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Midwest Secrets: 2nd Edition 2025
The Midwest...thoughts of long country roads, fields of corn, red barns, white picket fences, and a simple life that is happy and peaceful. Maybe. Small town people are there for each other. Sharing stories in the grocery story, after church, at the barber shop, or over the fence in the backyard is a staple of the culture of the Midwest. Maybe. You see, there are some stories that no one shares...not with acquaintances, neighbors, friends, or even family.
Those secrets are what you'll find when you read about four small Midwestern towns. First, Steubenville, Ohio has a steel mill graveyard. Next, there is a very bizarre bazaar every year on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in Mackinaw City. And in Dyersville, Iowa, famous for the Field of Dreams, the baseball diamond created for the 1989 movie; no one speaks of the real ghosts in the town. Finally, you'll learn that Udall, Kansas, a small town devastated by an F5 tornado in 1955, harbors secrets that would cause Mother Nature herself trepidation.
You decide. If you live in the Midwest, you know I’m telling the truth. You still won’t talk about it. If you live elsewhere, like I do now, I’m telling. I’m not sorry. Yet.
Those secrets are what you'll find when you read about four small Midwestern towns. First, Steubenville, Ohio has a steel mill graveyard. Next, there is a very bizarre bazaar every year on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in Mackinaw City. And in Dyersville, Iowa, famous for the Field of Dreams, the baseball diamond created for the 1989 movie; no one speaks of the real ghosts in the town. Finally, you'll learn that Udall, Kansas, a small town devastated by an F5 tornado in 1955, harbors secrets that would cause Mother Nature herself trepidation.
You decide. If you live in the Midwest, you know I’m telling the truth. You still won’t talk about it. If you live elsewhere, like I do now, I’m telling. I’m not sorry. Yet.
196 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 15, 2025
About the author
Maribeth Slovasky
15 books1 followerMaribeth Slovasky was born and raised in the Midwest. She earned her B.S. in education at Youngstown State University and her MA in Education at The Ohio State University.
Ms. Slovasky moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1993. She worked as the director of an educational tutoring facility which she purchased from her employer in 1998. She owned and operated the business with her husband, who designed and opened a second location. They decided to close the centers in 2009.
Ms. Slovasky began freelancing and teaching online while raising her three children. She wrote two children’s books which were published through the Apple Bookstore.
She has written several memoirs beginning with the story of her father's experience in the US Navy at the end of World War II. She co-author Present for a Purpose with Sok-Khieng Lim Hardy about her experience as a Cambodian refugee during the Pol Pot era. Her latest published work is Duty. Honor. Corrections. written with Chuck Williams about his life as a corrections officer in the state of Ohio for more than 20 years. Her next release, yet to be titled, is about John Petersen, a Tacoma, WA, native who moved to Mexico in the 1990s, fell in love, and was unjustly arrested and spent time in a Federal Mexican prison because of it. Look for John’s story in early 2024.
Her autobiographical story is titled What's Your Can? 11 Strategies for Living a Spectacular Life with a Chronic Illness, She’s also published one novel, Midwest Secrets which is a series of four novellas about the strange things that happen in the heartland of America, the stories no one wants to share!
Ms. Slovasky moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1993. She worked as the director of an educational tutoring facility which she purchased from her employer in 1998. She owned and operated the business with her husband, who designed and opened a second location. They decided to close the centers in 2009.
Ms. Slovasky began freelancing and teaching online while raising her three children. She wrote two children’s books which were published through the Apple Bookstore.
She has written several memoirs beginning with the story of her father's experience in the US Navy at the end of World War II. She co-author Present for a Purpose with Sok-Khieng Lim Hardy about her experience as a Cambodian refugee during the Pol Pot era. Her latest published work is Duty. Honor. Corrections. written with Chuck Williams about his life as a corrections officer in the state of Ohio for more than 20 years. Her next release, yet to be titled, is about John Petersen, a Tacoma, WA, native who moved to Mexico in the 1990s, fell in love, and was unjustly arrested and spent time in a Federal Mexican prison because of it. Look for John’s story in early 2024.
Her autobiographical story is titled What's Your Can? 11 Strategies for Living a Spectacular Life with a Chronic Illness, She’s also published one novel, Midwest Secrets which is a series of four novellas about the strange things that happen in the heartland of America, the stories no one wants to share!
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