Valley City

This post was inspired by my small collection of Bissell memorabilia.  First is my carpet sweeper, the Bissell Grand Rapids, previously fe...

Another early physician in Grand Rapids lived around the corner from Dr Lemuel D Putnam, and had married a sister of his.  This was undoubte...

The presence of a very large and rambling house on the corner of Fountain and Greenwich (later Ionia) drew my attention on the 1853 Henry Ha...

I've had this carpet sweeper for a long time.  I use it when I don't feel like lugging the vacuum upstairs to pick up cat hair and ...

A few blocks from my house stand some very old factory-type buildings that are boarded up and abandoned.  These intrigued me, so I looked up...