February 1, 2012
Detroit history tour (in FLORIDA!): The Edison-Ford Winter Estates
Henry Ford and Thomas Edison had neighboring seaside summer homes (and a research lab) in Florida. We visited.
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September 23, 2010
History Tour: Garden City
Garden City’s first female police officer, who is also my mom, visits the Garden City Historical Museum with me.
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September 7, 2010
Housekeeping
A loose visitors’ agenda, a book release party we’re really excited about, the community challenge grant, and how Royal Oak got its name.
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June 22, 2010
Biking Detroit: A brief history
Gay parties on Detroit, bad-ass 1890s cycling clubs, paved roads, and how the bike made the car a reality.
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April 27, 2010
Computer Perfection at the Ford Piquette Plant
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April 25, 2010
In which Henry Ford tells me to take it easy for a while
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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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