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Prior to becoming executive director of Meadow Brook Hall, a National Historic Landmark in Rochester, Michigan (2004-21), Geoffrey C. Upward served as the director of communications and marketing at Oakland University for 20 years. Before his tenure at Oakland, Geoff was publications director and museum editor for Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, where in 1979 he wrote and published the 50-year history of that institution, A Home for Our Heritage: The Building and Growth of Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum, 1929-1979.  Geoff began his career at The National Trust for Historic Preservation, where he served as assistant editor of Preservation News.  He also had stints as a managing editor at Michigan Bell Telephone Company, managing editor of Arabians (horse) Magazine, and as a foreign correspondent in England. He holds a B.A. in History from Albion (Michigan) College and an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Missouri.

Books

A Home for Our Heritage: The Building and Growth of Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum, 1929-1979 (author and publisher)

Wheels Across America calendar (author and publisher)

The Book of Birmingham (production consultant)

Menu for Life (creative and production director)

Diamond Gems (editor; Ernie Harwell, author)

The Babe Signed My Shoe (editor; Ernie Harwell, author)

A Place in the Country: Matilda Wilson’s Guidebook to Meadow Brook Hall (editor and publisher)

The Good News (Meadow Brook Health Enhancement Institute, publisher)

Duke and Dolly’s Adventure: A Meadow Brook Farms Coloring Book (author and publisher)

The Dodge Brothers: Detroit’s Automotive Geniuses (editor and publisher)

Riding on the Edge: Frances Dodge and Dodge Stables (editor and publisher)

Periodicals

Preservation News (National Trust for Historic Preservation, assistant editor)

The Herald (Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum, editor)

Tie Lines (Michigan Bell Telephone Company, managing editor)

Arabians Magazine (managing editor)

Birmingham Heritage Newsletter (founder and editor)

Oakland University Magazine (executive editor)

Meadow Brook Magazine (editor and publisher)

Upward & Redstone’s offices are located in Harbor Springs, Michigan.