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On June 23, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and former Michigan Governor John Swainson participated in the Detroit “Walk to Freedom.”
Stevens T. Mason made an indelible mark on Michigan. Yet, he lived his final days in New York and was buried there. In 1905 – over sixty years after his death – Michigan’s “boy governor” finally came home!
Harry Houdini died in Detroit on October 31, 1926. 
In 1812, getting supplies to the army on the western frontier was a difficult business. 
Today’s blog photograph (taken circa 1940) captures Leonard Jungwirth as he works on his WPA statue of Father Gabriel Richard.
America’s pastime has undergone several changes over the years.
When it was completed, Detroit’s Fisher Building was considered Albert Kahn’s most significant non-industrial building.
