Boat captain, pilot, chauffeur, band leader, businessman, and family man — Herman E. Curtis was a man of many talents. Immortalized in the book “Bud, Not Buddy,” Curtis would open one of the first African-American businesses in Wyoming, located on Buchanan across from the former GM plant on 36th Street. Curtis’s grandson, Michael Curtis, a Grand Rapids firefighter and board member of the Grand Rapids African American Museum and Archives, shares his grandfather’s story in a special WKTV VOICES presentation airing on Channel 26 at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb.24; 8:05 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26; and noon Saturday, Feb. 27.
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