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    Stolen cannon and battle gear in Dearborn Heights

    by  • January 6, 2010 • Local Color • 0 Comments

    I found this announcement on the Hometown History Tours blog, which I started following in the lead-up to Monroe’s biggest outdoor festival, General George Custer’s birthday. Although I genuinely hope these items are retrieved, I also can’t stop laughing. The pilfering of the entire reenactment equipment stash of the present-day Battery B First Michigan...

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    Lost and found: Hamtramck family photos

    by  • December 7, 2009 • Culture, History, Local Color • 1 Comment

    Well, well. If it isn’t the internet, up to its old tricks! During my usual late-night internet scrounging — browsing lazily for Detroit Christmas artifacts — I found an incredible Flickr haul of old photos, which had themselves been found somewhere between Detroit and Hamtramck. Besides a lot of great mugging in front of...

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