February 15, 2013
Belle Isle and The Park Question: 1871 – 1873 (Part I)
How, and why, Detroit spent three years arguing over the purchase of a park.
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May 7, 2012
Happy birthday to this guy
Celebrating General Friend Palmer’s birthday with “whiskey in the gentlemen’s dressing room, and champagne in the supper room.”
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September 16, 2011
The Old Log Cabin
The old Log Cabin at Palmer Park. Why a log cabin? What did it look like inside? Did people really live in it?
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June 17, 2011
General Friend Palmer’s scrapbooks
A voice from the past corrects the historical record.
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February 2, 2011
Detroit historians on weddings and marriages
Silas Farmer and General Friend Palmer on early French weddings and the shadow of mortality in marriage.
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January 12, 2011
New Year’s Resolution, 2011: Learn to dance the “Money-musk”
From General Friend Palmer’s account of lively French winter-time dance parties. Puts a little kick in your Thursday walkabout, I hope.
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