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Lost Lansing: Is treasure still buried in the West Side Neighborhood?

Lost Lansing: Is treasure still buried in the West Side Neighborhood?

By David Votta on December 26, 2011

Criminal ran a counterfeiting ring out of a shanty in the Bogus Swamp where they may have buried their treasure

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Lost Lansing: Season’s Greetings from J. Edgar Hoover

Lost Lansing: Season’s Greetings from J. Edgar Hoover

By David Votta on November 27, 2011

Popular Lansing Police Chief Alfred J. Seymour was on J. Edgar’s Christmas card list

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Lost Lansing (Halloween Edition): The Curious Case of Dr. Armstrong

Lost Lansing (Halloween Edition): The Curious Case of Dr. Armstrong

By David Votta on October 30, 2011

A hair-raising tale of bodysnatchers and a president

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Lost Lansing: Blurring Lansing’s Red Line

Lost Lansing: Blurring Lansing’s Red Line

By David Votta on October 10, 2011

The history of this shameful practice of discriminatory lending practices in Lansing.

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Lost Lansing: The peculiar bounty of the Grand River: circa 1908

Lost Lansing: The peculiar bounty of the Grand River: circa 1908

By David Votta on July 17, 2011

Harvesting freshwater pearls?

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Lost Lansing: Leslie’s Voltairine de Cleyre shattered the bounds of convention

Lost Lansing: Leslie’s Voltairine de Cleyre shattered the bounds of convention

By David Votta on May 22, 2011

An ardent feminist and anarchist, Voltairine led life on her own terms.

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Lost Lansing: To his country and his flag

Lost Lansing: To his country and his flag

By David Votta on April 6, 2011

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

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Lost Lansing: Burt Reynolds Native Son (and now Wikipedia agrees)

Lost Lansing: Burt Reynolds Native Son (and now Wikipedia agrees)

By David Votta on February 6, 2011

Various biographies list Lansing, a town in Florida and Waycross, Georgia, as Burt’s hometown, but we have the proof

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Lost Lansing: Elton Shaw promoted temperance and sunbathing

Lost Lansing: Elton Shaw promoted temperance and sunbathing

By David Votta on January 23, 2011

The 1936 national conference of the American Sunbathing Association nudist organization was held in Valparaiso, Indiana. At this event Elton Raymond Shaw, Lansing author, publisher and lecturer was elected president. Born in Michigan about 1886, Shaw was a complex man. Highly religious, he published books on temperance and in 1909 authored a book concerning Jesus’ […]

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Lost Lansing: Two men reigned as Lansing Batman

Lost Lansing: Two men reigned as Lansing Batman

By David Votta on January 7, 2011

The barnstorming pilots of the past were a special breed

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