Born: 12/08/1901   Batten's Crossing near Glennie , MI
Died: 04/24/1989
Parents: John W. and Johanna A. Batten
Spouse: Joseph Jerome Girard
Children: Victor M. , Marvin Eugene

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Black Loam and Buttermilk: downhome poems - Light Verse with illustrations by the author and M. E. Girard	Poetry	Adult	Francestown, N.H. : Golden Quill Press	1986
	Blow for Batten's Crossing: A Backwoods Odyssey	Non Fiction , Michigan	Adult	Sterling Heights, MI: Glendon Publishing	1979
	Rail Fences and Roosters : poems and almost poems - Light Verse with son, Marvin Eugene Girard	Poetry	Adult	Francestown, N.H. : Golden Quill Press	1978
	A Giant Walked among Them: Half-Tall Tales of Paul bunyan and His Loggers	Folklore	Adult	Francestown, N.H. : Marshall Jones	1977
	"Batten Me Down", a column	Poetry	Adult	Bay City Times
	Other writings: - Contributor of articles and photgraphs to magazines and newspapers, including Collier's, American Home, Nature, Field and Stream, and Outdoors		Adult

What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed. says, "I like writing that treks along without the seeming labor pains of creation. I dislike pompous, academical writing as if the author is suffering from the terminal, dread fear of split infinitives. I have been very fortunate in the editors leave my writing intact, exactly as submitted to them. I was once told by Malcolm M. Bingay (venerable editor of the Detroit Free Press) that I wrote with cadence, with a proclivity for for choosing words with 'ear appeal'. I simply like writing that 'picks up its heels' and get trekking down the printed page."

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