On Seven Mile Road

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In August of 1945 the Marchenia family took up residence in a home on Seven Mile Road on the East Side of Detroit. It was a home with a potbellied stove and a generous front porch, lilac bushes and shade trees. It was a time when children spent their days flying kites, and watching clouds, and their evenings chasing fireflies and gazing at the stars. It was a golden period of childhood.

On Seven Mile Road is a story about growing up in the forties and fifties. It is a story about growing up in Detroit. And yet it is much more than either of these. It is a story about growing up at a time in America when life was simpler, gentler, when extended families lived close together, when people had less material wealth, but greater spiritual wealth.

Customer Reviews ::

Memories - Granny - Shelby Twp. MI
When my sisters and I are together a conversation often starts "remember when...". Reading On Seven Mile is like eaves-dropping on another family as they recall vignettes of their lives in the 40s and 50s. Although I was from another place, memories of growning up at that time is something with which I connect stongly.