title: Creating a Local Historical Book: Fiction and Non-Fiction Genres
author:  Tyler R. Tichelaar 
description: "Our committee would like to honor Tyler with this award in honor of his meticulous research, his enlightened and personal testimony about Marquette and his educational contributions to the preservation of Marquette's history." --The Marquette Beautifi cation &amp; Restoration Committee, presenting Tyler with the Barbara H. Kelly Historic Preservation Award "Tyler Tichelaar speaks from the heart about his love aff air with the town of his birth. Join him on a nostalgic tour of one of the great small cities of America." --Karl Bohnak, author of So Cold a Sky: Upper Michigan Weather Stories
zlib_text: PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and
  incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business
  establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  ISBN: 978-0-9911323-5-5
  
  Copyright © 2018
  
  Cover Design by: Regina Wamba of MaeIDesign.com
  
  Edited by: Jena O’Conner
  
  All right reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
  or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any
  means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without
  the prior written permission of the author.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dedication:
  
  To Mrs. Applegate,
  
  You once said that your legacy would only last a generation and honestly, I
  just can't have that happening. I need all my readers to know that without
  you, this book—all the books I have written--wouldn't exist.
  
  When we were introduced, I never imagined the empowering relatio