Daily Archives: April 12, 2011

Book talks

Northville District Library, 7 p.m., April 13. Joel Thurtell will lecture on the 27-mile canoe trip he made in 2005 with Patricia Beck up the Rouge River. Their journey was the subject of a Wayne State University Press book, UP … Continue reading

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Fury coming, past and present

By Joel Thurtell I have my old friend Barbara Stanton O’Hair to thank for my current reading program. Barb is the longtime sparkplug and mainstay of Bookies, a book club of mostly former Detroit Free Press writers who meet episodically … Continue reading

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