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Book

Glimpses of the past

Call Number

  • H 977.418 E147 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Kalamazoo, MI : The Author, 1991.

Physical Description

79 p. : ill. (some photos.) ; 28 cm.

Contents

  • Family: Ham with wry
  • Granny's pearls
  • Hair tonic
  • John Bull's bounty
  • Ho, ho and hum
  • Echoes of war
  • From the mouths of babes
  • The dye is cast
  • This old chair
  • We've come a long way WBEN
  • Pot luck
  • The summer that was
  • Kalamazoo: Summer reflections
  • Front row center
  • City pride
  • Kid lit and the library
  • Downtown - a backward glance
  • Toot de sweet
  • The Pottery Shop
  • It takes all kinds
  • Hats off to ladies of Kalamazoo
  • Growing up: High finance
  • Nuts in May?
  • Woodshed revisited
  • Snap, cackle, pop
  • What others think
  • Sugar, spice, everything nice?
  • Mother, may I?
  • All the world's a stage
  • The phantom visitor (a story)
  • Later years: Non-scents (Burma Shave)
  • The age of innocense tra-la
  • shake well
  • The first is last
  • Win some, lose some
  • Whoops
  • Love and the novice
  • Week-end chicken
  • I killed him, I guess
  • A beachcomber's bounty
  • College and career: Pendulums swing
  • Toe-tapping full circle
  • Matters of note
  • Help!
  • It's all in the mixing
  • Thou shalt not
  • The Depression dance
  • Hup, two, three, cheep
  • V.I.P.s
  • Travel: Who needs friends?
  • Ships ahoy!
  • Ah, to be in England
  • Maidens, mermaids and marmalade
  • Life with David: The Turbulent Turbulent I
  • The Turbulent Turbulent II
  • Conclusion
  • Whither the wind
  • Miscellaneous: Tornado strikes Kalamazoo
  • Street scene (a story)

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