This Old Road

Book Title:  This Old Road

Author:  Robert L Tusch

Availability: Amazon at the NQ99HQ bookseller

Price:  $33.00

Book Description:   Many of the immigrants to southwestern Michigan arrived in the middle 1800s by canal boat on the Erie Canal, then steam boating through Lake Erie and then by an old road across southern Michigan.  Their destination was any of the larger settlements in southern Michigan, but most notably, their destination was Grand Rapids or Holland.  This book will explore the origins of historic roads and then detail this old road across the state that was used to settle in Grand Rapids.  This should be an especially interesting story---at least to the author---as his ancestors travelled on the road to Grand Rapids ---the very road--- on which he lived 100 years later.

By June our research had indicated that the most probable old road on which they travelled was the Detroit to Saginaw Road to Pontiac where the Pontiac Shiawassee Trail took them to the Shiawassee River crossing.  From there, the Dexter Trail went on to Ionia.   At Ionia, they picked up an established trail to Ada and on to Grand Rapids.

Well, the book is finished as of 9.25.2020. All I need to do is to click on the little button on KDP and it's on the ready-to-print bookshelf.  But I am hesitant as my usual experience is that I always think of some way to improve the reading satisfaction after I let it sit for a bit.  So, its sitting for a bit.

As all authors will attest, letting the finished draft sit always results in more edits and that is what happened over the last month.  So here it is late 2020 and the book is off to the printer. Several re-reads produced a new draft which has now been published and ready for your reading enjoyment. Offer some feedback if you can do that:  rltusch@gmail.com.  You can also buy the book directly from the author by contacting me to make the arrangements.

220 pages, 37057 words, 79 illustrations.