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.
May 3, 2010
Visiting the beer baron delta, where Blatz, Schlitz and Pabst are all eternally locked in their boozy, intertwined legacies.
April 21, 2010
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.
April 13, 2010
Was this “vindictive, scurrilous misanthrope” really so bad? The New York Times didn’t think so.
April 8, 2010
March 25, 2010
This blog’s grandfather is Captain Frederick Pabst.
March 23, 2010
The story of Detroit historian George W. Stark, and the Detroit history book he wrote during World War II.
March 18, 2010
March 10, 2010
A rustic log cabin, a massive Italianate marble fountain and an 18th-century bell from Spain at Senator Thomas W. Palmer’s park.
March 5, 2010
February 12, 2010
I tried to think about some of my favorite historical couples, but I ended up dwelling on love affairs closer to home.
February 4, 2010
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.
February 2, 2010
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.
January 26, 2010