This is the best time of year. For two days our house has been a hush of hot coffee, dog naps, books, and spare hours spent exploring world mysteries / magazines / new creative chances / evening cocktails. Today it is snowing, one of the first honest snows in a so-far mild winter. It...
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The Night Train
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Holidays
2011: Year in review
by amy • December 29, 2011 • Holidays • 0 Comments
Christmas and Loneliness
by amy • December 21, 2011 • Holidays, Meditations • 0 Comments
A letter from sad William Woodbridge to his daughter Juliana, 1842.
Read more →That we may be more worthy of the place we now hold in the world.
by amy • November 23, 2011 • History, Holidays • 0 Comments
Michigan was an early adopter of the Thanksgiving tradition.
Read more →July 11, 1796: Evacuation Day
by amy • July 11, 2011 • History, Holidays • 1 Comment
Detroit's other Independence Day.
Read more →Fourth of July, 1876
by amy • July 1, 2011 • History, Holidays • 1 Comment
A reading for the Fourth of July in Detroit.
Read more →Memorial Day: Five Veterans to know
by amy • May 27, 2011 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History, Holidays • 0 Comments
A brief scrapbook of Detroiters, Veterans and countrymen (and women) from the Revolution to the Civil War.
Read more →Thinking about Presidents
by amy • February 21, 2011 • History, Holidays • 0 Comments
James Monroe: the first President to visit Detroit. Also: last President to wear the old Revolutionary tri-corner. Unanticipated intelligence was received, about 8 A.M., that President Monroe, with Governor Cass and Generals Brown and Macomb with their suites, were at the mouth of the river, and would be within three miles of the city...
Read more →Christmas with General Friend Palmer
by amy • December 22, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, Books, History, Holidays • 0 Comments
Festive Christmas traditions from early Detroit, as related by General Friend Palmer. Pony races, mince pies and all-night noise-making.
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