"Fred Rydholm's book is a vivid collective memory of an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. While modestly subtitled "A Backwoods History," it covers a period t

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"Loren Graham's steady vision and painstaking research result in a fascinating and poignant story. A Face in the Rock is very true, very touching."—Louise Erd