Cass City, Michigan State Librarian's Excellence Award for exemplary public service. It was recognized for creating its own online bookstore, a traveling Business Resource Center, home delivery, one-on-one computer training, and a "very successful young-adult section" with "more than 750 books, magazines and paperbacks and seating for 14 people." Parts of the 1983 film "Going Back" were filmed in and around Cass City. The marquee of the historic Cass movie theater appears in one of the film's segments. This climatic region has large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the
John Cass John Cass Sir John Cass (February 1661 – 5 July 1718) was an English merchant, politician and philanthropist. He was born in Rosemary Lane, in the City of London, son of Thomas Cass, carpenter to the Royal Ordnance. In 1665, the family moved to Grove Street, in South Hackney to escape the plague. Cass became a merchant, builder and politician who served as Alderman, for the ward of Portsoken and in 1711 was elected a Sheriff of London. He was elected as one of the Tory MPs for the City in 1710; until losing to the Whig faction in 1715.