The Hours of the Virgin
“Unlike Belle Isle, Grosse Ile supports a city-size community of its own, on the site of what was mostly farmland for three hundred years until the postwar housing boom wiped it out in less than twenty. Ten miles long and a mile wide, it noses into Lake Erie, with a canal called the Thoroughfare splitting it in two diagonally. Apart from its privately owned gardens and distinguished homes, it’s best known as the place where Cadillac set ashore and said, “Here I shall build a city,” then thought ...better of the decision and sailed upriver to say the same thing on the site of Detroit a day or two later. That’s okay with most of the people who live on the island; if they could weigh anchor and drift out into the middle of the lake and away from the Motor City, they’d cast off tomorrow.
I drove out West Jefferson, crunching through slush that had thawed from yesterday’s ice storm, then refrozen, and took the free bridge to the island. It had been repaired recently after a boat had smashed into it, diverting traffic onto the toll bridge farther down.MoreLess
I drove out West Jefferson, crunching through slush that had thawed from yesterday’s ice storm, then refrozen, and took the free bridge to the island. It had been repaired recently after a boat had smashed into it, diverting traffic onto the toll bridge farther down.MoreLess
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