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David Votta

Historian, writer and research consultant David Votta has worked as History Librarian & Archivist for the Capital Area District Library since 2004. Previous to CADL he was employed at the Detroit Institute of Arts Research Library/Archives and as a freelance reporter for NPR affiliate WDET in Detroit. He has studied at the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and currently serves on more boards and commissions than he would like to think about.

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

Posted in Lost Lansing, News | Tagged bogus swamp, Buried Treasure, counterfeiters, Criminal Syndicates, david votta, history, Lansing, lost lansing, Michigan, stebbins, Westside Neighborhood | Leave a response

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

Posted in Lost Lansing, News | Tagged Carnivals, Christmas Cards, FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, Lansing Police Department | Leave a response

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

Posted in Lost Lansing | Tagged Benjamin Harrison, body snatching, david votta, Dr. Thomas Armstrong, grave robbing, lost lansing, medical schools | 3 Responses

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.

Posted in Lost Lansing, News | Tagged david votta, history, Lansing, lost lansing, redlining | Leave a response

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?

Posted in Lost Lansing, News | Tagged Grand River | 1 Response

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.

Posted in Lost Lansing, News | Tagged anarchist, Emma Goldman, feminist, freethinker, Voltairine de Cleyre | 2 Responses

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.

Posted in Lost Lansing | Tagged cadl, charles foster, civil warm, david votta, lost lansing, plowshares into swords, U.S. Civil War | 2 Responses

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

Posted in Lost Lansing, News | Tagged birthplace, Burt Reynolds, Danora, Lansing, Michigan | 4 Responses

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’ [...]

Posted in Community & Opinion, Lost Lansing, News | Tagged american sunbathing, Chamber of Commerce, Elton Shaw, lost lansing, nudism, temperance | 1 Response

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

Posted in Community & Opinion, Lost Lansing, News | Tagged charlie zmuda, clem sohn, east lansing airport, lansing batman | 2 Responses

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