The Nankin Township Historical Society

Should we strive to make Christmas a daily reality? Annie Johnson of Flint thought so even though we can barely get people to reconcile for a funeral. But it's the thought that counts I suppose. Her poem What Makes Christmas appeared on the front cover of The Fluoroscope , the monthly patients magazine put out by the Maybury Sanatorium and Herman Keifer Hospital. I would assume that she was a patient at one of the two institutions.

A 1910 Christmas card from Eloise to Miss Katherine Sundberg of the J. Solvay Process Company of Detroit from some name starting with an E that I can't decipher. It appears to be Eucena or something close to that but also might just be Emma written rather sloppily.

Merry Christmas Elva Brockmiller of Dearborn from Elsie of Inkster, Michigan.

Situated across the street from the Ford Motor Company Central Office Building, the Rotunda was originally located in Chicago at the site of the World's Fair in 1934. Henry Ford liked the building so much that he had it dismantled and shipped to Dearborn. It became a tourist attraction (the 5th largest in the US ahead of such stalwarts as the Statue of Liberty and Yellowstone Park) and was beloved by metro Detroiters for its annual Christmas shows that began in the 1950s after an extensive remodeling of the building. Coloring books were given away to young visitors and this was the last one distributed before the building was gutted by flames.