Tuesday with General Friend Palmer: The Lost Dauphin
by amy • April 19, 2010 • Books, History • 0 Comments
Some Princes on a Dauphin-hunt visit Detroit in 1841, and buy some French books.
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Posts Tagged ‘fridays with general friend palmer’
Fridays with General Friend Palmer: “Convenience itself”
by amy • February 5, 2010 • Books, History • 5 Comments
IN the earlier days the streets of Detroit in the absence pavements were very bad in the fall and spring seemed to predominate Cabs and public hacks were in a very lim ted number Peter Cooper colored Jackson a colored barber and George lierron an English barber were about the only persons owning and...
Read more →Fridays with General Friend Palmer: A most exciting fire
by amy • January 28, 2010 • Art, Books, Culture, History • 5 Comments
I have always approached weekly themed blog posts, especially those involving alliteration, with trepidation. But then I found Early Days in Detroit, the memoirs of historical Detroit old guy General Friend Palmer (1820 – 1906), and I can’t think of any better way to dig through its 1000+ pages, each of them host to...
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