My Town Monday: Brighton’s Four Corners, part 2
Across Grand River from the Eastern House Hotel once stood a grocery store. Some time later, the building was torn down and a new store…
Author: Elizabeth Nofs
My Town Monday: Brighton’s Four Corners, part 1
Main Street in Brighton intersects Grand River and forms a well-known and ever-changing intersection. This set of posts will look at the every changing buildings….
My Town Monday: From Farm to Suburb
Once upon a time, much of South East Lower Michigan was trees. Shortly after that, it was farm fields and small towns. This image shoes…
My Town Monday: Brighton Mall… including the answer to a riddle
The Brighton Mall is nestled in the corner of Grand River and I-96. Built in the 1970s, it was, once upon a time, a “real”…
Best New Technology of the Decade
When is a mouse not a mouse? When it is a guitar! The idea of creating a drum or guitar out of a mouse controller…
The Handmade Christmas
Dame Dragon is a cartoon I wrote when I was young. Eric and Clair were just knee-highs. The hand drawn cartoons were video-taped in the…
My Town Monday: Dark Alleys and Streets
The alleys in movies look nothing like the alleys that we have around here. In fact, the alleys in Livingston County, what few we have,…
My Town Monday: Invasion
The Soviets came to my little town. In fact, they were just around the corner. More or less. Near Mt. Brighton (which I can see…
My Town Monday: Livingston County v. Ann Arbor
The little country mouse left her country home and ventured into the city this weekend. I went to see Barrie Summy at Aunt Agatha’s bookstore…
