  Realitycheck Member Username: Realitycheck Post Number: 259 Registered: 08-2004 Posted From: 68.41.173.240 |
Lowell says . . . . . . SBXL visitors and other out-of-towners should stand at Belle Isle's western end and look at "those twin icons, the Ambassador Bridge and the Renaissance Center," as he told Kim Herron for a MetTimes feature this week. Catch other recommendations at: http://www.metrotimes.com/edit orial/story.asp?id=8827 You'll see that LB's pagetop banner is much more vivid that the weekly's somewhat similar image.  (Message edited by RealityCheck on February 01, 2006) | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 161 Registered: 09-2005 Posted From: 198.103.184.76 |
Lowell was also featured prominently in an article in Tuesday’s the National Post (a national newspaper out of Toronto). The site is www.nationalpost.com and the article is in the Sports section; however, you need to subscribe to the paper in order to read it. I don't subscribe, but my office buys the paper copy. Anyone out there with a login/password for the Post that they would like to share? Anyone with a copy of yesterday's paper and a scanner? Also, although the sports section is politically neutral, the National Post is Canada's national right wing paper. I don't think that means Lowell's politics are shifting.... | ||
_sj_ Member Username: _sj_ Post Number: 1207 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 69.220.230.150 |
http://www.canada.com/topics/s ports/football/superbowl2006/s tory.html?id=ce423c27-2979-411 7-bf74-645a540f6345 Subscription not needed | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 2243 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.58.237 |
Here is the full text of what I sent to the MT inquiry. Obviously for space consideration they couldn't quote it fully, so I will share it here. "While touring newcomers to our city, I always end up by walking them out to the far western tip of Belle Isle, often with a fine bottle of wine and snacks. There, from that peaceful and stunning panorama, dominated by those twin icons of Detroit, the Ambassador Bridge and the Renaissance Center, I tell the story of Detroit. "I explain to them that we are sitting amid Le Detroit, the straits of Detroit, after which the City of Detroit is named. I point out that we are an international metropolis, the world’s largest, and are blessed to be next to and at peace with a great and progressive neighbor, Canada. "I describe how we are an ancient city, inhabited for millennia by native Americans, then point out where Cadillac landed with his tiny flotilla of canoes over 300 years ago beyond which the city now extends for forty miles or more in every direction. I show them where the first big auto factory stood and tell the story of the amazing rise of modern industrial Detroit. I move on to the story of our travails of disunity in the last half of the 20th century beginning with the 1943 riots by the Belle Isle Bridge and continue through to the story of the reemergent rise of today’s Detroit. "It all lies right there, a giant storyboard just awaiting a script. That is the reason I use that vista as the header of my website." | ||
Thewack Member Username: Thewack Post Number: 192 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 71.125.244.135 |
Lowell says "knock you out"  | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 162 Registered: 09-2005 Posted From: 198.103.184.76 |
Good find _sj_. |
