More Small-Town Life Grand Haven in the 1950s and 1960s Hardcover – November 2, 2025

In his first book – A Small-Town Life: Grand Haven in the 1950s and 1960s – Dave described growing up in his hometown on the shores of Lake Michigan 60 years ago, drawing on period photographs from area archives to illustrate his memories.In More Small-Town Life, he returns to the same subject to complete his story about growing up as a post-World War II baby boomer in a small town that was about to change. It was a time when the area economy began to surge, with a swelling population that led to a burst of new development that would forever change Grand Haven from a small isolated town to a growing one on the move.Richly illustrated with over 170 rarely seen period photographs, More Small-Town Life completes Dave’s account of daily life in Grand Haven in the 1950s and 1960s, using his down-to-earth writing style to re-create this unique period in Grand Haven’s long history. Read more