Who’s celebrating his bicentennial tomorrow? THIS GUY! Stevens Thomson Mason is one of my all-time favorite characters from Detroit history. Determined! Dreamy! Stubborn! Stylish! Triumphant! Tragic! The boy governor had it all. This time last year we were re-interring Stevens T. Mason for the FOURTH time. Buried first in New York City after his...
Read more →Walter Owen Briggs: unshakable, lavishly wealthy, sentimental, racist, beloved, reviled. Someone should write an opera about him.
Read more →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 →A Hungarian chocolate mousse torte recipe with a tantalizing connection to Detroit history.
Read more →How did I not know about this guy? Henry Jamison Handy (That’s JAM HANDY, for those of you playing at home) was an Olympic medalist swimmer and water polo player who founded Detroit’s first industrial/educational/sponsored/commercial film studio in 1911. Dweebs, futurists and automotive history-types have known about Jam Handy forever and lots of old-time...
Read more →The ink that was used to write the Constitution: you could probably make it from stuff in your backyard.
Read more →Was Novi, MI really the No. 6 (get it? No.VI?) stop on the toll road?
Read more →Dear Detroit: Happy birthday. And chin up.
Read more →Sheba the elephant gets a bath. John C. Lodge hugs adorable child actor. The end.
Read more →Photos from the Baltimore Clipper's visit to the Port of Detroit.
Read more →Detroit's other Independence Day.
Read more →A reading for the Fourth of July in Detroit.
Read more →Clarence Burton retraced part of Cadillac's voyage to Detroit in 1904.
Read more →The heartbroken wolverine at the Belle Isle Zoo.
Read more →Fake eviction notices in Detroit. From 1837.
Read more →An astronomical clock built in Detroit was a marvel of the modern world.
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