Grand times in Grand Rapids
Subtitle: pieces of Furniture City history
By: Gordon Beld
Contributors: Gemini Publications (Firm)
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781609496296
Subjects: Social life and customs; Anecdotes; Biography; History
Other titles: Grand Rapids magazine.
Notes: "Published in cooperation with Gemini Publications, publisher of Grand Rapids magazine, in which most of the stories in this book were first printed."

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Tom Rademacher; title: Gratitude for Grand People; title: Reminders of Our First Residents; title: The Lady and the Sword; title: Persistent Paddlers; title: Our First Businesswoman; title: GR's Road Feud; title: When the Curtain Went Up; title: Like Father, Like Son; title: The Pride of Wyoming; title: A Place to Hang Your Hat; title: Road to the White House; title: From Defeat to Delight; title: Steamin' Along on the Grand; title: Bridging the Grand; title: Fighting the First Fires; title: Women Started It All; title: Winters of Yesterday; title: The Branded Hand; title: Keepers of the Peace; title: Saddlebag Swamp; title: Kissing Bridges; title: Our Women's Role in the Civil War; title: Saluting the Monitor's Commander; title: Been There, Done That; title: Just Happy Memories Remain; title: A Lucky Lard Spill; title: When the Army Arrived; title: Gone but Not Forgotten; title: Frank Knox Delivered; title: GR's Other Congressman Ford; title: GR Goes to the Beach; title: The Wizard and Tamawaca; title: Newsman to Newsmaker; title: When the Roosevelt Women Visited; title: What a Wingding; title: Christmas a Century Ago; title: Steaming Over the Lakes; title: Moving Up the Hard Way; title: Grand Rapids Up in the Air; title: A Plant That Bombed; title: A Close-Knit Group; title: Tower at City Center; title: From Celebration to Calamity; title: When Downtown Was The Place; title: Hatching Whirlybirds; title: Girls and Diamonds; title: GR's Circle-C Cowboys; title: Riding the Pere Marquette; title: Fishing Wasn't Great-Just Okay; title: Finding a Home for GVSU; title: A Refuge from Vietnam; title: Catastrophe at the Cape.