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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One reason we might be called “Wolverines”
by amy • March 12, 2012 • Books, History • 0 Comments
Why are we called "Wolverines"? You've heard the stories about the Toledo War and greedy land-grabbing settlers. Here's one more idea, from an old tavern in Dearborn.
Read more →Meditations on a Boat Club
by amy • February 7, 2012 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History, Meditations • 2 Comments
The Detroit Boat Club, founded in 1839, is the oldest in the country. Its home on Belle Isle is crumbling, compelling, and calls home centuries of water sport.
Read more →Captain Chelsea Blake tries, fails to avoid cholera
by amy • January 20, 2012 • History • 0 Comments
''Blake ... stood in mortal fear of death and from the cholera in particular. He went to Milwaukee to escape the latter, but unfortunately he did not.''
Read more →The Old Log Cabin
by amy • September 16, 2011 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, General Friend Palmer, History • 3 Comments
The old Log Cabin at Palmer Park. Why a log cabin? What did it look like inside? Did people really live in it?
Read more →General Friend Palmer’s scrapbooks
by amy • June 17, 2011 • Books, General Friend Palmer • 0 Comments
A voice from the past corrects the historical record.
Read more →Detroit historians on weddings and marriages
by amy • February 2, 2011 • General Friend Palmer, History, Weddings • 3 Comments
Silas Farmer and General Friend Palmer on early French weddings and the shadow of mortality in marriage.
Read more →New Year’s Resolution, 2011: Learn to dance the “Money-musk”
by amy • January 12, 2011 • General Friend Palmer, History • 1 Comment
From General Friend Palmer's account of lively French winter-time dance parties. Puts a little kick in your Thursday walkabout, I hope.
Read more →Solomon Sibley’s pear, & a brave New Year
by amy • December 30, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, Meditations • 2 Comments
OR: What I learned about Detroit history in 2010.
Read more →Christmas with General Friend Palmer
by amy • December 22, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, Books, History, Holidays • 0 Comments
Festive Christmas traditions from early Detroit, as related by General Friend Palmer. Pony races, mince pies and all-night noise-making.
Read more →A defunct Detroit Thanksgiving tradition
by amy • November 24, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, Books, History • 0 Comments
Shoot your own turkey. At the bar.
Read more →Happy Birthday, Gabriel Richard
by amy • October 15, 2010 • History, Uncategorized • 2 Comments
"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 →Fridays with General Friend Palmer: Voyageurs
by amy • October 1, 2010 • History • 0 Comments
An elegy about old times from the General.
Read more →Tuesdays with General Friend Palmer: The court crier Isaac Day
by amy • July 27, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History • 1 Comment
A poem about an early public servant.
Read more →Russell Street Cemetery
by amy • July 16, 2010 • Best of THE NIGHT TRAIN, History • 0 Comments
If you’re headed to Eastern Market this Saturday, here’s some trivia for you to consider while you’re shopping for delicious local produce: the Market, one of the oldest in the country, was formerly the site the Russell Street Cemetery, one of two city-owned cemeteries of the mid-19th century. Situated on land that the city...
Read more →The Fourth of July in Early Detroit: FIREBALLS!
by amy • July 1, 2010 • History • 2 Comments
Some danger to hands and some to property.
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