New Book Release 👉👉👉Detroit’s Lost Poletown: The Little Neighborhood that Touched a Nation

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My work for the last two years has come to fruition…thank you @historypress for believing in this story!! It officially releases in a week! Available for preorder now!!! Link: http://bit.ly/Poletown Poletown was once a vibrant, ethically diverse neighborhood in Detroit. In its prime, it had a store on every corner. Its theater, restaurants and schools … Continue reading New Book Release 👉👉👉Detroit’s Lost Poletown: The Little Neighborhood that Touched a Nation

I apologize my first link didn’t work. Here it is again…My latest piece for Planet Detroit: When Belle Isle was called Hog Island!!

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 ~ Brianne Turczynski ~ Leave a comment

Hog Island and Detroit’s Park Question: A brief history of Belle Isle! Please let me know if link doesn't work! 🤦Thank you! Click the link above to read my latest article for Planet Detroit! 📸 credit: Library of Congress

Lost Story about the Iron Priest of Poletown

March 6, 2020 ~ Brianne Turczynski ~ Leave a comment

More on my journey back to the neighborhood of Poletown razed for the GM plant in 1981. Found Father Joseph Karasiewicz’s grave today against terrible wind and bone-numbing chill in a deserted graveyard. Father Joe was known as the “iron priest of Poletown”, he fought to save the Immaculate Conception church with his life. He … Continue reading Lost Story about the Iron Priest of Poletown

Inside the Detroit Public Library

November 2, 2019 ~ Brianne Turczynski ~ 6 Comments

Spent yesterday going through the archives in the Detroit Public Library’s Burton Historical Collection. What a beautiful library! It’s what I would like my personal library to look like, and what it’ll have to look like if I keep buying books! 😂 The interior is so vintage—late 1950’s, early 1960’s I’m guessing. 🥰 . . … Continue reading Inside the Detroit Public Library