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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 (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: 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: 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: 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: 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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