February 7, 2012
Meditations on a Boat Club
The Detroit Boat Club, founded in 1839, is the oldest in the country. Its home on Belle Isle is crumbling, compelling, and calls home centuries of water sport.
February 7, 2012
The Detroit Boat Club, founded in 1839, is the oldest in the country. Its home on Belle Isle is crumbling, compelling, and calls home centuries of water sport.
February 3, 2012
The historic Belle Isle Aquarium, closed since 2005, opens for one day only during Shiver on the River.
February 1, 2012
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison had neighboring seaside summer homes (and a research lab) in Florida. We visited.
January 26, 2012
Enjoy your dodransbicentennial, Michigan.
January 24, 2012
I will be reading tomorrow (Wednesday) night as part of Wednesday Night Sessions. Vievee Francis and Jeff Kass are also reading. It will be great.
January 20, 2012
”Blake … stood in mortal fear of death and from the cholera in particular. He went to Milwaukee to escape the latter, but unfortunately he did not.”
January 12, 2012
Milwaukee’s Captain Frederick Pabst, in his sea-captain days, crossed paths with another captain — Detroit shipping king and mega-millionaire industrialist Eber Brock Ward.
January 4, 2012
… and sail to Milwaukee to come see me talk at Sugar Maple on Jan. 12, 2012!
December 29, 2011
December 21, 2011
A letter from sad William Woodbridge to his daughter Juliana, 1842.
December 15, 2011
I will be giving a tour of historic Elmwood Cemetery on Dec. 17, 11 a.m., with the League of Adventurous Detroiters.
December 5, 2011
How a lifelong Detroiter founded Canada’s most famous whiskey.
December 1, 2011
Thurs. Dec. 1, 7:00 pm, at Leopold’s Books in Detroit.
November 29, 2011
We’ll be toasting Detroit’s long love affair with booze at The Sugar House on Repeal Day, Dec. 5, 2011.
November 23, 2011
Michigan was an early adopter of the Thanksgiving tradition.
November 18, 2011