Cities are full of evidence of the time when social clubs, focused not on profits but on people, were ascendant. Fraternal organizations were places of connection and belonging in the areas of business, recreation, education and ethnic culture. This book highlights the clubs that continue to operate their historic clubhouses today. Detroit's old fraternal clubs are a dynamic mix: yacht clubs, athletic clubs, business organizations, university fraternities, and ethnic clubs, like the Gaelic League Irish American Club, which celebrates its centennial in 2020. Just a handful of fraternal ethnic clubs remain in their clubhouses in America's great cities. Largely volunteer-driven, members of these old-style organizations keep old traditions alive. They do so, for each other. Published in honor of the Gaelic League of Detroit Centennial, with support from the Government of Ireland Emigrant Support Programme.