The Detroit Free Press has a recommended story about Carleton’s Calder Dairy Farm in today’s edition.  Excerpt and link:

It’s 5:50 a.m. — still dark and starry — when route manager Randy Curren pulls out of the Calder Dairy parking lot. He turns his white-and-black-spotted delivery truck south toward Gibraltar to begin his weekly Tuesday morning run.

Unlike most milk-company drivers, though, he won’t spend his day restocking coolers in supermarkets, gas stations and convenience stores.

Curren is an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, bottles-to-your-door kind of milkman — one of six who work 19 Calder routes from Flat Rock to Dearborn to Ann Arbor.

The Lincoln Park dairy has been making deliveries to homes for all of its 62 years — so long, in fact, it’s believed to be the last Michigan milk processor still bringing its own products to customers’ doors.

Full story:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080914/FEATURES02/809140324/0/FEATURES07

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