December 31, 2013
The New Year’s Eve greeting heard ’round the world, and other selections
A New Year’s greeting sent by telegraph, plus a humble selection of historical New Year’s Eve & Day anecdotes.
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July 11, 2011
July 11, 1796: Evacuation Day
Detroit’s other Independence Day.
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August 8, 2010
Night Train to Summer Vacation
What we did in Philadelphia.
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June 2, 2010
Michigan Military Figures: THE ANSWERS EDITION
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.
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April 25, 2010
In which Henry Ford tells me to take it easy for a while
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March 29, 2010
Tuesdays with General Friend Palmer: Goose Yokes
The remarkable story of a French immigrant, swindled into coming to America, finding himself in Detroit, starting a general store, and selling some legendary goose yokes. Also marbles.
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February 12, 2010
Valentine’s Day
I tried to think about some of my favorite historical couples, but I ended up dwelling on love affairs closer to home.
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January 1, 2010
Happy birthday, General “Mad” Anthony Wayne
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December 28, 2009
How a music blog brought me back to Michigan
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October 9, 2009
About this weekend: Vicente Fox is here.
This weekend, Detroit celebrates the grand opening of The Accidental Mummies of Guanajuato, a world-premiere exhibition of 36 corpses that were naturally mummified in their tombs about 100 years ago. The exhibition at the Detroit Science Center — aggressively promoted as a highly educational experience — will delve into mummy science, forensics and facial reconstructions and Mexican culture and death lore.
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