My ‘Covid Lockdown’ Book – Part 2

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Linda’s Monday Morning Moanings

The roll out of ‘Farming in Northern Macomb County’, was more than we could have asked for, and I am sending a great thank you to all the people who made it out to the Washington Historical Museum on Sunday the 8th. The museum is such a special place and the historical society puts such loving care into keeping it updated and refreshed with revolving displays with many historical artifacts. The museum will be the location of a book presentation on the ‘Washington Township’ book on Thursday 23rd of September at 7:00 pm. Hope if you are interested in hearing about Washington Township you will join us. More about dates and times of book presentations coming up in the coming weeks blogs.

The Octagon House was this Sunday’s book signing, both these places were kind enough to give me a forum to let people have a chance to purchase this newest Arcadia Publishing book.

Couldn’t have been more please with the turn out, so many people came to see this lovely old home and what the ‘Friends of the Octagon House’ have done to keep it in top shape and in creating a great space for learning about the past times in Washington Township and the Loren Andrus family.

As I have called this my ‘covid book’, it took on special meaning as last year with the mandate about mask wearing, I was not recognizing many of the people I had contact with, but was nice to see a more normal part of life again. I was able to have some great conversations and talk about the stories listed in the book and some that weren’t able to make the cut. For some it was a good opportunity to purchase the other previous books that have been written in this series in the last couple of years.

Octagon House (author image)
(author image)

It was a very rewarding and fulfilling day and very nice to see the interest and excitement that these books bring to peoples lives. I am hoping they will spread the word and bring the farming life out to the public of Macomb County, I believe they will be pleased.

On that ‘wee note’, till next week.

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Published by Linda Osborne Cynowa

Linda Osborne Cynowa has lived in the Washington Township community since 2007. She moved to this area because of its beautiful hills, stunning scenery, and fruit orchards. Linda’s background is in photography, genealogy, and with a lifelong love of history, found herself working in a voluntary capacity with the Romeo Community Archives at the Romeo Kezar Library. She researched the many historic homes and families in the Romeo and Washington area, which led to a keen interest and knowledge of the area’s history. With a love of the Arcadia Publishing ‘Images of America’ books, she was always bothered that Washington Township wasn’t represented. When inquiring about this, she was told, “You haven’t written it yet”! With the encouragement of the Archivists at the Community Archives, a proposal was submitted for consideration. In September of 2019, WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP became part of the ‘Images of America’ series.

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