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History Detectives 2023

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Almost every year a group called the History Detectives, which is made up of several local organizations, puts on a series of local history lectures on different topics all day on a Saturday in January at the main Grand Rapids Library downtown in their Ryerson Auditorium.  This year’s program is on January 21.  

It is sort of like a day of college classes, except there are no tests or tuition or stress or athletics, and the demographics tend to lean a bit older.  Each lecture is forty-five minutes with fifteen-minute breaks between lectures and a break for lunch.  You can attend just the ones that are of interest to you or you can hang around all day.

Again, it’s free (except for the catered box lunch which is optional.)  All you have to do is show up.  If you’d like the box lunch, you must register and pay for that in advance.   

Here’s their website with better details:

HISTORY DETECTIVES 2023

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So if you were interested in attending any of the History Detectives lectures but were busy last Saturday or you forgot about it, or you were interested but just not interested enough to bother to att

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Almost every year a group called the History Detectives, which is made up of several local organizations, puts on a series of local history lectures on different topics all day on a Saturday in Januar

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So if you were interested in attending any of the History Detectives lectures but were busy last Saturday or you forgot about it, or you were interested but just not interested enough to bother to attend them, the lectures are all on YouTube so you can watch any of them at your leisure: 

YouTube: Welcome to History Detectives 2023 with Melissa Fox

YouTube: What Sanborn Maps Reveal about Grand Rapids with Adam Oster

YouTube: 1913 - Automobiles and Their Owners in Grand Rapids with Thomas R. Wilson

YouTube: Vanished Market Avenue NW: From Fulton to Monroe - Part 1 with Team Photo

YouTube: Vanished Market Avenue NW: From Fulton to Monroe - Part 2 with Team Photo

YouTube: Emmett Bolden v Grand Rapids Operating Company (Keith Theatre) with Jon VanderPloeg

YouTube: 50 Years Later: A Look Back at the Fight Over the ERA in Grand Rapids w/ Nora Salas and Ruth Stevens

YouTube: Hidden History of Grand Rapids with Matthew Ellis

 

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