Contents Acknowledgments Introduction by Dave Dempsey Introduction by Jack Dempsey Southeast Michigan George Matthew Adams: "Today's Talk" Kenyon, Frost, and Miller: Arbor Days Dudley Felker Randall: Urban Trailblazer Central/South Central Michigan William McKendree Carleton: Verse Virtuoso James Oliver Curwood: Champion of God's Country Marguerite de Angeli: Children Don't Forget Holling Clancy Holling: Beyond Four Corners Theodore Huebner Roethke: The Purity of Despair Maritta Wolff: Sudden Fame Southwest Michigan Liberty Hyde Bailey: A Bountiful Life Ringgold Wilmer Lardner: Life Is More Than a Game Carl Sandburg: Sand Man Northern Lower Michigan Charles Bruce Catton: America's Civil War Storyteller Sara Gwendolyn Frostic: Spirit Indomitable Eugene Ruggles: Songs for the Underdog Upper Peninsula Carroll Watson Rankin: Northern Light John Donaldson Voelker: Great Character Notes.