Via @michiganradio -

"Phyllis Michael Wong, historian, educator, and author of We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s #UpperPeninsula, named a Michigan Notable Book"

on Stateside, Wednesday May 3 2023.

https://www.michiganradio.org/show/stateside/2023-05-03/stateside-wednesday-may-3-2023

book:

https://msupress.org/9781611864205/we-kept-our-towns-going/

#AADL :

https://aadl.org/catalog/record/10545465

of interest to @tim - unionization in rural garment workers.

Geraldine Gordon Defant, #ILGWU Union Organizer (p. 150), was a family friend

[ #yooper #ishpeming #gossard ]

Did you know there is a connection between the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and copper mining in southern Sweden?

That's a surprising fact that I learned recently while researching and writing about kissing cousins.

#52Ancestors #genealogy #Ishpeming #Åtvidaberg #mining
@genealogy

https://scrappinmyhistory.blogspot.com/2023/03/kissing-cousins-52-ancestors.html