Writer, editor, professional cemetery creep. Formerly @detroitnews, @crainsdetroit. https://xitter.cf/t.co/QGOSwKLVq6
detroit, MI
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Came out of retirement to bring you a story I love about a semi-secret 1930s astronomical observatory in the woods in Oakland County 🔭
New project drop! 🚨
Delighted to work w/local history maven @thenighttrain on this package about a hidden landmark rusting in the woods near Great Lakes Crossing
An entertaining tale reaching back to the 1920s, brought to life with amazing drone shots from @DavidGuralnick —>
I barely remember how to post anymore and may choose not to pick the habit back up but if I do it likely won’t be here! you can find me elsewhere. the usual places.
omg I got to talk about this on @CBCWindsor yesterday! cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-8…
for your spooky reading pleasure today, re-upping this little number I wrote last year about Houdini, Halloween, and "the magician's cemetery" littledetroithistoryletter.s…
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On this day in 1977:
Boxing great Muhammad Ali is in town helping @CityofDetroit Mayor Coleman Young's reelection bid. They give out candy to children at the Manoogian Mansion on Dwight Street.
for your spooky reading pleasure today, re-upping this little number I wrote last year about Houdini, Halloween, and "the magician's cemetery" littledetroithistoryletter.s…
I still think about how the cemetery where Houdini is buried at one point closed for Halloween because they were sick of all the magicians visiting nytimes.com/1995/10/30/nyreg…
jfc
Statue of Detroit's celebrated Tuskegee airman goes missing from Rouge Park
detroitnews.com/story/news/l… via @detroitnews, @Max_DetroitNews
My 6-year-old just showed me how to do something on his iPad for the first time. ("Excuse me," he said politely as he watched over my shoulder. "That's not how you do it.") RIP to me.
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#OTD in 1846, Detroit's Elmwood Cemetery opened. This ca. 1914 postcard shows a view of the grounds with a bridge in the foreground, a fountain, two grave markers and three people.
Learn more: detroithistorical.org/learn/…
as anyone who has ever let me bore them to death at Elmwood would know ... I cannot resist throwing shade on Ripon Wisconsin in the shadow of Zack Chandler's obelisk
Investigating a mystery about the grave of a painter that like 6 other people will care about but dammit I gotta know
name a better decades-long low-stakes local melodrama than the whale mural crainsdetroit.com/arts-enter… via @crainsdetroit
On this day in 1889, baseball’s first Black major leaguer was released by the Syracuse Stars, ending his career. Nine days earlier, he had been in Detroit, where he played a glorious game and had a fateful lunch meeting.
