November 2024 FREE BOOK!
Ellen Airgood is one of Michigan’s finest writers, and we are delighted to celebrate her most recent novel TIN CAMP ROAD as our Free Book for November 2024. From the back cover: “Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in winter is remote and beautiful; in the heat of summer, there is no place like it on earth. For single mother Laurel Hill, it’s the place where she grew up and the world she lives to share with her ten-year-old daughter, Skye–her home, and her soul…. But making a living isn’t easy, and when her landlord evicts her without warning, Laurel wonders if the independence she has treasured so fiercely is actually a liability.”
This is one of those novels that touches the soul! Our free copy is a new trade paperback, signed by the author!
To have your name included in our Wednesday, November 20 drawing just answer this question. Due to life’s unforeseen circumstances, have you ever had to live without electricity and/or heat? (Power outs due to storms count as a yes!)
Happy reading!
Sue
Yes a lot over the years. In my small community of Hartford/Cosby Tennessee, it isn’t uncommon to live without power for days maybe even weeks at a time. Use to be during the winter months, now it’s anytime. I remember being in elementary school and it was the blizzard of 93, the power was out for 2 weeks. We had a wood stove, so that helped with keeping us warm and cooking. It was also used for heating up the water to bathe in a little tub in front of that wood stove. Hanging blankets up across doorways to keep the heat in certain areas, and covering your windows with plastic and blankets to keep as much of the draft out as possible. Walking up the mountain roads covered in ice and snow just to get to your car so you could get out to get groceries and kerosene. I remember the smell of the kerosene heaters on full blast to keep the back bedrooms and bathroom warm. Even as an adult spending Christmas a few years back, without power with my kids and trying to cook spaghetti on a grill, and soup beans on a fireplace. Hard to do and takes a lot longer, but still doable and memories made with my kids made it all worth it. No technology on one of the most important days of the year, definitely worth the power being out for a week!
Yes! We have a hunting camp out in the middle of the woods. I absolutely love it there!!
Well yes we did probably multiple times. But, thankfully never for weeks; usually hours or days. Had a wood burner though so mostly just getting water to flush toilets or for drinking.
yes.when i lived in the country of southern ohio the piwer grid would go out especially in the cold harsh winter for about a week.no heat no electric. n i lived in an old country house not well insulated.glad i got out of there!
Yes but only power outages due to storms.