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SUMMARY:Michigan Notable Books Author Tour: We Kept Our Towns Going: The Go
 ssard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
DESCRIPTION:\n\nPhyllis Michael Wong\, author of We Kept Our Towns Going: 
 The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula\, will be presenting at 
 the Library as part of this year’s Michigan Notable Books Author Tour.\n
 \nAs Michigan’s Upper Peninsula mines &amp\; forests became depleted\, t
 he Gossard undergarment factories helped to sustain the local economy. The
  women who sewed the corsets and bras became known as the Gossard Girls. F
 rom the early 1900’s until the 1970’s\, the Gossard Girl’s helped to
  support their families and keep the town going during war depression and 
 labor strikes. From cutting cloth and distributing materials to getting pa
 id and having fun\, Phyllis M. Wong gives us a rare view of factory life f
 rom the women on the sewing room floor.\n\nAbout the author:\n\nPHYLLIS MI
 CHAEL WONG has held roles as a historian\, an educator\, and thirty-year 
 member of the university level academic world\, including as First Lady at
  Northern Michigan University (2004–12) and San Francisco State Universi
 ty (2012–19).\n\nMichigan Notable Books speak “to our state’s rich c
 ultural\, historical\, and literary heritage and proves without a doubt th
 at some of the greatest stories are found in the Great Lakes State.”\n\n
 Copies of the book will be available for sale at this event.\n\nThis progr
 am is part of the 2023 Adult Summer Reading Program: All Together Now.\n\n
 The Michigan Notable Book program is sponsored in part by the Library of 
 Michigan Foundation\, Michigan Center for the Book\, and Michigan Humani
 ties.\n\nThis program will be in the Library’s Lower Level meeting room.
  Registration is recommended. Scroll down to register on the Library’s E
 vents Calendar or call 734-426-4477 (ext. 120).
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