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Rachel Clark with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the House of David religious society in Benton Harbor, Michigan and the baseball they created. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Benton Harbor (Mich.)
Sandra Clark, Direction of the Michigan History Center, and Dr. John Lowe who is an assistant professor at Ohio State University Newark talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about Pottawatomi leader Leopold Pokagon and his story. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Rachel Clark with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the ghost town of Delaware, Michigan in the Keweenaw Peninsula. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Delaware (Mich.)
State Archivist Mark Harvey with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the creation of Muzak by George Squier from Dryden, Michigan. A transcript is available along with interview audio.
Lapeer County (Mich.)
State Archivist Mark Harvey and Dean of the Charles W. Howard Santa School, Tom Valent, talk with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the Charles W. Howard Santa School in Midland, Michigan. It is the longest serving Santa School. A transcript is available along with the interview audio/
Midland (Mich.)
State Archivist Mark Harvey with the Michigan History Center and Chris Wood, CEO of Trout Unlimited talk with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the founding of Trout Unlimited in northern Michigan and the work they continue to perform to this day. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Steve Ostrander with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the ghost town Pere Cheney in Beaver Creek Township. The subject was a part of the "Am I Curious?" segment and asked by Olivia Cushway of Ypsilanti, Michigan. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Pere Cheney Cemetery (Beaver Creek, Mich.)
State Archivist Mark Harvey with the Michigan History Center and Bill Roose, Communication Specialist with Novi Community Schools talk with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the 1954 game between the Detroit Red Wings and prisoners from Marquette Branch Prison in Marquette, Michigan. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Marquette (Mich.)
Sandra Clark, Director of the Michigan History Center, and Eric Hemenway, Director of Archives and Records for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians talk with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the history of Indian boarding schools, particularly in Harbor Springs, Michigan. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Harbor Springs (Mich.)
State Archivist Mark Harvey and Rachel Clark with the Michigan History Center talk with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about Michigander Clem Sohn, a daredevil who jumped out of planes wearing a flying suit.
Fowler (Mich.)
This collection contains transcripts and audio files of interviews with Governor Rick Snyder, First Lady Sue Snyder and other Snyder administration officials. Topics discussed include the Education Achievement Authority, campaign finance, Detroit's bankruptcy, business incentives, right to work, transportation funding and the Flint water crisis. Records from 2011-2016 are transcripts and records from 2017-2018 are audio files.
State Archivist Mark Harvey with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering and the development of a vaccine for whooping cough. A transcript is available along with interview audio.
Rachel Clark with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about Oleo margarine and the smuggling that took place along the Wisconsin/Michigan border in the Upper Peninsula during the 1960s. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Dickinson County (Mich.)
State Archivist Mark Harvey of the Michigan History Center and Toronto historian - archaeologist Karolyn Smardz Frost talk with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the Underground Railroad and the life of Thornton Blackburn. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Detroit (Mich.)
State Archivist Mark Harvey and Eric Perkins with the Michigan History Center talk with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about Sarah Seelye, a Canadian who found her way to Flint, Michigan and volunteered for the 2nd Michigan Infantry under the name of Franklin Thompson. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Flint (Mich.)
Steve Ostrander with the Michigan History Center and Jeff Taylor, board member of the American Museum of Magic talk with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the history of magic in Michigan and the famous magicians who helped it grow in the state. A transcript is available along with interview audio.
Rachel Clark with the Michigan History Center and Arnie Bernstein talk with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the 1927 Bath School Disaster. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
State Archivist Mark Harvey with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the 1970 Goose Lake Music Festival that was held was three days near Goose Lake, Michigan. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Rachel Clark with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Lester Graham on Michigan Radio about the History Center's moon rock from the Apollo 11 space mission. The rock was presented to the History Museum by Governor Milliken in the late 1980s. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Michigan Historical Museum (Lansing, Mich.)
This collection contains 1 audio interview between Robert Garrett of the Michigan History Center and Vergil Pickney from Mcbain, Michigan. The interview discusses Vergil's background, his work at the Boys' Training School, his work in education, and the correction system.
State Archivist Mark Harvey with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about why the Detroit Lions play on Thanksgiving Day and Michigan's history of playing football during the holiday. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Eric Perkins with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the discovery of artifacts in Montcalm County in October 1890 and the craze that ensued throughout the state. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Montcalm County (Mich.)
State Archivist Mark Harvey with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the ghost town Podunk, Michigan in Gladwin County. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Gladwin County (Mich.)
State Archivist Mark Harvey with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about Wildcat banking and its introduction in Michigan during the 1800s. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
State Archivist Mark Harvey with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host April Baer on Michigan Radio about the architect Wah Yee, his work, and the influence it has had on Michigan.
State Maritime Archaeologist Wayne Lusardi with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Lester Graham on Michigan Radio about the crash of Tuskegee airman Frank Moody in Lake Huron in 1944. The transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Rachel Clark with the Michigan History Center and retired DNR Wildlife Veterinarian Steve Schmitt talk with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the reestablishment of moose in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Algonquin Provinicial Park (Ont.), Upper Peninsula (Mich.)
State Archivist Mark Harvey of the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the history of the Mackinac Bridge.
State Archivist Mark Harvey with the Michigan History Center and Mary Jane McClintock Wilson talk with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the letters of Freeman McClintock, who served in the United States Ambulance Corps and Motor Transport Corps in France during the First World War and wrote the letters to his wife. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Lansing (Mich.)
State Archivist Mark Harvey with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty about Edward Lowe from Cassopolis, Michigan and the invention of cat litter. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Cassopolis (Mich.)
State Archivist Mark Harvey with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the ghost town of Singapore, Michigan just north of present-day Saugatuck, Michigan at the mouth of the Kalamazoo River. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Historian Michelle S. Johnson talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about Michigan's role in the Underground Railroad. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Cass County (Mich.)
Jillian Reese with the Michigan History Centers talks with Stateside host April Baer on Michigan Radio about the history of LGBTQ in Michigan as well as Kathy Kozachenko, who openly ran as a lesbian candidate and won her elections as for City Counsel in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Historian Troy Henderson with the Michigan History Center and Steve Lehto, an attorney and author, talk with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about the 1913 Copper Strike in the Keweenaw Peninsula and the Italian Hall Disaster that killed seventy-three people in Calumet, Michigan. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Calumet (Mich.)
State Archivist Mark Harvey with the Michigan History Center talks with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about Michigan's squirrel "migration" and the state's history with squirrel populations. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
Steve Ostrander with the Michigan History Center and Eric Hemenway, Director of Archives and Records for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians talk with Stateside host Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio about Company K of the First Michigan Sharpshooters which comprised of Anishinaabek from Odawa and Ojibwe communities in the Lower and Upper Peninsulas who fought in the Civil War. A transcript is available along with the interview audio.
This collection consists of seventeen interviews of members of the Lake Huron coastal community of Rogers City, Michigan, as well as fisheries professionals, who experienced the buildup of Chinook salmon fishing in Rogers City in the late twentieth century and the Lake Huron Chinook salmon fishery crash in the mid-2000s.
Rogers City (Mich.)
