I found this sitting on the table beside my bed this morning. As it’s in my handwriting, I imagine that I must have written it at some point during the night. While I doubt that beloved local historian James Mann is, in fact, a ghost, I do like the idea that he could be. If […]
By Mark | February 15, 2015 In the early hours of June 26, 2011, 18-year old Deryl Dedmon, who had been drinking with friends, drove his pick-up truck over a man by the name of James Craig Anderson in Jackson, Mississippi, killing him. Dedmon was white. Anderson was black. Dedmon fled the scene of the crime, but, thanks to surveillance camera […]
Also posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Tagged 100 Years of Lynchings, A New History of Mississippi, affirmative action, Andrew Goodman, Carlton Reeves, death penalty, Deryl Dedmon, Dylan Butler, Emmett Till, Equal Justice Initiative, George W. Lee, hate crimes, Jackson, Jafrica, James Cheney, John Aaron Rice, lynching, Lynching in America: Confronting the Terror of of Racial Terror, Mack Charles Parker, Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, Mississippi, Mississippi: An American Journey, n-word, race, race and poverty, racism, slavery, University of Michigan Law School, Vernon Dahmer, white power, Willie McGee, Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America | By Mark | February 1, 2015 I don’t know when we’ll actually get started with it, but local historian Matt Siegfried and I are talking about producing a weekly “Ypsi History Minute” for the Saturday radio program. We’re still working out what these may look like in their finished form, but I’m imaging that they’d likely be set-up like questions. Like, “Did […]
Also posted in Art and Culture, Ideas, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Tagged artists, Black Legion, Ford Service Department, Gestapo, Harry Bennett, Henry Ford, Hitler, landscapes, Matt Siegfried, painting, San Jacinto, The Black Legion Rides, union busting, Ypsi History Minute | By Mark | January 26, 2015 Almost a year ago now, I received an email from a reader of this site by the name of Bob Nolan, who, knowing of my love for the Ramones and Stooges, suggested that I talk with a friend of his named Brendan Toller. Brendan, he told me, had been working on a film about Danny […]
Also posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Detroit | Tagged 16 Magazine, A Day In The Life, acid, Andy Warhol, animation, archives, bible belt, Bob Nolan, Bob Rudnick, Boswell, Brendan Toller, Brian Epstein, Brooks Brothers, butts, CBGB, Christmas cards, crowdfunding, Danny Fields, Danny Says, Datebook, David Bowie, Dennis Frawley, documentary film, Dolly Parton, Edie Sedgwick, Elektra, Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Fred Sonic Smith, Funhouse, Harvard, Harvard Law, Hedwig, I Need That Record, Iggy and the Stooges, Iggy Pop, Jesus, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Judy Collins, Kickstarter, LBJ, Lenny Bruce, Linda Stein, Lou Reed, Mark's big ideas, Max's Kansas City, Mayor of the Sunset Strip, MC5, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, New York City, Nico, Paul McCartney, public relations, punk rock, Ramones, Rock and Roll, Rodney Bingenheimer, San Remo, Search and Destroy, Seymour Stein, slacks, Stooges, The Beatles, The Doors, the music business, The Stooges, Timothy Leary, Tommy Goodwin, Velvet Underground, WFMU, Yale, Yale University, Younger Jewish Set | By Mark | January 25, 2015 The second episode of the Saturday Six Pack on AM 1700 was, by all accounts, a success. I was kind of dreading it going in, as I didn’t have much planned for the 7:00 hour, but, as is usually the case when you open yourself up to serendipity, everything just kind of unfolded in a […]
Also posted in Mark's Life, Special Projects, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Tagged 1700 AM, beer, Brian Robb, Colin Moorhouse, corporate fascism, Dave Miller, fascism, Fat Tire, Flaming Groovies, Harry Bennett, Harry Bennett's Castle, Henry Ford, historic places, HP Jacobs, John Edwards, Matt Siegfried, Monkey Power Trio, Native Americans, Peter Smith, Red Rock, Red Rock Downtown Barbeque, Rob Rowe, The Saturday Six Pack, University of Michigan, Ypsi Underground | 
