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.
Read more →Sheba the elephant gets a bath. John C. Lodge hugs adorable child actor. The end.
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Read more →A compendium of haunted theaters, restaurants, bars, bridges and hotels.
Read more →Dear readers: I am crushed under a couple of major deadlines this week! But here’s this. You’re welcome. Your friend, The Night Train P.S. We’ll be back with something fun on Friday. Really fun. Maybe not as fun as an elephant at the beach though.
Read more →As if a fancifully written news report about escaped monkeys on Belle Isle weren’t adorable enough, a police inspector’s six-year-old daughter had to get involved. June 28, 1938 Escaped Belle Isle Monkeys Make Picnic an Adventure Snatch Sandwiches from Hands of Visitors, but Shun Banana Bait in Traps Night fell over Belle Isle Monday,...
Read more →Unequaled Detroit historian Silas Farmer has some advice for you.
Read more →Was this "vindictive, scurrilous misanthrope" really so bad? The New York Times didn't think so.
Read more →In the fall I wrote about the Peace Carillon on Belle Isle, an 85-foot limestone tower dedicated to Detroit News advice columnist Nancy Brown. It’s gorgeous, even though it’s starting to fall apart a little. So. Over the holidays, my fiancé’s uncle gave us a big box of antique books, figuring (uh, correctly) that...
Read more →Our Detroit history tour earlier this month left us with some unanswered questions about the fate of several artifacts from old City Hall, which was razed in 1961. We found some! Including a few we weren’t looking for. Let’s check in, shall we? I. THE CAMPUS MARTIUS a. Find cannon from Perry’s...
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