Please join us at the Library of Michigan on October 11th for the Michigan Nautical Conference.

 

Keynote speaker Geoffrey D. Reynolds will talk about the iconic Michigan boat company Chris Craft.

 

 

Mr Reynolds has been the Director of the Joint Archives of Holland at Hope College since July 2001.  Previous to that he served as the collections archivist from January 1997 to July 2001. 

 

He graduated from Wayne State University with a Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) and an Archival Administration Certificate in 1995. 

 

He has worked at various times for Infoflo as a records management specialist, Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, General Motors Media Archives and Little Caesar's Enterprises on its Detroit Tiger baseball club archival materials. 

 

He currently serves as the chair of the Holland Historical Trust board of trustees, treasurer of the Dutch-American Historical Commission, membership chairperson for the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, and Executive Director of the Holland Area Historical Society.

 

His research and writing interests include the pleasure boat building industry of Holland and vintage race boat history.

 

For full agenda see:Michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan

 

It is going to be a great day!

 

 

Edwina A. Murphy

Michigan Collection Curator

Library of Michigan

702 West Kalamazoo St.

Lansing, MI 48909