Looking Back

An automotive concept piece called “1966 Crazy Car,” by designer Richard Ruzzin, will be on display at the Royal Oak Historical Society Museum Aug. 6-Sept. 11.

Published July 29, 2021

Royal Oak Review

Royal Oak Historical Society Museum to host car show, Woodward Memories exhibit

ROYAL OAK — The Royal Oak Historical Society Museum is revving up to start off the local car show scene.

Published July 28, 2021

Birmingham - Bloomfield Eagle

Looking Back: Birmingham restaurateur hosted Hoffa before disappearance

BIRMINGHAM — It’s one of metro Detroit’s most enduring mysteries, and it’s got a Birmingham connection.

Published July 13, 2021

Warren Weekly

Historical museum pays homage to Hamtramck

WARREN/HAMTRAMCK — Walking into the Hamtramck Historical Museum is like entering a time machine.

Published July 1, 2021

Rochester Post

New signs transport downtown patrons ‘Back in the Day’

ROCHESTER — A simple walk around town now shows just how rich the community’s history is.

Published June 26, 2021

Warren Weekly

Historians exploring fundraising to repair schoolhouse, cupola

WARREN — Warren’s historic Bunert one-room schoolhouse has seen a lot of days, and it has seen better days.

Published June 23, 2021

Birmingham - Bloomfield Eagle

Looking Back: Ads passed off narcotics as cure-all medicines

BIRMINGHAM — Today, we are inundated with ads for all sorts of medications on the internet, TV and radio, in magazines, and more.

Published June 21, 2021

Shelby - Utica News

Shelby Police looking for owner of found photo album

SHELBY TOWNSHIP — A photo album is awaiting reunion with its owners after being discovered in a roadway by a concerned citizen June 7 in Shelby Township.

Published June 12, 2021

St. Clair Shores Sentinel

Looking Back: Miller Marina, St. Clair Shores

ST. CLAIR SHORES — In 1934, William C. Miller opened Miller Marina, building a dock with 2x4s and planks and renting out fishing boats.

Published June 11, 2021

Troy Times

Troy Historic Village celebrates Niles-Barnard House grand opening

TROY — Troy Historical Society members, and Historic Village and city staff celebrated the long-awaited grand opening and formal introduction of the Niles-Barnard House to the Troy Historic Village campus June 7.

Published June 10, 2021

Southfield Sun

Plum Hollow Country Club celebrates 100 years

SOUTHFIELD — On May 14, 1921, the Plum Hollow Country Club opened its doors to the public. Now, exactly 100 years later, the 157-acre site at Nine Mile and Lahser roads is still standing thanks to its leadership and support from members.

Pair of Troy businesses pass the century mark

Published June 10, 2021

Troy Times

Pair of Troy businesses pass the century mark

TROY — After a year that saw the temporary, and sometimes permanent, closures of businesses across the globe, two local business owners aren’t just glad to have survived another year, but to have made it 100 or more years in business.

Published June 6, 2021

Warren Weekly

Signs lay out history of Murthum, Warren High School site

WARREN — Before the Warren Community Center opened its doors to the public in January 2003, the site was home to Warren High School. Before that, it was the William Murthum School.

Published May 26, 2021

Grosse Pointe Times

New Ford House exhibitions, facilities open their doors to visitors

GROSSE POINTE SHORES — Three and a half years after ground was broken in November 2017, the Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores is finally able to welcome the public into its new Visitor Center.

Published May 25, 2021

Roseville - Eastpointe Eastsider

Volunteers repaint historic schoolhouse in Eastpointe

EASTPOINTE — Eastpointe’s beloved Halfway Schoolhouse got a facelift on May 15, thanks to the East Detroit Historical Society and some local volunteers. They spent the day repainting the exterior and doing some basic maintenance on the building.

Looking Back: The First Library Building in St. Clair Shores

Published April 28, 2021

St. Clair Shores Sentinel

Looking Back: The First Library Building in St. Clair Shores

ST. CLAIR SHORES — Established in 1935 by the women who were members of the St. Clair Shores Study Club, the St. Clair Shores Public Library spent its first years in a single room in the Municipal Building.

Published April 22, 2021

Rochester Post

Looking Back: mobile X-ray unit

ROCHESTER — For one week in 1949, a mobile unit came to Rochester providing free chest X-rays to over 1,000 people in the area.

Published April 17, 2021

Roseville - Eastpointe Eastsider

Call goes out for photos, stories to celebrate Eastpointe Fire Department’s 100th anniversary

EASTPOINTE — The Eastpointe Fire Department is one of the city’s oldest and most esteemed organizations. This year, it is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and two local leaders are putting out a book to celebrate it.

Published March 22, 2021

St. Clair Shores Sentinel

Looking Back: Play ball in St. Clair Shores

ST. CLAIR SHORES — Since the first professional spring training game was played Feb. 27 this year, we are looking back to baseball in St. Clair Shores 80 years ago.

Published March 11, 2021

Macomb Township Chronicle

CMPL hosts presentation on Macomb Township’s history

MACOMB TOWNSHIP — When Linda Osborne Cynowa moved to Macomb Township in the 1980s, she didn’t realize the amount of history bound up in the 36-square-mile community.

Published March 11, 2021

Rochester Post

Looking Back: The house at 444 W. University Drive

ROCHESTER — The house at 444 W. University Drive in Rochester was built around 1906 with brick from the recently demolished Detroit Sugar Co., a failed beet sugar plant located near Ludlow Street.