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Where to Go--New Year's Eve, 1944
New Year Year’s Eve is a time to reflect. A time to look back and a time to look forward. For the recipe column the emphasis is on...
kellison71
Dec 29, 20242 min read


Two Holidays & Two Churches: A Recipe for Friendship
In 2024 the First Day of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, starts at sundown on December 25 – which coincides with Christmas Day....
kellison71
Dec 22, 20244 min read


A Break From Holiday Shopping – 1976
The 1976 holiday shopping season offered Saginaw shoppers new department store dining destinations – two restaurants in the transformed...
kellison71
Dec 15, 20245 min read


Catherine Calista Johnson Mershon
“Wanted a thoroughly competent cook – Call between 10 and 12 a.m., 421 North Washington Avenue. The highest wages will be paid to a cook...
kellison71
Dec 8, 20245 min read


A Dream Kitchen--Purchased at the State Street Kroger
A few weeks ago, we paid a visit to Saginaw’s State Street Kroger. When it opened on February 29, 1956, advertising promoted it as “a...
kellison71
Dec 1, 20243 min read


Celebrating Thanksgiving Day with a Football Game: Ever-Changing Traditions
“On a cold November day in 1894, a group of high school boys proudly wearing the red and yellow colors of Saginaw West Side High School...
kellison71
Nov 24, 20243 min read


A New Store for Sears, Roebuck and Company
“More than 200 Sears, Roebuck and Co. Employees and guests will participate in the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Sears retail...
kellison71
Nov 17, 20243 min read


A Rural Church & A Regular Fish Fry
The Castle Test Kitchen recently took a closer look at First Congregational Church in downtown Saginaw, highlighting the sanctuary’s...
kellison71
Nov 10, 20245 min read


Dinner at Red Sash in the Radisson Inn Saginaw
The opening of the Bancroft Hotel in 1859 announced to the outside world that East Saginaw was a real place – more than a spot on the...
kellison71
Nov 1, 20244 min read
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