Shannon McRae is a Benton Harbor native. A professor of English and coordinator of American studies and film studies at the State University of New York at Fredonia, she previously authored Images of America: Manistee County with Arcadia Publishing, as well as articles on 20th-century literature, history, popular culture, and religion and is working on a longer book about jazz age spiritual tourism. With the generous participation and assistance of the business community, local historians, families, and individuals from both towns, she has assembled these beautiful images in order to share their compelling stories.