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Author Archives: Jim Brinkman
Churches in Leelanau once multilingual
April 30, 2008 – 1:09 am
Recalling the tragedy of the Lady Elgin
April 16, 2008 – 1:29 am
Many well-known lake vessels called at Northport, But none was more famous than the sidewheel steamer Lady Elgin.
Big wheels find home in Empire
April 9, 2008 – 1:15 am
What goes around, comes around.
Or put another way, big wheels keep on turnin'.
'Daring act' over Empire ended in death
April 2, 2008 – 1:51 am
"Tinney Flyers Corporation presents Senorita Deborah DeCostello - world's most daring aviatrix."
Gov. 'Potato Pingree' was the people's choice
April 2, 2008 – 1:46 am
He was nicknamed "Potato Pingree."
Ill-fated steamer plied many routes
March 26, 2008 – 1:37 am
A Lake Michigan storm claimed the Erie L. Hackley.
Good newsman, poor president
March 19, 2008 – 1:15 am
He called for "a return to normalcy," yet he was in office for only about 2 1/2 years and is found consistently at the bottom of lists ranking U.S. presidents.
Leland 'ice crop' in 1927 was Leland
March 12, 2008 – 1:39 am
It's been a long, cold winter.
It would have been a good one for "harvesting ice" - if ice were still harvested.
1930s quiet compared to '20s, '40s
March 5, 2008 – 1:53 am
The 1930s proved to be a "quiet interlude" between two more dramatic eras.
The "Roaring Twenties," a period of dramatic growth and social changes in the U.S., came to a fairly abrupt halt in late October 1929.