… and sail to Milwaukee to come see me talk at Sugar Maple on Jan. 12, 2012! (Who am I kidding? They’ll be there for the dance party.) Oh my gosh, how great is this poster? My friend dwellephant made it. You should send him $5 immediately. (Or maybe you need some love letters? Valentine’s...
Read more →Some highlights from our recent tour of Mt. Elliott, Detroit's oldest extant cemetery.
Read more →"It was said that Father Richard was so studious and patient in his search after knowledge that he actually counted the eggs in a whitefish. How many millions, history fails to tell."
Read more →(From an 1835 atlas) On January 26, 1837, nearly 150 years after the earliest known use of the name “Michigan” on a map, Michigan was officially admitted to the Union. For a long time I had this confused, baseless idea that territories just sort of naturally, peacefully shook out into states, in rapid succession,...
Read more →Construction continues on the new site, which should be up and running by the end of the week, although your friends aboard the Night Train aren’t making any promises. One of the luxuries of writing about history, though, is that isn’t subject to the hyper-fast timeline that directs our daily lives. Taking a few...
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