{"id":17014,"date":"2016-07-24T04:50:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T09:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=17014"},"modified":"2022-01-18T10:51:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:51:49","slug":"michigan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/michigan-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan, Part 3 (Rambling and Wandering)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I enjoyed walking through Grand Rapids, Michigan early each morning before most people crawled out of bed. It offered opportunities to explore quiet corners at my own pace and discover sites that I bet most visitors never would have noticed. Naturally I put my own geo-oddity spin on things, observing peculiarities that fit the offbeat themes of Twelve Mile Circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Grand? Why Rapids?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/28146816466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7606\/28146816466_739c7c39d7_b.jpg\" alt=\"Fish Ladder Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Photo by howderfamily.com; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>The Fish Ladder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Long before I arrived I wondered how Grand Rapids got its name. I couldn&#8217;t see rapids, grand or otherwise, as I scanned through satellite images of the city. It took a little searching although I uncovered an explanation eventually from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historygrandrapids.org\/article\/2242\/why-this-place-is-called-grand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Grand Rapids Historical Commission<\/a>, quoting from a 1913 source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;This sharp fall or decline in the river bed at Grand Rapids is disguised because of the power canals on each side of the river which take up the water and carry it through many factories and out through numerous tail races, so that the name &#8216;Grand Rapids&#8217; is not suggested any more by the present appearance of the river.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Grand River running through downtown Grand Rapids fell about 17 feet between current-day Sixth Street and Wealthy Street, a distance of about <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/JECr1FWc28ynmraS8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1.7 miles<\/a> (2.7 kilometres). Modern controls masked the drop with a series of terraced ledges. Nonetheless, the elevation truly dropped. I observed this for myself at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.experiencegr.com\/listings\/fish-ladder-park\/7587\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fish Ladder Park<\/a>, a brutalist contraption that let migrating fish push upriver past one of the higher drops (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/GNoo1vZS4fQv5Epk7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Logo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that Grand Rapids placed so much pride in its logo until I walked around town awhile. I noticed it everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/28059951591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7295\/28059951591_d7a8783846_b.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Rapids City Logo on a street sign. Photo by howderfamily.com; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Truly Everywhere!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of street signs included the emblem on their left sides, placed before the name of the street. It seemed to be a geographic representation to me. I interpreted the blue line as the Grand River, perhaps with the squiggled portion noting the &#8220;rapids.&#8221; Maybe the yellow circle represented a larger metropolitan area radiating from the city center in all directions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That red blob became a Rorschach test. My geo-centric brain figured it could signify the original historic city boundaries or something. My son the animal lover thought the left knob could be a fish tail symbolizing fish swimming through the rapids. Notions like that filled my mind during those early morning walks. I daydreamed of little non sequiturs, a wonderful way to get away from everything mentally and clear away the complexities of modern life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Logo!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/28059948881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7357\/28059948881_ded4d81f78_b.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Rapids manhole cover design. Photo by howderfamily.com; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>City of Grand Rapids &#8212; Signals and Lighting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Look, the logo even appeared on manhole covers, trash cans, and city vehicles. I tried to ignore them after awhile even though it became increasingly difficult as it appeared in even more places. Also I learned that maybe I had a thing for manhole cover designs, following on my discovery last year in Nantucket (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/16936414353\/\">photo<\/a>). I&#8217;ll have to pay more attention in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole mystery could have been solved if I&#8217;d simply searched on the Intertubes where the answer hid in plain site. Instead I preferred to wander around the city hoping to figure it out on my own, only to forget all about it as soon as I got near a computer. Silly me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/73784413@N00\/22186267963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5813\/22186267963_9b042c2dff_b.jpg\" alt=\"La Grande Vitesse. Photo by Russell Sekeet; (CC BY 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>La Grande Vitesse. <ins datetime=\"2016-07-29T22:02:18+00:00\">Photo <\/ins> by Russell Sekeet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandrapidsmi.gov\/Home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clearly said<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The City of Grand Rapids&#8217; logo was designed by Joseph Kinnebrew, an internationally-recognized sculptor and painter. It incorporates a yellow sun, blue river, and a red representation of the &#8216;La Grande Vitesse&#8217; sculpture by Alexander Calder, which was erected in downtown Grand Rapids on Calder Plaza in 1969.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I let that be a lesson to myself. Next time I will act on my curiosity immediately instead of waiting until I returned home to research an article. I passed within maybe two blocks of the Calder sculpture (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/PyjRMC6YsyEFK6gm6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>) and never saw it. That became a big missed opportunity. I would have made an effort had I known about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Original Boundary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/28059951261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7594\/28059951261_00d2f223c8_b.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Rapids original 1850 boundary. Photo by howderfamily.com; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>City Limits in 1850<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Grand Rapids remembered its past. I didn&#8217;t find the entirety of its original 1850 boundaries during my morning strolls although I discovered a couple of them. One ran down Eastern Avenue Southeast (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/qS7VPGERsSNMpmQo8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>). From its name and placement relative to downtown, I assumed it must have been the original eastern boundary although I couldn&#8217;t see a street with that name on <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:1853_Grand_Rapids,_Michigan.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an 1853 map<\/a> that I found online. Wealthy Street also featured similar boundary signs and that vintage map did reference it by name as the city&#8217;s southern border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wealthy Street seemed oddly named. It was nice although it hardly seemed wealthy. Certainly other streets in Grand Rapids featured many more stately homes constructed during the second half of the Nineteenth Century. Grand Rapids Magazine <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">provided the answer<\/span> [<em>link no longer works<\/em>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Jefferson Morrison was a merchant in the early days of Grand Rapids. He named two streets in the city: one to honor himself (Jefferson Avenue) and one to honor his wife, Wealthy (Wealthy Street). Mrs. Morrison\u2019s unusual first name proved to be somewhat ironic, as the family went into serious debt after building an extravagant house between modern-day Ionia and Monroe avenues.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Wealthy didn&#8217;t describe a street as much as it described a woman who stayed Wealthy even if she no longer remained wealthy, and the street remained Wealthy long after people forgot about Wealthy Morrison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why would parents name their child Wealthy? That mystery, alas, remained unsolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Inexplicable Sign<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/27890599380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7462\/27890599380_580b3a21eb_b.jpg\" alt=\"Weird parking sign in Grand Rapids. Photo by howderfamily.com; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Odd Dates Indeed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I found the inexplicable sign on Eureka Avenue, a short one-way street through a suburban neighborhood (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/zPhtdKq61KEySWpe6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>). Residents couldn&#8217;t park on the eastern side of Eureka Avenue on odd days during the winter months except for several hours in the evening. A similar prohibition applied to the western side on even days. I figured it must be related to snow removal. Hopefully most people living on Eureka Avenue had driveways. Moving parked cars from one side of the road to the other every day for five months of the year would get old after awhile. Also, no other street seemed to have this prohibition. I pondered that one for awhile too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Articles in the Michigan Journey Series:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17007\">County Adventures<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17011\">Breweries<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17014\">Rambling and Wandering<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17016\">Above and Below<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17018\">Do Overs<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17020\">Parting Shots<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>See Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/albums\/72157633766932374\">The Complete Photo Album on Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed walking through Grand Rapids, Michigan early each morning before most people crawled out of bed. It offered opportunities to explore quiet corners at my own pace and discover sites that I bet most visitors never would have noticed. 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