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PRESS RELEASE Contact: Bernard M. Licata (FOR RELEASE: April 30, 2012) 586‐530‐7100 [email protected] Lecture Series HARSENS ISLAND ST CLAIR FLATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY Harsens Island Michigan (April 30, 2102): The Harsens Island St. Clair Flats Historical Society will sponsor Author and Historian Arthur M. Woodford who will present: “TASHMOO: THE PARK AND THE STEAMER” Saturday May 12, 2012, 3:00 to 5:00 PM at the Lions Hall on Harsens Island; and, conduct a book signing for his newly released book: “Tashmoo Park and the Steamer Tashmoo”, Arcadia Publishing: http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=VPROD&Product_Code=9780738593548 Library Administrator and Historian, Art was born in 1940 in Detroit, he attended the University of Wisconsin studying civil engineering, and then went on to Wayne State University, where he graduated with a B.A. in History, and the University of Michigan, attaining the his M.A. in Library Science. Subsequently he served in various branches of the Detroit Public Library, and then as Assistant Director of the Grosse Pointe Public Library. He left Grosse Pointe in 1977 to assume the directorship of the St. Clair Shores Public Library. He retired in 2005. From 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 he served as interim director, Suburban Library Cooperative. His published works include: All Our Yesterdays: A Brief History of Detroit (1969); Detroit and Its Banks (1974); Detroit: American Urban Renaissance (1979); Charting the Inland Seas (1991); Tonnancour (1994, 1996); Village on the Lake: The History of St. Clair Shores (2001); This is Detroit: 1701-2001 (2001) published to celebrate Detroit’s 300th birthday; Michigan Companion (2012); Tashmoo Park and the Steamer Tashmoo (2012). He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Contemporary Authors, and Michigan Authors. Art served in the U.S. Naval Reserve (1958-1964). His avocations are tennis, bridge, reading, and model shipbuilding. He and his wife, Mary, reside on Harsens Island, on property that was once part of Tashmoo Park. The Historical Society takes great pleasure in presenting Arthur M. Woodford as our guest in The Society’s 2012 Speakers Series. Please make your reservations for this event, as seating is limited, by contacting Nancy Licata at: 810-748-1825 or via e-mail at: [email protected] . # The Society is a Michigan Non-profit Corporation; and qualified by the IRS as a 501 (c) (3). Its principal office/museum is located at the historic fire hall in Sans Souci, Harsens Island, Michigan.

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PRESS RELEASE Contact: Bernard M. Licata

(FOR RELEASE: April 30, 2012) 586‐530‐7100

[email protected]

Lecture Series

HARSENS ISLAND ST CLAIR FLATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Harsens Island Michigan (April 30, 2102): The Harsens Island St. Clair Flats Historical Society will sponsor Author and Historian Arthur M. Woodford who will present: “TASHMOO: THE PARK AND THE STEAMER” Saturday May 12, 2012, 3:00 to 5:00 PM at the Lions Hall on Harsens Island; and, conduct a book signing for his newly released book: “Tashmoo Park and the Steamer Tashmoo”, Arcadia Publishing: http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=VPROD&Product_Code=9780738593548

Library Administrator and Historian, Art was born in 1940 in Detroit, he attended the University of Wisconsin studying civil engineering, and then went on to Wayne State University, where he graduated with a B.A. in History, and the University of Michigan, attaining the his M.A. in Library Science. Subsequently he served in various branches of the Detroit Public Library, and then as Assistant Director of the Grosse Pointe Public Library. He left Grosse Pointe in 1977 to assume the directorship of the St. Clair Shores Public Library. He retired in 2005. From 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 he served as interim director, Suburban Library Cooperative.

His published works include: All Our Yesterdays: A Brief History of Detroit (1969); Detroit and Its Banks (1974); Detroit: American Urban Renaissance (1979); Charting the Inland Seas (1991); Tonnancour (1994, 1996); Village on the Lake: The History of St. Clair Shores (2001); This is Detroit: 1701-2001 (2001) published to celebrate Detroit’s 300th birthday; Michigan Companion (2012); Tashmoo Park and the Steamer Tashmoo (2012). He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Contemporary Authors, and Michigan Authors. Art served in the U.S. Naval Reserve (1958-1964). His avocations are tennis, bridge, reading, and model shipbuilding. He and his wife, Mary, reside on Harsens Island, on property that was once part of Tashmoo Park.

The Historical Society takes great pleasure in presenting Arthur M. Woodford as our guest in The Society’s 2012 Speakers Series. Please make your reservations for this event, as seating is limited, by contacting Nancy Licata at: 810-748-1825 or via e-mail at: [email protected].

The Society is a Michigan Non-profit Corporation; and qualified by the IRS as a 501 (c) (3). Its principal office/museum is located at the historic fire hall in Sans Souci, Harsens Island, Michigan.