February 8, 2024 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_20231104_105846-190x179.jpg

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 …

February 7, 2024 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/DSCN4767-190x143.jpg

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 …

February 6, 2024 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/DSCN4755-190x143.jpg

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. …