We Kept Our Towns Going - The Gossard Girls of Michigan's Upper Peninsula - Phyllis Michael Wong - Paperback Bog - Michigan State University Press -

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Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the Gossard Girls, women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ishpeming and Gwinn from the early twentieth century to the 1970s. As the Upper Peninsula’s mines became increasingly exhausted and its stands of timber further depleted, the Gossard Girls’ income sustained both their families and the local economy.