Beneath every robber baron’s graceful mansion seems to lie a graveyard of questionable deeds.
Cue Henry E. Huntington. Business mogul. Rail magnate. Rapacious real estate developer. Cantankerous enemy of organized labor.
Cue, also, Henry E. Huntington. Devoted aesthete. Prolific collector of art and books and plants, who left the lot to the public in the form of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens on land that was once his vast San Marino estate.
Now, 102 years after he and his wife Arabella Duval Huntington founded it, this patrician institution finds itself at a crossroads the benefactor of Gilded Age wealth attempting to evolve into the post-George Floyd era, when art museums around the country are reckoning with questions of equity and race.
Smash and grab at Grosse Pointe City BP station under investigation
Thieves caused thousands of dollars’ worth of damage to a BP gas station on Mack Avenue in Grosse Pointe City during a smash and grab robbery Feb. 13.
Photo provided by Karen Lawrence
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GROSSE POINTE CITY Longtime business owners are vowing to rebuild after an unidentified group of suspects rammed a pickup truck into their gas station Feb. 13 to break loose a safe that had been bolted to the floor.
Cameron and Karen Lawrence have owned the BP gas station at the corner of Mack Avenue and Rivard Boulevard for the last 30 years. They’ve long given back to local Little League and Red Baron football programs and have hosted car washes for booster clubs, and the support they’ve extended to the community is now coming back to them.
REFUSED: Artist’s impressions of the proposed care home in Northwick; Cllr Mel Allcott (right) A CONTROVERSIAL plan to build an 80-bed care home on the edge of the city has been refused in a victory for campaigners. Northwick Developments had its plan to build a two-storey £9 million care home off Northwick Road in Northwick near Worcester refused by Wychavon District Council who said the land needed protecting for the community. Delighted campaigners who rallied to save the cherished Donkey Field said the site had been saved for future generations and common sense had prevailed. A petition with more than 1,100 signatures and more than 160 objections were lodged with the district council before a decision was made.
Obituary: Kenneth Alan Hinckley
ROCKPORT, Mass./SOLON - Kenneth Alan Hinckley, 87, of Rockport, Mass., husband of Cynthia (Hillier) Hinckley, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 31, .
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Kenneth Alan Hinckley
ROCKPORT, Mass./SOLON – Kenneth Alan Hinckley, 87, of Rockport, Mass., husband of Cynthia (Hillier) Hinckley, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. The oldest of five children, Ken was born in Gloucester, Mass. on Oct. 20, 1933. The family lived in the Riverdale area of Gloucester and one of Ken’s first jobs was working at the Babson Farm delivering ice and milk.
After graduating from Gloucester High School, Ken enlisted in the Army from 1953-1956 as a high-speed radio operator stationed in St. Lawrence Island and Nome, Alaska.
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