Celebrating General Friend Palmer's birthday with "whiskey in the gentlemen's dressing room, and champagne in the supper room."
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The Night Train
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General Friend Palmer
Happy birthday to this guy
by amy • May 7, 2012 • General Friend Palmer, History, Parties • 1 Comment
The Old Log Cabin
by amy • September 16, 2011 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, General Friend Palmer, History • 4 Comments
The old Log Cabin at Palmer Park. Why a log cabin? What did it look like inside? Did people really live in it?
Read more →General Friend Palmer’s scrapbooks
by amy • June 17, 2011 • Books, General Friend Palmer • 0 Comments
A voice from the past corrects the historical record.
Read more →Detroit historians on weddings and marriages
by amy • February 2, 2011 • General Friend Palmer, History, Weddings • 3 Comments
Silas Farmer and General Friend Palmer on early French weddings and the shadow of mortality in marriage.
Read more →New Year’s Resolution, 2011: Learn to dance the “Money-musk”
by amy • January 12, 2011 • General Friend Palmer, History • 1 Comment
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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