This is what comes next……

Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Musings for June 1, 2026. In April’s blog I wrote about, ‘what comes next’. I might have found what actions needed to be taken, with the mound of paper work, binders of images and files in general, that I managed to create with each and every book that I had published.Continue reading “This is what comes next……”

The Macomb Twp Dopp Bros Building

Linda’ Monday Morning Mornings for July 1, 2024 Today I have to write about something that is close to my heart, another building, farm, school, church, your name it, that is being demolished for progress? The Macomb Twp Dopp Bros Building is to be demolished because it doesn’t meet the “qualifications of a historic building”.Continue reading “The Macomb Twp Dopp Bros Building”

‘Local Option Inforced’

Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’s Today I want to talk about something that has given me reason for thought since working on my research material when writing the ‘Macomb Township’ Arcadia book. In Waldenburg on the north west corner of 22 Mile and Romeo Plank Road, there still stands the Dopp Building with a cap stoneContinue reading “‘Local Option Inforced’”

Macomb Townships, Waldenburg

Last week in Linda’s Monday Morning Moaning’s, I talked about the ‘Cobbler of Waldenburg’ and felt that a further look into Waldenburg was of interest. I hope you agree. Waldenburg, is a small town in Macomb Township, settled in 1831. The area was known as a German settlement of immigrants from mainly Prussia, in theContinue reading “Macomb Townships, Waldenburg”

The ‘Cobbler of Waldenburg’

Todays Monday Morning Moaning’s comes from an article in the Mt. Clemens Monitor, from Friday April 4, 1930, called “Cobbler of Waldenburg Celebrates 90th Birthday”. Born March 30, 1840 in Austrian Silesia, now Czechoslovakia, Ambrose Leyer was “just another mouth to feed” at the time when his parents were scarcely able to keep the familyContinue reading “The ‘Cobbler of Waldenburg’”