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By Guest Blogger Joy Bennett By the 1920s, the Great War had ended, and the boys in service had returned home. The Spanish Influenza outbreak had also ended, and people were able to gather together as family once again. More people were living in towns and cities, and the economy... Read More

By Guest Blogger Joy Bennett   Born in 1863, Henry was born to William and Mary Ford, who owned a prosperous farm in Dearborn, Michigan. At age 16, he left home for the nearby city of Detroit, where he found apprentice work as a machinist. He returned to Dearborn and work on... Read More

By Guest Blogger Joy Bennett Findlay had a building boom in the 1920s, with different types of housing going up all across town, but particularly on the South end of town on Glendale Avenue. This street boasts Tudor style houses, Craftsman, French Eclectic, and Colonial Revival... Read More

By Guest Blogger Joy Bennett The 1920s was a decade of discovery, particularly in the field of medicine. New technology and science led to the discovery of vitamins, increased knowledge of hormones and body chemistry. New drugs and vaccines were release after research that had... Read More

By Guest Blogger Joy Bennett   1920s men’s fashion was the start of menswear as we know it today. The postwar era was full of classic sophistication with a splash of fun, a combination that was unheard of in the earlier Victorian Era. Men’s clothes in the 1920s were mostly... Read More

By Guest Blogger Joy Bennett   We all have our own Thanksgiving traditions, but how old are those traditions? Lets check out what kind of traditions they had in the 1920s! Did you know that Thanksgiving Day was not an officially recognized national holiday until Congress... Read More

By Guest Blogger Joy Bennett This is an excerpt from my Masters thesis: From Hitler to Hollywood: Transnational Cinema in WWII. If you’re interested in reading the rest, you can check it out online http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1320957912 .   Before... Read More

By Guest Blogger Joy Bennett   Rose Louise was born on October 27, 1888 to Milton Harmon and Della Drucilla Leader of Vanlue. In 1889, the Leader family moved to West Point, Mississippi. They moved from there to Pendleton, Indiana, then Ottawa, Ohio in 1894. By 1904, they... Read More

By Guest Blogger Amanda Howard   In the four years of Bill and Marie’s courtship (1920-1924), they would have witnessed stunning changes and growth within the film industry, both in what was to become Hollywood and beyond. Motion pictures as a medium were in their... Read More

By Guest Blogger Joy Bennett   Leila was born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada on November 9, 1871 to Alexander and Anna (Henderson) Koerber. Leila would later adopt the stage name Marie Dressler after a German Aunt she never met. Alexander was a musician and music teacher. The... Read More