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 […]
Tag Archives: Hitler
Harry Bennett, the killer as artist
Posted in Art and Culture, History, Ideas, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged artists, Black Legion, Ford Service Department, Gestapo, Harry Bennett, Henry Ford, landscapes, Matt Siegfried, painting, San Jacinto, The Black Legion Rides, union busting, Ypsi History Minute 14 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, Dearborn, Ed Rutsch, Greenfield Village, Henry Ford, Oxbow Island, slave labor, tanks, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, urban myth, WWII 11 Comments
What you need to know about the October 1 launch of the Obamacare health insurance marketplace
It’s been a hell of a long time coming, but, on Tuesday of next week, uninsured Americans will finally have an opportunity to shop for health insurance coverage online, in government-administered marketplaces, as part of the Affordable Care Act. It took three and a half years, during which time the Republicans attempted to defund it […]
Posted in Health, Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Affordable Care Act, appeasement, Ashton Kutcher, Bill O'Brien, Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation, chemtrails, CHRT, conspiracy theories, Ellen Rabinowitz, Fugitive Slave Act, health care reform, health insurance, health insurance companies, holding insurance companies accountable, Jeff Irwin, John Boehner, John Fleming, Keiser Foundation, Kerry Bentivolio, Mallett's Creek Library, Marianne Udow-Phillips, Michele Bachmann, Obama, Obamacare, Ted Cruz, Washtenaw Health Plan 80 Comments
If we hadn’t killed the Shadow Art Fair, this is what it would have become
Thank you, Banksy, for keeping the dream alive with Dismaland. And, no, I don’t really think that my Shadow Art friends and I could have pulled off anything this ambitious. I do think, however, that this was the direction in which we were trending… dark social commentary. I recall several meetings, for instance, where we […]