Thursday, September 22, 2022

World Traveler George F. Pierrot

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Detroiters who grew up watching television in the 1950s and 1960s are no doubt familiar with George F. Pierrot, the gravelly-voiced, rotu...
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Monday, August 22, 2022

Michigan Native American Treaties--Paradise Lost

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Civilization comes to the Great Lakes? Thousands of years before the first Europeans set foot in the New World, indigenous tribes were livin...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Detroit's Beloved Weatherman Sonny Eliot

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Sonny Eliot and friend at the zoo. Weatherman Sonny Eliot was well-known to generations of Detroiters. He began his career in 1947 ...
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Monday, July 11, 2022

Terror In Ypsilanti: John Norman Collins Unmasked--Radio Free Flint Podcast

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Join us for Detroit Bookfest 5 on Sunday, July 17th, 2022, at the Eastern Market, Shed 5.   Some months ago, I did an hour long Zoom podcast...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

Detroit Time Capsule Searching for Its Audience

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Detroit Time Capsule (DTC) is a collection of 75 of my best Detroit Fornology blog posts gleaned from over 500 posts written over the last...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

The Elusive Purple Gang--Radio Free Flint Podcast

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  The Elusive Purple Gang recounts Detroit's violent Prohibition gang and their meteoric rise and fall.  This Radio Free Flint podcas...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

Walter P. Chrysler--Unlikely Automobile Titan

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Walter P. Chrysler with his Chrysler Six. Walter Percy Chrysler was born in the prairie town of Wamego, Kansas on April 2, 1875. As a young ...