![]() ![]() Center for Collections and Research Director Greg Wittkopp will deliver an introduction about Cranbrook and cars, featuring more treasures from Cranbrook Archives relating to our place in automobile history. Brendan Cormier, Senior Design Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, will be speaking about his recent exhibition and publication, Cars: Accelerating the Modern World. If you want to learn more about the history and social impact of cars, register for our free virtual Bauder Lecturethis Sunday, June 28, 2020, at 3:00pm EST. The old couple in it were not hurt at all.” We later frightened a horse and it ran down this deep ditch and horse, top-buggy and all just lay right down flat. ![]() It took an hour & a half to get a team to pull us out. We decided to take the auto as far as Holland on the way to Ottawa Beach but I wish we hadn’t for it took us five hours to go the 25 miles-We got off the road and one place slid into a ditch. In 1908, she wrote in her diary of a similar event that took place as the family traveled from Grand Rapids to Lake Michigan: The accident on Lahser Road wasn’t the first time Ellen had been betrayed by poor road conditions. James Scripps Booth photographer, Copyright Cranbrook Archives.
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