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The Voices of Detroit: French Detroit

City of Detroit, History, People / Pamela Hilliard Owens

Those who know the history of the City of Detroit know that our City was founded three hundred and thirteen years ago in 1701, by French explorers. Our Area Code is also “313”, so we have been really celebrating this year! “De-troit” can be roughly translated from the French to “the straits”. French explorer and […]

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Casey Kasem

History, Neighborhood, People / Martha Peterson

Recently, America said goodbye to radio icon Casey Kasem, longtime host of “American Top 40.” (Maybe some of our younger readers will recognize him as the voice of “Shaggy” on the Scooby Doo cartoons.) What’s the connection to the El Moore, you ask? As with the Green Garage, part of the research we’ve done on

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