Inside the Taffy Kitchen shop on South Main Street in Frankenmuth
look at the small studio where Motown greats like the Supremes and Four Tops got their start.
Ohio, where the country’s first successful aircraft was developed. One of the Village’s most popular experiences is riding in a vintage early 20th-century Model T car. It’s a truly remarkable experience to see the actual chair from Washington’s Ford’s Theater in which Pres. Abraham Lincoln was sitting when assassin John Wilkes Booth fired the fatal gunshot on April 14, 1865, shortly after the end of the Civil War. The rocking chair’s deep red upholstery remains intact but faded with parts of it crumbling and still soiled with hair oil and blood stains. “The importance of this is not the blood stains but what happened in this chair and how that has changed our lives even today,” says museum presenter Tim Pendell. “In my opinion, Lincoln would have handled Reconstruction and bringing the North and South together a lot better than (President) Andrew Johnson or anyone after that. But we’ll never know.”
Fresh produce, homemade pies, cheeses, and Italian seasonings fill tables and vendor stalls at bustling Eastern Market. Alongside the multi-towered General Motors Renaissance Center, the Detroit RiverWalk stretches 3.5 miles along the river with benches, public art, parks, and a lighthouse. But if you make only one stop in the area, visit the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and adjacent Greenfield Village in Dearborn. Key museum exhibits include prototypes and original early 20th-century cars, planes, and locomotives; the refurbished bus in which civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat; and former presidents’ cars, including the very ones in which John F. Kennedy was shot (original chassis only) and in which Ronald Reagan was driven to the hospital after his gunshot wound. Along the streets of Greenfield Village are some of the workshops of American icons of industry and invention, including Thomas Edison’s lab where his light bulb first illuminated, and the Wright Brothers actual home and cycle workshop from Dayton,
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