Detroit
How Detroit police reinvented the wheel
By Kenneth S. Dobson
Detroit's historic Fox Theatre
By Laurie J. Marzejka
Tales from the Crypt: The Wayne County Morgue
By Patricia Zacharias
The orchids that saved the Belle Isle Conservatory
By Vivian M. Baulch
The elegant lives of a Van Dyke mansion
By Vivian M. Baulch
How the Detroit Zoo's first day was almost its last
By Kay Houston
The Detroit Boat Club
By Patricia Zacharias
James E. Scripps and Detroit's art museum
By Vivian M. Baulch
Detroit's magnificent old City Hall
By Donald Lochbiler
The poet Henry W. Longfellow called 1876 the "Year of a Hundred Years" in the verses he wrote for America's centennial.
The Michigan State Fair
By Jenny Nolan
Detroit's amusement parks
By Patricia Zacharias
Detroit's Water Works Park a gateway to the past
By By Laurie J. Marzejka
Battle of the Garden Court
By Donald Lochbiler
It doesn't look like a one-time battleground.
The Grand Army of the Republic
By Jenny Nolan
The Detroit Fire Department's 130 years of flames and heroics
By Patricia Zacharias
When flames consumed a Christmas fantasy
By Jenny Nolan
The building of the Ambassador Bridge
By Patricia Zacharias
Tales from the crypts: Elmwood Cemetery stories
By Vivian M. Baulch
The Great Detroit News Payroll Robbery
The daring payroll holdup of News business offices was surpassed only by the embarrassment that followed.
Gar Wood, speedboat king
By Vivian M. Baulch and Pam Shermeyer
The Human Fly (Henry H. Gardiner)
By Vivian M. Baulch
On Oct. 7, 1916, a lunchtime crowd of 150,000 gathered at Woodward and Michigan avenues, spilling into Cadillac Square. At the time, it was the largest crowd ever assembled in downtown Detroit.
Harry Houdini: Master of illusion and escape
By Vivian M. Baulch
Detroit was the site of magician Harry Houdini's most reknowned death-defying exploit - and his death.
Come meet the unusual - a taxman with a heart
By Pete Waldmeir
The free-wheeling gambler who created conservative General Motors
By Richard A. Wright
William Durant, unlike most of the early automotive pioneers, was not a tinkerer or a mechanic or an inventor - he was a salesman. In fact, he was a superb salesman; he could, in the words of one associate, "charm the birds from the trees."
