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Commemorating the life of Tom Dodd by reintroducing smeet to Riverside Park

By Mark | June 16, 2013

When Tom Dodd, beloved local teacher and editor of Ypsilanti’s Depot Town Rag, passed away earlier this month at the age of 78, his friends gathered at Frenchie’s to share memories and remember his influential life over beers… And, judging from the words on this plaque which just recently showed up in Ypsilanti’s Riverside Park, […]

Posted in History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged commemorating the lives of influential people, Depot Town, Depot Town Rag, Riverside Park, smeet, Ypsi history | 12 Comments

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, 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, storytelling, Twitter, WWI, YpsiDixit | 13 Comments

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