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V . • - I PUBLIC LIBRARY .9Ae a -, - .. ,._,.__ /.�- --:.:·;:-(--,--,,,,_ · · · : .. --· •-'� :. � _,-\.. "·'·• � :. >" -� ,,--. , 1 r I' ,' VOLUME 2 -- {.--..., . ,--· _... NUMBERS )I '· - _;,,) _r- . 1, - PRICE r \ ··' \,-" MAY, 1926 THE AFTERGLOW Page One 7n JJeau/l(ul:JJloomjield Jflllj wdhm the bmit; '/.JJirming'ham Randolph 7444 Years of Distinctive Service A softergrace and charm distinguish Dean interiors. their Detroit comm1ss1ons. The same fine artistry It is that quality in decorative motif which reflects which foreight decades has sustained Dean's leader- the individuality of each home-a harmony affording ship among Michigan's decorative furnishers is today permanent satisfaction. To gen- !?2lze improved through years of ac- erations of appreciative clients �«--.. J. cumulative experience. this organization has rendered :·�£Ei..sB Dean is equipped to serve not such service. Our counsel is ?-::."�lrA only architect and estate owner, sought in the decoration of Flor- llfj,:l}J, but also those interested in Spring ida and California homes, just as ijf redecorating or furnishings for those same clients entrust us with .a single room. 1227 GRISWOLD STREET, DETROIT " SUNSET HOUSE 0 ···*··· On Orcl:ard Lake ESTIMATES WITHOUT OBLIGATION A �ERING to the discriminating public, who appreciate fine food and quiet, dignified en C vironment. m�� Prepared for parties, receptions, luncheons, afternoon teas, etc. Capacity: Main dinina room, .-1,1. � -=· 100, and four private rooms, 10 each. This lovely old place has 600 feet of sandy beach. "' Phone Pontiac 1975 W. L. VAN ZANDT, Manager MICHIGAN'S LEADING DECORATOR,S AND FURNISHERS FOR EIGHTY "YEARS Country Life Country Houses Around Detroit Society , :, Sports Do You Enjoy the Out of Doors? I F you enjoy the Out-of-Doors, if yo� appreciate the. charm. of rugged hills, shady woodland and p1ctt:resque, ever-interesting VoL. II No. V shore line, Indianwood colony, with its pnvate lake and carefully Content§ for May 9 1926 planned development, will appeal to you. Cover Design........................................................ by Gladys Caswell Fortunate Children Who Live in the Country (photographs).... 12 ' The Story of Stoney Creek. ............................. by Marion Holden 5 Society .......................................................... by Ka.thcrine Atkinson 13 Photographs of the Blair Estate at Indianwood............................ 8 A Very Small House in the Suburbs.............................. by M. H. 15 Reproductions of Peasant Furniture for Country Cottages.... Club Activities...................................................... by Harold George 16 ............................ by Dav-id A. B1irgess and Newton Merrill 9 And Ladies Prefer ........................................ by Gem/dine Caldwell 18 Gardener, Spare That Swamp !.. .......... by E. Genevieve Gillette 10 Country Comment ................................................................................ 23 The Preschool Project in Birmingham...... by Cora H. Farrar 11 Garden Hints for May and June........................ by Fred C. Roth 29 PU BLISH ER'S STATEMENT Home of Harry Slater at Indianwoocl · HE AFTERGLOW ls published on the 15th of every month Articles, stories and photographs pertaining to any phase or T at Detroit, Michigan, by the Afterglow Publishing Company, country life around Detroit are sollclted. [nc. Theodore H. Millington, President; Marlon Holden. Editor; W. J. Murphy, Business Manager; J. C. Rodgers, Advertising Subscription price, ;2.50 a year; 25 cents the single copy. Manager. You are Invited to Visit and Inspect lndianwood Editorial and executive offices, 4866 Woodward Avenue. Tele Address all communications to The Afterglow Publishing Com phones: Glendale 5837 and 2751. pany, 4850' Woodward Avenue, Detroit. E hope that you may become a member of Indian W wood community, yet, whether you do or :iot, we wish you to see and enjoy the many advantages 1t possesses. Golf on our eighteen hole course, boating, bathing, fishing and riding offer exceptional recreational environment. We, extend to you an invitation to visit and inspect this select suburban community. We believe you will enjoy your visit. Entrance to Stately Pines of Indianwoocl F. W. Blair's Indianwoocl Estate WRITE FOR- "18 Holes of Golf," by Wilfred Reid; "Indianwood Shores," an illustrated folder; "The Investment in Lake and Country Club Property." Three Folders on Request. WILBERT W. REECE CO. 723 Detroit Savings· Bank Bldg. Cadillac 0496 • WEST BLOOMFIELD LAKES In Oakland County-25 miles northwest of 1Jetroii Forfurlherinformation, wrileorm CLEMONS-KNIGHT-MENARD CO. 1441 PARK PLACE, DETROIT MAY, 1926 THE AFTERGLOW Page Fi,•c / The Story of Stoney Creek SALLY TAYLOR /t/lLLERD NATHANIEL MILLERD By MARION HOLDEN I, Wife of the gentleman opposite A son-i11-law of Le111u.el Taylor a11d danghter of Lem11el Ta.ylor, who migrated with him and his who fo1111ded the village of fmnily from New York to Michi- Stoney Creek gan in 1823. ROM the sudden and infectious enthusiasm with sons as well as for its admirable water supply. F which people began buying up farms along Stoney For a time the Taylors were the only inhabitants of Creek last summer, it is interesting to look back a Stoney Creek-they and their Indian neighbors. Grad hundred years or so to the first white people who ually other settlers came, until the little village ri cleared these hills and built their homes among them. valled Rochester, with its church and postoffice and The next time you bump down the south hill into its Ma onic temple on Mount Moriah-the first tem Rochester-avoiding the worst ruts which are partic ple to be built 1n Michigan. And it was Daniel Tay ularly vicious just now after the spring thaw-give lor, who, all by himself, kept the light burning in that a thought to Lemuel and Sally Taylor, for it was just temple every lodge night during the Morgan raids one hundred and four No. 5 being the only years ago that this lodge in Michigan valiant couple plodded where this sacred down that very hill in duty was performed the ox carts which in spite of hell and J had brought them and high water. their six sons an::! Can you p i ctu r e three daughters ( with that quiet wooded their wives, husban:ls country with only the and children), all the rattle of a passing way from ew York wagon and the ubiqu l state. \,\Then they got itous cow bell to to the top of that hill, break the stillness, overlooking the fer and ·at sunset the Tay tile valley which was lor wives looking o_g1t to become the home of the windows' of of their children and their log cabins to their children's chil watch a silent file of This lovely lillle strca111 looks 110w j11st as. it did a lrnndred 3•ears a.go whe11 Indians - aborigines, dren, the women folk, Le11111e/ a11d Sally Taylor, ,i•ith all their- children, built their homes alo11g fatigued almost be its banks. they called them - yond e n d u r a n c e , weaving over the hill screamed at the steep descent and begged the men to into the dusk? Often the Indians came into the go no further that day. They were told, however, to house to get warm, walked straight up to the fire and! keep their places, which they did, then and thereafter. lay there until they were quite comfortable, when' It was Lemuel Taylor and his sons who cut the road they walked straight out again. No settler, of course. from Rochester to Stoney Creek in 1823 and estab ever urged an exit before it was volunteered, and lished the village there. The old man bought five there was no trouble with the tribes who had their parcels of land from the government (at about $1.50 winter encampments nearby. an acre), with eighty acres in each parcel. To each Lemuel Taylor was a Baptist minister-"exhorter." The great hall a11d librar3, ·in the ho1ne of Mrs. Alice Van · There is a balco11y with an ·iron raili,,g at the other e11d of son and daughter he gave forty acres, and here they I believe he was called-and he must have had a bent Hoosen ]011es. on the old Va11. Hoosen farm, which was the first the room, a11d many books, which conldn't be shown in this p-ict11re. laud to be cleared and settled on Stonev Creek. The lovelv old A partirnlarly st11n11ing color note is introdnced· in the East Jndwn. lived and built their log houses, their grist mill and for poetry. The names of his sons show his inclina beams came from Josh11.a Van Hoosen'/ barn and the stone ·from ha11gi11gs at the windows, which are en·!broidered in yar11s of their woolen mill-in fact, the swift running little tioris very strongly: Lemuel, Jr., Elisha, Orestes, his fields. greens and bhtes and reds on heavy m11slm. stream must have appealed to them for milling rea- Henry, Joshua and Daniel. Harry, being something • Pa.ge Six THE AFTERGLOW MAY, 1926 MAY, 1926 THE AFTERGLOW Page Seven Pontiac were near enough to be good courting cen His conclusion is interesting, after a life of the most ters and the Masonic Temple was another magnet that intense toil and anxiety and hardships: "In conclu drew young men fr<?m the neighboring towns, over sion I would say, beside being very homesick the first roads in good -weather and bad to the lodge rough season, I had to work out by the day for bread for and entertainments, where they met the meetings myself and fa 11ily f eight. My exertions to get out daughters of the fraternal farmers. But these amen '. ? of debt were m vam, for at the end oE the first year ities did not come, of course, for thirty years or so l was· fifty dollars in debt. This debt I contrived to after the founding of the village. In fact, those first pay the following year. Now I have a good farm of days were singularly free from everything except the one hundred and fifty acres, free from debt.