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Old Car Festival
September 11-12, 2010 (Open Saturday 'til 9pm)
This Old Car Festival weekend, take in the spectacle as the streets and grounds of Greenfield Villag...
Books, etc. Sale and Open House
September 11, 2010 (9am-5pm)
The Benson Ford Research Center is selling its oversupply of automotive and non-automotive printe...
Ideas & Innovations Lecture Series: When Chrysler was a Maxwell
September 11, 2010 (1pm)
Maxwell Motor was one of the leading automobile producers in the United States during the first quar...
Ideas & Innovations Lecture Series: “The Detroit Electric Scheme: A Mystery”
September 11, 2010 (4:15pm)
Dan Johnson’s first book, “The Detroit Electric Scheme: A Mystery”, is already drawing rave pre-publ...
George Washington Carver Exhibit
November 6, 2010-February 27, 2011
What makes a person a legend? In the case of George Washington Carver, it wasn’t just peanuts. Disco...
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