Join the Holt-Delhi Historical Society as we welcome local historian and HDHS board member Inge Kyler to reflect on her time as a stenographer at the Michigan Constitutional Convention of 1961-1962. The event will be held at the Sam Corey Senior Center at 7 pm on Thursday, September 21st.

Sixty-two years ago, Michigan began writing its current constitution. The state elected delegates who spent two years drafting the constitution at the Civic Center in Lansing. Kyler was among a pool of stenographers at the convention, which has come to be called Con Con. George Romney, who later became Governor Michigan was a vice president of the convention, and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower addressed the convention in December 1961.