Tag Archives: debility and suffering

Introducing the Dusty Diary

By Mark | July 7, 2009

Some of you may remember Laura Bien. Up until about a year ago, she blogged as the YpsiDixit. Well, I’m happy to report that she’s come out of retirement. Laura has launched an engaging new site dedicated to the research of local Ypsilanti history, mainly though the exploration of surviving first-person narratives. The site is […]

Posted in History, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1830, 1874, 1918 flu, 1919, Allie McCullough, blogging, calomel, Carrie Hardy, Cholera Wars, City Archives, diaries, Dusty Diary, eland tuberculosis sanitarium, facial and jaw deformities, hair and tooth loss, History, history of medicine, inadvertent discoveries en route to something else, Laura Bien, mass graves, mercury, mercury poisoning, neurotoxic, storytelling, Tom Dodd, Twitter, WWI, YpsiDixit | 13 Comments

Connect

Recent Comments
- Demetrius on Happy Thanksgiving
- Frances Dee Farris on The story about my great, great grandfather nearly severing the leg of his brother with an axe
- Frances Dee Farris on One more post on my great grandparents, Curtis Florian and Minnie Wise Florian
- Frances Dee Farris on Talking about death with my son
- Frances Dee Farris on Trying to piece together the young life of my great grandmother, Minnie Florian Wise
- Lori Bernard on The silent rattlesnakes of Truman Capote, and the hoax behind Hand-Carved Coffins
- Stephen Luttmann on The etymology of “beazel”
- Steve on The Untold History of Zines… Doug Biggert on Tower Mag Hell
- David L Maynard on Maynards of East Kentucky
- Jason Voss on skink gets its props

BUY LOCAL... or shop at Amazon through this link

Banner Initiative

Ark of Maynard

Elsewhere

Shop at Amazon