Season 6: Episode 10 --The UP Notable Book Club presents Patricia Graham, whose husband Loren R. Graham speaking about her late husband's book, "A Face in the Rock: The Tale of a Grand Island Chippewa."

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LOREN R. GRAHAM was a distinguished American historian of science whose research illuminated the intricate relationships among science, technology, philosophy, and society—particularly within Russia and the Soviet Union. As a professor emeritus at both MIT and Harvard University, he was widely admired for his deep understanding of how cultural and political contexts shaped scientific ideas and institutions. Over his long and influential career, Graham authored numerous acclaimed books, including Science in Russia and the Soviet Union, Lysenko’s Ghost, and Lonely Ideas, each exploring the ethical and social dimensions of scientific progress. His work bridged disciplines and continents, earning him international recognition as one of the foremost scholars of the history of science and the moral responsibilities of scientific inquiry.

cover of the book Eight miles long and four miles wide, Grand Island lies off the south shore of Lake Superior. It was once home to a sizable community of Chippewa Indians who lived in harmony with the land and with each other. Their tragic demise began early in the nineteenth century when their fellow tribesmen from the mainland goaded them into waging war against rival Sioux. The war party was decimated; only one young brave, Powers of the Air, lived to tell the story that celebrated the heroism of his band and formed the basis of the legend that survives today.

Powers of the Air lived to witness the desecration of Grand Island by the fur and logging industries, the Christianization of the tribe, and the near total loss of the Chippewa language, history, and culture. Graham charts the plight of the Chippewa as white culture steadily encroaches, forcing the native people off the island and dispersing their community on the mainland. The story ends with happier events of the past two decades, including the protection of Grand Island within the National Forest system, and the resurgence of Chippewa culture.

Season 6: Episode 9 --The UP Notable Book Club presents Carol Schultz speaking about her book "The Story of Journey: The Great Horned Owl."

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CAROL L. SCHULTZ grew up in the beautiful Upper Peninsula, where she was the middle of 6 children in her family. In a neighborhood full of kids, there was always someone to spend time with outdoors. After marrying, raising children, and working outside of the home, she retired and found the time to write and paint (almost) as much as she would like to. She is a self-taught artist and author of children’s books. Her nature-inspired children’s books gave her the outlet to write and illustrate the wonderful area in which we live. The beauty of the Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin, with its abundant wildlife, wooded areas, and multiple lakes and rivers, has always been an inspiration for her work. Winter is her time of year to create my artwork, with the summers spent outdoors as much as possible. It is her fondest hope that readers will enjoy her work and that it will inspire them to create their own.

Season 6: Episode 8 --The UP Notable Book Club presents Sharon Dilworth speaking about her book "To Be Marquette."

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SHARON DILWORTH is an award-winning novelist and short story writer whose work is deeply rooted in place, memory, and transformation. A graduate of Northern Michigan University, she now teaches creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She is the author of three acclaimed story collections—The Long White, Women Drinking Benedictine, and Two Sides, Three Rivers—as well as the novels Year of the Ginkgo, My Riviera, and her newest release To Be Marquette (CMU Press).

Her fiction has been recognized with the Iowa Short Fiction Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. In To Be Marquette, Dilworth draws on her own college years in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, weaving a heartfelt coming-of-age story of friendship, identity, and environmental activism against the breathtaking backdrop of Lake Superior.

Season 6: Episode 7 --The UP Notable Book Club presents Joseph Heywood speaking about his book "Limpy's Adult Lexicon."

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JOSEPH HEYWOOD is a 1961 graduate of Rudyard High School in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Following a BA in Journalism and an Air Force career, he pursued a graduate degree in English Literature at Western Michigan University. Heywood is a former adjunct professor of professional writing at Western Michigan University. Author, cartoonist, painter, poet, photographer, fisherman, hiker, Heywood spends up to a month a year in trucks on patrol with Michigan conservation officers to gather information for the Woods Cop mystery series. He has worked in 15 counties in the Upper Peninsula with them under all kinds of conditions during all times of the day. All of the hiking he does alone is to prepare himself for the outings he does with the conservation officers. The experience helps make the stories authentic. Almost everything in the series has happened to a CO somewhere in the state.

Season 6: Episode 7 --The UP Notable Book Club presents Joseph Heywood speaking about his book "Limpy's Adult Lexicon."

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JOSEPH HEYWOOD is a 1961 graduate of Rudyard High School in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Following a BA in Journalism and an Air Force career, he pursued a graduate degree in English Literature at Western Michigan University. Heywood is a former adjunct professor of professional writing at Western Michigan University. Author, cartoonist, painter, poet, photographer, fisherman, hiker, Heywood spends up to a month a year in trucks on patrol with Michigan conservation officers to gather information for the Woods Cop mystery series. He has worked in 15 counties in the Upper Peninsula with them under all kinds of conditions during all times of the day. All of the hiking he does alone is to prepare himself for the outings he does with the conservation officers. The experience helps make the stories authentic. Almost everything in the series has happened to a CO somewhere in the state.

Season 6: Episode 6 --The UP Notable Book Club presents Joan H. Young speaking about her book "How to Hike the North Country Trail: Not Quite a Guide."

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JOAN H. YOUNG has enjoyed the outdoors her entire life. Highlights of her outdoor adventures include Girl Scouting, which provided yearly training in camp skills, the opportunity to engage in a 10-day canoe trip, and numerous short backpacking excursions. She was selected to attend the 1965 Senior Scout Roundup in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, an international event to which 10,000 girls were invited. She rode a bicycle from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean in 1986 How to Hike the North Country Trail is a planning guide. She writes an award-winning outdoor column for the Ludington Daily News and Mason County Press. For the past 12 years, she has also written fiction, including short stories, mysteries, and mysteries for children.

Season 6: Episode 5 --The UP Notable Book Club presents J.D. Austin speaking about his book "The Last Huck."

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J.D. AUSTIN was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and has been moving gradually north since the age of fourteen. After dropping out of college in November of 2019, he worked as a kayak guide, a wedding server, bar security, lighting designer, stage carpenter, ski technician, and in the nursery department at a Home Depot. His fiction has appeared in The Incandescent Review and U.P. Reader Volume #7. The Last Huck is his first novel and his most recent book What You Find in the Woods is a collection of short stories about the Uppper Midwest.

Season 6: Episode 4 --The UP Notable Book Club presents Sharon M. Brunner speaking about her book "Michigan Indian Boarding School Survivors Speak Out."

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SHARON M. BRUNNER has worked with the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians as an Education/Disabilities Coordinator for the tribal Head Start Program and as an Education Coordinator for the Johnson O’Malley Program. Sharon served as a private consultant for the Department of Health and Human Services as a federal reviewer of tribal Head Start Programs in the U.S. and was a professor for the Bay Mills Community College, a tribal college. As a member of the aforementioned tribe, she served on the Child Welfare Committee for many years. Sharon has spent a good portion of my life either providing service or writing about Native Americans. On May 17th, 2025 she will be presenting a workshop on “Addressing the Needs of Native Americans in Literature.” at the 27th annual Spring Conference of the Upper Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA) at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette, Michigan.

Season 6: Episode 3 --The UP Notable Book Club presents Raymond Luczak speaking about his book "Animals out-There W-i-l-d: A Bestiary in English and ASL Gloss."

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RAYMOND LUCZAK (pronounced with a silent "c") is perhaps best known for his books, films, and plays. He was raised in Ironwood, a small mining town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Number seven in a family of nine children, he lost much of his hearing due to double pneumonia at the age of eight months. After high school graduation, Luczak went on to Gallaudet University, in Washington, D.C., where he earned a B.A. in English, graduating magna cum laude. He learned American Sign Language (ASL) and became involved with the deaf community, and won numerous scholarships in recognition of his writing, including the Ritz-Paris Hemingway Scholarship.

He took various writing courses at other schools in the area, which culminated in winning a place in the Jenny McKean Moore Fiction Workshop at the George Washington University. Recent works include Compassion, Michigan: The Ironwood Stories, Chlorophyll: Poems About Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the anthology Yooper Poetry which has resulted in launching the critically-acclaimed Yooper Poetry Series, edited by Luczak.

Season 6: Episode 2 --The UP Notable Book Club presents Ann McGlothlin Weller. She is one of the surviving granddaughters of author William S. Crowe. She will be speaking about her grandfather's book "Lumberjack: Inside an Era in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan."

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Ann McGlothlin Weller. She is one of the surviving granddaughters of author William S. Crowe, together with Lynn McGlothlin Emerick, who were instrumental in editing the 50th Anniversary Edition in 2002. This Edition was re-released in 2024 as Lumberjack: Inside an Era in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan - 70th Anniversary Edition. The book focuses in particular on the timber industry of the Manistique, MI region. For readers who are unable to get a copy of the book or are interested in a unique audiovisual treatment, we recommend the various short videos found on www.LumberjackBook.com

WILLIAM S. CROWE, a 17-year-old boy, stepped off the deck of the steamer City of Ludington and found, as he later wrote, "a strange new world such as I had never seen nor dreamed of." It was exactly midnight on May 29th, 1894 when he landed in the port Manistique, MI at the head of Lake Michigan. Before this trip, which started in Pennsylvania, he had never seen a ship, a large body of water, a sawmill, or even a big tree. He knew no one else in this small town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. William Scott Crowe, the oldest of six children was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania on September 23rd, 1875. His parents Mary Amelia ("Millie") White and Oliver Cameron Crowe were married in 1874 in New Castle. From the first position as time boy and office assistant, Will Crowe was soon promoted to head bookkeeper. In 1912, Crowe and Lou Yalomstein bought out the business and holdings of the Chicago Lumbering Company.