Tag Archives: Ypsi history

Foiling anti-Ypsi plots hatched in Ann Arbor, singing and talking animal dissection with Annie Palmer, and discussing the whereabouts of our most evil trees… on episode twelve of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | April 13, 2015

This week’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack was an odd one. It started normal enough, with an in-depth discussion about the plot hatched in Ann Arbor to defund Ypsi’s Convention and Visitors Bureau, but then it kind of began a steady descent into madness, until, by the end of the show, we were pulling […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Marketing, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1975, 7-Eleven, AAACVB, AADL, Alexis Ford, Alicia Ping, Andru Bemis, Andy LaBarre, Ann Arbor Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce, Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor SPARK, Annie Palmer, Armada, Bert Lahr, Brigid Mooney, Canton Belanger, Casey Dixon, Chandelier, Chris Sandon, Cross Grove, Dave Menzo, Debbie Locke-Daniel, dissection, economic development, electronic music, evil trees, Family Dollar, fern sperm, ferns, Gary Owen, Jenna Parks, Matt Siegfried, Music and Arts Guild, Native Americans, Party Busters, People's History of Ypsilanti, Pete Larson, potato chips, Ronnie Peterson, Ruth Ann Jamnick, Scooter, Sia, Slurpees, trickle down economics, Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners, Washtenaw Development Council, YACVB, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Ypsilanti Chamber of Commerce | 19 Comments

The fight over the Ypsi Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Annie Palmer, long forgotten local history, and tons more… on this weekend’s edition of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | April 9, 2015

I think we’ve got another good show lined up for you this weekend… We’ll start out with a little local controversy, talking with Debbie Locke-Daniel, the head of the Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (YACVB), about current attempts to defund her organization and hand over the task of marketing Ypsilanti to the Ann Arbor […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Alexis Ford, Annie Palmer, Dave Menzo, Debbie Locke-Daniel, Gregory McIntosh, Matt Siegfried, Patrick Elkins, Scotty Karate, untold history, YACVB, Ypsi History Minute, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau | 4 Comments

Exploring Ypsilanti’s place on the Underground Railroad: part one

By Mark | November 30, 2014

On the evening of December 1, our friend Matt Siegfried, who I interviewed here not too long ago about Ypsilanti’s Native American past, will be at the downtown branch of the Ypsilanti District Library, presenting his research on the role Ypsilantians played on the Underground Railroad. In hopes that it might inspire a few of […]

Posted in History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Abolitionism, African American Mysteries: Order of the Men of Oppression, AFSCME Local 1666, American history, Anti-Slavery Bugle, Artis, Asher Aray, Bernice Kersey, black settlements, blackface, Bound for Canaan, Brother Ray, Brown Chapel, Buxton, Canada, Chatham Convention, cigars, Civil War, desegregation, Detroit, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, escaped slaves, First Avenue, freedom, freedom fighters, George DeBaptiste, George McCoy, Harper’s Ferry, Hart Lodge #10, Herman Kersey, hidden cargo, Isa Stewart, Isaac Berry, James Birney, James H. Kersey, John Anderson, John Brown, John Rankin, Kersey, Lambert Lands, Levi Coffin, Liberator, Matt Siegfried, Missouri, misunderstanding American history, NAACP, Negro Folktales in Michigan, newspapers, obituaries, Ohio River Valley, oral history, Prince Hall Masons, race, reconstruction, refugees, revolution, Richard Glazier, Rolanda Kersey, runaway slaves, Second Avenue, Second Baptist, secret compartments, secret societies, Signal of Liberty, slave rebellion, slave trade, slavery, social reform, South Adams Street, South Adams Street School, Stephen Sullivan, Theron Kersey, UGRR, underground railroad, Virginia, Washington Hawkins, Weurth Theater, whitewashing, Wilbur Henry Siebert, William King, William Lambert, William Moore, William Munro, Wyandotte, Ypsilanti Commercial | 21 Comments

The Untold History of Ypsilanti: Our Native American Past

By Mark | April 21, 2014

As I mentioned a few days ago, two articles were recently brought to my attention (one from 1901, and the other from 1914) about the discovery of what appeared to be Native American remains on the property in downtown Ypsilanti we today call Water Street. Well, I followed up with the fellow who sent these […]

Posted in History, Michigan, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1600s, 1680, 1700s, 1800s, 1823, Abram B. Burnett, agricultural communities, Algonquian, archeology, Athens, beaver, Beaver Wars, Blue Jacket, burial grounds, burial mounds, burial tumuli, cemeteries, Chippewa, Concordia College, de La Salle, Delaware, dislocation, Edward King, epidemics, farming, forced removal, Ford Lake, Fort Recovery, French and Indian War, frontier, fur trading, Gabriel Godfroy, Georgian Bay, Gilbert Residence, Giwitatigweiasibi, glaciers, Hinsdale Atlas of Michigan Archaeology, Historic Preservation Act of 1966, Ho-Chunk, Hopewell Mound, human history, hunter gatherer, Huron River, Huron River Watershed Council, ice age, Indian, Iroquois, Joslin, King’s Flats, Lake Erie, Late Woodland period, Little Turtle, looting, Matthew Siegfried, Miami, Michigan Avenue, Michigan Pioneer Collection, middens, Nandewine Sippy, native american artifacts, Native Americans, nomadic, Northwest Indian War, Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, Odawa, Ohio River Valley, Ojibwe, oral history, Ottawa, Pontiac’s War, Potawatomi, reservations, Revolutionary War, Romaine La Chambre, Sauk, Sauk Trail, Serpent Mound, Shawnee, smallpox, South Huron, springs, Tecumseh, the British, the French, the history of white people, Three Fires, trading post, Treaty of Greenville, untold history, War of 1812, Washtenaw County, Water Street, westward expansion, Wilbert B. Hinsdale, Winnebago, Woodruff's Grove, Worden House, Wyandots | 47 Comments

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, […]