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