Oral Histories - East Grand Rapids

Description

Memories of living in or visiting East Grand Rapids

Contributor(s)

  • Various residents, current or past and visitors of East Grand Rapids

Collection Items

Rosemary "Posie"Rindge  Bennett - A girlhood memory of East Grand Rapids, Michigan
Rosemary “Posie” Ward Rindge Bennett, East Grand Rapids Class of 1946
Interview, April 2, 2019, East Grand Rapids History Room with Mary Dersch, curator
AUDIO Files contain complete interview with biography.
Grew up at 607 Locust Ave SE
Father,…

Susan Lovell - founder of the East Grand Rapids Cadence Newspaper
HISTORY OF CADENCE by Susan Lovell
“In the early 1970s I was writing a newsletter for the East Grand Rapids School Board called the Three Rs: Read! React! Reply! The board hired me so they could communicate with the public regularly instead of only…

Alice Poisson Cariano, oral interview, part 3
Poisson Family history. The steamboats on Reeds Lake were lastly held by the Poissons of East Grand Rapids. Alice Poisson Cariano is the daughter of Captain Charles Poisson and granddaughter of patriarch John Honore Poisson. Her memories are…
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