Editor’s note: This is the next installment of a weekly column by Paul Wiener designed to point readers to cool or useful websites. Spider Web Construction Gallery Not everyone is afraid of spiders. Then again, not everyone loves them the way Samuel Zschokke does — with such spectacular, scholarly devotion ...
Only the walls of Ypsilanti’s First Baptist Church were left standing after a 1937 fire destroyed the landmark at the corner of West Cross and North Washington streets. The tall spire of Ypsilanti’s First Baptist Church, on the southeast corner of West Cross and North Washington streets, where Janowiak Funeral ...
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A unique piece of Saline’s history has returned home. Saddlebags that belonged to Orange Risdon, Saline’s founder, are now in the hands of the Saline Area Historical Society and housed as part of an exhibit at The Railroad Depot Museum. "We have relatively few things we can trace back to ...
The Internet Archive, a San Francisco based non-profit, has released a beta version of its Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine provides a way to browse through old web sites that have been collected through the Internet Archive's periodic scans of the Internet, and it lets you see how the web ...
As Mr. A. T. Stewart explained later, it was just happenstance that he was in Ypsilanti early on the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 8, 1911, and prevented his daughter from eloping. He later explained to The Ypsilanti Daily Press, that on that morning his daughter Carrie left home to go ...
It often is hard for children to understand what Thanksgiving is really all about. We watch the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special and learn about the history of Thanksgiving at school. However that still doesn’t always really get to the heart of why we celebrate Thanksgiving. It’s not just for the ...
Ann Arbor’s Old Fourth Ward Historic District was home to the city’s early bankers, lawyers, judges, doctors, merchants, and city officials — including seven mayors, according to the city's Historic District Commission.
Perhaps the most recognizable architectural symbol in Ypsilanti is the Water Tower. Designed by William T. Coats, the tower was built in 1889, in the Queen Anne style. Though traditionally Queen Anne style architecture lends itself to being a visual cacophony of features and color, the Water Tower itself is ...
Those who live in Michigan always have something to talk about. For one thing, the weather gives everyone a topic of conversation. On occasion, the weather is cause for more than a few passing remarks. Take for example, the storm that swept through southeast Washtenaw County on Thursday, April 22, ...
On Tuesday, I wrote about having found three quaint and quirky cookbooks at the Stone High School rummage sale. One of these, in particular, warranted its own post rather than just blending into the jumble at the end of my last piece. It is fascinating, asking and answering questions as ...
Recently, I had the pleasure of walking through the old fireproof book stacks in the basement of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. A slice of the past, these stacks are the only part that remains of the old General Library on the campus of the University of Michigan. As you ...
Ann Arbor, View from [the] Boulevard This photograph is a part of the Detroit Publishing Co.'s collection held at the Library of Congress. It was taken between 1880 and 1889. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection, [LC-D4-3771]
Alpha Delta Phi’s “Stone House” on the University of Michigan campus: 1883 - 1910
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