For seven years, retired Michigan Oil & Gas News Managing Editor Jack R. Westbrook has been furnishing local Mt. Pleasant publications with local historical photo articles ranging from the significant to the whimsical. Westbrook was a regular monthly contributor to the Mt. Pleasant Monthly Magazine with a full page feature called "The Way We Were". When the Mt. Pleasant Monthly ceased publication, Westbrook began his "Mid-Michigan History" ongoing series of regular features in the Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun daily newspaper. Now Westbrook has assembled those articles, with relevant pages borrowed from his eight local photo history books and some never before published pages in this compact photo review of the Mt. Pleasant area's past. This compact volume is a 134 page volume of entertaining and educational snapshots of the rich heritage of mid-Michigan history and lore, guaranteed to furnish hours of nostalgic pleasure.