Ahoy!

Milwaukee’s Captain Frederick Pabst, in his sea-captain days, crossed paths with another captain — Detroit shipping king and mega-millionaire industrialist Eber Brock Ward.

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Walter Owen Briggs: The opera

Walter Owen Briggs: unshakable, lavishly wealthy, sentimental, racist, beloved, reviled. Someone should write an opera about him.

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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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Historical ink-making

The ink that was used to write the Constitution: you could probably make it from stuff in your backyard.

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Detroit turns 310

Dear Detroit: Happy birthday. And chin up.

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