There's a Giant Egg in a Downtown Rochester Window

It's all part of an ongoing exhibit at the DIA.

Haig’s of Rochester Fine Jewelry & Objects of Art in downtown Rochester is one of five Detroit-area businesses selected to participate in the Community Fabergé Chalk Art Project offered by the Detroit Institute of Arts. As part of the project, Haig's will display a large chalk drawing of an Imperial-style egg in its window.  The local art initiative includes lectures, family programs, films and musical performances that coincide with DIA’s exhibition, Fabergé: The Rise and Fall: The Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibit is on display through Jan. 21. Chalk artist Greg Oberle designed five large-scale chalk drawings of eggs to be on display in the windows of five metro-Detroit area businesses, including Haig's. The …

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A Patch of History

20 Years Ago Today, Gas Explosion Rocked Downtown Rochester

Where were you on May 20, 1992? It was a day of destruction — and death — in our downtown's history. 'That tragic event changed my thinking about what’s truly important in life,' one business owner recalls.

  It was the blast heard around the city and for miles away. Some likened it to a bomb exploding and in many ways they were right. On May 20, 1992, a fatal natural gas explosion at the southeast corner of University Drive and Main Street in downtown Rochester leveled two stores, some second-floor apartments and a huge portion of the historic J. W. Smith/Crissman building, where Talmer Bank now stands. Here's the story of what happened on that tragic day in our town's history, gleaned from a variety of published reports of the event. It was a bright, sunny Wednesday afternoon. Like most days, merchants were busy in their stores and shoppers strolled down the sidewalks. But later that afternoon, store personnel, office workers, residents and…

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Tiffany Dziurman Stozicki

9:10 am on Friday, May 25, 2012

What an amazing story, David. Thank you so much for sharing it.   more ›