Happy birthday to this guy
by amy • May 7, 2012 • General Friend Palmer, History, Parties • 0 Comments
Celebrating General Friend Palmer's birthday with "whiskey in the gentlemen's dressing room, and champagne in the supper room."
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The Night Train
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Posts Tagged ‘detroit history’
An injection of the past into the present to inform the future
by amy • November 4, 2011 • History, Meditations • 3 Comments
Lost Landscapes of Detroit is this weekend at MOCAD, and its curator, Rick Prelinger, has some smart words about the relevance of Detroit history.
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by amy • July 22, 2011 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History, Meditations • 2 Comments
Dear Detroit: Happy birthday. And chin up.
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by amy • November 5, 2009 • Culture, Local History, metro Detroit • 1 Comment
I love when people say Detroit is “a shadow of its former self,” or one of America’s “fallen cities.” The benchmark, of course, is Detroit at the height of its industrial success and the peak of its population in the 1950s. But I’ve been reading accounts of the city in the very earliest days...
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