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Lost Lansing: Michigan once put people in prison for life for possessing alcohol

Lost Lansing: Michigan once put people in prison for life for possessing alcohol

By David Votta on December 27, 2010

Etta Mae Miller’s life sentence for a fourth conviction for a pint of booze was eventually overturned.

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Lost Lansing: Mansion once housed world’s largest array of Michigan animals

Lost Lansing: Mansion once housed world’s largest array of Michigan animals

By David Votta on December 5, 2010

Lansing Mayor Charles J. Davis kept a menagerie of Michigan flora and fauna in his private zoo

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Lost Lansing: Thanksgiving a Century Before

Lost Lansing: Thanksgiving a Century Before

By David Votta on November 24, 2010

An early version of black Friday, but amid fears of smallpox.

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Lost Lansing: Michigan Brewing Company (conclusion)

Lost Lansing: Michigan Brewing Company (conclusion)

By David Votta on November 14, 2010

The Ku Klux Klan rears its ugly head in this true tale of temperance and toleration.

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Lost Lansing: Lansing Brewing Company collides with the Temperance Movement

Lost Lansing: Lansing Brewing Company collides with the Temperance Movement

By David Votta on November 5, 2010

The Lansing Female Seminary chose a location next to the German immigrant beer brewers – what could go wrong?

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Lost Lansing: Eccentric Delos Marvin

Lost Lansing: Eccentric Delos Marvin

By David Votta on October 7, 2010

The unique Mr. Marvin made the mill town Dimondale his home.

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Lost Lansing: Mt. Hope cemetery still includes undocumented graves

Lost Lansing: Mt. Hope cemetery still includes undocumented graves

By David Votta on September 25, 2010

It was often the poorest whose names were forgotten – paupers, residents of the Boys’ Vocational School, members of black Civil War regiments.

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Lost Lansing: Lansing’s first graveyard (part two)

Lost Lansing: Lansing’s first graveyard (part two)

By David Votta on September 10, 2010

Oak Park’s fountains were a bit too much of a lure for kids who had to be retrieved, wet and muddy.

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Lost Lansing: The city’s first graveyard

Lost Lansing: The city’s first graveyard

By David Votta on September 3, 2010

Finding the remains of early settles is confounded by the fact that the “dead sometimes travel”

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Lost Lansing: Blueprints of the Olds Mansion

Lost Lansing: Blueprints of the Olds Mansion

By David Votta on August 26, 2010

Blueprints from architect Darius Moon.

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