Children’s Author To Sign Books at Island Store Fri.

At right:The cover of the new Great Lakes book.

Children’s book author and illustrator Charles Ferguson Barker will sign “The Day the Great Lakes Drained Away” at The Island Bookstore Friday, July 15, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Mr. Barker’s book illustrates for children the value of the Great Lakes and contains a forward by Governor Jennifer Granholm. The book also identifies newly discovered geologic features on the lake floors.

Mr. Barker is from Michigan and is a geologist at Wayne State University in Detroit.

The book is published by Mackinac Island Press.