October 24, 2011
Walter Owen Briggs: The opera
Walter Owen Briggs: unshakable, lavishly wealthy, sentimental, racist, beloved, reviled. Someone should write an opera about him.
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April 27, 2010
Computer Perfection at the Ford Piquette Plant
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April 1, 2010
The Ford Piquette Plant (… Opens Today!)
In 1908, the first Model T rolled off the assembly line in Detroit at the Ford Motor Company’s Piquette Plant. The plant, which opened in 1904, was only open for a few years — in 1910, Ford moved production to its bigger and more famous Highland Park Factory — but history pushed forward pretty irrevocably in that skinny brick building at Milwaukee Junction.
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March 15, 2010
The chronicles of crows: A Tale of the Springtime (1848)
I have always been drawn to crows, not in any dark teenage-poet way, but because they are big, handsome, super-clever, and remind me of the chilly Michigan spring.
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