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Fishtown : Leland, Michigan's historic fishery

Call Numbers

  • H 639.2 S6977 (CEN)
  • 639.2 S6977 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Traverse City, Mich. : Arbutus Press, c2013.

Physical Description

xii, 211 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Contents

  • The last Fishtown
  • 1. A place called Fishtown : Fishtown maps
  • 2. Why Fishtown matters
  • 3. Before Fishtown
  • 4. Seasons of a fishery
  • 5. Fishing generations : Harting family and Otto Light ; Price family ; Cook and Brown ; Buckler family ; Kaapke and Firestone ; Maleski family and Peter Nelson ; Steffens family ; Carlson family
  • 6. Fish boats of wood and steel
  • 7. "Special link to the mainland": Fishtown's Manitou Ferry and Mail Boat
  • 8. Brotherhood of the lake
  • 9. Shanties and shore work
  • 10. Ice houses and the community ice harvest
  • Stories and shenanigans
  • 12. Saving Fishtown
  • Fishtown and the future.

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