Review by Brad Gischia Mikel Classen has spent most of his life traveling the Upper Peninsula and writing about the varied and colorful history of this remote place. In those travels he’s encountered any number of historians and those people have shared their collections and stories with him. Faces, Places,…
Review by Brad Gischia You never know what you’re going to get when you open up a book of short stories. That’s part of the fun of it. If they’re good you’re golden, you find yourself turning pages and wishing for a little more of these characters or situations, however,…
Review by Brad Gischia “Perspective is where you stand and how you measure the world you pass through.” This line, in relation to the passage it was pulled from, is important. In relation to the work as a whole, this line perfectly shows what D.J. Williams has done in his…
Review by Brad Gischia There are many books that detail the history of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. These are often rigorously researched and documented (some may be less so) and they represent an important aspect of the way we understand this strange little corner of the world. The SideRoad…
