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GOOD TIMES, BAD TIMES

I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

II. The Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

III. The House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

IV. The Amenities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

V. The Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

VI. Mother and Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

VII. The Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

VIII. The Celebration of Christmas . . . . . . . . . . 26

1. Christmas Festivities at the Church . . . . . . 27

2. Christmas at Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

IX. Culture in Our Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

1. Childhood Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

2. Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

3. Our Musical World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

4. Social Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

5. Literary Pursuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

6. Intellectual Concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

7. Vicarious Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

X. Michigan and Its Lakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

1. Inland Lakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

2. Lake Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

XI. Industry, Commerce, and Transportation . . . . . .49

1. The Pere Marquette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

2. Town Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

3. Advent of the Automobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

XII. World War I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

THE SIGNAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

THE OLD SECRETARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

RELATED LINKS. Historical and genealogical information about Kent County, Michigan, where Sparta is located, is available from Western Michigan Genealogical Society Online at http://www.wmgs.org/links.htm#GenWeb and Kent County, MI, Genealogy and History at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mi/county/kent/ The URL for the official site of Sparta Township is http://www.sparta-township.com Viewers interested in inquiring about Sparta history can contact Gail Klein, Chairman of the Sparta Historical Commission, at gailcon@esagelink.com

Dr. Green’s Masters thesis was a commentary on a collection of letters written by the early nineteenth century publisher John Murray II and addressed to John Wilson Croker, the Tory critic who wrote for him in the Quarterly Review. This collection, which sheds important light on the English Romantic movement, has been acquired by the University of Iowa, along with several copies of Dr. Green’s thesis. All of Dr. Green’s transcriptions of the letters and annotations to the folios in which they are laid have been retained by the University. See http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/bookcolls/leighhunt/murray-croker.htm

A Writer’s Manual and Workbook, a college text which Dr. Green coauthored, can be procured online through amazon.com at http://www.techwritingjobs.com/shop/asinsearch_B000E13MRI/ Writers+Manual+and+Workbook.html. His essay on Coleridge, entitled “The Resistless Eye” and originally published in College English, has been reproduced in its entirety at http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-0994(194205)3%3A8%3C722%3AEIM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0. Another essay which first appeared in College English, a study of the genesis of Poe’s “The Raven,” can be found in the Poetry Criticism section of eNotes at http://www.enotes.com/poetry-criticism/raven-edgar-allan-poe/andrew-j-green-essay-date-december-1942?print=1. Dr. Green’s article “The Reform of Freshman English,” which was also first printed in the same magazine, is available at http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=00100994(194103)2%3A6%3C593%3ATROFFE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8.

The contents of this site were originally printed privately at South Bend, Indiana, in 2003. Inquiries may be directed to Richard and Derrick Green, the authors’ son and grandson, at rgreensb@earthlink.net and dgreensb@sbcglobal.net

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