"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 →Gay parties on Detroit, bad-ass 1890s cycling clubs, paved roads, and how the bike made the car a reality.
Read more →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...
Read more →On our last Detroit history tour — following an itinerary from the 1933 schoolbook History of Detroit for Young People — your heroes visited Campus Martius Park, Cadillac Square and points west of Woodward that we just sort of aimlessly happened upon. Yesterday, aimlessly driving up and down Woodward looking for something to do...
Read more →Our Detroit history tour earlier this month left us with some unanswered questions about the fate of several artifacts from old City Hall, which was razed in 1961. We found some! Including a few we weren’t looking for. Let’s check in, shall we? I. THE CAMPUS MARTIUS a. Find cannon from Perry’s...
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...
Read more →This weekend — with its unbelievable 60 degree weather, a healthy serving of historical adventuring and a rollicking season finale of Mad Men — was one of the best ever. The Hounds Below got down with their howly selves at the Majestic Cafe, we took in a month’s worth of accumulated recyclables, we witnessed...
Read more →I love when people say Detroit is “a shadow of its former self,” or one of America’s “fallen cities.” The benchmark, of course, is Detroit at the height of its industrial success and the peak of its population in the 1950s. But I’ve been reading accounts of the city in the very earliest days...
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