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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 order your books at a SPECIAL DISCOUNTED PRICE and pay by charge card through Paypal.

SPECIAL DISCOUNT PRICES: $12.95 each book  (+ $4.60 shipping for 1st book & add $1 for each additional book)!

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Wildwood Press
PO Box 980616
Ypsilanti, MI 480616

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Tues evening is when it happened. I looked out in the backyard to let my sheltie “Carrie” into the house and discovered to my alarm that the gate was ajar and she was gone. We later learned that the meter person had been here while we were away and left the gate unlocked. A strong wind opened it.

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Finally back home again after a wonderful Thanksgiving visit with family and friends in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan!  Of course, Thanksgiving is always a time for celebration in our family and so are the family birthdays that happen just about the same time each year. I was born on Thanksgiving day and my sister Corinne was born three days later and ten years earlier. So this year we traveled from the U.P. to Chicago to celebrate with her. She held a Book Signing Party at her home for me with several guests to share the afternoon of visiting and readings. It turned out to be a great success and super fun day!

IRONWOOD DAILY GLOBE:

Published Sunday, November 18, 2007 4:25:26 PM Central Time

By DIANE MONTZ

Globe Staff Writer

In the title story of her new book, Coralie Cederna Johnson writes:

“Nobody wanted to go to Trout Creek. There was nothing there. Nothing but a lot of trees. Trees, trees and more trees.”

Overlooking the forest for a single tree, Johnson’s Finnish grandfather from Minnesota was bringing a small mountain ash tree to plant at the home of relatives in Trout Creek.

To a 9-year-old girl circa 1948, this made no sense.

In “A Tree Grows in Trout Creek,” Johnson, of Ypsilanti, tells tales from her Upper Peninsula childhood in the 1940s and ’50s.

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Last evening’s book signing for A Tree Grows in Trout Creek was so much fun! The audience at our Normal Park Neighborhood monthly meeting was terrific. They enjoyed the brief history notes and then the humorous story called Skunked. They laughed in all the right places. What more could an author ask for! And I’m going to be invited back for a second book reading and signing for the seniors. Can’t wait!

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I have my first book signing this evening for our neighborhood monthly meeting and am really looking forward to it! I’ll read from my new book, A Tree Grows in Trout Creek, and then take questions as time allows. I’m going to read two short excerpts, one of Michigan history and the other strictly for humor. The book is a collection of memoirs about growing up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and follows my family, friends and me as we make out way through times of laughter, tears and triumph.

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With the new time change we are experiencing this week, I’m trying to get the shelties to understand we’re doing things differently. But it’s not working! It may only be 3 a.m. but to Ginger, Carrie and Bonnie, it is 4 a.m. and time to get up! I keep telling them, they’re wrong…but they just bark a little (well, a lot) louder. Maybe I can get them trained by springtime when we turn our clocks one hour forward. You think?

Two weeks into the book sale of A Tree Grows in Trout Creek, a memoir of growing up in upper Michigan, six-hundred books have been shipped! Many thanks to all who have purchased! For book lovers everywhere, discount prices are available for a limited time. Just click on ORDER BOOKS above and pay with a credit card through Paypal. If you prefer not to use a credit card, send your request with a check or money order to Wildwood Press, PO Box 980616, Ypsilanti, MI 48198! Join the fun! (Same day shipping!)

At our monthly book group today we discussed Fannie Flagg’s Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven. I must say I was surprised to find that two of our seven attendees thought it was the most boring and “stupid” book ever. For me, it was both poignant and humorous! I think it’s the small town atmosphere that struck me as being so true to life. Such people help each other, and in doing so find small ways in which to make great differences in others’ lives. The book by the author of Fried Green Tomatoes is not necessarily a literary wonder, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Have you read it? What do you think?

This sweet sheltie is a therapy dog and along with other dogs visits the seniors at Bishop Noa Home in Escanaba each year. (Note the Daniel Boone dog in the foreground and the Jailbird dog in the background!) Everyone loves the parade of costumed pooches! Wouldn’t you?