December 9, 2013
BEEP BEEP! Bus tours are back!
Join me for a jaunt around pre-automotive Detroit on Dec. 21.
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July 23, 2013
Where to celebrate Detroit’s birthday
July 24, 1701 – July 24, 2013. Here’s where to party.
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June 28, 2013
Log Cabin Day is this Sunday, June 30
Thomas Palmer’s log cabin is open for visitors this weekend. Plus ice cream and square dancing.
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March 25, 2013
Upcoming events: Nerd Nite 313 + A westward bus tour
Talking about Detroit’s first Prohibition this Thursday, March 28, at Great Lakes Coffee. Showing you around pre-automotive Detroit on Saturday, March 30, with the Detroit Bus Company
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January 13, 2013
Drunk History is tonight, Mon. Jan. 14: Dan Austin shares Detroit’s forgotten landmarks
Meet the author of “Forgotten Landmarks of Detroit” tonight at McShane’s.
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December 19, 2012
Drunk history is tonight, Thurs. Dec. 20, at 1701 Cigar Bar
We’re meeting up at 1701 Cigar Bar to talk about the legacy of Detroit’s once-leading industry — tobacco.
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December 4, 2012
TONIGHT: Repeal Day is Weds., Dec. 5 at the Sugar House
Join us for a party at the Sugar House celebrating the repeal of Prohibition.
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November 28, 2012
Drunk history: Detroit’s Delectable Past with Bill Loomis, Thurs. 11/29
Bill Loomis, author of”Detroit’s Delectable Past,” tell us all about muskrat, milk peddler wars, taverns, drugstore whiskey, passenger pigeons, Christmas traditions, and so much more.
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November 20, 2012
Frontier Anarchy: Pre-automotive Detroit history tour with THE DETROIT BUS COMPANY
Three-hundred years of history. Dozens of places you’ve been meaning to visit. The story of Detroit in person, from Hog Island to Log Cabin Park, Scott’s Folly to the State Fair. And we’re going to the bar.
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October 21, 2012
Celebrate with us as Stevens T. Mason turns 201
In Michigan’s 175th year as a state, celebrate the life of our first, youngest, and fieriest governor: the hotspur Stevens T. Mason. We gather to toast his memory this Thursday, 10/25, in Capitol Park.
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October 5, 2012
Palmer Park’s annual architecture tour is this Saturday, Oct. 6
And the log cabin will be open!
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September 7, 2012
Briefly: The U.S. Brig Niagara is in town
See the ship that won back Detroit and learn how to shoot a flintlock pistol during a very special War of 1812 Bicentennial Navy Week.
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August 29, 2012
Detroit Labor History at the Lager House – Thursday, Aug. 30
The Detroit Drunken Historical Society welcomes Tony Paris of the Sugar Law Center to drink a bunch of beers, then walk us through the labor movement from its beginnings during the Depression to its radical re-imagining during the 1960s — and its impact on present-day labor relations.
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August 17, 2012
Detroit on Summer Vacation – Tonight at the Mackenzie House
Where to go on summer vacation when you’re a hopeless Detroit history nerd.
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April 25, 2012
Upcoming events: Drunk history at Slows + Reading in Farmington
The Detroit Drunken Historical Society takes over the side room at Slows to talk about the city’s mutable past. And I’m giving a reading at the Farmington Public Library on May 10.
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March 21, 2012
Upcoming events: Chief Pontiac + Nain Rouge
Have a drink, learn about Detroit’s original badass, then get together to banish our little red devil in high historical spirits.
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