My memories of folding newsprint flyers with my brother at age 9 to managing my own Detroit News paper route at 13, delivering papers daily on my red Schwinn bike through rain, snow, and even a dog bite. The experience taught me invaluable lessons about responsibility, perseverance through discomfort, and the rewards of consistent hard work.
In 1975, Doug Vos and his friend Danny Wassenaar were attacked by four young men while cycling through an unfamiliar Detroit neighborhood, with one assailant wielding a table leg. Doug used his bike as a shield and Danny jumped in with a daring karate kick, but the situation remained dire until an ice-cream man intervened, stopping the attack with support from neighbors. The timely arrival of the ice-cream man, coupled with Danny’s bravery, allowed Doug to escape shaken but grateful, reflecting on the incident as a moment of divine protection and grace.
Mark Fidrych The Bird Look-Alike Contest – Spring 1977 The Detroit News held a Mark Fidrych ‘The Bird’ look-alike contest in the spring of 1977, and my mother told me to submit my photo. (This is another story for my grandkids.) Did I really look like the Detroit Tiger’s star pitcher? My mom thought so.
Photography is only a hobby for me. I’m not a professional photographer. However, I do enjoy recording my observations with a camera. Here’s a series of photos I began around May 9th of 2008. Location: Detroit – next door to the Metro Times building (near the GreekTown Casino). Here is what I observed… On July
St. Mary’s Church in Detroit, near the GreekTown casino. St. Mary’s was founded by Father Martin Kundig in 1835 for the German-speaking Catholics in Detroit, and is the third oldest Catholic parish in the city. The cornerstone for the original church building was laid on the feast of Corpus Christi, June 19, 1841. The cornerstone
