder Van Til and Gordon Olson have excerpted half of the pieces from previous publications, while they directly solicited the other half from active writers specifically for this book. The earliest stories go back to the 1830s and 1850s, and the most recent are a cluster of contemporary pieces that describe coming of age in the Grand Rapids of the 1960s through the 1980s. Together they paint a multifaceted, impressionistic portrait of a century and a half in the fair city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. All in all, Thin Ice is a nostalgic treasure for any Grand Rapidian and literary treasure for e v e r y one. Contributors Albert Baxter Charles E. Belknap A. J. Muste Arnold Gingrich David Cornel DeJong Gerald R. Ford Betty Ford Edward V. Gillis John Thompson Roger Wilkins Jim Harrison Glen Peterson Max Apple John Otterbacher Reinder Van Til Al Green Paul Schrader Robert VanderMolen William Brashler Sheri Venema Hank Meijer Charles Honey Tom Rademacher Levi Rickert John Hockenberry Laura Kasischke Kaye Longberg Bich Minh Nguyen
The Art of Memory
The Art of Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Memory write by Thomas R. Dilley. This book was released on 2014-09-01. The Art of Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Readers with roots in Grand Rapids as well as those interested in social and cultural history will enjoy The Art of Memory.
Soviet Life
Soviet Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soviet Life write by . This book was released on 1968-07. Soviet Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
