New Book from America's Leading Publisher of Local & Regional History--Arcadia Publishing, Chicago, Il

Some First Hand Accounts-128 pages-100 photos:
The flu epidemic of 1912: "You'd look out the window and see people carrying your dead neighbors out. Then you'd lie back down in bed--too sick to care."
Vivid Memories of an African-American boy growing up on a plantation: "The white man tell you when to go to the field, when to come and when to do everything. You don't have a life of your own. You do what they tell you."
Being the only woman serving in the Michigan State Senate with no toilet facilities: "I said, 'You know, I think I'm going to get a port-a-john and put it here in the lobby, and then someone will do something.'"

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     In Kalamazoo and Southwest Michigan:  Golden Memories, author Lee Griffin illustrates the importance of cultivating the memories of generations past, and looking positively toward the future as one grows older. The book contains the voices of prominent community members who reside in Kalamazoo and the surrounding areas, including Portage, Richland, Gull Lake, Galesburg, Augusta, Hickory Corners, Lawton, Allegan and Marshall. Their contributions to the region's growth are varied, from a local mailman to a former college president. These extraordinary citizens are representative of men and women everywhere, and whose recollections span the globe.
     Lee Griffin has been a freelance writer and photographer for the Kalamazoo Gazette and other area newspapers for 26 years. She currently resides with her husband, Bob, a retired senior research biologist with Pharmacia and their dog, Shamus. They all live in the woods with the deer, and turkeys near Augusta.