by Brenda Sodt Marshall | Jun 10, 2019 | History
Camp Sober is a fading memory of American farm-life but thanks to a sawed-off shotgun and a deer hunting story too good to be true it won’t be forgotten. Camp Sober Camp Sober was a thing in the 1960s in Manchester. I wasn’t even conceived until the... 
by Brenda Sodt Marshall | Aug 24, 2014 | Food, History
I finally made it to German Park in July. It has been on my bucket list for a while. For over 75 years the German Park Recreation Club has been hosting picnics on the last Saturday in June, July and August. The club provides the live music, authentic German Food and... 
by Brenda Sodt Marshall | Nov 24, 2013 | History
Lula King was born on February 23, 1895, in Camden, Ohio and died on May 10, 1964, in Farmington, Michigan as Louise Catherine Brown. She died several years before I arrived but I’ve always felt her influence. This is probably why Lula has always intrigued... 
by Brenda Sodt Marshall | Sep 1, 2013 | History
A brand new type of blog post for me, a book review for “In the Blood” by author Steve Robinson. I just finished reading it and I am excited to recommend it. I could not put this book down, which surprised me because “In the Blood” was the... 
by Brenda Sodt Marshall | Jul 6, 2013 | History, Michigan
This is the emigration story of William George Sodt. In 1881 he traveled with 13 family members to the port of Bremen, Germany to board the steamship SS Salier. Only 11 of the 13 family members made it the US. We will never exactly know why they made the... 
