Michigan Markers in Detroit

As part of Michigan Week 2007, which runs from May 19 to May 25 this year, today is Michigan Historical Marker Awareness Day.

The Michigan Marker program began in 1955. It is a privately-funded program administered by the State Historic Preservation Office for the purpose of identifying and protecting historic properties.

To see more historic markers in Wayne County and across the state, visit James Brennan's cool Michigan Historical Marker Website or Michigan's Historic Sites Online.

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March 24 in Detroit History

March 24 may seem like just another day to you and me, but not to die-hard fans of Motown hockey.

Those that bleed red and white know that on this day in 1936, the Detroit Red Wings and the now-defunct Montreal Maroons battled it out in the longest NHL playoff game ever: a gut-wrenching 176 minutes and 30 seconds.

Right-winger Mud Bruneteau scored the only point of the game in the sixth round of OT, and the Wings skated off with a 1-0 victory. And their first Stanley Cup.

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