Showing posts with label Detroit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Detroit. Show all posts
Friday, September 26, 2025

Docuartist DeVon Cunningham--a Detroit Art Treasure--has Left this Vale of Tears

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DeVon Cunningham and his partner Rose Johnson Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on February 21, 1935, DeVon Cunningham began his art training at t...
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Saturday, September 20, 2025

Fornology Blog Reaches Two-Million Hits

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Doing a radio interview in Ypsilanti, Michigan (2016). I began writing my Fornology blog in April of 2011 in support of my full length book...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Diana Lewis--WXYZ-TV's Grande Dame of Detroit Nightly News

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Diana Lewis Thirty-four-year-old Diana Lewis burst onto the local Detroit television news scene when she was chosen to co-anchor the 5:30 pm...
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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Detroit's Nineteenth-Century Moonlight Towers

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Newport, Rhode Island introduced the first gas street-lighting in America in 1803. Throughout the nineteenth-century, it was the preferre...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Antoine Cadillac--Detroit's First Godfather

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Bust of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac An expedition financed by the French monarch--King Louis XIV--and promoted by his Minister of ...
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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Detroit’s Lindell AC - The Nation’s First Sports Bar

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Johnny in front of the original Lindell Bar In 1949, Greek immigrant Meleti Butsicaris with his sons—Johnny and Jimmy—leased the ...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Ottawa War Chief Pontiac (Obwandiyag) Attacks Fort Detroit

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No images of Pontiac are known to exist. This engraving is from 1879. During the French and Indian War (1754-1763) against the British, most...
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Sunday, January 5, 2025

Detroit's Pfeiffer Brewery and Johnny Pfeiffer

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The Johnny Pfeiffer plaster-of-paris figurine depicts a Revolutionary War minuteman playing a fife. Designed by Walt Disney Studio...
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