It’s Springtime, 1907.  As one approaches the Village from the north on Grand River and comes to the Village limits (at the corner of Grand River and Cross street), one sees a sign warning: ” Speed Limit 8 Miles per hour”.  Continuing one passes over a red, wooded bridge spanning Ore Creek and attention is […]

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THE DATE:  May 30, 1884 – THE PLACE:  The Brighton Village Cemetery alive with the flutter of small American flags placed at each veteran’s grave.  THE PEOPLE:  School children standing quietly, dressed in their finest; soldiers and veterans, hats in hand, heads bowed and other residents of the area, all in reverent attention as the […]

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The history of Crooked Lake, along with that of all the SE section of Michigan, properly begins about 30,000 years ago when the last glacier slowly retreated, leaving in huge heaps the enormous amount of material it had scoured off the Laurentian Range in Canada.  These heaps left hit or miss over this area, penned […]

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The Brighton Argus, August 28, 1907, reported: ” The 1907 Homecoming was the biggest time we ever had” and “Friends who had not seen each other for years were brought together to laugh and weep for joy”. Visitors arrived each day by railroad, by horse and buggy and by horse and wagon.  Many had not […]

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Today one is accustomed to paying several hundred dollars a year for automobile insurance.  Today one recognizes the need for liability limits of $100,00 or more.  Today one is aware the purchase of a new and more expensive auto will mean an increase in one’s insurance costs and to top it off there is the […]

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“Aren’t you two ready yet?  I’ve got old Brownie hitched to the cutter.  If we don’t hurry it’ll be dark before we get back.  I don’t want to have to be on he lookout for wolves,” Papa teased. “Papa, Bonnie’s putting on her mittens and I’m tying Elmer’s scarf so it’ll cover his ears.  Don’t […]

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