Renee Collins

Among the artifacts in the new Adrian Dominican Sisters History and Archive Center is a yellowed, typewritten sheet titled “Postulant’s Requirements.”

Joel Walkowski’s father didn’t have much to give him. But he did give him one thing: his love of the Detroit Lions.

ADRIAN — When Mike Howard puts his name on something, he wants to be proud of it. That is one reason the longtime commercial real estate developer plans to rename the former Adrian Mall the Howard Center as he begins what could be a years-long transformation of one of Adrian’s most visible commercial properties. “When […]

For a few hours on June 28, the old Adrian A&W restaurant was alive again.

People here are family. That maxim was borne out by the OPmobility employees who flocked to the West Beecher Street plant July 10 to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

Patricia Kuney and Norman Long first met as students at Adrian High School in the years after World War II. Pat was a senior. Norm was a year behind her.

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Not long after my grandmother died in 1998, my mother brought me her family Bible. Like many old family Bibles, it was more than a book. It was a miniature archive, a place where peo…

All people die, but not all people live. My sister Catherine lived. Most of the world knew my sister as Kate. That was the name she used when she left home, went out into the wider world and reinve…

An academic hood is a curious thing unless you know what it means. Draped across the shoulders, it marks a degree earned, its colors showing the graduate’s school and field of study. At many colleg…

At the final Alumni Weekend at Siena Heights University, held April 17-19, the campus felt at once full and fleeting — like something both ending and refusing to end.

Carrie Barden, a fifth-grade math and science teacher at Tecumseh Middle School, was recently named Region 8 Teacher of the Year by the Michigan Department of Education.

The record does not ease you into it.It simply states that on April 8, 1925, William B. Lapham—a Civil War veteran and my great-great-great-uncle—took his own life. The line appears on a scanned im…

Genealogy has a way of handing you a mystery and then—if you’re patient—quietly solving it for you.  It also helps to have a subscription to Ancestry.com, where some  mysteries are solved…

Genealogy has taught me that when a woman’s name keeps changing in the records, it usually isn’t because she’s confusing — it’s because her life was hard. As I revisited my Lapham ancestors this wi…

He was killed by a train in Springwells Township on an October afternoon in 1902. Charles B. Lapham, my great-great-grandfather, had spent the months before his death doing what many men of his gen…

What began as a quiet, familiar ritual around the family dinner table has evolved into a children’s book now traveling far beyond its original home.

Nestled among the rolling hills near Banchory in Aberdeenshire, is a Highland cattle farm where the stars of the Scottish countryside graze—long-horned, shaggy-haired, and unmistakably charming. In…

“Exciting white smoke.” That was the text I received the morning of May 8 as I walked into the parish offices of St. Elizabeth Church. It came from my friend Anne Kane, a fellow parishi…

When Sister Jeanne O’Laughlin died in 2019 at the age of 90, the world was already starting to feel the rumblings of what has become a time of perpetual division, short tempers, and quick—sometimes…