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Traverse City State Hospital by Chris Miller: a review

Not a real ambitious book–it’s basically a set of pictures of the buildings at the TC hospital–but it accomplishes its limited mission extremely well. Well-selected photographs with relevant captions. And it’s unusually well organized.

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Glimpses of Grand Traverse Past by Richard Fidler: a review

Fidler cautions us, unnecessarily, that he’s not a historian by training and that the book is not serious history. But it’s extremely well-researched, well-written, and interesting. In that sense, this is serious history. A wonderful read.

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