Join Katharine along with authors Bruce Catton, Margaret Atwood, Aldo Leopold, and others in this fantastic Literary Field Guide to the Great Lakes. Two of Katharine’s stories are  published in Milkweed Editions’ anthology, Stories from Where We Live: The Great Lakes (edited by Sara St. Antoine). In “Fireworks!” Julia can’t get close to her father because of her older sister. Then, one Fourth of July when driving home from the fireworks she discovers something awesome happening in the night sky. Here’s an excerpt: “Julia pushed her bare feet through the cold sand, plowing a quick furrow. The sand on the beach felt like silk, cold silk, tonight. In all of her ten summers, she could not remember a Fourth of July in northwest Michigan this cold. She…surveyed the bundled-up crowd of resorters and townspeople, looking for her dad.” 

In Great Northern Pike, John’s dad finally lets him come fishing, only to ignore his son in the boat until John hooks a huge northern pike. But John has forgotten the net! Find out whether John and his dad succeed with the fish. The ending is based on a true story. Here’s an excerpt: “All that July, John awoke at dawn to the low sounds of his father preparing to fish. There was the clatter of rods, the thud of the screen door, the creaking of the wheel that lowered the boat into Platte Lake. From his bed on the screened porch he’d listen until the whine of the motor faded away. He longed to go with him.”