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Being a farm boy from Iowa did not stop Philip Theodore Troeger (1889-1976) from designing highways.
Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about the long winter of 1880-1881. Our author recalls recalls a harsh winter from her own youth.
In 1933, U.S. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg discovered several interesting items squirreled away in the nation’s Capitol.
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!
One of the best known agencies from the Great Depression was the WPA, or Works Progress Administration (”Work Projects Administration” after 1939). The reach of the WPA projects is legendary–from bridges to stream improvements to roads to arts, crafts and writing projects. The WPA even thought about holiday planning.
In August of 1943, the U.S. Army visited several Michigan cities with a traveling cavalcade of military vehicles, weapons and equipment billed as a Salute to Michigan Agriculture, Labor and Industry.
The fight for the Wexford County seat is a story of bribery, corruption, intimidation, inebriated county officials and the organization of illegal townships to boost votes.
Harry Houdini died in Detroit on October 31, 1926. 
John D. Voelker, an Ishpeming, Michigan attorney and avid trout fisherman, is best known as the author of Anatomy of a Murder. (He wrote it under the pen name “Robert Traver.”) The book spawned a classic 1959 film adaptation.
