Visiting the grave of Alexander Macomb, hero of the Battle of Plattsburgh, namesake of Wayne County, painter, playwright, son of a swindler, and decorated early Detroiter.
Read more →After days! of suspense! Here are the answers to our special Memorial Day Michigan military figures trivia game. We might do this again sometime. We might not. It was a little silly, but we had fun. #1 The one & only … General Mad Anthony Wayne. #2 Colonel Jean-Francois Hamtramck. When Mad Anthony was...
Read more →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 →Have you ever seen those old postcards — I tend to find them crammed in shoeboxes at antique stores — with luridly hued landscapes or blush-tinted street scenes and historical landmarks — photographs that almost look like rigid little paintings? Dam Square, Amsterdam. Detroit Publishing Company, c. 1900 There’s a good chance they were...
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