plainwell – Promote Michigan

Dianna Stampfler April 1, 2021April 4, 2021 books, carnegie, gettysburg, hemingway, librarian, libraries, michigan library, national library week, plainwell, reading

For the Love of Michigan Libraries

The first library that I remember in my hometown of Plainwell was inside 335 East Bridge Street (now a private home). My recollections are vague, but cloudy visions of story time are tucked in the back corner of my mind. I recall being jealous of my classmate Susan who later lived in the house…how lucky was she to reside inside a former library!

Promote Michigan Blog

Dianna Stampfler May 21, 2019May 23, 2019 150 years, celebration, corunna, milestone, muskegon, nashville, plainwell, portland, pure michigan, Sesquicentennial, south haven, wayne

Celebrating Michigan’s Sesquicentennial Cities

In 1869, the State of Michigan was just 32 years old (statehood day was January 26, 1837…while President Thomas Jefferson had first created the Michigan Territory on January 11, 1805). The population at the time would have been over one million (the 1870 census reports 1,184,059…up 58.1% from the previous census in 1860 (at 749,113).