Guest Speaker Series 2026

Lance Youles will discuss the everchanging transformation of the American flag throughout our country’s history. Find out how it looked in the past, how it has been portrayed in film, and how it transformed into its present layout of thirteen stripes and fifty stars. There is so much more to know about our flag than we were taught in school. 

Rochelle Danquah, Committee Chairperson of the Michigan Freedom Trail Commission, will present on the Underground Railroad in Western Wayne County, including Canton, and the efforts of local abolitionists. 

Jeremy Dimick, Director of Collections and Curatorial at the Detroit Historical Society, will present the story of the Detroit Lions and the early NFL. Learn how they eventually won the hearts of Detroiters from professional football’s earliest days, through its golden age in the 1950’s, then into the present day.