Writer, editor, professional cemetery creep. Formerly @detroitnews, @crainsdetroit. bsky.app/profile/amyelliottb…
Joined January 2009
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16 Jan 2025
Came out of retirement to bring you a story I love about a semi-secret 1930s astronomical observatory in the woods in Oakland County 🔭
16 Jan 2025
New project drop! 🚨
Delighted to work w/local history maven @thenighttrain on this package about a hidden landmark rusting in the woods near Great Lakes Crossing
An entertaining tale reaching back to the 1920s, brought to life with amazing drone shots from @DavidGuralnick —>
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15 Jan 2025
sacred to the memory
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10 Nov 2024
can’t believe we don’t have a GMAC Cash rendition of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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9 Nov 2024
I barely remember how to post anymore and may choose not to pick the habit back up but if I do it likely won’t be here! you can find me elsewhere. the usual places.
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1 Nov 2024
omg I got to talk about this on @CBCWindsor yesterday! cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-8…
31 Oct 2024
for your spooky reading pleasure today, re-upping this little number I wrote last year about Houdini, Halloween, and "the magician's cemetery" littledetroithistoryletter.s…
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amy elliott bragg retweeted
31 Oct 2024
On this day in 1977:
Boxing great Muhammad Ali is in town helping @CityofDetroit Mayor Coleman Young's reelection bid. They give out candy to children at the Manoogian Mansion on Dwight Street.
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31 Oct 2024
for your spooky reading pleasure today, re-upping this little number I wrote last year about Houdini, Halloween, and "the magician's cemetery" littledetroithistoryletter.s…
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31 Oct 2024
I still think about how the cemetery where Houdini is buried at one point closed for Halloween because they were sick of all the magicians visiting nytimes.com/1995/10/30/nyreg…
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amy elliott bragg retweeted
16 Mar 2021
My favorite things in the Milwaukee Public Museum are the old dioramas and my favorite things in the old dioramas are the big empty skies
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25 Oct 2024
jfc
25 Oct 2024
Statue of Detroit's celebrated Tuskegee airman goes missing from Rouge Park
detroitnews.com/story/news/l… via @detroitnews, @Max_DetroitNews
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18 Oct 2024
My 6-year-old just showed me how to do something on his iPad for the first time. ("Excuse me," he said politely as he watched over my shoulder. "That's not how you do it.") RIP to me.
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8 Oct 2024
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8 Oct 2024
#OTD in 1846, Detroit's Elmwood Cemetery opened. This ca. 1914 postcard shows a view of the grounds with a bridge in the foreground, a fountain, two grave markers and three people.
Learn more: detroithistorical.org/learn/…
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3 Oct 2024
as anyone who has ever let me bore them to death at Elmwood would know ... I cannot resist throwing shade on Ripon Wisconsin in the shadow of Zack Chandler's obelisk
3 Oct 2024
Jackson, Michigan, would like a word
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3 Oct 2024
you: this is a maritime history tour
me: and one MORE thing about Under the Oaks
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15 Sep 2024
Investigating a mystery about the grave of a painter that like 6 other people will care about but dammit I gotta know
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29 Aug 2024
name a better decades-long low-stakes local melodrama than the whale mural crainsdetroit.com/arts-enter… via @crainsdetroit
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24 Aug 2024
On this day in 1889, baseball’s first Black major leaguer was released by the Syracuse Stars, ending his career. Nine days earlier, he had been in Detroit, where he played a glorious game and had a fateful lunch meeting.
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22 Aug 2024
basically just here for breaking news and Midwest Modern Beloit tweets these days
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