ABOUT THE AUTHOR KATHY MENDOZA

Kathy Mendoza was born and raised in Cross Village, which is believe to be the oldest continual settlement in the state of Michigan.

Mendoza received her certificate in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin. She has won numerous awards for fiction, non-fiction, poetry and photography, including Writer of the Year from Writers North. Her work has appeared in more than 40 publications, both regional and national. She has also published four chapter books of poetry, and is a respected, and often quoted area historian. Watch for her next book, Looking Back at Cross Village and Beyond. It is a collection of some of Mendoza's historical research articles, which were previously published in various magazines and newspapers throughout Michigan.

Sit back and become a part of the 1940s and early 1950s in Cross Village, Michigan as a barefoot girl shares some of her memories. In these delightful stories, Mendoza takes you back to a simpler time, the days of her Northern Michigan childhood.

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