This is a local story of perseverance and service and community-mindedness. The citizens of Post-WWII Springport, Michigan volunteered their money and their labor to build a community building/gym that was the talk of Jackson County. Their effort took two years.
Farmers donated trees from their wood lots and sawed them on a mill at the building site. Working with their own tractors and trucks, local teachers and businessmen, doctors and gas station owners hauled gravel and dug footings and mixed concrete and laid block. They did their own wiring and they set the roof of the building with massive arches that came from Wisconsin in halves on the train, each weighing 3,600 pounds. The local women fed the volunteers who worked mainly on Sundays.
The book includes indices of all who donated money, all who donated labor and all the women who brought food to feed the workers.
http://springportschools.net/NEW/arches.html- for ordering info
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http://www.aberdeenbay.com/published.aspx
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...that's a beautiful story. People back then I think had a greater sense of community. JC, you need format that book in a ebook version too.
ReplyDeleteI know I do....So many part-time jobs and so little time ( in between golf and boggle and exercise class and mowing and long walks with the dogs...lol)
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