When I In Awesome Wonder…Michigan’s Golden Coast Passenger Pigeon

In the middle of Ottawa County, where I now live, and near the shore of Lake Michigan is a small lake called “Pigeon Lake”. It is connected to the big lake by a small river. Now the area is pretty much overwhelmed by a gigantic, coal -fired, electric power plant. In the past, however, the area was known for being one of the primary roosting sites of the passenger pigeon, now extinct. My interest dates from my visits to the Holland Museum as a young schoolboy. It filled all the rooms of an old...