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Hot off the press! A new history of Buck Lake Ranch. This 133-page book parallels Newshound Production's video documentary about the park, but contains many images and anecdotes that do not appear in the video. To learn more about this produce and how to order copies, see our Books page, or the General Store. Other Products Among the recent offerings by Newshound Productions are a documentary video related to the book above and personal memoir about small-town journalism. The video documentary - Buck Lake Ranch: Nashville of the North - features interviews with Grand Ole Opry stars Bill Anderson, Jimmy Dickens, Loretta Lynn, Ray Price, The book-length memoir Newshound: Adventures of a Small Town-Journalist contains several stories about life and news gathering in northern Michigan's rural Antrim and Kalkaska counties - in and around the small communities of Mancelona and Kalkaska. |


Connie Smith, and Marty Stuart, as well as John Rumble, senior historian at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. There also are remarks by others whose memories of Buck Lake are rooted in first-hand experiences - such as Don Helms of the Drifting Cowboys, Joe Taylor and Patty Corbett of The Indiana Red Birds, Nancy DeVincent of Nancy Lee and the Hilltoppers and Hubie Friar of The Green Valley Boys.