Monthly Archives: February 2024

Disneyland in Detroit

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It’s the last day of this trip and, other than one brief photo stop to serve as the overture, I’m going to start this post with the cadenza because I heard a symphony in the middle. I made my first …

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A stand up strike inspires a sit-down visit

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Forty-four days before I left for Michigan, the United Auto Workers began a labor action that their first directly elected president, Shawn Fain called a “Stand Up Strike.” I have to believe that he chose this term to deliberately evoke …

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The Bath Massacre

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If you’re an enthusiast of historic milestones and I asked you to name the location of one that happened in May 1927, I’d guess the first place that would come to your mind would be Paris, France not Bath, Michigan. …

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Battle Creek – Adventist serial or Adventist cereal? – part 3

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When last we saw the Kelloggs, they were fussing about in the kitchen of the San seeking inventive ways to tempt their patients to adhere to the vegetarian dietary principles espoused by its director, Doctor John Harvey Kellogg. The origin …

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Battle Creek – Adventist serial or Adventist cereal? – part 2

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By tracing a bit of the history of Battle Creek, the arrival of Ellen and James White, and the establishment of the Seventh-Day Adventist church, we’ve laid the foundation for the work  of John Harvey and Will Keith Kellogg. John …

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