October 21, 2012
In Michigan’s 175th year as a state, celebrate the life of our first, youngest, and fieriest governor: the hotspur Stevens T. Mason. We gather to toast his memory this Thursday, 10/25, in Capitol Park.
October 17, 2012
Meet Mother Handsome.
October 5, 2012
And the log cabin will be open!
September 14, 2012
A cemetery founded for victims of an axe murderer in 1825.
September 7, 2012
See the ship that won back Detroit and learn how to shoot a flintlock pistol during a very special War of 1812 Bicentennial Navy Week.
August 29, 2012
The Detroit Drunken Historical Society welcomes Tony Paris of the Sugar Law Center to drink a bunch of beers, then walk us through the labor movement from its beginnings during the Depression to its radical re-imagining during the 1960s — and its impact on present-day labor relations.
August 17, 2012
Where to go on summer vacation when you’re a hopeless Detroit history nerd.
August 16, 2012
Presently a shell whizzed past him, taking with it the pipe from his mouth. He was unharmed, but was so indignant at the unceremonious treatment and the loss of his pipe that he seized his musket and … fired at the battery of the enemy until his ammunition was exhausted.
July 24, 2012
The story of Detroit begins on July 24, 1701, when an argumentative French fugitive shores his canoe on the banks of the strait and founds a city for the glory of King Louis XIV.
July 19, 2012
Corrado Parducci designed much more than architectural ornamentation — he also painted intricate designs on the walls of his home, wove tapestries, carved wooden busts of his children, and designed hub caps and bumpers for cars. A guest post about Detroit’s most prolific designer from the maker of a new documentary.
July 16, 2012
Upcoming events at Palmer Park and the SkyBar in Capitol Park. Bike rides + Underground Railroad history + horses.
July 3, 2012
A remarkable postcard from Campus Martius, July 4, 1866.
June 21, 2012
Four reasons to celebrate Detroit’s role in the War of 1812. We’ll talk more at Drunk History on Thursday, 6/21.
June 11, 2012
“Some of the blamed things have grown until they are as long as your arm, and they wallow about on the bottom like a lot of hogs until the water is ruined in appearance.”
June 5, 2012
Why build an aquarium on Belle Isle at all? Where did it get the fish? How adorable is a lake sturgeon? Answer to these questions AND MORE!
May 31, 2012
From sturgeon to shad, pike to pickerel, carp and people who carped about carp, the fish tells us a lot about the way we live in Detroit. Today: the magnificent whitefish.