by Ryan Place | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
“Speramus meliora; resurget cineribus” (“We hope for better things. They will rise from the ashes.”) Father Gabriel Richard (Detroit, 1805) In life, it’s good to celebrate progress, honor the past and always give credit to the architects and...
by Ryan Place | Jan 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
4th Annual Detroit Festival of Books! (Sunday, July 19th, 2020) Eastern Market SHED 3 According to Eastern Market, we had 13,000 attendees at our 3rd Annual Detroit Festival of Books (aka: Detroit Bookfest) event in July 2019. Our www.DetroitBookfest.com website is...
by Ryan Place | Jan 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
*Special thanks to John Francis, Stan Smith and the great staff at the DMCVB for this* The D-Rover Mobile Visitors Center travels around the region, helping to promote Detroit by passing out free magazines, maps, giveaways and special Detroit promotional materials to...
by Ryan Place | Dec 27, 2019 | Exclusives, Uncategorized
I love Detroit. This city is loaded with great stories, many of which are oft hidden, unacknowledged, or underreported. If not inscribed for the future, when these stories are gone, they’re gone forever, like magnificent old buildings. To me, these stories are...
by Ryan Place | Dec 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
We are raffling off 3 autographed copies of ‘The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroit’s Kosher Nostra’ signed by author Gregory A. Fournier! *3 winners will be selected at random. Enter now for your chance to win!* Enter to win some great prizes The raffle...
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