Welcome to "Detroitland", where award-winning journalist Richard Bak brings to life episodes from roughly a century of Detroit"s colorful history. Bak tackles familiar names like Frank Murphy, the Purple Gang, the Lone Ranger, "Potato Patch" Pingree, and Charles Lindbergh. He also introduces little-known Detroit characters like the Black Legion, Detroit"s own version of the Ku Klux Klan; Johnny Miler, the man who walloped Joe Louis in the Brown Bomber"s first-ever amateur fight; patrolman Ben Turpin, the terror of Black Bottom criminals; Sophie Lyons, legendary "Queen of the Underworld" and Detroit philanthropist; and Shorty Long, Brenda Holloway, the Velvelettes, and other forgotten Motown artists of the "60s.