Survey Invitation: Michigan History Special Issue!
Next spring, when your annual special issue of Michigan History magazine arrives in the mail, what would you like to see inside? This year, we’re inviting you to weigh in on the topic.
Archive for 2009
Now, We’re Cooking!
Here is the “World’s Largest Stove” at its current location – the State Fairgrounds in Detroit. The “giant stove” symbolizes Detroit’s time as the center of the American stove industry.
Anchors Aweigh!
For more than seventy years, the schooner Rockaway remained undisturbed at the bottom of Lake Michigan. Then, on September 29, 1983, a charter fishing boat discovered the wreckage.
What’s Your Type?
When we see letters appear on our computer screens, we usually give them little thought. Paul Hayden Duensing, however, cared deeply about the “look of letters.”
Tilling Up Fragments of History
Vandalia, Michigan farmers found some curious fragments in their fields. Were those stories about a runaway slave community true?
The Glory of Gibson
In 1902, five Kalamazoo businessmen bought Orville Gibson’s patent for a new type of mandolin. The Gibson name would come to carry special resonance for lovers of fine stringed musical instruments.
A Bonfire and a Shooting Match
John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. As the nation grieved, a hunt for the killer ensued. Baker’s cousin, Lafayette Baker (also from Lansing) headed the Secret Service investigation, with Luther and Everton J. Conger assisting him. Once they picked up Booth’s trail, they set out in pursuit.
The Michigan Historymobile
The Michigan Historical Commission launched its “Historymobile” in 1964. This fifty-four foot long “museum on wheels” traveled to Michigan communities for the next ten or so years.
Traveling Through Time
I do like some markers more than others for different reasons: the topic, the way the marker is written, and the research/writing process for that particular subject. Here are a few that fit under the “favorite heading” and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Sam Knapp’s Luck
The archaeological discovery that saved America’s first great mineral boom. Prospectors and adventurers, many knowing little of the geology, topography or climate of the region flocked to the Copper Country.…
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