October 28, 2010
Scenes from Stevens T. Mason’s reburial
A small crowd gathered in Capitol Park yesterday to honor Stevens T. Mason, Michigan’s first and America’s youngest governor, on his 199th birthday.
October 28, 2010
A small crowd gathered in Capitol Park yesterday to honor Stevens T. Mason, Michigan’s first and America’s youngest governor, on his 199th birthday.
October 24, 2010
How many opportunities do you have in a lifetime to attend the solemn rite of governor’s burial?
October 20, 2010
Daniel Scotten would not rest, even in death, when his factory wasn’t churning out Hiawatha cigars.
October 15, 2010
“It was said that Father Richard was so studious and patient in his search after knowledge that he actually counted the eggs in a whitefish. How many millions, history fails to tell.”
October 12, 2010
Including turkeys, roosters, decorative crows, pretty doorknobs and, naturally, drinks.
October 6, 2010
Hazen S. Pingree was madly loved as Mayor of Detroit, but when he was Governor, no one would even have him over for dinner.
October 4, 2010
It’s the perfect season for cemetery bike rides.
October 1, 2010
An elegy about old times from the General.
September 29, 2010
A bicycle champion, dairy magnate, pillar of the community and Pingree-loving progressive.
September 23, 2010
Garden City’s first female police officer, who is also my mom, visits the Garden City Historical Museum with me.
September 17, 2010
General Lewis Cass and Zachariah Chandler both dedicated their political careers to defending the Constitution, in totally different ways.
September 14, 2010
Royal Oak, City of Trees. We visit an Indian Trail, an old brick house, some humongous parks and the site of the old oak tree that inspired General Cass.
September 10, 2010
A beautiful hill-top resting place for members of Detroit’s beer dynasty.
September 8, 2010
The only Governor from Kalamazoo, and the first to be inaugurated in Lansing. And he had a really great name.
August 19, 2010
In the early 1920s, my grandfather Isadore came to Detroit from what is now Belarus. My great-grandfather Yehuda was already here, building houses on the east side for the rapidly expanding community of other European immigrants settling at the boundaries the city.
August 16, 2010
Now we can find out if anyone actually found Le Griffon.