The story of an 80-year Detroit legacy business Celia Feinberg Swartz opened the vault. Inside, she saw stacks of goods: men’s suits, a violin, fur coats, pocket watches. The items had been sitting there in the vault for several years, down in her basement. The year was 1929 and Celia…

Lamenting the end of the Big Circuses I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit in a close-knit extended family. My mother’s father — my grandfather Percy — was a Mason and a Shriner. He was also an esteemed photographer who was the unofficial photojournalist of the Detroit Shriners and…