Been busy

Again, I apologize for not getting a post up here as soon as I should have. I have not been fallow though.

I would like to point you to a web site I have started with a couple of high school friends of mine, Kevin Walsh and Peter Kalinski. Please take some time to check out diggingDetroit.com .

The three of us were raised in the small Detroit suburb of Clawson and all three of us have great interest in the history of the region's hub: the city of Detroit.

Kevin has spent his career as an educator; initially as a high school teacher in Royal Oak and West Bloomfield and currently at University of Phoenix teaching video production. Pete worked as an archivist at the Henry Ford for several years and currently teaches history for Oakland Community College. Me, I'm an amateur historian interested in Detroit's history that isn't cars and Motown.

We've started a history blog covering interesting stories in and around the city; stories people don't know about and wouldn't expect out of the "car capitol of the world" and the cradle of Motown music.

Check out our first episode on Tommy's Detroit Bar & Grill. A cool little establishment down at Fort and 3rd Street in the space between Fort Street Presbyterian Church and Joe Louis Arena.

I have also started a Brownie troop and launched a write-in candidacy for Clawson School Board.

Lastly, I have started an entries for Shouldn't Be Secret on Upwardly Global and Arts and Scraps. Two really cool nonprofits looking to improve our communities in radically different ways.

Please stay with me, I haven't stopped this blog, just got a little distracted.

--Thomas J. Reed, Jr.
Chief Grant Consultant
Third Coast Consultants, LLC
thomas.reed@me.com