An essay I’m about to submit to the Southeast Michigan Tournament of Writers (1) weaves around the writing of my first book, a process that really strengthened my ties to my old home town. Started in February ’19, first published May ’21 and updated March ’23, The Accident tells of that awful week in October of ’68 when time stood still in my little Village after my friend and namesake Ike drove his dad’s station wagon bearing 4 other boys into an eastbound Grand Trunk freight. Nobody in the ‘burg alive at that time has ever forgotten it. You can get the book on Amazon as a Kindle for free (2). I print up a run every so often and always have some of the little books available. If you live in Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, Schoolcraft, or Vicksburg, you can get the book in their libraries. The Vicksburg Historical Society also has a couple copies.
Since it can be done easily, I’ve put a PDF of the book on my GoogleDrive, which you can access through this URL https://tinyurl.com/accident68.
Links to the 2 songs, book, Amazon author page, and newspaper article mentioned in the book can be accessed at https://tinyurl.com/sccidrnt-links
PS. If you check out the Amazon page, you’ll see that all 5 readers of the book who bothered to comment gave it 5 stars!
References
1. Tournament of Writers. https://vicksburgarts.org/tournament-of-writers
2. Ike R. The Accident. Kindle edition. Amazon.com 5/18/21 https://a.co/d/f8wE9Lq
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