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Kiefer: Do Right and Fear No One — narrated by Jim Blackburn, Dr. Kiefer's great-great-great-grandson. Twenty 90-second episodes that add up to one film.
Episodes
The Book in the Attic
A grandson writes everything down — and leaves blank pages for us.
The Legend
A Dutch knight, a Margrave's daughter, and Napoleon's gold snuff box.
The Mystery of 1825
Two records, two mothers — and a student dare with chloroform.
1848
A medical student helps lead a revolution for a free press and trial by jury.
Rats in a Trap
Battle, excommunication, exile — and a new life in Detroit.
The Stubborn Wife
She refused to sign — and built the family a fortune.
Lincoln's Man
Founding the Republican Party, campaigning for Lincoln, and the Civil War.
The Doctor
A window sash, a barrel hoop and a beaver hat full of money.
Consul and Regent
A U.S. consul in Germany, and the builder of a medical school.
Nine Children
Named for revolutionaries, poets and a president.
Alfred
A mining engineer with eleven duels behind him.
Arthur, Keeper of the Papers
Napoleon's dueling pistols, a professor's ashes, and the family archive.
The Artist
A prize at the Paris Salon — and a marriage to the woman in the painting.
The Tanner
The world's largest pigskin tannery — and a family's grief.
Hermina
The daughter who married her father's successor.
The Name on the Hospital
Guy built a hospital — and refused to let them name it after him.
A Broken Heart
Two years, three funerals, and a hospital that bears his name.
The Twins
One lost in Kansas City at 26; one who carried the line forward.
Marybeth
A wedding in 1942, and a name passed down to the present.
Volume Two
The blank pages are yours. Come and fill them.
The hospital on the news
Detroit TV and city coverage of the Herman Kiefer Hospital and its redevelopment. More on the hospital →
WXYZ-TV, May 2021: the developer shares his vision for the hospital campus
WXYZ-TV, March 2014: the City of Detroit takes bids on the Herman Kiefer complex
Detroit City Council presentation on the redevelopment, c. 2016
College for Creative Studies: students make art inside the empty hospital