By Mark | November 25, 2020
A few years ago, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written the year before. And, ever since then, I’ve been posting the same damn thing. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them […]
Posted in Mark's Life | Also tagged AT&T, Charles Maynard, Cross Street Station, Dan Richardson, family history, Kentucky, Linette, Matt Krizowsky, Monticello, New Jersey, OCD, Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Sarah Palin, tea party, Thanksgiving, Tom DeLay, Vietnam, Ward Tomich |
By Mark | December 18, 2019
The Starkweather Chapel in Ypsilanti’s Highland Cemetery, for those of you who may not have noticed, has been undergoing some much needed renovation work this past year. Here, with more on the history of the building, and the preservation work that’s been done thus far, is a conversation I just had with lifelong Ypsilanti resident […]
Posted in History, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1841, 1883, Ainsworth Mill, animal infestation, Barry LaRue, Battle of Bunker Hill, Beezy's, big death, Bill French, coffins, Daniel Quirk, DTE, Ebay, Elijah McCoy, EMU, funerals, George McCoy, grave digging, Greek Revival, Highland Cemetery, Historic District Commission, historic places, historic preservation, Historic Preservation Office, home funerals, Huron River, J.E. Moore’s Furniture Store, Jasper Pennington, John D. Pierce, John Starkweather, Mack & Mack Furniture Store, Mary Ann Starkweather, Mason & Rice, memorial services, Normal College, Old Ypsilanti, oral history, plaster, Playboy, pornography, Prospect Cemetery, Prospect park, public art, public education, renovations, solar power, SPARK East, stained glass, Starkweather Chapel, Starkweather Hall, Starkweather House, State Historic Preservation Office, Stevens T. Mason, the funeral industry, underground railroad, Walter Loomis Newberry, water fountains, winter receiving vault, Ypsi history, Ypsi Solar, Ypsilanti Public Library |
By Mark | November 27, 2019
A few years ago, I made the decision not to write anything new for Thanksgiving, but, instead, to recycle something that I’d written the year before. And, ever since then, I’ve been posting the same damn thing. Well, here it is again. I was tempted to remove some of the old references, and replace them […]
Posted in Mark's Life | Also tagged Charles Maynard, Clementine, Cross Street Station, Dan Richardson, family history, friends, Kentucky, Linette Lao, Matt Krizowsky, money laundering, Monticello, OCD, Sarah Palin, tea party, Thanksgiving, Tom DeLay, turkey-mosquito hybrid, Vietnam War, War on Thanksgiving, Ward Tomich |
By Mark | February 11, 2019
Over the past several years, we’ve seen a number of instances in which fake news stories, having been seeded through bots by entities that want to stoke the fires of racial animus and political tribalism in the United States, have spread like wildfire across the internet thanks to real people, who, it would seem, care […]
By Mark | November 14, 2018
Heading into the last election, I didn’t pay a lot of attention to local races. I, of course, did my research on the local candidates and ballot initiatives that I’d be voting on, but, for the most part, I focused on national races, trying, as best I could, to help the Democrats take back the […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Uncategorized | Also tagged affordable housing, Alan Haber, Ann Arbor Central Park Ballot Committee., Ann Arbor City Council, Ann Arbor Public Library, anti-growth, Core Spaces, density, economic development, Fifth Avenue, Jessica Letaw, Library Lot, Linh Song, Mary Jo Callan, parking lots, parks, Proposal A, public education, public space, Saturday Six Pack, segregation, social mobility, Urban Park and Civic Center Commons, urban parks, Voters for a Responsible Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Washtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Development, Water Street Commons, wealth inequality, Will Hathaway |