Dr. Armour To Sign Books Wednesday

David Armour will sign books he has written about the Mackinac area from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Colonial Michilimackinac Visitors Center in Mackinaw City Wednesday, August 9.

Dr. Armour, retired Mackinac State Historic Parks deputy director, is from Grove City, Pennsylvania, and is a graduate of Calvin College in Holland and Northwestern University, where he earned his master's and doctoral degrees. He taught Colonial American history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for four years before joining Mackinac State Historic Parks in 1967.

He wrote the centennial publication, "100 Years at Mackinac;" the souvenir booklets describing Colonial Michilimackinac and

Historic Mill Creek; "Attack at Michilimackinac," and "Treason? At Michilimackinac;" "Fort Michilimackinac Sketchbook," and a vignette on the Mackinac Island Scout Barracks.

With Dr. Keith Widder, he cowrote a comprehensive history of the fur trade in the Straits, entitled "At the Crossroads; Michilimackinac During the American Revolution."

Dr. Armour retired in 2003 after shaping its living history programs and exhibits, leading the development of Historic Mill Creek, heading the restoration of nearly all Fort Mackinac's original structures, and contributing to the reconstruction of many of the buildings at Colonial Michilimackinac.