Cameron

When is a zinnia not a zinnia? When the woman who plants it defies the canons of good taste.</p>Add family squabbles religious conflict small town snobberies. A dash of the exotic witches in Salem gangsters in the streets. Mix with the pacing oa novel the read-aloud style of Our Town and you have Cameron.</p>It grew in splendid isolation. Sure it felt every economic downturn and depended on outside technology to revive it. Yet Cameron developed a main street industry and identity of its own.</p>Then came the economics of scale Racial ethni religious tensions escaled into confrlicts. Conglomerates brough unemployement. One more statistic in the deindustrialization of America.</p> Michigan history 1830 to 2006</p> Patricia Averll has a BA in history from Michigan State Univerisy and a doctorate in American studies from the University of Pennsylvania. To contact her go to xlibris.com/averill.html. </p>