Friday, January 29, 2016

Detroit's Lost Neighborhoods--Black Bottom and Paradise Valley

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If suburban Detroit residents were asked what they know about Black Bottom and Paradise Valley, most of them would be clueless. Both ...
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Thursday, January 21, 2016

Doctor Who--Madman in a Blue Box

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I may be the last person on the planet to discover the British cult science fiction series Doctor Who , but I am trying to make up for i...
Monday, January 11, 2016

The Rainy Day Murders Progress Report

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Over the past year, the question I was asked most is "When will The Rainy Day Murders be finished?" For the last five year...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Happy New Year 2016--Why January First?

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New Year's Eve in Kiev, Ukraine. Historians have charted the origins of our New Year's celebrations to the ancient Babylonians ...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Henry Ford's Tough Guy--Harry Bennett

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Harry Bennett Harry Herbert Bennett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on January 17, 1892. At the age of seventeen, he joined the United ...
Monday, November 23, 2015

John F. Kennedy's Beacon Extinguished Fifty-Two Years Ago

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JFK in Ypsilanti. Photo courtesy of Susan Wolter-Brown On October 20, 1960, presidential candidate John F. Kennedy's motorcade wa...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

The John Norman Collins Reward Money Shell Game

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The third of four composite drawings. On the day of John Norman Collins' sentencing for the murder of Karen Sue Beineman ...