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When ‘This Is The Army’ came to Dowagiac
We recently opened a new exhibit at the Dowagiac Area History Museum that looks at wartime stories of Cass County residents and, of course, it ...
We recently opened a new exhibit at the Dowagiac Area History Museum that looks at wartime stories of Cass County residents and, of course, it ...
When P.D. Beckwith started manufacturing stoves in the late 1860s, he had four regular employees. By 1879, he had 40 employees, with the July 30, ...
Last month, I looked at Philo D. Beckwith’s early years in Dowagiac. While his manufacturing of the roller grain drill created a regular product, the ...
My late friend Grif Cook always said that without P.D. Beckwith, Dowagiac would have been like Pokagon. No offense to Pokagon — after all, he ...
The Orphan Train and Dowagiac’s connection to it will be fully explored in 2017, through a series of projects being undertaken by the museum, the ...
One of my favorite characters in Dowagiac history is Thomas Jefferson Martin, one of the city’s first African American settlers. Martin led an interesting life ...
When the museum gets out-of-town visitors, they sometimes ask what else they “need to see” in town. I frequently point them to the two field ...
When the museum gets out-of-town visitors, they sometimes ask what else they “need to see” in town. I frequently point them to the two field ...
Photographs help document our lives, and technology has made it easier for us to take photographs today than at any other point in history. For ...
I recently read that the NASA set a goal for sending a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s and entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX, ...
Every four years, we go through a Presidential election cycle and we get tired of the negative advertising and hope the next cycle will be ...
We have all seen them in recent weeks — the walking zombies looking at their phones, trying to catch an elusive Pokemon. Without trying to ...
From the moment four American pilots took off from Seattle in April 1924 on their mission to be the first pilots to fly across the ...
The museum has a permanent exhibit I call Small Town, Big World: Locals Who Made History. As the name implies, it explores the efforts of ...
The museum has a permanent exhibit I call Small Town, Big World: Locals Who Made History. As the name implies, it explores the efforts of ...
Publicity stunts have been around since at least the days of P.T. Barnum’s carnivals and sideshows — interesting marketing campaigns that try to gain the ...
We take marketing for granted today as we are inundated with commercials on television, radio, websites and billboards. Advertising likely goes back to the competing ...
The temporary exhibit at the Dowagiac Area History Museum, “Michigan Eats: Regional Culture Through Food,” makes the point that there are few foods that are ...
You have probably read about Michigan Eats: Regional Culture Through Food at the museum in the past week or so. The MSU exhibit explores Michigan ...
The view from the Dowagiac Area History Museum has changed dramatically in the past month. The tearing down of Round Oak Warehouse No. 9 changes ...
The Oklahoma City Thunder (23-5) bring a three-game win streak into a road matchup with the Indiana Pacers…
Here’s a peek at the injury report for the Oklahoma City Thunder (23-5), which currently has four players…
The Oklahoma City Thunder (23-5) bring a three-game winning streak into a road matchup with the Indiana Pacers…
Before you build your DFS lineups for Week 17 of the NFL season, take a look at our…
The contests on the Wednesday college basketball slate for which we have suggested picks against the spread include…