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Ford Piquette Avenue Plant museum, in Letter-Car gallery
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Findings from Dodge Brothers Club trip to Detroit this week, connecting with earliest founders-produced car(s): Part I

June 24, 2022 Dell Deaton

Persuit of historical firsts is frequently fraught with challenges. Challenges inherent in the efforts themselves, as well as challenges to the necessary parameters that invariably must be imposed upon even the most expert of efforts. [1] ….

Chrysler Turbine Car on display at Gilmore Car Museum
Automotive Heritage

How far back should America look for examples that deal with an accellerating worldwide energy crisis? The 1970s? 1908?

April 27, 2022 Dell Deaton

Two weeks ago, President Joe Biden announced that “his administration will lift the summertime ban on E15 gasoline to help ease high gas prices.” [1] As the name implies E15 gasoline contains a 10.5% to ….

1931 Cadillac V16 Phaeton on display at GM Heritage Center
Automotive Heritage

Yes, Virginia: There Really Is A Company-Owned General Motors Car Museum, But It’s Only Open To A Select Few

August 24, 2018 Dell Deaton

First things first: There really is a museum of the first, best examples of what General Motors calls its most important vehicles produced since inception of the company. Saline Journal can confirm that. We were ….

DeLorean DMC-12 from 1981
Automotive Heritage

Popular Summer Car Shows Are Defined By Local Communities Of Which They Are Part; Saline Is No Exception

July 26, 2018 Dell Deaton

The bar is set high for car shows here in southest Michigan. To the average Jane or John Doe that may mean the North American International Auto Show. But real car guys — correction: Car ….

Cadillac Allante Northstar, at 2013 "Rolling Sculpture Car Show"
Automotive Heritage

Rolling Sculpture Car Show Returns To Downtown Ann Arbor For Its Twenty-Fourth Year With Over 300 Vehicles

July 12, 2018 Dell Deaton

It seems fitting that Saline Journal is balanced between the legacy automobile history that made Michigan and assertions about the future of universal access to autonomous mobility. [1,2] After a week that started out with ….

1939 Oldsmobile 60 Series automobile
Automotive Heritage

There Is Only One Car Show That Literally Stops Traffic On The Streets Of Downtown Saline, And Will Again On August 11

June 25, 2018 Dell Deaton

The first Saline Street Machines car show was held before half of all Americans alive today were even born. Saline Main Street had yet to exist. Two Michigan Avenue makeovers would pass between then and ….

1963 Studebaker Gran Turismo Super Hawk
Automotive Heritage

Recently Driven to “Saline Cars & Coffee” at Brewed Awakenings: 1963 Studebaker Gran Turismo Super Hawk

June 6, 2018 Dell Deaton

Thirty-three years ago, his father asked: “What are you getting that for? Why don’t you get a Camaro?” [1] “Because everybody’s got a Camaro,” John Begian answered at the time. In 1963, only forty-eight Studebaker ….

1940 LaSalle coupe at 2017 Cinnamon's Annual Father's Day Car Show
Automotive Heritage

If ‘Hobbyists’ Are Open-Minded, There May Still be a Future for Traditional Car Collectors

May 11, 2018 Dell Deaton

A certified résumé is far from necessary to validate the bona fides of Saline when it comes to perpetuating the legacy of great vehicles from the past. Simply check out the Brewed Awakenings parking lot ….

"Saline Cars & Coffee" at Brewed Awakenings
Automotive Heritage

Saline Michigan Is a Place That Gets “Car People” (Year Round, as It Turns Out)

April 23, 2018 Dell Deaton

There are people who drive cars, and there are car people. Two weeks ago today during a very well attended SAE WCX World Congress Experience presentation at Cobo Center in Detroit, Alex Roy attempted to ….

Saline Street Machines car show 2017
Automotive Heritage

Saline Street Machines Car Show Marks 35th Year (with Local Videos)

August 15, 2017 Dell Deaton

It’s not the same as being there, of course. Still, we thought those who missed it might enjoy seeing a two-minute video highlighting the 35th annual Saline Street Machines car show held last Saturday downtown. ….

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  • President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 this morning — via The White House, Statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. As always and particularly in the face of this affliction, we pray for The President of the United States, his loved ones, and those in whose care he has been…

    – July 21, 2022

  • Maundy Thursday— "On this Thursday before Good Friday, Christians of all colors and stripes celebrate three events on the last night our Lord spent with his apostles before the Crucifixion: the washing of the disciples’ feet, the suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane and the betrayal of Judas Iscariot. "The…

    – April 14, 2022

  • via Southern Baptist Convention (February 26, 2019)— "Who's Your One?" Day 10: Romans 10:1-3, "Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of…

    – July 24, 2022

  • via Baptist Beacon (February 2, 2022)— "Peace during a pandemic," by Dr Dan Russell, Executive Pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Southgate, Michigan: To help strengthen the pastors and church families of our Convention as we face this coronavirus crisis, here are some encouraging reminders on how to keep your…

    – February 6, 2022

  • Independence Day— via Billy Graham (1970): "I find that there is a certain fear and expected cosmic judgment that hangs over our country at this hour, as the Devine timepiece ticks away. Thomas Jefferson felt this deeply when he said, 'I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God…

    – July 4, 2022

  • via Baptist Beacon (April 1, 2022)— "Inwardly strong, outwardly focused," by Mike Durbin, State Evangelism Director for the Baptist State Convention of Michigan: Legendary football coach, Vince Lombardi, started the first day of the Green Bay Packers training camp in 1961 with a football in his right hand and these words:…

    – April 10, 2022

  • re United States Supreme Court decision in Carson v Makin— Lifeway Christian Resources referenced Article 12 of the Southern Baptist Faith and Message, which "deals specifically and uniquely with the topic of education. ... our confessional statement affirms, Christianity is the faith of enlightenment and intelligence. As we shall see, one…

    – June 21, 2022

  • Resurrection Sunday— In anticipation of this day, Reverend Brett Younger of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn New York recently wrote, "... people in the United States will wish Easter felt like it did three years ago. They will put on new shoes and wonder if .... On Easter Sunday, people in…

    – April 17, 2022

  • via Lifeway Research (February 22, 2022)— "Most Open to Spiritual Conversations, Few Christians Speaking," by Aaron Earls: Americans are curious about the religious devotion of others and are willing to discuss the topic, but most say they rarely have conversations about faith with their Christian friends .... Half of Americans (51%)…

    – March 20, 2022

Past Spotlights

"Rivet Like a Rosie!" instruction at Yankee Air Museum

Yankee Air Museum marked one-hundredth B-24 Liberator model assembled by its “Rivet Like a Rosie!” class yesterday

March 21, 2021

Bygone Features

Boy Scout Troop 446 camp site in Dexter Michigan

Locating a Cub Scout Pack in Washtenaw County just got even easier

August 9, 2009
Cub Scout Pack leaders will be getting together tomorrow evening in Ann Arbor to help them prepare to welcome the next group of young boys into the Boy Scouts of America. Today I’m here to give you a sneak preview of an exciting new program that’s been developed to make it easier than ever for you, as a parent or guardian, to identify and start to evaluate the many options available. That’s right: We’re talking ....
Saline Historical Trolley Tour 2018

Work Must Go Into Making Saline Historical Trolley Tours Fun For The Guides So That It Will Be Fun For The Riders

August 11, 2018
In at least one case, guide pre-preparations for Saline’s Summerfest trolley tour duty weren’t wrapped up until after dark on Friday evening. That’s when Tanya Wood working out of Barber’s Inn downtown finished arranging Saline Journal publisher Janet Deaton’s hair according to style of the early 1900s. [1,2,3] “Janet’s hair was a lot shorter than women had a hundred years ago,” Ms Wood remarked. “Everything we found for references showed their hair pulled out and ....

Take a Class to Make Your iPhone the Best Camera You Always Have with You, Better

May 10, 2018
Somewhere among the list of things a budding photographer first should be told is this: The best camera is the one that’s with you. This is reenforced by Flickr, which reported that, collectively, iPhone models continue to represent the popular cameras used for its site content. [1,2,3,4] When asked recently by Saline Journal the most important thing for capturing great images, local professional Heidi McClelland didn’t hesitate before answering. “Light. It’s all about light.” [5] ....

How Well Do You Know the Community Impact of Your Saline Area Historical Society?

April 19, 2018
Earlier this month, Jim Peters, president of the Saline Area Historical Society, presented its 2017 annual report to City Council. Drawing on those materials, Saline Journal has prepared the following Q&A as a creative way for local stakeholders to assess their knowledge of this exceptional organization. [1] Question: How many people visited Society-run musuems, attended its special events, or came to presentations last year? [2] Answer: 4,965 Additionally, volunteers donated 6,468 hours of their own ....

Most Important Part of Memorial Day Was Missed During 2016 Parade

May 31, 2016
Saline had its annual Memorial Day parade yesterday. But unlike so many past years, it did not come to Oakwood Cemetery. [1,2,3,4,5] Ironically, the present deep-dig Michigan Avenue reconstruction is serving to increase cemetery visibility. Mature trees with formidable trunks and expansively shading canopes of leaves were significantly cut back along its north border abutting the thoroughfare. Eastbound traffic coming into the City of Saline on US-12 is shunted off onto Monroe Street, creating an ....
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