I know it’s short notice, but it seems that Ypsi has earned a spot on the national tour of the Trading Tortoise, thanks to the fact that our friend Jason Wright lives here. (More on that below.) As of right now, it looks as though the Tortoise will be open for business tomorrow, between 3:00 […]
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The Trading Tortoise to stop at the Corner Brewery tomorrow
Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti Also tagged art projects, beards, Corner brewery, grow your own Mark Maynard, Jason Wright, Jonathan Levine, Kickstarter, Monica Choy, oral history, snails, Souther Salazar, trade, trading, trading post, Trading Tortoise, turtles, zines 5 Comments
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, hair and tooth loss, History, history of medicine, inadvertent discoveries en route to something else, Laura Bien, mass graves, mercury, mercury poisoning, neurotoxic, Tom Dodd, Twitter, WWI, YpsiDixit 13 Comments