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2018-02-01 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-02-01 04:18|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Alexis de Tocqueville, author of "Democracy in America", toured the United States in 1831. On July 23, 1831, he took what was perhaps the first Michigan "road trip" by renting horses in Detroit and, ignoring advice from locals not to do so, traveled by Indian trails to Pontiac, Flint and Saginaw. While on the trail he wrote that he believed he was as far from modern civilization as a person could then get. His chapters about this excursion, “Two Weeks in the Wilderness,” are excluded from some abridged versions of "Democracy in America". They are well worth reading.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-01 08:13|| 2018-02-01 08:13|| Front Page Top

#2 I have not viewed it, but in 1997 CSPAN did a video series on de Tocquevilles USA visit. Here is their segment on his visit to Saginaw.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-01 08:25|| 2018-02-01 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 I still won't drink Saginaw water when I visit.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-01 08:25|| 2018-02-01 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 boutique breweries

you won't have to.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-02-01 09:11|| 2018-02-01 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Nothing says 'hip' like song lyrics from the time period when I was crapping in diapers.

Posted by Raj 2018-02-01 16:31|| 2018-02-01 16:31|| Front Page Top

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