May 3, 2010
Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery
Visiting the beer baron delta, where Blatz, Schlitz and Pabst are all eternally locked in their boozy, intertwined legacies.
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April 21, 2010
More on James Scott, “Detroit’s Boss Romancer.”
In which he tells a corpse joke that made me laugh out loud in the library, and admits a penchant for bagpipes and white bowties.
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April 13, 2010
Practically Blameless: James Scott and his Memorial Fountain
Was this “vindictive, scurrilous misanthrope” really so bad? The New York Times didn’t think so.
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April 8, 2010
Opening Day, 1963
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March 25, 2010
The Captain
This blog’s grandfather is Captain Frederick Pabst.
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March 23, 2010
City of Destiny
The story of Detroit historian George W. Stark, and the Detroit history book he wrote during World War II.
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March 18, 2010
Detroit History Tour: Woodlawn Cemetery
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March 10, 2010
Thomas W. Palmer, and his Park
A rustic log cabin, a massive Italianate marble fountain and an 18th-century bell from Spain at Senator Thomas W. Palmer’s park.
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March 5, 2010
The Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory: Belle Isle, Detroit
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February 12, 2010
Valentine’s Day
I tried to think about some of my favorite historical couples, but I ended up dwelling on love affairs closer to home.
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February 4, 2010
Legends of Le Detroit
If you like flowery Victorian prose, phantasms, grieving widows, pining French girls, French in general, haunted inanimate objects, werewolves, lyrical two-page long set-ups about a grandfather telling his kid a scary story, or — especially — Indian curses, you are going to love the shit out of this book.
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February 2, 2010
Fire and brimstone and Communism at Farmington’s Worker’s Camp
A reader wrote to me a few days ago (a decision I highly encourage!) and asked if I’d ever seen the historical marker at 12 Mile and Halsted. I had to admit that although I knew where it was, I’d never stopped to read it, nor did I have any idea what it was all about, despite having driven by it approximately 100,000 times in my life.
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January 26, 2010
173 years of Michigan statehood
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