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Day 8: Poem-a-Day: by Nathan Adams: These Few Lines

Day 8: Poem-a-Day: by Nathan Adams: These Few Lines

By Bill Castanier on April 8, 2015

Michigan Civil War Infantryman Nathan Adams writes love letters to his girlfriend back home. Will the wartime romance make it? Read on.

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Historical Society opens Lansing Goes to War exhibit

Historical Society opens Lansing Goes to War exhibit

By Bill Castanier on March 4, 2015

Historical Society opens new exhibit on Lansing Goes to War

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Knapp's

Knapp’s opens doors for Historical Society Auction

By Bill Castanier on November 6, 2014

More than 130 auction packages are up for bid at the 4th annual Historical Society of Greater Lansing auction

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Historical Society offers short programs for the lunch hour

Historical Society offers short programs for the lunch hour

By Bill Castanier on September 30, 2014

Learn more about Lansing history

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Stratosphere Man

Author-poet-mortician to speak at Lansing Historical Society event

By Bill Castanier on September 16, 2014

Author-poet and mortician Tom Lynch will discuss what he sees as The Good Funeral 7 p.m., Thursday Sept 18 in the lobby of City Hall as part of the Made in Lansing exhibit

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Cindy McCormick at the Made in Lansing opening

Two local knitter-entrepreneurs to discuss their passion

By Bill Castanier on September 11, 2014

Two knitters to tell their story

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Elizabeth Homer, author, outside of the Turner-Dodge Home

Local historian to talk about Turner-Dodge families

By Bill Castanier on September 4, 2014

  It’s unlikely that most of the brides posing and toasting in the rose garden next to the Turner-Dodge House have any idea who Frances Willard was. If they did, they might find irony in the fact that the fountain that bookends the garden is a testament to Willard, a founder of the Women’s Christian […]

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Cindy McCormick at the Made in Lansing opening

Local author and two knitters are focus of Historical Society programs

By Bill Castanier on August 28, 2014

One of Lansing’s first families and two area knitters highlight Historical Society’s Fall programming

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Historical Society hosts a tour of downtown alleys

Historical Society hosts a tour of downtown alleys

By Bill Castanier on July 21, 2014

Alleys are fast being displaced in cities

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Lansing Carnegie Library

Historical Society and Capital Area District Library to present program on the history of libraries in Lansing

By Bill Castanier on April 7, 2014

In 1902 women in Lansing banded together to assure the city would have a library

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