how the tides rise

Summerhouse on Gotland | photos by Jonas Ingerstedt

These still life linocuts by Jane Walker have a very pleasing mid-century feel to them, Now available from St Jude’s.

Pick a street corner in downtown Hamtramck, Mich., and you’ll be struck by the incredible mix of cultures crammed into this tiny, 2-square-mile city.

A Catholic church across the street from a mosque. Polish pastry shops, sausage factories, and grocery stores promising “the best Polish food, shipping to Eastern Europe,” side by side with Bengali clothing shops that sell richly embroidered dresses and headscarves. And you’d be remiss if you didn’t stop in the many Yemeni restaurants serving fragrant lamb and discs of flatbread the size of hubcaps.

What has united all of the immigrant groups who’ve come to Hamtramck? Good jobs in the auto industry. Hamtramck is surrounded by Detroit, and for decades, car manufacturing was its lifeblood.

Hamtramck, Michigan: An Evolving City Of Immigrants

$200/day

standing by as the gates are closing 

looking out from above the town

Red String of Fate Enamel Pin -

According to legend, an invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstances.