Michigan

<p>The wrecker’s ball swings in every city in the land, and memorable edifices of all kinds are coming down at a steady clip.</p>

<p><span class="deck"> Henry Ford bought a $75,000 Stradivarius, learned to play “Turkey in the Straw,” and tried to teach all those Model T riders how to do-si-do like Grandpa</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> SECOND OF FOUR INSTALLMENTS</span></p>
<p>A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP </p>

<p><span class="deck"> THIRD OF FOUR INSTALLMENTS A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">"With half the western world at stake,</span> <span class="typestyle"> See Perry on the middle lake.”</span> <span class="typestyle"> —Nineteenth-century ballad</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> An excerpt from a new bicentennial history of his native state</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">THE WAY I SEE IT</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> What happened when the richest man in America decided to collect one of everything</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The great sit-down strike that transformed American industry</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">When copper-country miners went on strike, the owners brought thugs from the slums of New York to northern Michigan. The struggle led to an event that killed a city.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Bill Mitchell’s imaginings brought you the cars of Detroit’s ultimate classic era.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How Grand Rapids regained its grandeur</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A century ago the Soo canal was an insignificant ditch in a remote northern wilderness. Today it serves as the busiest industrial highway on earth.</span> </p>

<p>In 1673, a Jesuit missionary, a fur trader, and a small group of canoe men traveled 2000 miles from what is now upper Michigan down to Arkansas and back. </p>