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The Old Brewery was founded in 1889 by two women, Mina Douglas and Eva Findlay, who started serving hot meals to Montrealers in need. In the early 20th century, the Old Brewery Mission gradually evolved from a soup kitchen to a full homeless shelter. In 1998, its women's shelter, the Patricia Mackenzie Pavilion was opened.
[8] In 1928, the Bonstelle Playhouse became the Detroit Civic Theatre, and in the 1930s, the Mayfair Motion Picture Theater. In 1951, Wayne State University rented the facility as a performance space for its theater company, and purchased it outright in 1956, renaming it the Bonstelle Theatre in honor of Jessie Bonstelle.
The Old Brewery is depicted in the Martin Scorsese 2002 film Gangs of New York as the Five Points Christian Mission, tenement building, and pauper playhouse. The 2012 video game Assassin's Creed III has the "Boston Brawlers Tournament" in Boston , Massachusetts , within an old brewery modeled after the former Five Points building.
Consumer purchases of Michigan's brewery products generated more than $290 million in tax revenue, [1] and the state ranked 13th in the number of capita per craft brewery with 122 craft breweries, and 81,013 capita per craft brewery.
Beau Shroyer, a pastor of Lakes Area Vineyard Church in Detroit Lakes, was murdered in the southern African nation of Angola on Friday, the lead pastor of the church, Troy Easton, wrote in a ...
The northern lights, or aurora borealis, as seen in Williamston, Michigan, on Friday, May 10, 2024.
Charleszetta Waddles (born Charleszetta Lena Campbell; October 7, 1912 – July 12, 2001), also known as Mother Waddles, was an African-American activist, Pentecostal church minister, and founder of Mother Waddles Perpetual Mission, an independent church in Detroit that provides support, such as food, clothing and other basic services to Detroit's poor.
The United States won the world junior hockey championship near the beginning of the 2024 calendar year. It took a big step toward a repeat by beating rival Canada 4-1 on the final day of 2024 to ...