Ronald Ahrens

During the Cranbrook Educational Community’s initial development nearly a century ago, founder George Booth suggested to Loja Saarinen that she should create textiles to complement her husband Eliel’s architectural designs.Eliel became president of Cranbrook...

Name another city in the world that has a multibillionaire — in this case, Dan Gilbert, founder and chairman of Rocket Cos. — who has acquired some 100 major properties in the central business...

With support from Chevrolet, the All-American Soap Box Derby became an enduring national pastime

Through the mists of time, pickles have been a tangy condiment served with meals as well as a bracing snack between them.During 40 years in the wilderness, the Israelites survived on manna and wistfully...

Belle Tire Distributors Inc. Headquarters: Allen Park Founded: 1922 CEO: Jack Lawless President and Owner: Donald Barnes III Stores: 130+ Employees: 2,300 Revenue: $700M (projected 2023)Sermonizing by Belle Tire Corp. was unusual. Its typical newspaper ad referred to value days or...

Harry Brooks was rushing to an engagement in Berkley, so the young test pilot showed his derring-do (and showed up on time) by landing the prototype Ford Flivver airplane on Woodward Avenue near the...

Even as a novice photographer in the 1930s, Saul Leiter enjoyed the smooth precision and bold design of the Detrola camera his mother had given him. He went on to shoot photos for Life...

As a World War II bomber pilot, Warren Avis could see the future of commercial aviation. But although it was faster than rail travel, he found the time savings were squandered in long waits...

The sound system was acting up, but Nathaniel Rose had a strategy for waiting until Soul Patch, the Traverse City roots-rock band, opened Northport’s 2022 Music in the Park series. In observance of his...

Lee Iacocca stood before mourners at Kirk in the Hills in Bloomfield Township on Aug. 21, 1993, and recognized plenty of familiar faces. Composing himself against tears, he invoked the memory of a man...