Upcoming tours: Elmwood Cemetery and Palmer Park
by amy • October 3, 2011 • Events • 2 Comments
A first for The Night Train: Guided tours of historic Detroit places! Join me!
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Posts Tagged ‘elmwood cemetery’
We did it!
by amy • April 28, 2011 • Culture, Weddings • 3 Comments
And it was the best.
Read more →Margaret Mather
by amy • January 19, 2011 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History • 1 Comment
A tragic Victorian stage actress rises from poverty in Detroit to live in celebrity, if not artistic splendor.
Read more →More on cemeteries: Elmwood in the springtime
by amy • May 10, 2010 • History, Meditations • 5 Comments
A lecture series called Graveyards 101 kicks off this week at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. The five-week series is open to the public and features five lecturers discussing graveyards, gravestones, death, dying and images of death around the world. Since I learned about the series last week, I’ve been giving some thought to exactly...
Read more →WHO WAS SILAS FARMER?
by amy • January 20, 2010 • Books, Local History, metro Detroit • 3 Comments
UPDATE: Silas Farmer’s death certificate is in the Michigan state archives. He died suddenly on December 28, 1902, apparently of a heart attack. He was living in present-day midtown, at 52 Selden, and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. Next stop, as my mom sassily pointed out to me on Twitter (MOMS ON TWITTER!!), is...
Read more →Historic Elmwood Cemetery & Environs
by amy • January 14, 2010 • History • 3 Comments
Yet another tip off from History of Detroit for Young People, which included a stop in their self-guided tours at Mt. Elliott Cemetery to visit with the venerable Colonel Jean Francois Hamtramck. Colonel Hamtramck, who served as Lieutenant Colonel under Mad Anthony Wayne in the fight for the Northwest Territory, established and became the...
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