michigan history

Hello friends. In today's episode we talk all about the history and hauntings of The Stafford's Perry Hotel in Petoskey, Michigan. We talk about the brief history of the hotel and all who may still possibly linger there as spirits today. 

Stay Spooky,
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sources:
https://www.petoskeynews.com/story/entertainment/2019/10/24/scary-stories-of-petoskeys-perry-hotel/44221605/
https://www.theperryhotel.com/history/

Hello all of my spooky friends!  Today's episode is part one in this Michigan Ghost stories and Legends series.  I talk about some creepy ghost stories and legends that has made the residents of many Michigan cities scratch their heads in wonder. From the Michigan Dogman, to Hell's Bridge, to Creepy telephone company murders. Its October! So, it's the PERFECT time to listen to these local legends and scary stories to get you SCARED for this SPOOKY SEASON!


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https://www.scaryforkids.com/bell-telephone-company/

https://99wfmk.com/hellsbridge2018/

https://www.wideopenspaces.com/michigan-dogman/

https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6PAQG_hh8-judd-white-house-grand-rapids-m

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored to feed industrial factories elsewhere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But there were factories in the Upper Peninsula, too, and women who worked in them. In We Kept Our Towns Going, Phyllis Michael Wong tells the stories of the Gossard Girls, women who sewed corsets and bras at factories in Ishpeming and Gwinn from the early twentieth century all the way into the 1970s. 

As the Upper Peninsula’s mines became increasingly exhausted and its stands of timber further depleted, the Gossard Girls’ income sustained both their families and the local economy. During this time the workers showed their political and economic strength, including a successful four-month strike in the 1940s that capped an eight-year struggle to unionize. 

Drawing on dozens of interviews with the surviving workers and their families, this book highlights the daily challenges and joys of these mostly first- and second-generation immigrant women. It also illuminates the way the Gossard Girls navigated shifting ideas of what single and married women could and should do as workers and citizens. From cutting cloth and distributing materials to getting paid and having fun, Wong gives us a rare ground-level view of piecework in a clothing factory from the women on the sewing room floor. 

PHYLLIS MICHAEL WONG has held roles as a historian, an educator, and thirty-year member of the university level academic world, including as First Lady at Northern Michigan University (2004–12) and San Francisco State University (2012–19).

We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is available at msupress.org and other fine booksellers. Phyllis will be speaking in Gwinn, Michigan, on April 12. On April 13 at 6:30 PM at the Marquette Regional History Center in Marquette, Michigan. On Thursday, April 14, in the afternoon at Northern Michigan University. Please see the show notes for more information about these talks in the show notes. 

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The MSU Press podcast is a joint production of MSU Press and the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University. Thanks to the team at MSU Press for helping to produce this podcast. Our theme music is “Coffee” by Cambo. 

Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi people. The University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.

In light of the recent school shooting in Oxford, Michigan. A listener suggested I take a look at the horrific Bath, Michigan bombing massacre of 1927. It was the first and largest school-related rampage killing ever in the United States.  Learn about Andrew Kehoe, his life, and what led him to murder 44 people on that May morning. A series of three blasts forever changed the tiny town just north of Lansing. 

Our 1 Year Anniversary Episode! 

In The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes, Lynne Heasley illuminates an underwater world with a ferocious industrial history. Despite these pressures, the great lakes remain wondrous and worthy of care. From its first scene in a benighted river, where lake sturgeon thrash and spawn, this powerful book takes readers on journeys through the Great Lakes alongside fish and fishers, scuba divers and scientists, toxic pollutants and threatened communities, oil pipelines and invasive species, and Indigenous peoples and federal agencies.

With dazzling illustrations from Glenn Wolff, The Accidental Reef helps us know the Great Lakes in new ways and grapple with the legacies and alternative futures that come from their abundance of natural wealth. Suffused with curiosity, empathy, and wit, The Accidental Reef will not fail to astonish and inspire. As John Hartig puts it, “Heasley leads the reader to see, know, and understand these freshwater seas from different perspectives [which are] essential to developing a stewardship ethic.”

Lynne Heasley is a professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University, in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She is also the author of A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley and a coeditor of Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship.

Lynne’s book The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes is available at msupress.org and other fine booksellers. You can find Lynne at lynneheasley.com and you can connect with the press on Facebook and @msupress on Twitter, where you can also find me @kurtmilb.

The MSU Press podcast is a joint production of MSU Press and the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University. Thanks to the team at MSU Press for helping to produce this podcast. Our theme music is “Coffee” by Cambo. 

Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi people. The University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.

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Berry Gordy is a household name in America, primarily for his contributions to American music. But did you know he has some ridiculous celebrity relatives?

Listen and learn about Berry Gordy's humble beginnings in Detroit, and how his entrepreneurial spirit took him to unprecedented heights in an era that was more difficult for black Americans to break the mainstream mold of success. 

Be sure to follow us on Twitter @SoulsDetroit and Instagram at @LostSoulsofDetroit.

The story of a man who came from a disgraced family in France's countryside, and how he ascended to the highest ranks of the French Royal Navy using grit,  aggression and deceit. This would eventually in culminate in Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founding Detroit and overcoming his checkered past. This episode dives deep into varying accounts of Cadillac's heroism and idiocy alike.

Coming soon the Hike Explores Michigan series.  Follow Lori as she explores the Michigan State Parks, Recreation Areas and public lands.  She'll share history, favorite trails and local gems along the way. 

Coming May 2021. 

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Ghosts of the past haunt the streets of Cereal City, and the Kellogg legacy lives on. A look at Battle Creek today.

THEME SONG
Bad Ideas (distressed) by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3412-bad-ideas-distressed-
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

RESOURCES
The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Kalamazoo (Howard Markel)
michigansotherside.com
michigan.org
battlecreek.org
Find A Grave
Wikipedia

The streets of Cereal City were never more dangerous than in the early 1980s, when three young women were raped and murdered over the span of six months. Locals feared a satanic cult might be to blame, but authorities found themselves asking a different question- was the culprit a serial killer, or a killer who sold cereal?

THEME SONG
Bad Ideas (distressed) by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3412-bad-ideas-distressed-
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

RESOURCES
The Murder of Maggie Hume: Cold Case in Battle Creek (Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester)
A Tale of 2 Men and 1 Murder Confession (Sharon Cohen, Los Angeles Times)
Wikipedia
Find A Grave
newspapers.com

Throughout Dr. Kellogg's rise to fame and the success of his sanitarium, one man stood in the shadows doing much of the work but getting none of the credit- his younger brother Will. When Will took one of the doctor's discarded projects and turned it into a multi-million dollar empire, their bitter sibling rivalry turned deadly. The brothers spent decades battling over the family name and the throne to the cereal kingdom. In the end, it cost them both much more than money.

THEME SONG
Bad Ideas (distressed) by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3412-bad-ideas-distressed-
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

RESOURCES
The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Kalamazoo (Howard Markel)
How the Battling Kelloggs Revolutionized American Breakfast  (Terry Gross, NPR)
Wikipedia
Find A Grave
newspapers.com

When Dr. Kellogg stole the Battle Creek Sanitarium out from under Mother White and the Seventh Day Adventist Church, the scorned prophet swore there would be hell to pay. Soon after, hell on earth visited Battle Creek in the form of a series of suspicious fires known as "The West End Fires." Buildings burned, fortunes were lost, and a war was waged as the body count piled up.

THEME SONG
Bad Ideas (distressed) by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3412-bad-ideas-distressed-
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

RESOURCES
The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Kalamazoo (Howard Markel)
Ellen White, A Brief Biography (Arthur L. White, Chan Shun Centennial Library)
Battle Creek Enquirer (Nick Buckley, 2020)
egwwritings.org
nonegw.org
migenweb.org
Wikipedia
Find-A-Grave
newspapers.com

At the age of 24, Dr. Kellogg took over as director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, also known as "The San." In his quest to provide his famous guests with top-notch care, Dr. Kellogg pushed dangerous treatments that put many of his patients in the ground, rather than on the road to wellness.

THEME SONG
Bad Ideas (distressed) by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3412-bad-ideas-distressed-
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

RESOURCES
The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Kalamazoo (Howard Markel)
Dr. John Kellogg Invented Cereal (Greg Daugherty, history.com)
How Dr. Kellogg’s World-Renowned Health Spa Made Him a Wellness Titan (Howard Markel, pbs.org)
The Enigmatic Dr. Kellogg (Joe Schwarcz, PhD)
Wikipedia
Find A Grave
Newspapers.com

John Harvey Kellogg was a walking contradiction. A religious fanatic and a man of science. A racist and a philanthropist. A man so obsessed with wellness, he paid no mind to how many died in his care, so long as it furthered his studies. A health fanatic with a creative mind, Dr. Kellogg invented machines designed for treatment that were better suited for a medieval torture chamber. But just how did a promising young prodigy become America's most infamous mad doctor? Find out in part one of The Cereal Killer Chronicles, The Mad Doctor.

THEME SONG
Bad Ideas (distressed) by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3412-bad-ideas-distressed-
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

RESOURCES
The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Kalamazoo (Howard Markel)
Dr. Kellogg Invented Cereal (Greg Daugherty, history.com)
Why Are There So Many Black Squirrels in Battle Creek? (Nick Buckley, Battle Creek Enquirer) 
How John Harvey Kellogg Was Wrong on Race (Nick Buckley, Battle Creek Enquirer)
When Were Cereal Flakes Really First Made? (Tim Collins, wbckfm.com)
Wikipedia
Find A Grave

Coming June 11, 2020- a So Dead miniseries! Before they created Corn Flakes and Froot Loops, the Kelloggs ran a deadly sanitarium and subscribed to a dangerous religion. The last name synonymous with breakfast foods is also linked to strange deaths, suspicious tragedies, and even murder. In this eight-part series, host Jenn Carpenter breaks down the complicated Kellogg legacy, from cereal to killers.

Song Credit: Bad Ideas (distressed) by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3412-bad-ideas-distressed-
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Edited by: Kelly K Audio