I don’t know how to break this to you, so I’ll just come right out and say it… It looks as though beloved local pop idol Charlie Slick will soon be joining the ranks of those leaving our community. Following is his official exit interview. MARK: I’m thinking of requiring everyone who wants to leave […]
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Introducing the Dusty Diary
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, debility and suffering, diaries, Dusty Diary, eland tuberculosis sanitarium, facial and jaw deformities, 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