by macombnow | Apr 17, 2018
(from the Summer, 2017 issue of Macomb Now Magazine) By Denis LeDuc As a very young boy growing up in the 1950s, I was close to my grandparents. They lived in the flat above my parents and my older brother and I in our two-story house on Balfour Street in Detroit....
by macombnow | Apr 17, 2018
(from the Winter, 2013 issue of Macomb Now Magazine) By Denis LeDuc The fertile farmland is asleep under the heavy snow. The setting sun glows on the farmhouse, evening is coming on, and lights are ablaze in the windows. Inside the home we know it is warm and...
by macombnow | Apr 15, 2018
(From the Winter, 2015 Issue of Macomb Now Magazine) By Denis LeDuc The leaves have all fallen. The soft, warm colors of autumn have faded into the bleak pen-and-ink landscape of winter. Bare trees stand dark against the white snow and ice of the season. We feel the...
by macombnow | Apr 9, 2018
(from the Spring, 2013 issue of Macomb Now Magazine) By Denis LeDuc The large windows on all eight sides of the 1860 Octagon House are open to the warm spring breeze, filling the rooms with air and the twilight of evening. Chores are done and lessons completed. Lively...
by macombnow | Apr 9, 2018
(from the Summer, 2012 issue of Macomb Now Magazine) By Denis LeDuc Under a brilliant summer sun, girls in swimsuits and handsome lifeguards pose on a golden sandy beach. This could be a scene from a Hollywood movie, but it is in fact our very own metro Beach.” A...
