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After 30 years feminists return to Detroit
No, feminists didn’t all evacuate Detroit 30 years ago. But the National Organization for Women is to hold their convention in Detroit for the first time since 1977. The city is trying to attract more conventions to fill up all its shiny new hotel rooms unfortunately the […]
A bright spot in Michigan’s struggling economy is the number of visitors to metro Detroit in 2006, which edged up to its highest level since Sept. 11, 2001, according to a report released today by the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau (DMCVB). The study defines metro Detroit as Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
According to […]
Three-and-a-half hours from Cleveland and bursting with youthful energy, the college town of Ann Arbor, Mich., invites us to remember those warm-weather moments — at a street festival, in a bookstore or paddling across glimmer-glass water — when we lingered as soulful teenagers.
Those endless summers are gone, but there are weekends to rediscover the kind […]
The Ford Piquette Avenue plant was recently featured in the Free Press. It’s the birthplace of the Model T, also known as the Tin Lizzie, but hadn’t been used for years and was in danger of being lost until a few years ago the Model T Automotive Heritage Complex, Inc (T-Plex, for short) stepped […]
How do they get the pear in the bottle?
In Spring, a bottle is tied over a budding branch in the pear orchard with hopes that a Bartlett pear will grow to maturity inside the bottle. The pear is harvested, cleaned and washed, and the bottle is then filled with pear brandy from the same orchard […]
Detroit News — African-American history and Detroit go hand-in-hand. A group of doctors it is turning a historic building into a medical museum and they’re currently seeking donations of old equipment and raising funds for the renovation. It’ll be good to see the addition of a new museum and hopefully it will draw […]
