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June 01, 2005
Islands
Our friend and customer Gerry Volgenau has published a new book "Islands: Great Lakes Stories" (Ann Arbor Media Group). The book is a collection of word-and-picture portraits of some 18 islands or island groups. In it are the stories that form each island's character - heroic tales of lighthouse keepers, Indian legends and stories of ghosts, pirates, brave and clever soldiers, dauntless voyageurs and even a Loch Ness-type monster.
Gerry is perhaps the best known travel writer-photographer in Michigan. For nearly eight years, he was the travel writer for the state's largest newspaper, the Detroit Free Press. During those years, Gerry wrote about and photographed places all over the world. But in particular, he concentrated on the Great Lakes and its islands. We recently framed an impressive collection of his photos for an exhibition at Pfizer and fell in love with many of his images.
You can order the book and photographs at http://www.penandcompass.com
Posted by Peter at June 1, 2005 11:27 AM
