End of the Season
We’ve had our first major snowstorm of the year, and it was a doozy (to use a technical term). More […]
Near the RR Tracks
This weekend, I took a walk along some railroad tracks near where I live. As it turns out, mostly, I […]
Fall Colors
This week’s post is the product of a short flight on a blustery day in Michigan. Fifteen miles an hour […]
Mackinac Bridge
The Straits of Mackinac feel to me–as a historian–defined by relations between Native peoples and Europeans. The fur trade. Battles […]
Grand River View
I’m not sure if Grand Rapids is famous for anything. Furniture maybe. Beer more recently maybe. For an urban area […]
Churches from the Sky
This weekend I went back to the old Polish Catholic immigrant neighborhood near the confluence of highways 131 and 196 […]
Bars and Churches
This weekend I photographed on the NW side of Grand Rapids, in the 4th Street NW and Stocking Avenue NW […]
Cottage Country and the Dynamo
“Dynamo” is an old-timey term for a device that generates electricity, such as the coal-fired electric generating station in the […]
Last Weekend
This morning I realized that I never got around to writing my blog post last weekend. So, here we go. […]
Eastown Architecture
Apparently, some people think of the Eastown neighborhood as the Greenwich Village of Grand Rapids (in a travel story about […]
Cherry Street (Plus)
This weekend I photographed along Cherry Street in the East Hills neighborhood of Grand Rapids. I also went out with […]
Hastings from Above
This week I got to play with my drone a bit more than usual. Here’s a few images that I […]
Fulton Street
This week I spent part of a morning on Fulton Street SE, near the Fulton Street Market. This part of […]
Michigan St NE
As much as any other area of town in Grand Rapids, Michigan St NE has been transformed in the past […]
Older Suburbs
This summer I’ve started photographing business districts in Grand Rapids neighborhoods such as Creston (Plainfield NE) and Alger Heights (Alger […]
Alger Heights
This weekend I photographed in the small business district in the Alger Heights neighborhood, a postwar suburb with modest houses. […]
Plainfield Avenue
For much of the past year, I’ve been photographing small towns in West Michigan, in roughly a 45-minute radius around […]
Sun & Sky
It was a hot week, thought it ended cooler. Lots of sun. Busy at work, as i adjusted to being […]
Lowell Colors
On Saturday I drove to Lowell to photograph. It’s about 25 minutes east of Grand Rapids. I was surprised to […]
Coopersville Windows
Memorial Day weekend I spent some time photographing in Coopersville, about 20 minutes west of Grand Rapids. I’d been there, […]
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