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Location: District #2 – Section 21, south side of W Ave., a little west of 42nd Street. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by…
Bronson Park’s Fountain of The Pioneers artist Alfonso Iannelli worked throughout the United States before and after he designed our…
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During the second half of the nineteenth century, Kalamazoo was, especially considering its small size, a hotbed for all things…
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Natalie Patchell examines of the history and transformation of Crane Park in the Westnedge Hill neighborhood from an 1880s gravel…
“Candace Anderson Sings about Early Michigan Women” (1987) – This popular folksinger sings songs she has written based on the…
The late Walter Dean Myers, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, talked about his work and answered questions. Kalamazoo Public…
Location: District #2 – Section 22, northwest corner of R Avenue and 8th Street. Burned September 1878, rebuilt on same…
At the turn of the twentieth century skyscrapers were still a relatively recent development. The desire to build taller had…
Kevin Coval, co-founder of “Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival” and called “the voice of the new…
First elected to the Kalamazoo City Commission in 1975, Caroline Ham has the distinction of being the city’s first woman…
Location: Michigan Avenue, River Oaks Park, near Morrow Lake. Status: Inactive – no official records, exact site unknown
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This full-text database provides a historically rich collection of hundreds of thousands of classic and contemporary poems, as well as…
Fold3 provides convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who…
NoveList Plus is a comprehensive readers' advisory resource. In addition to the fiction database that NoveList has offered, NoveList Plus…
This database is a leading resource for scholarly research. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study…