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St. Vincent’s Orphan Home Band

An undated photo postcard, likely from around 1900, features the boys’ band at St. Vincent’s Orphan Home, Saginaw. A...

America’s 1976 Bicentennial occurred during hard economic times, in the wake of Vietnam War controversy, and amid a mass...

On June 28, 2014, the city of Saginaw will celebrate the 125th anniversary of Michigan Legislature’s passage of Act 455...

Bob Goodrich operates 30 theaters in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri. Part of his continuing success is attributed...

In 1946, young Brad Spaulding (left) wears a sailor’s hat as he poses with his sister, Nancy, and their father, Harold...

In 1937, during the Great Depression, a man approaches the entrance of the “solid as a rock” Isabella County State Bank,...