Last Friday, at about 1:30 PM, a train on Amtrak’s Wolverine line stopped on its way from Chicago to Detroit to pick up passengers in Ypsilanti. While it’s true that, back in late May of 2010, the President of Amtrak disembarked from a train in Depot Town and met with elected officials to discuss the […]
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1/3 of the nation’s 24 most rapidly depopulating cities are in one state… Welcome to Michigan
It’s not something you’re likely to hear mentioned in Governor Snyder’s reelection ads, but, according to census data shared today by Bloomberg News 8 of America’s 25 most drastically shrinking cities are in Michigan. I would have expected to see Detroit and Flint make the list of our nation’s most quickly depopulating cities, along with […]
Posted in Michigan Also tagged census, Dearborn Heights, depopulation, Detroit, Flint, Livonia, Michigan's aging cities, Pure Michigan, Saginaw, Taylor, Westland 13 Comments
Is Hitler’s childhood home in Dearborn? And is there a Nazi tank hidden at Greenfield Village?
A comment which was just left on the site brought my attention back to a post I’d written about five years ago concerning a rumor within historic archeology community that one of the houses on Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village estate may in fact be a childhood home of Adolph Hitler. And it reminded me that, […]
Posted in History, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged Anderson Theatre, anti-Semitic, conspiracy theory, Ed Rutsch, Greenfield Village, Henry Ford, Hitler, Oxbow Island, slave labor, tanks, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, urban myth, WWII 11 Comments