March 4, 2019
Countless cemeteries in Detroit follow the model of L.A’.s “happy cemetery”
The “memorial park” cemetery was created from whole cloth by a California salesman. An interview with his grand-nephew.
March 4, 2019
The “memorial park” cemetery was created from whole cloth by a California salesman. An interview with his grand-nephew.
January 29, 2018
The mid-century mausoleum may be under-appreciated and rarely visited, but most cemeteries have one. Turns out, it’s kind of a Detroit original.
November 21, 2017
We have pheasants. Why don’t we have turkeys? Or do we?
July 28, 2017
Michigan used to be on Central Time. Things changed.
February 11, 2017
The cemetery on Woodward Avenue is the final resting place of many of the most important Detroiters of the 20th century.
December 22, 2016
Victorian-era shops of Detroit, and their eccentric wares and keepers.
November 23, 2016
Let’s keep this new tradition alive.
November 3, 2016
Pay your respects to a suffragist this election season.
July 24, 2015
Detroit has changed a lot in 314 years. It has also changed a lot in five years.
May 12, 2015
Incorporated in 1867, Woodmere is “the cradle of cremation in the Northwest.”
March 24, 2015
Born in a gold rush town, Detroit historian Clarence Burton amassed — and kept in his house! — the most important archive of books, papers, and manuscripts on Detroit, Michigan, and the Old Northwest ever collected.
March 2, 2015
Made in Detroit: Beets, sweet peas, and a most perfect pickling cucumber.
January 31, 2015
There were six of them. 150 years ago, they all voted yes.
November 9, 2014
A century before Motown, Detroit’s pioneering black musicians started syncopating beats.
September 1, 2014
A quirk of annexation means this old pioneer cemetery is only partially in Detroit.
May 11, 2014
“In the name of them who have gone from us and those who shall come in the future, I accept this building as a place where souls may be uplifted from evil ways.”