Join the Historical Society of Greater Lansing for our first outdoor walking tour of the 2023 season. We have quite a schedule lined up, starting with a tour of the grounds of the former Michigan School for the Blind, to be held at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 18. The event is free and the tour will be meeting at former Superintendent’s home which faces Walnut Street.
 
Michigan State Capitol Historian and former HSGL president Valerie Marvin will be the tour guide and will inform attendees of things they perhaps do not know about the beautiful park-like atmosphere of the School for the Blind campus.
 
Most know about Stevie Wonder attending school at the MSB, but there is much more to know about the earlier history of the site. The tour will discuss more about Michigan Female College and its founders. Also, learn more about the educational approach of the boarding school and the School for the Blind’s role in the city. In recent years, the School’s campus has helped transform the neighborhood with some of the original 100-year-old structures being turned into rental housing for seniors.
 
The next walking tour is set for 10 a.m., Saturday, June 10, on the campus of Michigan State University. That tour will begin at Beaumont Tour and will include a walk through the "sacred" places of old north campus. 
 
Other tours this summer include two walking tours of REO Town, a tour of the neighborhood adjacent to the downtown campus of Lansing Community College, and a celebration of Kewpees Centennial. Visit the HSGL website at www.lansinghistory.org and join us on Facebook for details.