With support from our Comcast Cable partners this weekend we travel to lansing michigan. Coming up we will talk with authors base year as we first learn how the city was chosen as the state capital and then about 15 minutes the story of arby olds and the auto Company Founded in lansing and later we take a driving tour of the citys downtown. We begin our special feature as we hear about james turner and the founding of lansing. James turner was a pioneer. It wasnt until the state legislature designated this area that he came with these other folks and helped build the capital. He had a slightly more sensible approach, but we didnt do that. Wehad nothing here, there was no transportation. They had so much to build a castle city and that was the very interested and exciting and unique story oflansings beginning. The legislature established the state in about 1836, about a year before it became a state. They designated detroit as the capital but they were fearful that detroit could be easi