Journalism Prof. Lessenberry speaks about the birth of modern Detroit 2/24...
The Detroit News
From Hooves to Horsepower: The Birth of Modern Detroit
Jack Lessenberry, journalism lecturer at Wayne State University, describes an era in which Detroit became a modern industrial city with an increasingly complex society - even before Ford started tinkering with the automobile. This presentation is part of a series of programs, The Gilded Age to the Great War: America at the Turn of the Century, at the Lorenzo Cultural Center on Macomb Community College's Center Campus, 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 24.