The Big Picture Book of Mt. Pleasant Michigan by Jack R Westbrook
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The Big Picture Book of Mt. Pleasant Michigan


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Our town Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, is seen through cameras past and present in this largest ever photo historical review reaching as far back as 1875 to as recently as the summer of 2010. Matching vintage pictures with camera views from the same angle today, local historian and photo history veteran Jack R. Westbrook turns the same concise reporting of his five previous books again to his home town, describing what was there and what the more than 200 locations look like today. In addition to looking at people and businesses of the past and present, Westbrook turns the camera's eye on a number of historical homes and the folks who occupied them. The book is flavored by a local high schooler of the times description of life in the town in 1920, Westbrook's own 1956 high school essay on Mt. Pleasant when he was 16 years old and local interviewer and columnist Burnie Bonnel's inter views with notables of the past. This is the most comprehensive photo history of the town's growth from village to city ever published and will introduce the newcomer to Mt. Pleasant's heritage and provide hours of nostalgia to longtime residents, as well as being a welcome addition to any historian's bookshelf. A portion of the proceeds from the new book's sale will be devoted to the Veterans Memorial Library at Mt. Pleasant for the purchase of a ProScan 1000 microfilm reader system to replace the library's outmoded microfilm readers. The new machine will allow downloads, in a variety of electronic formats, of articles from newspapers past.
About the Author: Jack R. Westbrook grew up in the Mt. Pleasant area and early-on developed a passion for both history and writing. After serving in the United States Navy and working at Central Michigan University, he honed his writing skills at the Mt. Pleasant Daily Times-News and Ray Cline Marketing, finally leading him to join the Michigan Oil & Gas News magazine in 1973. After semi-retirement in 2001, he continued on as a columnist with them through 2007. He now does a photo timecapsule feature for Mount Pleasant Monthly magazine. With Mt. Pleasant's history as The Oil Capital of Michigan, Jack has written and/or edited four books about Michigan's oil and gas industry, and in recent years has authored pictorial histories of Mt. Pleasant (2006), Michigan Oil and Gas (2006), Central Michigan University (2007), Isabella County (2008) and co-authored with local historian/genealogist Sherry Sponseller a history of the county's one room schools called Yesterday's School Kids of Isabella County (2010). Jack has been the featured speaker on the subjects of all of his books at numerous local events, state and national gatherings.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781453648896
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 342
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Yesteryears to 2010
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1453648895
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 508 gr


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