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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.

Posted in , , | Tagged burial, graveyard, , oak park | 4 Responses

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”

Posted in , , | Tagged cemetery, Durant's History, graveyard, , Turner Dodge | Leave a response

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.

Posted in , , | Tagged blueprints, bob garrett, darius moon, , olds mansion, seeking michigan | 2 Responses

Lost Lansing: Spiritualist Camp in Haslett

Lost Lansing: Spiritualist Camp in Haslett

By David Votta on August 16, 2010

Time to get out the Ouija board?

Posted in , , | Tagged , Haslett, , mead family, sarah hegge, spiritualist camp | 1 Response

Lost Lansing: Grand Trunk train wreck of 1941

Lost Lansing: Grand Trunk train wreck of 1941

By David Votta on August 2, 2010

A train plowed into the Washington Street train station, killing a young boy.

Posted in , | Tagged grand trunk, , train wreck, washington street train station | 4 Responses

Lost Lansing: Remembering “The Sheik”

Lost Lansing: Remembering “The Sheik”

By David Votta on July 27, 2010

Do you remember The Sheik from Williamston? He helped make wrestling what it is today.

Posted in , , | Tagged Edward Farhat, , The Sheik, Williamston | 5 Responses

Dennis Preston does a quick sketch

Artist Dennis Preston does the monster mash

By Bill Castanier on July 26, 2010

Dennis has been drawing monster caricatures for more than 40 years and leaving them behind.

Posted in , Life in Lansing, Local Small Business, , , Only in Lansing | Tagged Big Dady Roth, Dennis Preston. Lansing Michigan, Don Martin, Free Spirit, Lansing Online News, | 1 Response

Lost Lansing: Going ape on the 4th of July

Lost Lansing: Going ape on the 4th of July

By David Votta on June 26, 2010

An ape escaped from a traveling zoo, wandering through town for 10 hours.

Posted in , , | Tagged aoe, circus, escape, lambrigger' zoo, , ossified man | 2 Responses

Lost Lansing: Presidential candidate preached nudity

Lost Lansing: Presidential candidate preached nudity

By David Votta on June 12, 2010

Merlin Valleau invented his own “natural religion” and some Lansing folks were apparently willing to follow him.

Posted in , , | Tagged , , Merlin Valleau, presidential candidate | 2 Responses

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