Costco to Host Book Signing for Legendary Locals of Detroit Author

LIVONIA, Mich. - Nov. 14, 2014 - PRLog -- Detroit sports a very uneven background. The city dates from 1701, when Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac planted the flag of New France, some 75 years before America became a nation.

Almost two-thirds of Detroit's history was spent as little more than a frontier military outpost--home to French farmers and fur traders who shared the quarters with the soldiers. But as the 20th century arrived, the impact of the automobile roused the city from its slumber. Within a century's time, the industry set in motion by Henry Ford produced a skyrocketing population, a diverse mosaic of ethnic groups, and levels of culture and affluence rivaled by few other places.

The literature of Joyce Carol Oates, the architecture of Albert Kahn, and the music fostered by Berry Gordy enriched life and created the "Paris of the Midwest." But growing pains were inevitable: growing racial instability culminated in the insurrection of 1967, inflicting deep wounds yet creating new opportunities for harmony and justice that were capitalized on by Rev. William Cunningham. Today, efforts continue to remove the tarnish from this corner of the "Rust Belt."

Join the Author for a Book Signing!

Where:  Costco

20000 Haggerty Road, Livonia, MI 48152

When:  Friday, December 5th, 2014; 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

And

13700 Middlebelt Road, Livonia, MI 48150

When:  Saturday, December 6th, 2014; 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online (http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9781467111263/St-Louis-i...).

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Discover more than 8,500 small towns and downtowns at http://www.arcadiapublishing.com.

Legendary Locals

of Detroit

By Paul Vachon

Images of America Series

128 pages/ softcover

Published: May 13, 2013