Annie O’Dowd was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929. She graduated from high school in 1947 and worked in a box factory before trying out for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1949. She was initially placed in the Chicago…

Chuck O'Conner enlisted in the U.S. Marines while living in Illinois and served 3.5 years in the service. During his service Chuck obtained the rank of Staff Sergeant and fought in the field during the Vietnam War. He was involved in the battle at…

Robert O'Brien was born on October 31, 1922 in Detroit, Michigan. His family moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan when he was a baby and he grew up there. In the spring of 1942 he enlisted in the Navy with the intention of becoming a pilot for the Navy.…

Frank O'Boyle joined the US Navy after enrolling at Harvard University in 1942. He served as a communications officer on board his ship during the war and returned to Harvard in 1946.

Stephen Nyenhuis was born in 1949 in Princeton, Minnesota. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and was eventually drafted into the Army in 1969. Stephen was sent to Fort Knox, Kentucky for eight weeks of basic training and was then sent to…

Ernest Nunley served in the Army Air Corps during WW II. He worked on an airbase in England with the 5th Service Squadron, 8th Air Force, and was stationed in Germany after the war.

Skit written and performed at the Lincoln Park Camp by Felicitas Nunez in 2002.

Felícitas Nuñez lives in Bermuda Dunes, California. She and Delia Ravelo are co-founders of Teatro de Las Chicanas. The concept began when women of Movimiento Estudíantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) brought their mothers to a university setting. There…

Binding of Mr. Munchausen: Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures - Beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder, as originally reported for the Sunday Edition of the Gehenna Gazette…

Raymond Novakoski was born on January 25, 1951, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He enlisted in the Navy Reserve in August 1970. In the fall of 1970 he reported to Great Lakes Naval Station, Illinois, for two weeks of basic training then received two weeks…

Chester Novak is a WW II and Korean War veteran who served in the United States Air Force from February 1944 to 1952 in the Aleutian Islands and Korea respectively. In this interview, Novak talks about growing up on a farm and joining the Army at 15…

Mid-Winter Pow-Wow flyer, Bronson MI, March 14-15, 1981, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection.

Christopher Notestine was born in Charlevoix County, Michigan, in 1980. He joined the Army at the age of 19 and did his basic training at Ft. Benning in Georgia. He became part of the 2nd Battalion 23rd Infantry which used Strykers. Christopher and…

Binding of The Spoilsmen, by Elliott Flower, published by L.C. Page & Company, 1903.

Jack Norton was born in Ottawa County, Michigan, in 1920. He graduated from high school in 1937 and enlisted in the Navy in 1938. He trained as a machinist's mate and sailed first on a transport ship in the Pacific, then on the destroyer USS Barker…

The Village of Eastlake Master Plan and Recreation Plan was prepared by the Northwest Michigan Council of Governments in February 2012.

Mark Northrup was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1957. He graduated high school in 1975 and attended St. Olaf College in Minnesota before opting to enlist into the Coast Guard for its Officer Candidate School. Northrup attended the OCS program in…

Annual Indian Awareness Days flyer, Marquette MI, September 13-20, 1971, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection.

Northern Michigan Ottawa Association Annual Meeting flyer, Petoskey MI, June 23, 1984, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection.

Annual All State Indian Pow-Wow flyer, Petoskey MI, July 20-21, 1967, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection.

Buford North was born in Paragould, Arkansas, in 1922. His family later moved to Flint, Michigan where he attended high school. He enlisted in the Navy in June 1942. He received basic training at Great Lakes Naval Station, Illinois and transferred to…

Michigan State University Annual Pow Wow flyer, East Lansing MI, February 16-17, 1991, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection.

Michigan State University Annual Pow Wow flyer, East Lansing MI, February 17-18, 1990, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection.

Michigan State University Annual Pow Wow flyer, East Lansing MI, February 18-19, 1989, collected by Edward Gillis included as part of his Native American publication collection.