The holiday tradition in Michigan started in 1824, when the turkeys were wild and small and the day started with church services By Bill Loomis / Special to The Detroit News If you had the opportunity to invite your great-great-grandmother over for Thanksgiving dinner, it’s likely she would feel right at home with what you … Continue Reading →
By Bill Loomis / Special to The Detroit News At the end of the War of 1812, Congress authorized bounty lands to be awarded to soldiers, to compensate them for their service. Each man would get 160 acres in the Old Northwest Territory, which included present day Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and a portion … Continue Reading →
By Bill Loomis / Special to The Detroit News “George H. Rogers was instantly killed at Bosewell’s logging camp on the 25th of January,” the Manistee Times reported in February 1869. “The deceased (was) with a large load of logs that turned partially over, when in the haste of the moment he seized an ax … Continue Reading →
By Bill Loomis / Special to The Detroit News Businessman, mayor and outdoorsman William Butts Mershon lived his life in Saginaw. He was born in 1856, and as a teen in the 1870s he loved to hunt. His father, who owned a lumber mill in Saginaw, went hunting with William and their bird dogs Sport, … Continue Reading →
Tom Harmon, the University of Michigan’s “old 98,” is chased by Ohio State defenders in Harmon’s last game as a Wolverine in 1940. In three games against Ohio State, Harmon scored five touchdowns, kicked seven conversions, and rushed and passed for 618 yards. By Pat Zacharias / The Detroit News When they wrote the song … Continue Reading →