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Museum presents World War II weekend
Written by Annette Kingsbury
Tuesday, 01 May 2012 15:39
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The Rochester Hills Museum and the Detroit Arsenal of Democracy Museum will present a World War II weekend at the museum on Friday, May 11 from 1-4 p.m. featuring an exhibit on WWII and paratroopers and Saturday, May 12 from 9-4 p.m.

Tribute to the Few – Airborne “All the Way” will feature Allied and Axis campsites, military and armored vehicles, weapon demonstrations, radios and more. In addition, there will be displays and vendors selling military memorabilia. Enjoy re-enactors, battles, equipment, war gaming, videos, lectures, demonstrations, music and food for a patriotic weekend at the museum.

Saturday’s schedule of events features:

9 a.m.: Gates open to the public, all displays open

9 a.m.-4 p.m.: Exhibit on WWII paratroopers in the Van Hoosen Dairy Barn.

9:15 a.m.: Lecture on the History of Airborne and Usage of Parachutes by Steve Mrozek

10:30 a.m.: Practice for public battle

Noon: public battle

12:30 p.m.: Lecture on the 101st Airborne in WWII, by James Bertolino

1:40 p.m.: Lecture on the 101st Airborne in Vietnam, by Bruce Whipple

2:45 p.m.: public battle

3 p.m.: Lecture on gliders usage by Charles L. Day

4:30 – 6 p.m.: Symposium – Airborne All the Way! Meet the veterans

This will also be the final weekend for the museum’s current exhibit of World War II memorabilia featuring airborne units.

Admission is $6 for adults, $3 for seniors and students and free for World War II and Korean conflict veterans and museum members. For more information visit www.driventovictory.com or www.rochesterhills.org or call (248) 656-4663.

The Rochester Hills Museum is located at 1005 Van Hoosen Road, one mile east of Rochester Road and south of Tienken Road. The museum is a 16-acre complex of buildings and grounds and dedicated to regional history. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

 
Schoolhouse, historian to receive preservation awards
Written by Annette Kingsbury
Tuesday, 17 April 2012 16:30
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Stoney Creek Schoolhouse

On May 7, the Rochester Hills Historic Districts Commission will present its annual Earl E. Borden Historic Preservation Awards to local historian Debbie Remer and to the Stoney Creek Schoolhouse.

Remer will receive the Earl Borden Award for Historic Preservation Leadership for her leadership of the archeology dig at the Rochester Hills Museum site, including the Taylor log cabin and the Van Hoosen farmhouse. The schoolhouse will receive the Earl Borden Historic Preservation Award for renovation work completed since it was acquired by the Rochester Hills Museum.

A reception honoring the award recipients will take place at 7 p.m. May 16, at the Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm, 1005 Van Hoosen Road.

Previous winners of the Earl Borden Award include buildings that serve as quality examples of preservation/restoration and individuals or groups demonstrating activism in the field of historic preservation. The awards are presented during May, National Preservation Month. This year, the month’s theme is “Discover America’s Hidden Gems.”

The award was created in 1989 by the Rochester Hills Historic Districts Commission in honor of the first mayor of Rochester Hills. Borden was a proponent of protecting local historic heritage through education and preservation. He helped obtain the Van Hoosen farmhouse for use as a city-owned museum and, as supervisor of Avon Township, he was part of the creation of the historic preservation ordinance for the community that became Rochester Hills.

 
Grangers begin spring exercises
Written by Annette Kingsbury
Saturday, 14 April 2012 15:36
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The Rochester Grangers base ball team

By Douglas “Moonlight” Otlewski

A full winter’s hibernaculum has come and gone, heralding the return of spring and the arrival of base ball. At the direction of their procrustean potentate, Patrick “Barnraiser” McKay, the Grangers have lately laid aside their farm implements in favor of re-acquaintance with the mottled orb and truncheon. To that end, a schedule of training maneuvers has been conspicuously affixed to the gate at Van Hoosen farm, spurring the veteran ballists to acclimate their dormant muscles to the rigors of the game.

Students of this gazette may recall news of last year’s campaign which included memorable performances at the Petoskey Fudge Bucket Classic and the Royal Oak Gatling Gun Shootout. In accord with an over-arching ambition to nurture the fledgling game, the Rochesters will proffer justice to their reputations this summer in such far-flung territories as New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

Underscoring their ongoing commitment to spectator enlightenment, the Grangers will soon unveil a tally keeper’s board designed and built by the talented craftsmen at the OPC woodshop. Other slated amusements include the first ever Thursday evening match, as well as regular game day samplings of a new novelty victual called the “hot dog.” All indicators thusly point to another banner season for the suspendered stalwarts and their devoted followers.

As is their custom, the Grangers and their opponents are mindful to eschew all manner of offensive or disputatious personality on the exercise grounds, demonstrating the game of base ball the way it was meant to be played by gentlemen, according to the rules of 1864. The Rochesters appreciate the patronage of their two steadfast benefactors, Antoniou’s and the Hills Grille, who will again assist the ballists with their usual postprandial smorgasbord.

Encounters of the barehanded kind will be played, unless otherwise noted, at the Rochester Museum at Van Hoosen Farm at 1:00 p.m. The complete home schedule appears as follows:

Saturday, May 26, Port Huron Welkins (at Halbach Field)

Saturday, June 16, Detroit Early Risers

Thursday, June 21, Royal Oak Wahoos (6:30 p.m.)

Saturday, July 28, Wyandotte Stars

Saturday, August 11, Union BBC

Saturday, August 25, Saginaw Old Golds

Saturday, September 1, Union BBC of Dexter

Douglas “Moonlight” Otlewski contributed this Granger update in the writing style used in the late 1800′s. For further information on the entire schedule please call the Museum at (248) 656-4663 or circumnavigate the new fangled web at www.RochesterGrangers.com