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amy elliott bragg

@thenighttrain

Writer, editor, professional cemetery creep. Formerly @detroitnews, @crainsdetroit. https://t.co/QGOSwKLVq6

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amy elliott bragg Reposted

can’t believe we don’t have a GMAC Cash rendition of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald


I barely remember how to post anymore and may choose not to pick the habit back up but if I do it likely won’t be here! you can find me elsewhere. the usual places.


omg I got to talk about this on @CBCWindsor yesterday! cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

for your spooky reading pleasure today, re-upping this little number I wrote last year about Houdini, Halloween, and "the magician's cemetery" …ttledetroithistoryletter.substack.com/p/the-magician…

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On this day in 1977: Boxing great Muhammad Ali is in town helping @CityofDetroit Mayor Coleman Young's reelection bid. They give out candy to children at the Manoogian Mansion on Dwight Street.

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My favorite things in the Milwaukee Public Museum are the old dioramas and my favorite things in the old dioramas are the big empty skies

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jfc

Statue of Detroit's celebrated Tuskegee airman goes missing from Rouge Park detroitnews.com/story/news/loc… via @detroitnews, @Max_DetroitNews



My 6-year-old just showed me how to do something on his iPad for the first time. ("Excuse me," he said politely as he watched over my shoulder. "That's not how you do it.") RIP to me.


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#OTD in 1846, Detroit's Elmwood Cemetery opened. This ca. 1914 postcard shows a view of the grounds with a bridge in the foreground, a fountain, two grave markers and three people. Learn more: detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclop…

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Investigating a mystery about the grave of a painter that like 6 other people will care about but dammit I gotta know


name a better decades-long low-stakes local melodrama than the whale mural crainsdetroit.com/arts-entertain… via @crainsdetroit

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basically just here for breaking news and Midwest Modern Beloit tweets these days

scenes from the Beloit College campus

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some classy terrazzo in downtown Beloit, WI

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best thing I read all day

The US used to have a species of wild parrot (RIP) and my favorite story about them is that a flock showed up near Albany in the middle of winter and scared the shit out of Dutch settlers so badly that they thought the world was ending

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