New Facebook Group Opens Rich Vein of Golden Memories About Birmingham
Vivid posts and vintage photos recall milk deliveries, family grocers, beloved teachers and lifelong friendships.
It's fun to reminisce about childhood and other touchstones, and it doesn't take much to get memories flowing. Social media does the trick. Case in point: A Birmingham nostalgia group on Facebook zoomed past 400 members this week, less than two weeks after a 1975 Seaholm graduate created it. Though instant success is easier online than in high school, it's still a heady surprise for Karen Coan of Bloomfield Hills. "I never dreamed it would become so popular," says Coan, known as varsity swimmer Karen McGregor by longtime friends at "You Know You're from Birmingham, Michigan..." – the group she formed Jan. 29 after a suggestion from classmate Shawn McTigue (now Shawn Watson of Auburn Hills). The women have known each other "since grade …
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Alan Stamm
11:19 am on Saturday, February 25, 2012
Gail Wilde of Troy celebrates deep local roots in a Feb. 25 post at the Facebook group: "My dad graduated from Birmingham High in 1941. I graduated from Seaholm in 1970. My daughter graduated from Seaholm in 1998 and my son in 2002. "My mother's family, the Partlans, built a home in Birmingham in 1926. Moved out to 'the sticks' from Detroit. Their home was near Oak Street right where the trolley … more ›