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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We're meeting up at 1701 Cigar Bar to talk about the legacy of Detroit's once-leading industry -- tobacco.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Have a drink, learn about Detroit's original badass, then get together to banish our little red devil in high historical spirits.
Read more →If you're planning to join in the drunk lecture on Wednesday, please note a venue change! We had so much interest that Foran's won't fit all of us.
Read more →Get out your calendar! Here's where I'll be in the next couple of weeks.
Read more →I will be reading tomorrow (Wednesday) night as part of Wednesday Night Sessions. Vievee Francis and Jeff Kass are also reading. It will be great.
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