A Drumming Cadence of Brotherhood The rat-a-tat-tat of the snare drum, accompanied by the thundering beat of the bass drum, was all Kalamazoo’s Orcutt Post veterans of the Civil War needed when marching in local parades or rousing the men’s spirits at events and annual reunions.
Kalamazoo's Municipal Election of 1912 - Socialism in One City Was it a political April Fools’ trick? That might have been the thinking of Kalamazoo’s political leaders when they awakened on the morning of April 2, 1912, the day after local elections were held.
The Goss and Darling General Store - Buy, Barter, or Sell Like Meijer or Target or Walmart, the general store was the “superstore” of the 1840s. General stores served many purposes in frontier towns like Kalamazoo.