January 26, 2012
Michigan celebrates 175: Worthy readings, commemorations and cake recipes
Enjoy your dodransbicentennial, Michigan.
January 26, 2012
Enjoy your dodransbicentennial, Michigan.
January 20, 2012
”Blake … stood in mortal fear of death and from the cholera in particular. He went to Milwaukee to escape the latter, but unfortunately he did not.”
January 12, 2012
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.
December 5, 2011
How a lifelong Detroiter founded Canada’s most famous whiskey.
November 23, 2011
Michigan was an early adopter of the Thanksgiving tradition.
November 18, 2011
November 4, 2011
Lost Landscapes of Detroit is this weekend at MOCAD, and its curator, Rick Prelinger, has some smart words about the relevance of Detroit history.
October 28, 2011
In early Detroit, owning a dog cost you a 50-cent tax. Per dog. Why? Because there were so many damn dogs. Wrote Silas Farmer:
October 26, 2011
Who’s celebrating his bicentennial tomorrow?
October 24, 2011
Walter Owen Briggs: unshakable, lavishly wealthy, sentimental, racist, beloved, reviled. Someone should write an opera about him.
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?
September 2, 2011
A Hungarian chocolate mousse torte recipe with a tantalizing connection to Detroit history.
August 26, 2011
How did I not know about this guy?
August 4, 2011
The ink that was used to write the Constitution: you could probably make it from stuff in your backyard.
July 27, 2011
Was Novi, MI really the No. 6 (get it? No.VI?) stop on the toll road?
July 22, 2011
Dear Detroit: Happy birthday. And chin up.