Monthly Archives: June 2010

About a year into living here, I discovered Sweet-Juniper!, an engaging blog about a young family in Detroit proper. The ex-lawyer/stay-at-home-dad in the family (Jim/”Dutch”) fills his days exploring Detroit with his children. These tales of daily exploration and discovery inspired me. That this man would venture through “America’s most dangerous city” (a dubious, but prevalent epithet) with two young children emboldened me. I started developing lists of Detroit to-dos and then doing them. I’m glad I did. Continue reading →

A friend sent me a link to a 1965 promotional video for Detroit– Detroit: City On The Move. It’s heartbreaking and ironic. From the positive rhetoric about tearing down slums (which was devastating to the black community) to its naive description about ethnic diversity and harmony (just two years before the race riots), it’s hard not to cringe at how far off the mark the video is. Continue reading →