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Order now! SAME DAY SHIPPING! Over 1,000 copies of A Tree Grows in Trout Creek have been shipped since publication on October 15. The Wishing Years, Coralie Cederna Johnson’s earlier book is also available. Go to ORDER BOOKS above to order your books at a SPECIAL DISCOUNTED PRICE and pay with a charge card through [...]

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Order now! SAME DAY SHIPPING! Over 800 copies of A Tree Grows in Trout Creek have been shipped since publication on October 15. And you can still order copies and receive them in time for Christmas gift giving! The Wishing Years, Coralie Cederna Johnson’s earlier book is also available. Go to ORDER BOOKS above to [...]

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Yesterday I received a letter from my dear friend Clayton Klein, author of seven books and former owner and publisher of Wilderness Adventure Books. I first met Clayton and his late wife Marjorie after I had submitted some stories for possible publication back in 1992. I’d barely put them in the mail, when three days [...]

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Ingredients: 4 c. water 1 T. salt 2 c. cubed potatoes 1 c. diced carrots 1 c. fresh or frozen peas 1 c. diced cauliflower ½ c. chopped spinach 2 T. flour 3-½ c. milk Salt & pepper to taste Directions: Heat water & salt in saucepan. Add carrots & potatoes. Simmer over low heat [...]

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Ancient Ojibwa burial grounds, Northern Lights, and the life of an iron miner’s family are looked at through the eyes of a spirited, sometimes somber girl searching out her wishes and dreams. Poignant and funny, A Tree Grows in Trout Creek celebrates the mystery and miracles of growing up as it follows a small town [...]

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Just received this great bit of Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Yooper) hot breaking news from an old pal from Stambaugh High School, Carole Frighetto Stewart. She writes in regard to Tim Jones’ Chicago Tribune news article in yesterday’s paper: The Top of the Lake, A ride through Yooper land, from Menominee to the bridge:

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In August 2000, The Detroit Free Press praised the small Upper Peninsula of Michigan governments of two cities and one village for consolidating into one larger entity. On July 1, 2000, the cities of Stambaugh and Iron River and the village of Mineral Hills founded a new city called Iron River, Michigan. Seeking a common [...]

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When Nellie Bly, a famed and outspoken journalist of the late 1800′s, was told chilling tales of wickedness–barroom brawls, slavery and murder–in Seney, Michigan, she came herself to see if they were true. What she discovered were saloons brimming with booze, gambling and “ladies of the night.”

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Determined to discover a place where they could enjoy the same solitude and spiritual communion with nature they’d known in Finland, it is not surprising a majority of Finnish people, chose the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for their home. Forced out of Finland following the fatal famine of the 1860′s, they came to the U.P. [...]

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