About a year or so ago, when I was done interviewing Sean Tejaratchi, the man behind Crap Hound, for my History of Zines project, I asked him who else I should be talking with from Portland’s golden age of self-publishing, and he suggested that I try to track down Dan M. and Alex Hubbard, who […]
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My initial thoughts on #DocumentYpsi2017
Now that a week has passed, I’m looking through all of the photos that were either emailed to me as part of our #DocumentYpsi2017 project, or posted to social media along with the hashtag. While I’ve yet to receive the contributions from Ozone House or Ypsi High, both of whom had multiple people taking photos, […]
Posted in History, Photographs, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Akosua Dow, Arlo, Dan Blakeney, Document Ypsi, documentation, DocumentYpsi2017, Dom's Bakery, Donald Trump, gay friendly, Linette Lao, native prairie, Ozone House, rabbit, Riverside Arts Center, time capsule, Water Street, Ypsi High, Ypsi history, YpsiGLOW, Ypsilanti water tower 10 Comments
The History of Wiard’s: From Plows and Cider to Soda and Scare-tainment… an American story
As a rule, I try not to talk about local businesses unless I have something good to say about them, which is why, over the 12 years or so that I’ve been posting here, I’ve never mentioned the “agri-entertainment complex” that is Wiard’s. Call me old fashioned, but I like my cider mills without paintball, […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged agri-entertainment, apple cannons, apples, Arlo, Batavia, book ideas, cider mills, Clementine, dollar store Disney, Everett Wiard, furries, George Wiard, haunted houses, hayrides, human dalmatians, Lyman Wiard, mineral water, New York, Night Terrors, orchards, paintball, panic attacks, scare-tainment, soda, Thomas Wiard, Wiard, Wiard Plow Company, Wiard's, Willow Run, Willow Run Bomber Plant, Ypsilanti Bottling Works, Ypsilanti's Mineral Water Sanitariums 18 Comments