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People think they know the story of Detroit. But what other stories might we hear if the city and its water spoke for themselves? Tune in to the Detroit River Stories Podcast to find out. This podcast is just one small part of the University of Michigan’s Detroit River Story Lab, an interdisciplinary, grant-funded initiative that partners with regional organizations to reconnect communities with the river and its stories. Through collaborative research, education, and engagement projects, our partnerships amplify marginalized voices and foreground the role of the river and its shores as sites of connection, stewardship, and healing. For more information, visit https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/detroit-river-story-lab/.© 2025 Detroit River Stories Ciencia Ciencias Geológicas Ciencias Sociales
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  • Detroit's other rivers: exploring the city's buried creeks

    Detroit's other rivers: exploring the city's buried creeks
    Sep 29 2025

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    In this episode, I talk to Joanne Coutts, an activist and cartographer about her work mapping Detroit's buried creeks.


    Many of the maps we discuss can be found at her website.


    As always, if you have feedback for us, want to get involved, share your own story or suggest someone for us to talk to, please reach out to us at drsl-admin@umich.edu.
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    31 m
  • Working on the Water with Coast Guard Sector Detroit

    Working on the Water with Coast Guard Sector Detroit
    Aug 6 2025

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    In this episode, Bailey Flannery and Rachel Wilson talk to Captain Rick Armstrong, Commander of the US Coast Guard Sector Detroit. Our conversation explores the wide range of responsibilities and tasks of Coast Guard, focusing on everything from search and rescue to icebreaking along the Detroit River. If you've ever wondered what, exactly, the Coast Guard does in the Detroit area, this is the episode for you!


    If you have feedback for us, want to get involved, share your own story or suggest someone else for us to talk to, please reach out to us at drsl-admin@umich.edu.
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    43 m
  • "A little hard to handle" : Sarah Elizabeth Ray and the Fight for Childhood and Play in Detroit

    "A little hard to handle" : Sarah Elizabeth Ray and the Fight for Childhood and Play in Detroit
    Oct 16 2024

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    In this episode, Bailey Flannery and Desiree Cooper discuss how Cooper's decision to "marry Detroit" (by way of marrying a Detroiter) has irrevocably shaped her as a creative and person. This includes her long journalistic career at Detroit Free Press, which led her to eventually interviewing and documenting the life and legacy of Sarah Elizabeth Ray (also known as Lizz Haskell), one of Detroit's long-forgotten Civil Rights leaders.

    This conversation covers:

    • Cooper and Ray's parallel journeys from the South to Detroit, and how Cooper fell in love with Detroit's "mystique" and "swagger."
    • The centrality of play and leisure to the civil rights movement, including Ray's own case, which was based on her forced removal from the Bob-Lo boat SS Columbia. (Spoiler: She took her case all the way to the US Supreme Court--and won.)
    • Ray's lesser-known second act, which centered on protecting childhood through Action House.
    • Futures currently realized and in jeopardy along the Detroit River.
    • Why the Detroit River is laughing at us, and why we should laugh with it.
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    44 m
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