Saturday, November 26, 2022

One-Million and a Quarter Fornology Pageviews and Counting

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Sue and I at Detroit Bookfest 2022. Come join us next July. After a decade of writing my Fornology blog, I'm going to release my last an...
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Friday, November 11, 2022

Eddie Wingate: Black Detroit's Big Daddy

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Eddie Wingate One of the economic Titans in Detroit's African American community of the 1950s through the late 1970s was Eddie Wingate. ...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Ann Arbor High Graduate Becomes Mr. Las Vegas

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Moe Dalitz in Las Vegas publicity shot. Morris "Moe" Dalitz was born in Boston but his family moved to Detroit where he gre...
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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...