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KPL TV: Music & Concerts

Jesse Palter Quartet @ KPL

The Jesse Palter Quartet, which includes Keith Hall on drums, Mike Jellick on piano and Ben Williams on bass, performed…

Civil War

Underground Railroad

More than three million African-Americans lived as slaves in the Southern United States in the mid-1800s. They had few human…

Parks

Oakwood Amusement Park

In 1893 Kalamazoo’s horse-drawn street railway system was converted to electric power. Looking to expand evening and weekend trade, the…

Native Americans

Bronson Park Mound

The following text and notes by David S. Brose are from the 2021 study, “Archaeological Interpretations of the Ground-Penetrating Radar…

Weather

Blizzard of 1967

Eleven years to the day before “The Great Blizzard of 1978,” a massive winter storm of historic proportion engulfed the…

Music

Edward H. Snuggs

Born in Kalamazoo on the first of March, 1886, Edward Harrison Snuggs grew to become one of the city’s most…

Texas Township

Rix School

Location: District #12 – Section 5, northwest corner of O Avenue and 4th Street. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm.…

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Newspaper Source Plus

Newspaper Source Plus provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from…

Explora for Middle Schools

Magazines and reference books for middle school students. Includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents. Subjects include history, current…

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