0553 We are Almost to the Camp

Keweenaw County Historical Society. This children’s book is a story about the former mining camp of Central around 1950 where author Barbara Buckett Leary vacationed for many summers as a child half a century after the mine closed. It includes photos, artwork and stories about houses at Central, poor rock piles, berries, living without electricity, playing a Victrola, refrigerating foods in a stream, and other things Leary wanted her grandsons, Alvin and Francis Leary, to experience through her writing. Hardcover.