Michael Carolan
A Midwesterner living in Western New England. Publishing creative nonfiction, journalism, history & memoir, out of Dwight, Mass. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Michael is husband, father, son, brother, journalist & educator.
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- Sep 11, 2026
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- Jul 4, 2026
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Hands (opens the original)
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My grandmother died, unexpectedly, a month before and then this: I’m heading to work, an hour commute to Maryland, it’s an early fall day, crystal-clear, cloudless blue skies, and I had kissed my wife, our three-year-old boy and infant daughter (named for my grandmother) and I’m listening to the car radio in the northbound lanes of the George Washington Parkway and there’s a report by a newscaster who is using that tone that newspeople use when things seem unbelievable, and it’s about, well, a p
A Once-Great Employee-Owned Fourth Estate of the Middle West (opens the original)
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Sailing and Synchronicity: How We Arrived at Mishawum Nearly Four Centuries Ago (opens the original)
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My Revolutionary Family (opens the original)
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