Louis Katz on thu 19 jun 03
Detroit, Lots to do there.
1. Henry Ford Museum. Wonderful museum vfilled with lots of old stuff.
Vacuum cleaners, patent models, Airplanes, propellers, musical
instruments,cars, trains and old salt glazed stoneware. Also a bit of
slip ware. Greenfield village is also nice. It is expensive to visit
these places though.
2. Pewabic Pottery has nice shows, and its downtown near the river. Go
to Bell Isle and drive around, see the old aquarium.
3. Detroit Institute of Art.
Louis,
I am in SoHo Texas. South of Houston
On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 02:04 PM, Lynn Barnwell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My trip to Chicago was changed to Detroit for this next week.
> I am bummed out as I had already arranged several neat things to do in
> Chicago. Thanks to all who sent info on Chicago.
>
> Now I need help on Detroit. Don't know a thing about it but car
> manufacturing......
Lynn Barnwell on thu 19 jun 03
Hello,
My trip to Chicago was changed to Detroit for this next week.
I am bummed out as I had already arranged several neat things to do in =
Chicago. Thanks to all who sent info on Chicago. =20
Now I need help on Detroit. Don't know a thing about it but car =
manufacturing......
Lynn Barnwell
Hinkle Creek Pottery
Corinth, MS 38834
lynn@hinklecreekpottery.com
or lbarnwell@dixie-net.com
pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on fri 20 jun 03
Hi Lynn,
Detroit fascinates me and I have had many thoughts of moving
there...it remains a place where an honest Man may get a
proper, formal Building for a fair price and mind his own
Business, have a little garden...and tend the razor-wire
fences as the Alsations like to romp in under the out-tilted
mercury-vapour motion-sensor-lights of evening's sweet
breezes and tranquilities.
I have not been there yet, but I have spoken with several
people who had lived there and I am grateful for their
edifications. My just recently and nominated to remain
in-perpetuity of ex-girlfriend, was from there, and we had
planned to visit it in July...(sigh...)
She had been a School Marm in some of the hi-schools...and
in those days, had been a very brave Girl.
The understanding I have so far...is that...
Like other places, or maybe more so...there is
'Detroit'...and then there is 'Detroit'...
There are many nice areas and many nice people, a lot of
very nice cultural things, Coffee-Houses and cool Bars,
Universities of Merit and a great Art scene.
There are many more areas as are considered dangerous and
deralict-urban-wild, where one may expect to get killed
simply to be
there at all.
Car jackings and other mischiefs are said to be commonplace
in
these areas, as are Cars running into you to get you to stop
and be robbed or other.
Night-time is 'worse'...and so, if exporeing them it may be
wise to have
one's affairs 'in order', or prudent to have one's "A.A.A."
membership card with it's dues paid up.
A 'cell-phone' is also a handy thing to have in general when
travelling or exploreing.
It is also a lesson in what may happen to a City, and some
of it's contiguities, or to much of it, anyway, when it's
population has moved away, or moreso maybe, when it has been
custodially assumed by a class of people whose sympathies
are excited to prefer to burn and loot
and wantonly destroy innocent things and incidental others,
rather than have little gardens and keep matters tidy, or
care for things on principle in a nice neighborly way, as
even if a Building may not belong to them.
Or, is an interesting excercise in imagination to wonder
what
a 'Detroit' would be like, if in Finland say...or
Switzerland...my own guess would incline me to an
anticipation of little 'gardens' and clean streets...
Call me 'sentimental' I suppose...(or, 'sigh'...again...)
It is an interesting lesson in many things...
Wild Pheasants have returned to abandonded neighborhoods,
and pause in their renaisance
majesty and vivid
attentions amid the endless decreptudes and burned out
foundation's rubble of Queen Anne revival Homes...or
tettering
Eastlake-Stick mansions with peeling paint and windows all
broken out with soot darkened shard teeth remaining...as
overlook stripped, abandonded late model cars with no
wheels, rusting in the streets full of old mattresses and
litter and whatever else...
Packs of feral dogs may be encountered...seldom with
'smallish' ones, as they get eaten.
Plants grow to such abundance over some of the urban ruins,
that it
qualifies in many areas as a 'green-belt' and looks so from
the Satelite images too...yet up close one sees more detail
of course.
'devils-night' or it's incidental practice sessions, exceeds
'quanza' for it's maybe more primal
allure and celebrant stimulations...or, that as a pass-time,
it exceeds
the allure of 'gardens' anyway...or 'scrabble' one must
suppose...
Endless old Commercial buildings similarly...derelict now
for decades...some burned, some merely smoke
damaged..,many vandalized excessively...and many as could
still be saved and tidied up...if oine wanted to...and this
one just might 'want-to', too...
If it were me...and I was to go exploreing...I'd bring a
Camera...a notebook...Binoculars, a Thermus of Coffee, and a
little wicker pic-nic ensombe...as may include a roll of
'duct-tape' and a reliable revolver...as well as traditional
snacks and fruits and so on.
As if I were on some 'Audubon Society' outing...more or
less...
You can see some of this on websites as are called 'The
Ruins of Detroit' and so on...punch that into google and
you'll get plenty of poignant sights to get the drift from.
The old 'South of Market' in San Fran used to be somewhat
like that...in the late '60s and early '70s, if in a much
smaller geographic sort of way, and with less 'fires' maybe.
I used to explore and 'pic-nic' there sometimes in my early
teens...find interesting things...interesting sights...meet
sometimes interesting people, but usually not.
And it too was a good place to get killed. Yet somehow I
evaded mishap with the lightness of a fawn...as well as a
proper little pic-nic ensombe...with fruits and snacks and
so on.
p.s. If renting a Car to explore in...find a place as rents
very 'used' looking ones...the more beat up the better.
'Blend-in' so far as one may in one's mood and
attentions...(...be invisable...)
Think of all the strangers passing through your areas and
turfs you frequent or live in...that you never saw.
That's the deal...
Good Luck!
Phil
lasvegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Barnwell"
Hello,
My trip to Chicago was changed to Detroit for this next
week.
I am bummed out as I had already arranged several neat
things to do in Chicago. Thanks to all who sent info on
Chicago.
Now I need help on Detroit. Don't know a thing about it but
car manufacturing......
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