Finally, someone else who is excited about the Semiquincentennial! We’re only a month away from the American Semiquincentennial—and it seems like nobody cares. I feel cheated. This could be the only major American history anniversary that I get to experience. I missed the Bicentennial by sixteen years, and if I make it to the Tricentennial I will be eighty-two. But, aside from the too-partisan official celebrations, our country seems to be welcoming its 250th anniversary with

It's not often that I walk into my small public library and see a book about Michigan's agricultural history--finding this on the new books shelf was a wonderful surprise! “As Dad sips his coffee, he tells us we’re going on a vacation to Lake Leelanau, Michigan.” That’s how Robert “Carlos” Fuentes begins his new book, The Vacation: A Teenage Migrant Farmworker’s Experience Picking Cherries in Michigan (Self-published, 2025). “He tells us on our vacation, we will camp in a ten