By Bill Castanier on April 4, 2014
Photo by David Marvin
Sculpture by Leonard Jungwirth
Willow St. School Lansing
Shenandoah 2013
Out of the mists of Shenandoah,
Drawn from her seried ridges
And swirling fogs,
I conjure Bears.
Bears,
Mother and cub,
Mountain born,
Called from the mist to prove
The continued truth of earth magic.
Now
I shall conjure
Dragons.
by Jennifer Pahl Otto
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Bill Castanier has been an award-wining weekly newspaper editor, advertising and public relations executive in his 40 year career. In addition, he has been an executive with a newspaper trade association and founded Michigan’s first technology association, I-TE@M. He writes a weekly newspaper feature on Michigan authors and is on the Board of the Kerrytown BookFest and the Michigan Notable Book Awards. He has the only daily blog on Michigan literature (
Mittenlit) and founded
Spartanpodcast.com.
Love the photo as well