Fishtown
Subtitle: Leland, Michigan's historic fishery
By: Laurie Kay Sommers
Publisher: Arbutus Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Traverse City, Michigan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781933926469
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Fisheries; Biography; History
Other titles: Fish town
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-206) and index.
Table of contents: title: The last Fishtown; title: 1. A place called Fishtown : Fishtown maps; title: 2. Why Fishtown matters; title: 3. Before Fishtown; title: 4. Seasons of a fishery; title: 5. Fishing generations : Harting family and Otto Light ; Price family ; Cook and Brown ; Buckler family ; Kaapke and Firestone ; Maleski family and Peter Nelson ; Steffens family ; Carlson family; title: 6. Fish boats of wood and steel; title: 7. "Special link to the mainland": Fishtown's Manitou Ferry and Mail Boat; title: 8. Brotherhood of the lake; title: 9. Shanties and shore work; title: 10. Ice houses and the community ice harvest; title: Stories and shenanigans; title: 12. Saving Fishtown; title: Fishtown and the future.