2 posts tagged “michigan”
Stopped in for the first time at the Clements library to see an exhibit they had running of "colonial era photography" - really photographs from the 1850s-1870s of Colonial era buildings and landmarks.
It was remarkable to place what seem now to be familiar landmarks, all carefully and tidily and neatly preserved if they still exist, into a context of what things were only 100 years after their creation. You see things like landmark houses with weeds growing nearby, very early structures surrounded by Civil War era bold signs of commerce, and the ruins of what were once grand estates.
Now, of course, anything that old is either gone or polished up within an inch of its life.
We travelled through the village of Franklin, MI today - a quaint and picturesque spot with a tailor, a general store, a cider mill, and a bunch of other things that looked more like my picture of New England than metro Detroit.
The book is a wonderful biography of Franklin, Benjamin, told from the perspective of his mouse.
