The Nankin Township Historical Society

I've just discovered the  Northville Cemetery Massacre (never mind what the title says on YouTube" because they changed it like studios did on many low budget flicks; it shows as "NCM" during the movie.). It's B-flick movie about a motor cycle gang that takes over Northville after being wrongly accused of crimes that they didn't commit and features voice-overs by a then unknown Nick Nolte and music from Michael Nesmith of the Monkees. It was filmed primarily in Northville in 1972 but wasn't released until 1975. As I'd hoped there are many recognizable sights in the movie including both the Rural Hill Cemetery and a brief shot of the Cherry Hill Cemetery. The footage of Cherry Hill Cemetery takes place at about 45:45 while Rural Hill is at the center of the climax of the film.

My mania with newspapers probably started when I delivered The Detroit News for almost 10 years as a kid. I read the newspaper everyday with my big fat orange cat Bobcat and he even walked my route with me sometimes. Anyway, I picked up this New Detroit News carrier card of Scott Eastman at John King Books on Tuesday. The address, 2086 19th Street, seems to correspond to Wyandotte. Which is ironic because I'm likely going there tomorrow for an estate sale plus I am going to post some ephemera from there later. Not to mention that I have a large pile of newspaper from Wyandotte dating to the early quarter of the 1900s which I have sorely neglected. Ho hum. Well, I tracked down Scott and am sending the card to him. I'll have only owned it for less than a day but it's the right thing to do. He said that the card dates to 1974-75 when he was a carrier.