Product Overview
Author: Bull, Barbara E.
Paperback: 298 pages
Publisher: Cherry Point Publishing
The writings of Charles W. Jay, erudite, eloquent, and often hilariously satirical, offer a rare glimpse of 19th century life along Blackberry Ridge, the current location of Cherry Point Farm and Market in Oceana County. In a wider context, this collection is a valuable portrait of the resilient and thoughtful pioneers who came to the Michigan wilderness and made it the productive cornucopia we now enjoy.Â
After years of poring through microfilmed archives of local newspapers, Barbara Bull has selected a series of writings by Jay and others that has all the elements of a novel, especially when his neighbors take exception to some of his more critial observations about difficulties of life on "The Ridge." Sparks fly - and a great read is the result.Â
