Articles for tag: memoirs, michigan history, Michigan's Upper Peninsula

June 21, 2024

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From Trapper to Automotive President: The Unyielding Spirit of Dexter’s Pat Winton

By Cynthia Furlong Reynolds Fred Rogers once observed, “Retirement is when you think you’re at the end of something, but really you’re at the beginning of something else.” Pat Winton is the living embodiment of those words. At the age of 85, the former trapper/gandy dancer/carnival hawker/ long-haul driver/lumberjack/ automotive engineer/international business owner/ship’s captain has ...

June 10, 2024

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The Great Garden Plot Betrayal

By Paul Schubert I am not the first to discover that a young man’s best-laid plans can be overturned in an afternoon, but that realization hit me with the impact of a well-aimed shovel when I was a young man of fourteen. In 1940, I was in sixth grade when my family decided to move ...