2.5 Billion Years of Clare History (or 40 Miles)
Note: This is the second of two posts dealing with the geologic history of Clare County, Michigan, USA. If you like warm, you should have lived in Clare County, Michigan about 360 million years ago...
View ArticleA Face to a Name in a Graveyard
Jim Garrity went off to war. Jim was a farm kid from rural Clare County, Michigan, a poor, sparsely populated county in mid Michigan. According to family history, Jim enlisted in the navy in Nov. 1917...
View ArticleLooking at Old Clare County Newspapers Looking Back at Old Clare County, MI
It’s amazing the interesting things one can run across in old newspapers. For example, I was conducting some research into Windover Lake in Clare County, Michigan and found two articles in the The...
View ArticleA Lake Dock that Rises into the Sky
The biggest dock in the small resort town of Lake doesn’t extend into the water, but reaches into the sky. This dock is also made of concrete and stands on four relatively spindly legs that are long...
View ArticleBlowing Stuff Up in Clare County
The following article appeared on Page one of the Dec. 4, 1925 issue of The Clare Sentinel . Apparently, farmers back then could be trusted with dynamite. However, as the note at the end of the...
View ArticleRailroad History in Harrison
This is a revised version of an article that appears in Harrison’s 125th Anniversary History booklet written and edited by Angela Kellogg to celebrate the mid-Michigan city’s quasquicentennial that was...
View ArticleHenry Ford In Harrison, Michigan
Industrialist Henry Ford was a lousy tipper, at least when he got his shoes shined in Harrison. And at least according to historian and author T.M. Sellers, who wrote the book on John “Spikehorn”...
View ArticleThe Great Flu Pandemic in a Small Michigan County
James Garrity was a Clare County farm boy, the only boy in a family of four sisters. He was 19 years old when he convinced his mother, over the objections of his father, to join the Navy. James...
View ArticleGANGSTERS UP NORTH
A review of Robert Knapp’s latest book on Michigan history I want to know more about Joe Barnes. Was this resident of Clare County that author Robert Knapp talks about in his new book Gangsters Up...
View ArticleMURDER IN CLARE COUNTY
A review of a new book by Jon H.Ringelberg Thou shalt not kill: Exodus 20:13 It’s one of the 10 Commandments and even people who don’t read the Bible know of that one. Sadly, it’s also a commandment...
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