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Maurice Shadbolt: A man of his time

OPINION: The life, works and loves of New Zealand’s first full-time professional writer.

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With a Little Money and a Lot of Love, One Upper Peninsula Woman is Helping Rural Michigan Residents Read More

Image credit: Amanda Kuhn A U.P. resident’s personal mission to help spread the joy of reading is the latest story from Detroit Free Press writer John Carlisle. On the now decommissioned K.I. Sawyer military base, close to a little town named Gwinn south of Marquette, resident Melissa Derby can often be found in an old pick-up truck dropping off books to rural residents of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. When the military based closed, Gwinn descended into poverty. Now, many residents rely on Facebook groups and pages that enable people to connect and swap everything from baby clothes to appliances for free. Derby got ahold of some books and offered them for free, and they were immediately snatched up. That sparked an idea; Derby decided to start a bookmobile to fill the need for books in the rural area.

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Upper Peninsula woman starts a homemade bookmobile

GWINN There were books on shelves and all over the table and ankle deep on the floor and everywhere in the little house except a small patch of carpet in the dining room on which Melissa Derby stood. “This is our living area, and I try to keep it to where the books are not in here,” the 40-year-old explained. “But it is overflowed. I’m trying to get bookshelves, but bookshelves are really hard to come by, especially when you’re looking for free.” Last summer, consumed by a fear that too many people are reading too few books, she founded the Read UP Bookmobile, delivering books for free to anyone who asked, no matter how far they lived from her home on the former K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base in the northern U.P.; no matter how busy she already was homeschooling her three kids while her husband, Stephen, works 12-hour shifts as a local truck driver. And no matter how little money they can spare for this effort.

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