Via @michiganradio -
"Phyllis Michael Wong, historian, educator, and author of We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s #UpperPeninsula, named a Michigan Notable Book"
on Stateside, Wednesday May 3 2023.
https://www.michiganradio.org/show/stateside/2023-05-03/stateside-wednesday-may-3-2023
book:
https://msupress.org/9781611864205/we-kept-our-towns-going/
#AADL :
https://aadl.org/catalog/record/10545465
of interest to @tim - unionization in rural garment workers.
Geraldine Gordon Defant, #ILGWU Union Organizer (p. 150), was a family friend
Stateside: Wednesday, May 3, 2023
How algae and microplastics interact in the Great Lakes, a new poetry collection captures the essence of urban and suburban environments, and a look at the history of the Gossard Girls, women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in the U.P during Michigan’s industrial age.
