tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97046112024-03-07T13:58:51.719-05:00Zinta Aistars: On a Writer's JourneyZinta Aistarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047861403285268505noreply@blogger.comBlogger708125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9704611.post-47809319568018655802017-02-14T11:18:00.003-05:002017-02-14T11:30:58.941-05:00Between the Lines: Sleeping Tiger Awakes<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">According to a <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-%20%20tank/2016/07/22/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-%20%20in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">2015 report</a> by the Pew Research Center, Islam is the second largest religion after Christianity, with 1.6 billion Muslims around the world. Approximately 3.5 million of them live in the United States. Muslims are the majority in 49 countries.</span></div>
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Anne Marie Ameri of Dearborn felt she had to write <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Sleeping-Tiger-%20%20Within-Mainstream/dp/1533560838" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Awakening the Sleeping Tiger Within: Breaking the Power of Mainstream Media’s Portrayal of Islam and The War on Terrorism</em></a> (2016) to address misperceptions.</div>
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“I couldn’t sit back and do nothing,” Ameri says. “There was biased and inaccurate reporting by those who are not Muslim and had their own agenda, telling us what Muslims believe, making up things like if you kill a person, you will be rewarded with 72 virgins in heaven. Actually, what our holy book says is that if you kill one person, it’s as if you have killed all of humanity.”</div>
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Ameri studied history and psychology at Henry Ford College and Eastern Michigan University before earning her doctoral degree at Wayne State University. She also studied law at the University of Detroit-Mercy.</div>
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Ameri decided to apply her research skills to writing the book, and to develop strategies for overcoming misinformation about Islam. She says people should stay informed using a diverse selection of media to get an overall picture. That way, Ameri says they will be better able to separate what is true from politically motivated propaganda.</div>
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Ameri says demonstrations around the country protesting the Trump administration's recent executive order banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries have been ...</div>
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<a href="http://wmuk.org/post/between-lines-sleeping-tiger-awakes" target="_blank">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AT WMUK</a>.</div>
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<a href="https://cpa.ds.npr.org/wmuk/audio/2017/02/BTL-Ameri-Full-Web.mp3" target="_blank">LISTEN TO THE COMPLETE INTERVIEW</a>. (18:11)</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">To learn more about Zinta, visit www.zintaaistars.wordpress.com </div>Zinta Aistarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047861403285268505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9704611.post-82002311521777090362017-01-30T14:36:00.002-05:002017-01-30T14:36:52.668-05:00Between the Lines: Writing Through Cancer<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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Brown’s tenth book, a collection of poetry called <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">The Woods are on Fire: New and Selected Poems</em> (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), is due out in March, and most of Brown’s published work is poetry. She was Delaware's poet laureate from 2001 to 2007. But Brown's ordeal with cancer turned her toward prose.</div>
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Brown says writing about her cancer treatment as it happened, “Was a pretty darn important part of the treatment. I write all the time anyway, and I had a <a href="http://fledabrown.com/blog/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">blog</a> that I had started almost a year before the diagnosis. It had been mostly about writing. I didn’t write about the cancer at first, but after surgery, I decided it was so much the center of my life then that I might as well.”</div>
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The blog gained many followers and Brown turned her posts there into the memoir, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">My Wobbly Bicycle</em>. She found that writing about her treatment helped her cope. She described her experiences with chemotherapy and radiation therapy; dealing with hair loss; and the fears and hopes that rose along with a new realization of her own mortality. And she described her recovery.</div>
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“This became my most important writing,” Brown says. “I would lie in bed at night thinking about how I wanted to word something.”</div>
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“These are poems culled from the last five years or so,” Gross says. “As I put them together, I found a theme of change…Many of them were inspired by a class I took at Western for my MFA, with Bill Olsen."</div>
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Gross says Olsen helped him focus on poetry as he studied creative nonfiction at Loyola University with Dean Young before coming to Western Michigan University. Gross's stories, essays, and poems have appeared in a variety of national journals, including the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Alaska Quarterly Review</em>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Fourth Genre</em>, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Mid-American Review</em>, and <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Redivider</em>.</div>
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Gross worked as editor-in-chief at <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Atticus Review</em> for some years. His approach to poetry then was not necessarily how well he understood a particular poem as to how deeply it moved him.</div>
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“There are poems that I’ve admired without necessarily being moved,” Gross says. “I tend to like poetry in which I can find my bearing rather than something that is so abstract that it’s difficult to find an entry point. That can be almost embarrassing to admit, but I can also say that I’ve been moved by poems that I can’t say I totally understood.”</div>
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The latest addition to Borst’s portfolio is <a href="http://www.bookbugkalamazoo.com/product/kalamazoo-%20%20coloring-book" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">The Kalamazoo Coloring Book</em></a>, published by Bookbug and released in November 2016. This coloring book is for adults and is a collection of iconic Kalamazoo images.</div>
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"Bookbug contacted me and said they were interested in doing a coloring book,” Borst says. “I’ve been doing comics in and about the Kalamazoo area, so they thought I was the right person to do it. They contracted me and gave me creative control over the project.</div>
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The book includes 31 drawings of Kalamazoo, mostly of the downtown area. Borst says he started out from a list of about 50 places provided by Bookbug, then pared it down to what appealed most to his artistic sense.</div>
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“Alf will have a girlfriend with him,” Brett says. “Or wife. They have a nice box they will live in, with a perch in it, and on my day off I put them in a wire pen so that they can get some sun. We took a bunny along another year, because the kids love it!”</div>
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Alf, along with a myriad of other creatures, appears throughout Brett’s newest children’s book, <a href="http://janbrett.com/bookstores/gingerbread_christmas_bo%20%20ok.htm" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Gingerbread Christmas</em></a> (Putnam, October 2016). It's the story of Gingerbread Baby, who pops out of the oven and brings a gingerbread band to the town Christmas festival. Everyone enjoys the joyful holiday music — until they catch a whiff of the gingerbread smell and realize those musicians are delicious cookies.</div>
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Brett has written and illustrated 35 books for kids that have sold more than 40 million copies. She says each book takes about a year of work to create the detailed illustrations that bring it to life.</div>
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“When I have an idea, I think about whether it will sustain me for a whole year,” Brett says. “I want to be able to feel like there’s this discovery, this curiosity, there’s learning … all these things are going to build up this momentum.”</div>
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Brett's books often feature wildlife she enjoys having at her two-acre home in Norwell, Massachusetts. But she has a special love for chickens and raises exotic breeds that she sells and shows. Brett has about 60 chickens, including Silkies, Buff Brahmas, Cochins, Silver Phoenix, and Polish varieties.</div>
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<a href="http://wmuk.org/post/between-lines-bus-chickens" target="_blank">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AT WMUK</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://cpa.ds.npr.org/wmuk/audio/2016/11/BTL-Brett-Full-Web.mp3" target="_blank">LISTEN TO THE COMPLETE INTERVIEW</a>. (27:16)</div>
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Stocking says she wanted to understand why so many people in the United States are behind bars. Teaching creative writing inside the prison helped her do that. Stocking relates the stories of inmates, many doing time for murder and other violent crimes. She soon found that the inmates were like anyone else, anywhere. </div>
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They broke down in tears speaking of their children and the other loved ones they had left behind. They longed for the simple pleasures of life: a good meal, a long walk in nature. Stocking says writing became the key for many inmates to open up what was locked up inside. Stocking’s stories about working with inmates open her new book of travels beyond her home territory.</div>
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“From there, curiosity took me to El Salvador, a couple tours in the Peace Corps, and traveling in between, coming back again and again to the Leelanau Peninsula,” she says. “I just wanted to understand the larger world. I was curious about ... "</div>
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<a href="http://wmuk.org/post/between-lines-life-adventure" target="_blank">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AT WMUK</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://cpa.ds.npr.org/wmuk/audio/2016/11/BTL-Stocking-Full-Web.mp3" target="_blank">LISTEN TO THE COMPLETE INTERVIEW</a>. (23:11)</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">To learn more about Zinta, visit www.zintaaistars.wordpress.com </div>Zinta Aistarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047861403285268505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9704611.post-77601612099364607822016-11-03T12:25:00.002-04:002016-11-03T12:25:42.346-04:00Between the Lines: Working Invisible<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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“It was an interesting time to be working in construction,” Hoffman recalls. “I was doing it right up until 2007, so right up against the housing bubble and the recession. From 2004 to 2006, we couldn’t build houses fast enough. And then, a weird thing happened. Just as I was leaving, those houses went into foreclosure and whole subdivisions would have for sale signs up. And a lot of my friends lost their jobs.”</div>
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Hoffman says that experience, “tinged with a sense of guilt as we were building these irresponsible houses,” brought him to the world he wanted to write about. He was fascinated and haunted by the way that line of work burgeoned and then quickly vanished. Hoffman says it brought out vivid aspects of the personalities around him, the bonds between workers, and their intimate conversations. He says they remain invisible to the world because, if they do their work right, they fade into the background. The smooth drywall in a house, the perfect paint job, the expertly shingled roof, are all forgotten when they're done right.</div>
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<a href="http://cpa.ds.npr.org/wmuk/audio/2016/10/BTL-Hoffman-Full-Web.mp3" target="_blank">LISTEN TO THE COMPLETE INTERVIEW</a>. (17:05)</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">To learn more about Zinta, visit www.zintaaistars.wordpress.com </div>Zinta Aistarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047861403285268505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9704611.post-16632454682322552152016-10-25T19:49:00.003-04:002016-10-25T19:49:33.673-04:00Between the Lines: Of Wine and Murder<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.08px; word-spacing: 0.4px;">A glass of Michigan wine, served with murder. The eighth in </span><a href="http://aaronstander.businesscatalyst.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.08px; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0.4px;">Aaron Stander‘s</a><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.08px; word-spacing: 0.4px;"> Ray Elkins’ Mystery Series, </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.08px; line-height: inherit; word-spacing: 0.4px;">Murder in the Merlot</em><span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.08px; word-spacing: 0.4px;"> (Writers & Editors, 2016), takes readers to yet another story set in Northern Michigan — this time to the vineyards.</span></div>
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“I started writing this series about 20 years ago but I didn’t publish the first one until maybe 14 years ago,” Stander says. “It was about my experiences up here in <span style="font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.08px; word-spacing: 0.4px;">Northern Michigan.”</span></div>
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Stander grew up in metro Detroit and later taught in college there, but he moved north to Traverse City in 2000. The area was familiar because of many visits during his youth.</div>
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“I needed a protagonist for my first book,” he says. “So this series has been about this local sheriff and it mostly it takes place in Leelanau County. Part of it has to do with place — the lakes up here are just so amazing. So place is always a character. But the series is also about the differences in people and the economics that play such an important part in the sociology of this region.”</div>
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Along with teaching workshops on crime writing, Stander also hosts<a href="http://interlochenpublicradio.org/programs/michigan-writers-air" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Michigan Writers on the Air</em></a> on Interlochen Public Radio. Any other free time finds him paddling his kayak, where he often muses on plots and other writing ideas. He also builds kayaks, the small, narrow boats pioneered by the Inuit people of the Arctic.</div>
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For many years, when wine drinkers considered fine wines, thoughts have traveled overseas to Italy or France, or cross-country to the West Coast. Michigan wines, however, are collecting awards and bringing those wine-tasting thoughts back to home shores. Michigan is now the fifth largest state in wine production. <o:p></o:p></div>
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According to Michigan Wines, the official website for the Michigan wine industry, nearly $800 million is added to Michigan’s economic value from the wine industry, adding about 5,000 jobs. Our wine industry accounts for about $42 million in state and local taxes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Most of Michigan grapes are grown in wineries 25 miles from Lake Michigan. The lake effect adds about four weeks to the growing season, producing a large variety of grapes for reds and whites, dry to sweet, along with fruit for fruit wines. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“We encourage people to explore Michigan wines,” says Dean Bender, co-owner along with Crick Haltom of the <a href="http://www.lawtonridgewinery.com/" target="_blank">Lawton Ridge Winery</a> on Stadium Drive, with vineyards next door in Lawton. “It’s an evolving and fast-improving industry. At our price point of $12 to $19 for a variety of reds and whites, we hold our own with wines from across the world.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lawton Ridge Winery opened its doors in 2008 with a production facility and tasting room, but its vineyards are rooted back in the 1980s. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Up until the 90s, a group of five of us made wine in our garages,” Bender says. “What fruit we didn’t use, we sold to St. Julian until 2007. But then we decided to create our own winery—Lawton Ridge Winery. The convenience of being so close to our vineyards was a real advantage.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Lawton Ridge Winery currently sells 14 varieties, red and white, although, Bender says, that number varies each year, depending on what the vineyards produce. Their most popular wine is Two-Handed Red, a blend of three or four grape types, giving the wine a fruity character. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.tempovinowinery.com/" target="_blank">Tempo Vino Winery</a>, downtown Kalamazoo on East Michigan, has their own unique approach—they work with customers to develop each their own wine, including customized labels. The customized wines are especially popular for special occasions such as weddings and anniversaries. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“We opened in 2005, so we are now celebrating our 11<sup>th</sup> anniversary with lots of wine specials, introducing new wines, and fun events,” says Alex Mantakounis. He co-owns the winery with wife, Irene. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I was a homebrewer/wine maker as a hobby,” he says. “I met Irene, a chemical engineer, when she was looking to make a career change and she wanted to do something in the wine business. She came across this business plan of the small boutique winery and decided that would be a good fit for us. Since I had experience in fermentation, it seemed the natural thing to do.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mantakounis grew up in a wine-loving family. His father was a wine aficionado and collector and owned his own vineyard. Mantakounis squashed his first grapes into juice at age 5, and today, he is a certified somelier (wine steward) and certified beer judge. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Making your own wine, Mantakounis says, is an easy process. The staff guides the customer throughout the process, helping to select grape types. The first step is the best: sampling ready wines. The winery carries about 25 types. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“By tasting the wines, we narrow down what kinds you like and develop a recipe to suit your tastes. Each batch of wine makes 25 to 30 bottles of wine,” Mantakounis says.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On Sprinkle Road in Portage, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sangriashop/?fref=ts" target="_blank">The Sangria Shop</a> offers another unique twist on local wines. Frances Vega and Fernando Costas brought their family traditions and heritage from Puerto Rico to Kalamazoo—in the form of Sangria. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“When my wife Frances and I moved here, we were invited to a potluck,” Costas says. “That was something new to us. In Puerto Rico, we have Sangria at all our gatherings, so that’s what we brought to this party. All my friends tend to be beer drinkers, but when they tasted our Sangria, they always asked us to bring more.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The recipe for the Sangria was Frances Vega’s, a blend of spices and fresh fruits, and sells for about $13 per bottle. There is no comparison, Costas says, to what is sold in supermarkets. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“We do everything by hand,” he says. “We process the fruit by hand, nothing canned, and we try to use fruit from local farmers whenever possible. No preservatives, no sulfites, no artificial flavors. We even make the labels by hand.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Sangria Shop opened its doors in 2012 with part-time hours: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays with limited hours, although Costas encourages customers to give him a call with a special order. He’s happy to open the doors by appointment. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Right now I’m working as a chemical engineer at Pfizer,” says Costas, “but I’m hoping to someday make this a full-time job.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Costas and Vega also sell their Sangria at farmers markets in Portage and Battle Creek. The wine has a shelf life, refrigerated, of up to three months because of the fresh fruit content. Different flavors are released according to season and available fruit. In October through February, The Sangria Shop will stock their popular Ambrosia, similar to a mulled wine and meant to be lightly heated. Other offerings include Fragum, with strawberries; Clasica, with citrus and seasonal fruits; Stone Fruits, with a mix of seasonal summer fruits; Tropical, with pineapple and other tropical fruits; and Wildberry, similar to a blush wine with tart fruits. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Keith Peterson was enjoying the scenery and the warmth of Julie’s arms wrapped around his waist from behind him on the motorcycle. For a moment, he had allowed his eyes to wander away from the road. One moment was all it took. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I didn’t see the pickup in front of us stop,” he says. “My brakes locked, and we spun out. I went flying over the handlebars, and Julie fell off the back of the bike.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Keith and Julie had been dating for a couple of years, but since they worked together at the same bank—Keith headed up the legal department, and Julie managed human resources at National City Bank (now PNC Bank)—they thought it was a good idea to keep their office romance quiet. When friends and colleagues heard about the accident, the jig was up. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Bike riding in the country, however, was only one of their shared passions. There was another, much safer, one—music. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The couple today shares their Portage home with three cats and a still-growing collection of 13,000 music CDs. Several hours a day, Keith sits in a leather chair, centered in the Peterson living room, and listens to music, sometimes with a cat curled in his lap. <o:p></o:p></div>
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While Keith now works at Plunkett Cooney, a legal firm, Julie is regional manager at PNC Bank. Julie became familiar with <a href="http://gilmore.org/" target="_blank">The Gilmore Keyboard Festival</a> through PNC Bank’s sponsorship of The Gilmore. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Donating to the Rising Stars Series is our favorite way of giving,” Keith says. The Rising Stars Series brings outstanding young artists from around the world to Kalamazoo. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Every year, we choose one young artist to sponsor,” Julie adds. “We have dinner with them, and we talk about everything, not just music. This will be our fourth year sponsoring Rising Stars.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We give the maximum amount to get the highest matching gift,” Keith says. “It’s a wonderful gift to your employees.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Think of it this way,” Keith says. “You won’t miss the money. But planned giving can be critical to The Gilmore as it grows. It can be the most significant gift of your lifetime.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“When it comes to giving to the Kalamazoo community, The Gilmore knocks it out of the park,” Keith says. “They bring the world to Kalamazoo. These artists are heavily subsidized by donor gifts. That’s why The Gilmore so appreciates its donors.”</div>
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“And why we so appreciate great music,” Julie says. “Our kids say that we’re the only house where the kids have to ask the parents to turn down the music when they come to visit.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">To learn more about Zinta, visit www.zintaaistars.wordpress.com </div>Zinta Aistarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047861403285268505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9704611.post-86651044034031934222016-10-03T21:20:00.002-04:002016-10-03T21:20:36.951-04:00Between the Lines: Kids and Books<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">for </span><a href="http://wmuk.org/post/between-lines-healing-journey" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WMUK 102.1 FM</a><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><a href="http://wmuk.org/people/zinta-aistars" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Between the Lines</a></b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m. (or listen anytime online), on <a href="http://wmuk.org/people/zinta-aistars" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WMUK 102.1 FM</a>, Southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of </span><b style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Between the Lines</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">.</span><br /><br style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">This week's guest: <a href="http://wmuk.org/post/between-lines-kids-and-books" target="_blank">Dr. Robert Needlman</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.08px; word-spacing: 0.4px;">Early childhood expert Robert Needlman is a leading pediatrician, professor, and author. He's also the co-founder of </span><a href="http://www.reachoutandread.org/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.08px; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0.4px;">Reach Out and Read</a><span style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.08px; word-spacing: 0.4px;">, a literacy program that helps millions of children grow up loving books. And Needlman is a widely-sought speaker on early learning, literacy, and developmental-behavioral pediatrics.</span></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #3d3d3d; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.08px; word-spacing: 0.4px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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“Overall, the United States doesn’t do as well as it should,” Needlman says. “The richest and most powerful country around, and we’re not even near the top of the list in terms of literacy.”</div>
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Needlman developed the Reach Out and Read program in 1989. It's designed to play a part in regular pediatric care. He works with parents to teach them storytelling skills, and with children to give them foundational language skills. Needlman says learning to read and enjoy books also gives kids living in poverty a better chance at success in school, and improves behavior by giving them the ability to express their thoughts and feelings in more constructive ways.</div>
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<span style="color: #3d3d3d; letter-spacing: 0.08px; word-spacing: 0.4px;">“It often doesn’t take much,” he says. “Just a little encouragement, a little empowerment, one or two picture books the kids can take home from the doctor’s office, and the parents and kids are off and running, doing wonderful reading aloud. And that’s because it’s ..."</span></div>
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<a href="http://wmuk.org/post/between-lines-kids-and-books" target="_blank">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AT WMUK</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://cpa.ds.npr.org/wmuk/audio/2016/09/BTL-Needlman-Full-Web.mp3" target="_blank">LISTEN TO THE COMPLETE INTERVIEW</a>. (14:06)</div>
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<a href="http://wmuk.org/people/zinta-aistars" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">BROWSE OTHER BETWEEN THE LINES INTERVIEWS</a>.</div>
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“Every election, the book has another life added to it,” DiPucchio says. “This year, it’s had all kinds of interest in it. Rutgers University did a program in which they sent out copies to congresswomen and mayors and senators, encouraging them to take<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Grace for President</em> out into their communities and read them as part of their ‘Teach a Girl to Lead’ program.”</div>
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DiPucchio’s newest book, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Everyone Loves Cupcake</em>, deals with sweeter matters. The character Cupcake is a perfectionist – every sprinkle in place – but finds herself dealing with self-esteem issues.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">To learn more about Zinta, visit www.zintaaistars.wordpress.com </div>Zinta Aistarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047861403285268505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9704611.post-41294829404347997392016-09-10T15:44:00.002-04:002016-09-10T15:44:56.903-04:00Between the Lines: In the Context of Love<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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Sienkiewicz thought she’d try her hand at fan fiction. It seemed easy enough. She developed her characters and a story line and shared it with a friend who worked as an editor. He encouraged her to keep at it but give the manuscript a more serious turn and develop it into a novel.</div>
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Sienkiewicz laughs again, “I had no clue how to write a novel, but he said, 'Oh no! it’s really easy! Fourteen chapters and a new character in every chapter…'”</div>
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Writing her debut novel was anything but easy. Sienkiewicz was hooked, though, and her characters and their story carried her along as she rose to the challenge of writing something more substantial.</div>
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“I even had an agent for what I call my starter novel,” she says. “But the agent wasn’t able to sell it. I wanted to learn more about novel writing, and I thought back to an article I’d read in the early 90's, called 'My Father was a Rapist.'”</div>
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Sienkiewicz was intrigued by the article, which related the stories of several women who learned that they were born out of the act of rape. Each deals with that knowledge in a different way. For Sienkiewicz, it became an important part of what would become her debut novel, <a href="http://lindaksienkiewicz.com/in-the-context-of-love/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">In the Context of Love</em></a>(Buddhapuss Ink, 2015). The novel has since become a 2016 Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, a 2016 Reader’s Choice Women’s Fiction Finalist, and earned Great Midwest Book Festival honorable mention.</div>
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In the words of Kalamazoo’s own Bonnie Jo Campbell, “Linda K. Sienkiewicz’s powerful and richly detailed debut novel is at once a love story, a cautionary tale, and an inspirational journey. In the Context of Love should be required reading for all wayward teenage girls — and their mothers, too.”</div>
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By age seven, Davidson had written her first novel. “It was terrible,” she admits.</div>
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By age fourteen, she convinced her school teacher to tell the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Los Angeles Times</em> that there was a talented writer in her classroom. The newspaper followed up and <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jul/12/local/me-%20%2051579" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">interviewed</a> the young author.</div>
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“I began submitting to agents and editors when I was in middle school,” Davidson says. “And I was learning that to break into publishing was about the hardest thing to do in the world. I thought it would help to have been in the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">LA Times</em>, but it didn’t.”</div>
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Davidson says her first sale to a publisher was a <a href="http://www.danicadavidson.com/Manga_Art_Book.php" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">book on manga</a> — the Japanese comic art form. Anime is the animated version of manga.</div>
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“That was a surprise to me. The publisher actually approached me. I had by then a history of writing articles on manga, so they asked me to write a book about it.”</div>
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Davidson was soon writing articles for hundreds of publications, magazines, and websites. The list includes MTV,<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">The Onion</em>, CNN, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Ms. Magazine</em>,<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Publishers Weekly</em>, and many more. But she especially enjoys writing for the young. Her "Minecrafter" novels, stories built around characters in the popular video game, are written primarily for ages 7 to 12.</div>
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Published in <a href="http://www.secondwavemedia.com/southwest-michigan/features/No-compromise-in-saving-the-Earth-0825.aspx" target="_blank">Second Wave Southwest Michigan</a><br />
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<br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">Andy won’t tell you his last name. He prefers anonymity. The focus, he says, should be on Earth First. Earth, always, first. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">“You know, I’m a pretty normal guy,” Andy says. “I work a day job. I’ve always been a nature lover—I grew up around the Kalamazoo River. When an oil spill happened—that was my wake-up call.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">Andy is referring to the oil spill in 2010, when an oil pipeline operated by Enbridge burst, resulting in the largest inland oil spill in U.S. history. Thirty-five miles of the Kalamazoo River were closed for a clean-up that lasted years. About 300 acres of wetlands alongside the river were destroyed, much of it during the clean-up process, Andy says. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">By 2014, Andy was ready to do his part. He founded </span><a href="https://fenvalleyearthfirst.wordpress.com/about/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #009dda; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px; text-decoration: none;">Fen Valley Earth First!,</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;"> or FVEF!, a local group branching from the international movement, Earth First!</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">The Earth First! movement grew as a grassroots effort from the point where most environmental groups leave off—not shying away from protest and civil disobedience when the occasion arises. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">The Fen in Fen Valley Earth First! refers to the prairie fens, or wetlands, of southern Michigan.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">“The wetlands are a crucial part of Michigan ecology,” Andy says. “Our wetlands are one of the most damaged ecological systems by agriculture. When people talk about loving nature, they tend to think of tree huggers, but we are based in the Kalamazoo River Valley, and the focus of FVEF! is on the Kalamazoo River watershed.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">Andy likens the wetlands to kidneys, filtering and cleaning the water systems of the Earth, recharging groundwater aquifers. Because so much of Michigan area is covered by wetlands, they tend to be more protected in this state than in others. Michigan wetlands are home to nearly 1,200 native plant species.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">“About three-quarters of Michigan wetlands have been destroyed since European settlement,” Andy says. “That’s a decline of roughly 11 million acres down to 3 million.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">As Andy tells it, he was sitting around with a group of friends, kindred spirits in their love for the Earth, talking about what they could do. They wanted to do more. Fen Valley Earth First! was born from a desire to make a difference in eco-defense, beginning with efforts to do something about industrial projects that cause serious damage to the ecology of Michigan. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">“Membership depends on participation,” he says. “We’re a small group, eight to 12, maybe more during events. When we feel it is necessary to take action, we use every tool in the toolbox. Petitions, blocking construction, whatever is most effective without intentionally doing harm to any living species.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">Fen Valley Earth First! offers two-hour workshops prior to making protests, discussing what one might expect. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">“We discuss legal issues, how to interact with the media, define our goals and strategies and tactics,” Andy says. “We want people to understand the risks. Prepare bail money in case you get arrested. Earth First! is not afraid of controversy.”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">A recent protest took the shape of ...</span><br />
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Published in <a href="http://www.secondwavemedia.com/southwest-michigan/features/Season-Press-brings-Black-history-alive-0811.aspx" target="_blank">Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media</a><br />
August 11, 2016<br />
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<a href="http://wmuk.org/post/between-lines-bringing-black-history-alive" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #009dda; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px; outline-offset: -2px; outline: -webkit-focus-ring-color auto 5px; text-decoration: none;">This story</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;"> reported by Zinta Aistars is reprinted with permission from WMUK. It first appeared on WMUK's Between the Lines. Listen to WMUK's </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">Between the Lines</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;"> every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">We’ve all heard stories about the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But there are other stories to tell about African-American history. Writer Sonya Hollins and her husband Sean Hollins, a graphic designer, have created a series of children’s books about African-Americans in Michigan who aren’t necessarily famous but whose stories are inspiring. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">The first is </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Benjamin-Losford-Handy-%20%20Dandy-Clippers/dp/0986317381?%20%20ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #009dda; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Benjamin Losford and His Handy Dandy Clippers</em></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">. They published the book through their own company, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/seasonpresspublishing/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #009dda; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Season Press, LLC</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">, in January 2016. It's illustrated by Kenjji Jumanne-Marshall.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">One of the reasons the couple decided to publish the series is because they feel the books fill a gap in traditional history books. "A lot of kids learn history about people like Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman--a lot of people that are traditional in history," says Sean Hollins. "But this book is bringing out a story about people who are right in our own community. We can touch the things they built. This brings history a lot closer."</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span caption="" captionfromimage="false" class="content-image-left" src="http://www.secondwavemedia.com/southwest-michigan/galleries/s_small_cover-.jpg" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: block; float: left; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 280px;"><img src="http://www.secondwavemedia.com/southwest-michigan/galleries/s_small_cover-.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 260px;" /></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Robot, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24.2857px;">While Benjamin was not initially impressed with barbering as a career, he learned the trade and eventually became ...</span><br />
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“We also work with <a href="http://www.miunited.org/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Michigan United</a> and the <a href="http://www.michiganpeoplescampaign.org/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Michigan People’s Campaign</a>,” Allison Kennedy says. She's a co-facilitator at Humans Beyond Boxes. “We recently helped to get Fair Chances For All passed,” she says, referring to an ordinance approved by the Kalamazoo City Commission that requires employers to hold off on background checks until after a job applicant is given serious consideration and a chance to interview.</div>
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“It means not putting a box to check off on an application,” Kennedy says. “And it means not considering a record that is more than seven years old, or charges that don’t have anything to do with the job requirements.”</div>
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Humans Beyond Boxes' mission includes working for legislative change to ease the path back into society for those who've been behind bars.</div>
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Jerrin Yarbrough, one of the founders of Humans Beyond Boxes, speaks about healing through creative writing that he's experienced.</div>
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“I mostly use Humans Beyond Boxes as my own recreational release,” he says. “Technically, I was one of those who helped with the set-up. But now I use it mostly to cultivate my writing (and) to meet others with similar interests. Many of us use it as an emotional release. Humans Beyond Boxes is somewhat subjective in what it offers to individuals. For me, it is something I don’t get in other places.”</div>
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The United States currently has the world’s largest prison system, with a prison population of about 2.2 million, including 45,000 in Michigan. The recidivism rate is around 70 percent.</div>
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Humans Beyond Boxes brings its programs to places such as <a href="http://www.kpep.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">K-PEP</a>, the Kalamazoo Probation Enhancement Program, to help people cope with the challenges of adjusting to life in the world outside once they're released. They hold many events at the <a href="http://www.thisisfire.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">FIRE Historical and Cultural Arts Collaborative</a>, 1249 Portage Road, in Kalamazoo.</div>
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“Otherwise people tend to find us by word-of-mouth. Or just call me. My cell phone and email are on our website,” says Kennedy.</div>
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Kennedy says shame is a predominant emotion she sees in people who do reach out. Incarceration leads to ...</div>
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<a href="http://cpa.ds.npr.org/wmuk/audio/2016/08/BTL-HumansBox-Full-Web.mp3" target="_blank">LISTEN TO THE COMPLETE INTERVIEW</a>. (18:00)</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">To learn more about Zinta, visit www.zintaaistars.wordpress.com </div>Zinta Aistarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047861403285268505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9704611.post-1488989931433533602016-08-15T16:45:00.000-04:002016-08-15T16:45:03.181-04:00Between the Lines: Wilderness Women<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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“I live in a more remote setting than a lot of Yoopers,” Kimball says, referring to the name used for those native to the U.P. who can be resistant to newcomers. “At first, we didn’t have a bathroom. I showered outside the cabin with one of those water bags hanging from a tree. We either had a Porta-Potty or we used the woods. So we added things as we went along.”</div>
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The two-room cabin where the lives of these three women intersect is accessible only by seasonal roads. They are open only during the few short months when the U.P. isn’t buried under snow. Norna deals with the wilderness head-on: hunting, foraging, fending for herself, and defending herself whenever needed. Kimball says she's the most perplexing and unknowable character. Her daughter Aissa is fresh from a divorce, trying to heal wounds, while Jane finds herself up against a forest fire.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">To learn more about Zinta, visit www.zintaaistars.wordpress.com </div>Zinta Aistarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047861403285268505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9704611.post-8216450365376174742016-08-13T14:34:00.004-04:002016-08-13T14:34:42.006-04:00Between the Lines: Commonwealth of Letters<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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The <a href="http://www.readwritelive.org/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters</a>, located at 758 Wealthy Street SE, in Grand Rapids, is a non-profit writers' center. GLCL’s mission is to encourage, promote, and celebrate the literary endeavors of writers in the Great Lakes region.</div>
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GLCL was founded in 2013 and offers reading series, talks about the craft of writing, classes and workshops, book launches for authors in the Great Lakes region, and programs for teens and and young adults. It also sponsors writing contests and offers consultations with professional writers, among other services.</div>
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<a href="http://www.robertjamesrussell.com/sea-of-trees/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Robert Russell</a> is the director of development at GLCL. Asked about what GLCL does, he brims with enthusiasm. “Literary arts are open to everyone. Anyone can write down thoughts. You don’t have to be published. There is healing in writing. It’s a kind of therapy, and it also connects people. I’ve always thought the literary arts are vastly under-appreciated.”</div>
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Individual membership is $40 a year, allowing the member access to the Writers Hub, private events, discounts on manuscript consultations, workshops and classes, and other benefits. Student membership is $25 annually. A hundred dollars makes you a "Friend of GLCL." Most events are open to the general public.</div>
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“As a nonprofit, we survive on memberships and fund drives,” Russell says. “Our annual drives raise funds for GLCL, general operating funds, help us bring in more staff, increase the hours of the Writers Hub, add additional programming, pay writers, and so on. We do sell books by our members, but it’s all these other events that distinguish us from bookstores.”</div>
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<a href="http://wmuk.org/post/between-lines-commonwealth-letters" target="_blank">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AT WMUK</a>.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">To learn more about Zinta, visit www.zintaaistars.wordpress.com </div>Zinta Aistarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047861403285268505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9704611.post-80725298445356387342016-08-10T13:15:00.007-04:002016-08-10T13:15:53.556-04:00Between the Lines: Michael Zadoorian's Movie<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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Film rights to the novel, published by William Morrow in 2009, had already been bid on several times. But Zadoorian says he learned to take it all with a grain of salt. Sparks of interest faded to nothing. This time, though, the deal was solid. Filming will begin later this year.</div>
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“It's essentially the story of an older couple in their 80's,” Zadoorian says. “They decide to escape all their doctors and their adult children, all the people who seem to be running their lives. They decide to kind of kidnap themselves and go on a last vacation together. The 'Leisure Seeker' is the name of their RV.”</div>
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Against the wishes of their frantic children, Ella (played by Mirren), who has terminal cancer, and her husband, John (Sutherland), who has Alzheimer’s disease, take off on their final cross-country journey on Route 66, heading west to California. The novel follows their adventures and misadventures. There are touching moments when the shadow of ...</div>
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Joseph Ross, Physical Therapist, Spectrum Health Center for Acute Rehabilitation, had an idea how to make loading a wheelchair into an auto trunk easier. He talked with Scott Daigger, manager, innovation and entrepreneurship, Spectrum Health Innovations. He explained how he had created the idea for a patient’s mother who was in her 60s, struggling with loading her wheelchair into her car.</div>
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Next step: create a better lever. They worked through several prototypes and finally came up with a lever that looked something like a pitchfork. They called it LoadMate™.</div>
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“Isaac Vainio is a libriomancer from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,” Hines says. “At the start of the "Magic ex Libris" series, he's gotten himself into trouble and has been put into a kind of magical time-out. Over the course of the series, various magical things get loose— well, I don’t want to spoil that!”</div>
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Hines is the author of twelve fantasy novels, including the "Magic ex Libris" series, the "Princess" series of fairy tale retellings, the humorous "Goblin Quest" trilogy, and the Fable Legends tie-in <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Blood of Heroes</em>. He’s won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. Hines’ newest book is <a href="http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/315857/%20%20revisionary-by-jim-c-hines/9780756409708/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Revisionary</em></a>, the fourth book in the "Magic ex Libris" series (DAW, February 2016).</div>
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Hines says <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Revisionary</em> takes a different turn from most fantasy books: “So many urban fantasy books and series have the assumption that magic exists but it’s a secret. I look around at how well we as a species keep secrets—and I have a really hard time believing we would be able to hide this. We’re not that good. Over the course of the four 'Magic ex Libris' books, the secret starts to come out.”</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">To learn more about Zinta, visit www.zintaaistars.wordpress.com </div>Zinta Aistarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047861403285268505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9704611.post-47629615839852792262016-07-16T11:39:00.000-04:002016-07-16T11:39:04.002-04:00Between the Lines: Terror in the City of Champions<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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“A lot of people are surprised to hear about the Black Legion,” Stanton says. “Back in its day, it was nationally known. People were familiar with it once it was exposed in May 1936. It was even more violent than the Ku Klux Klan. They were operating throughout the Midwest, particularly in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, and they flourished in factory towns like Detroit, Pontiac, Flint and Jackson. The numbers were estimated in the tens of thousands of members.”</div>
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Stanton says Legion members were sometimes forced to join after extreme pressure. People were pulled into the organization throughlies and threats. The Legion sometimes threatened to harm their families if they refused to join.</div>
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Stanton says, “They were tricked into going to a meeting they thought was perhaps a barbecue or a card game, then finding themselves surrounded by white Protestant men in black robes and hoods with skull and crossbones insignia with guns pointed at them.”</div>
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But Detroit wasn’t just a place of darkness in the 1930's. As the Black Legion flourished, so did ...</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">To learn more about Zinta, visit www.zintaaistars.wordpress.com </div>Zinta Aistarshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14047861403285268505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9704611.post-6381031446709714672016-07-03T12:26:00.000-04:002016-07-03T12:26:13.963-04:00Between the Lines: Made in Michigan<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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“Annie Martin, who is the acquisition editor of the Made in Michigan Writers Series, had this vision ten years ago to do a literary series,” Liebler says. “That’s pretty unusual for a university press. They’re not known for poetry and fiction as much as for academic books. She tapped me from the Detroit area and Michael Delp up at Interlochen. By putting us two together, she figured she could build a good series of eclectic writers.”</div>
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Detroit native <a href="http://www.michaelzadoorian.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Michael Zadoorian</a> is one of those contributors. His collection of short stories, <a href="http://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/lost-%20%20tiki-palaces-detroit" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #168dd9; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit</em></a>, was published by the series in 2009.</div>
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“I was reading the foreword to the anthology about just how diverse the Michigan landscape is - its communities and types of people,” says Zadoorian. “It’s hard to pin down the idea of what makes a Michigan writer. I’m going to be ...</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">for </span><a href="http://wmuk.org/post/between-lines-healing-journey" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WMUK 102.1 FM</a><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate</span><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"></span><b style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"><a href="http://wmuk.org/people/zinta-aistars" style="color: #888888; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Between the Lines</a></b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> is my weekly radio show about books and writers with a Michigan connection. It airs every Tuesday at 7:50 a.m., 11:55 a.m., and 4:20 p.m. (or listen anytime online), on <a href="http://wmuk.org/people/zinta-aistars" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WMUK 102.1 FM</a>, Southwest Michigan's NPR affiliate. I am the host of </span><b style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Between the Lines</b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">.</span><br /><br style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;" /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">This week's guest: <a href="http://wmuk.org/post/between-lines-bringing-black-history-alive" target="_blank"><span style="color: #888888;">S</span>onya and Sean Hollins</a></span></div>
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One of the reasons the couple decided to publish the series is because they feel the books fill a gap in traditional history books.</div>
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“A lot of kids learn history about people like Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman - a lot of people that are traditional in history,” says Sean Hollins. “But this book is bringing out a story about people who are right in our own community. We can touch the things they built. This brings history a lot closer.”</div>
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Benjamin Losford, the main character in the book, was rescued from a Kentucky slave plantation by his fugitive father, who had escaped earlier. The family moved to the town of Edmore in Michigan, where the father made a living as a barber for the white men in the community. </div>
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<a href="http://wmuk.org/post/between-lines-bringing-black-history-alive" target="_blank">READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AT WMUK</a>.</div>
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<a href="http://cpa.ds.npr.org/wmuk/audio/2016/06/BTL-Hollins-Web.mp3" target="_blank">LISTEN TO BETWEEN THE LINES ON AIR</a><span style="font-size: 1.125em; letter-spacing: 0.08px; line-height: 1.75em; word-spacing: 0.4px;">. (8:58)</span></div>
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<a href="http://cpa.ds.npr.org/wmuk/audio/2016/06/BTL-Hollins-Full-Web.mp3" target="_blank">LISTEN TO THE COMPLETE INTERVIEW</a>. (21:40)</div>
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