All Aboard for Greilickville!

A new book out this season from Kathleen Firestone is only the first in what will be a new series of harbor histories from this dedicated Northport historian. Printed on high-quality paper and beautifully hardbound, the book’s illustrated front board gives a good idea of what to expect inside, and the pages within fulfill the cover’s promise. Photographs from the earliest history of this sheltered Lake Michigan harbor to boats of the present day are accompanied by Firestone’s always well-researched text, sure to fascinate every northern Michigan boater and amateur historian, as well as the rest of us who have simply seen the area change in recent years and wonder what it was like in bygone times. A must for your regional library.

Meet Me at the Dock 

in Greilickville, Grand Traverse Bay, 

by Kathleen Firestone

Hardcover, $40

New From Avery Color Studios: BOATS!

Nothing goes with water like boats, and a state with shoreline on three of the five Great Lakes must be forgiven for being a trifle boat-obsessed. Forgiven? How about indulged?

Avery Color Studies up in Gwinn caters to lovers of Michigan history with a couple of new titles this year. Whalebacks: Wrecked, Scrapped, Lost & Forgotten, by Neel R. Zoss, tells the story of Great Lakes boats so “deeply laden with cargo, the boats reminded folks of the curved backs of whales pushing out of the water.” These freighters were designed and built by Alexander McDougall – but you can find out much, much more by reading the book.

Sailors and landlubbers who can’t get enough of shipwrecks will want the new book by Wes Oleszewski, Wooden Ships and Deadly Seas: True Shipwrecks and the Deadly Great Lakes, a book that promises no fiction and no concocted events. It’s all just good, clean disaster!

Whalebacks: Wrecked, Scrapped, Lost & Forgotten,

by Neel R. Zoss

Paper, 261 pp, $17.95

Wooden Ships and Deadly Seas: True Shipwrecks and the Deadly Great Lakes,

by Wes Oleszewski

Paper, 185pp, $16.95

And, as always, Avery Color Studios books are “Proudly Printed in Michigan, U.S.A.” We like that, don’t you?