Category Archives: Adventures on the Rouge

Beaver logic

Posted on February 18, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Amazing what one beaver can do. This lone paddle-tail isn’t just damming Conner Creek. A beaver’s image, captured by a DTE Energy camera as it worked some timber along the Detroit River, has inspired claims by a … Continue reading →

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Everything’s binary

Posted on February 5, 2009 by hro50ta1

By Joel Thurtell Some questions are like a light switch. Their answers are either on, or they’re off. Yes or no. Like my questions to Detroit Mayor Ken Cockrel through his press secretary, back on January 27, 2009: 1) Given Detroit’s … Continue reading →

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uptherouge.com goes live

Posted on January 19, 2009 by admin

By Joel Thurtell With the debut of my first book less than three months away, I’ve started a new blog, uptherouge.com It’s a way to promote Up the Rouge! Paddling Detroit’s Hidden River, the book I co-authored with Detroit Free … Continue reading →

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Measuring the Rouge

Posted on December 10, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell On an overcast morning last month, as I followed Mapquest to a bridge on Military Street spanning the Lower Rouge River in Dearborn, I did a very un-Mapquest thing — hopped my car over a curb, stowing … Continue reading →

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Rouge 2008: Festival of self-congratulation

Posted on November 30, 2008 by admin

Rouge 2008: Festival of self-congratulation 10/22/08 [donation] By Joel Thurtell Somehow, I can’t get all that excited about a new, $1 billion blast furnace at the Severstal steel mill on the Rouge River in Dearborn. I’m still blinking from the … Continue reading →

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Riverside boat launch liberated

Posted on November 30, 2008 by admin

Liberated – Riverside Park boat launch 10/09/08 [donation] By Joel Thurtell The padlocks have been cut. The boat launch at Riverside Park is open. That’s what Southwest Detroit activist Deb Sumner tells me. The bolt-cutters were hers. Five volunteers cut … Continue reading →

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Playing ball with Matty

Posted on October 2, 2008 by admin

By Joel Thurtell Matty doesn’t get it. Why are people suddenly so upset that he’s taken over parts of a Detroit city-owned park beside the Ambassador Bridge? Why, it’s been seven years since 9/11, when he seized the east side … Continue reading →

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Matty of fact

Posted on October 2, 2008 by admin

TAKE BACK THE PARK softball game. Meet 4:15 p.m. today (10-1-8) at Detroit’s Riverside Park. Gane at 5 p.m. Wear black t-shirts. Bring your own water! [donation] By Joel Thurtell From: Joel Thurtell, Former Journalist To; Matty Moroun, Tyrant Tycoon … Continue reading →

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Dear Matty,…

Posted on September 30, 2008 by admin

BYOW Bring Your Own Water to the softball game at 5 p.m. Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at Riverview Extension Park in Detroit. Park is on 23rd Street a block south of Fort. Game is meant to assert public right to … Continue reading →

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Matty on my mind

Posted on September 26, 2008 by admin

[donation] By Joel Thurtell Now I know how Detroit Free Press editors must have felt when they saw how many website hits their bombshell Kwame Kilpatrick stories were igniting. Joelontheroad.com, with my story about being ejected from a public park … Continue reading →

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