Eagle Feather and Louise is a fictional story that takes place sometime during Michigan’s logging days mid-1800’s. As loggers arrived and began clear-cutting the forests, the Native Americans were forced to leave the land they called home. Fate...
Big Jim and the Tamarack Queen is a fictional story based on the fact that a dance hall once existed on an island in Lake Tamarack and the steam boat, "The Valley Queen," that carried passengers to and fro sometime around the early 1900s. Surely ther...
The Sawmill Santa takes place in the small village near the Tamarack Lake. With no children her age, Louise is lonely. It's near Christmas, the early winter storm has stopped supplies from coming to the general store, and how is Santa going to find...
The Pickle Docks - I doubt if anyone has ever written a story about cucumbers. Not a terribly interesting vegetable by itself. Me? I don’t care for them raw or even in salads. Dill pickles, sweet relish, bread and butter chips? Now that’s a diffe...
The Scout Cabin During World War II, can you imagine what must have happened when the folks in the village of Lakeville learned that German POWs were going to be working on farms in the area? With school out that summer of 1944, two young boys spend ...
Gladys Returns is a continuation of the previous story about "Gladdie," called Gladys the Tamarack Goose. In the first story, Gladys was seriously wounded and couldn't fly south and winter was approaching. With help and encouragement from her "furry ...
When Cassie learns that the town's largest employer is closing its doors just prior to Christmas, she decides to do something about it. How can a little girl tackle a problem of this dimension? Find out how she (with the help of some fairies and elve...