WASHTENAW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER· MARCH 2002 Upcoming Exhibits
President Pauline Walters and Collections Unitarian Church in Ann Arbo~ (now the offices Chair Judy Chrisman are already hard at work of architects Hobbs & Black). They are still preparing our next exhibits. From mid-April until looking for more, so if you wo~ ld like to LOAN OFFICERS the end of June, MoMs will be displaying us wedding artifacts, call 734-662-9092. wedding dresses and other paraphernalia The next exhibit will focus dn all the families PRESIDENT I Pauline V. Walters associated with weddings. It might surprise you who have resided in our building. MoMs was IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT to learn that the white wedding dress is a fairly moved from 1015 Wall S~t in f 990, and ho~~ed Susan Cee Wineberg recent custom: we have 19th c. dresses in brown the Kellogg, Ruthruff, Greruer ard Marz farruhes. VICE PRESIDENT and black! We have just received several dresses If you have any items relating to these families, from Janet Ferguson which belonged to her please ~ontact us! .This exhibitjwill be mounted TREASURER family, the Sunderlands, whose minister built the from rrud-July untrl the end of l eptember. Patricia W. Creal RECORDING SECRETARY Judith Chrisman CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Your Museum Carol A. Birch We like it that our members read our newsletter Group. Pauline Walters, Patty Creal, Judy DIREOORS and respond so quickly to our pleas for items. Chrisman have worked for Imonths to sort Ralph P. Beebe Thank you Art Gallagher for the cotton sheets through all these items and decide how to Rosemarion Blake Tom Freeman and Paul Olson for buying us a new ladder! We manage them. They should get the gold medal Ann DeFreytas appreciate your help. in the "Antique Olympics!" Richard Galant The Bach Bequest Committee has drawn up Continued on page 8. Julie Creal Goodridge Peggy Haines a list of guidelines for investment and will be Photo by Susan Wineberg Sue Kosky sending requests for proposals to eight local Bob Harrison and Karen K. O'Neal banks and investment fIrms. We hope we can Peter Rocco Dean Greb of Saline Jay Snyder soon announce that the large bequest from Doris taking apart a pipe Patricia E. Thompson Anna Bach is safely invested and that we can threader used by use the proceeds for much needed items for the plumbers. It was DIRECTOR·AT·LARGE museum. The antiques we received from the given to the Saline Harriet Birch Bach Estate have been appraised and some are Society by our own being accessioned into our collections. Gary Ann DeFreytas and came from herfamily's Kuehnle is selling other items on consignment farm in Northfield INFORMATION at his shop, The Chelsea Collection. Unwanted Township. Published Seven Times A Year items were donated to the Fairy Godmother From September·May. Susan Cee Wineberg, Editor I swines @umich.edu Aprill!rogram Museum On Main Street 500 N. Main Street at Beakes Street Mark you calendars Post Office Box 3336 Ann Arbor, MI 48106·3336 for Sunday, April 21 Phone: 734.662.9092 when Rachel Szymanski Fax 734.663.0039 will give a lecture and on Email: [email protected] Katherine McCormick Dexter, Web Site: www.hvcn.org/info/ gswc/society/socwashtenaw.htm granddaughter of Samuel Dexter, Annual dues are individual, $15; who founded the village of Dexter. couple/family $25; student or Photo by Susan Wineberg St. Joseph Catholic f hurch senior (60+) $10; senior couple $19; business/association $50; Agnes Dikeman and visitors 3450 Dover • Dexter, MI. patron $1 00. at the Saline Exhibit at MOMS. t WASHTENAW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY IMPRESSIONS MARCH 2002
BY JAMES T. MAYS • PARADE MARSHALL The Story Of The:BuRalo Soldiers
The sanctuary of the Bethel they organized tljIe 24th andil;te25th AME Church on John A. Woods Infantry. The ~th . was under the Drive was the setting for our leadership of Edward Hatch and program on Sunday, Febrnary 17 the 1 Olh was undr r C~l. Benjarrtin honoring Black History Month Grierson. , T~ 10th began in Over 50 people heard Jim Mays, Leavenworth a d the 9th began assisted by WCHS Board outside New Or eans, LA. Those MemberKarenSimpson,LuVem were the only t.1o black cavalry Mayweather, Joe Sims andJohn units. The two ihfantry units, the Collins-dressed in p eriod 24th and 25 th , flactuallY lasted costumes from the mid-19'ft through the K , rean War even century-discuss the history of though the AI my had been the Buffalo Soldiers. They are desegregated in 1947 by President members of The Washtenaw Truman. Con~ess claimed that County Buffalo Soldiers, a group since they hadl established the of about 20 people organized in units, the PreSident could not J992 . This group meets on the Photo by Susan Wineberg dese~egate the± and ittook quite 4'1, Saturday of every month at The Washtenaw County Buffalo Soldiers: John Collins, Joe Sims, Karen a :hile the mak9 that happen. The the Community Church of God Simpson, LuVern Mayweather and Jim Mays. 9 and ~e 1Qlh Ctvalry had already in Ypsilanti at 9:30. All are ' been dissolved ?ecause after the welcome to join. Learn more about this was a very humane thing. Blacks had Second World War I the need for g roup by visiting their website at always served in the armed forces during horsemanship had all but disappeared. In www. webs.org. or call Jim Mays at 734- time of war and it is estimated that over fact, the 1001 Cavalry is rlow the lOth Tank 662-9425. 180,000 blacks had served in the Civil War. Division, and members of the 10th Tank Over 35,000 blacks had given their lives stiB carry the Buffalo crest on their 'Thank you for having us today. It is fighting for the Union and an untold uniforms. . : our desire today to tell you some of OUR amount died for the South. After the war, "Where did the nami Buffalo Soldier story: you' ve heard lfiStory which from with all of the devastation in the South, came from? We knoVlf that the Plains our standpoint has not always been the newly freed slaves were allowed to Indians named them out of respect for their accurate. We're going to try to remedy earn large sums of money-$13/month- bravery in battle. The Iskin and hair of that and tell the story of our blacks in the to be in the anned forces. And they joined blacks reminded the Indians of the feared military from roughly 1866-1946. This up by the thousands! It was a great time, a and admired buffalo wtluch they hunted corresponds to the period just after the time ofhopefor a better life away from the for food and clothinJ. The troopers Civil War to the date when President threat of starvation as a sharecropper. accepted the name and wore it proudly, Truman integrated the anned services. [At "A monumentto the Buffalo Soldier was since to be associated with the fighting this point Mr. Mays began a Power Point unveiled in 1992 in Fort Leavenworth, spirit of the sacred buffaio was a measure slide presentation and also introduced Kansas, and was also depicted on a US of respect. I Karen Simpson, dressed as a pioneer postal stamp that year. In fact, our current What did the soldiers oo? They served woman from ca. 1870 who accompanied Secretary of State, Colin Powell, was on the frontier from M ~>ntana to Texas, their husbands or fiancees by wagon train responsible for having that statue erected. along the Rio Grande in New Mexico, to the Indian territories of the West. Karen He organized the Buffalo Soldier Project in Arizona, Colorado and the Dakotas. They talked a little about her outfit and about 1982. [Mays had to shed some of his gear built forts and roads, ~ trung telegraph black women who went West after the Civil and his wool jacket at this point and he lines, protected railroadl crews, escorted War]. pointed out how warm such a uniform stages and trains, protected settlers and "From St. Louis to the California coast would have been. He also talked about cattle drives and fought Cheyenne, and from Mexico to Canada, the U.S. West the history of the Washtenaw County Arapahoe, Kiowa,Comanche andApache was ripe for settlement after the Civil War Buffalo Soldiers and introduced the others, warriors. I and particularly after the Transcontinental including Lu Vern Mayweather, the current 'T d like to start telling you about some Railroad was finished in 1869. This was President]. of the heroes of the BuffaJo Soldiers. First where the Buffalo Soldiers, the black "My slides will show pictures of some is Emanuel Stance bo~ in Charleston, cavalry, were on patrol. In July of 1866 of the famous Buffalo Soldiers. Many men South Carolina. He was 19 in 1866 and he Congress allowed black men-for the fIrst joined from Michigan, and there were decided he could help hi~ family more by time in US history- to serve in the Army already two groups established-the 9th joining the Army. soiehow, Emanuel when the country was NOT at war. This and the 1Qlh Cavalry. Shortly thereafter Stance, who stood about f '2" and weighed • Page 2· WASHTENAW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY IMPRESSIONS MARCH 2002 about 119 pounds, made it from Charleston revealed after she was wounded and she h=om'n~p"", hi, .tng, however, to New Orleans to enlist in ~e 9th Cavalry. was dismissed in 1868. Cathay Williams is since he was asked to ridF with the niece Now that w~s not an easy feat in 1866. a role model for women and soldiers and of the general of the fort. 0ply a few months There were no trains or:buses, and United for people desiring independence. later he was discharged because of Airlines did not fly that direction. Emanuel "Another hero of the Buffalo soldiers is 'conductunbecoming an bfficer.' He was made it somehow, despite never having Henry O. Flipper, who was the fIrst black used as an example ofhow lblack men could worn a pair of shoes. He made it because officer in the Army having gone to West not be good soldiers! ~espite all this, he had that intestinal fortitude that said, "I Point for four years. His parents had been Flipper went on to becoFe an engineer can do better." He became a good soldier slaves 'in Georgia. His father was an and writer of books abouf the Southwest. and four years later recei ved the excellent leather worker and could make He died in Georgia arounq 1940 and about Congressional Medal of Honor for his shoes and repair harnesses and he had 3 ¥2 years ago President q:linton reversed bravery and his shooting ability. He almost received so many tips over the years that his court martial. J single handedly recaptured two young he was able to purchase his wife and "This photo from 194~ is of one of the white girls who had been taken from a young son, Henry, from another last black offIcers of the Buffalo Soldiers. wagon train by the Indians near Kickapoo slaveholder who was a Methodist minister. Springs, Texas in May of 1870. He was the They were still slaves, but now in Atlanta, ~~!:~::~:~: ~: a::te:~e~,U::~ ~~~ first black man ever to receive a and had a kindly owner who allowed the 'conduct unbecoming an pffIcer' because Congressional Medal of Honor. This was slave children to learn to read and write. he was carousing with ~ white woman. a great feat because his white commanding After the Civil War, when the AMA This woman was in the C~Ul1rOOm during officer hated his guts! (American Missionary Association) sent his court martial and tre prosecuting "The second person is someone I am northern teachers down South to teach beginning to love a lot. His name was Isaiah the newly freed slaves, Henry had a step ~~~%n~~r~~:rda~~tl~:; ~~~~~ . ~::~:;;:~ Mays and it tums out he is my great-great up on all the other children. He became a her rise. That caused sOTlle consternation uncle-someone I knew nothing about great student and graduated from Atlanta in the courtroom, and tfue man assured until I became active with the Buffalo High School and went on to Atlanta people that it was OK bf cause she was Soldiers six years ago! This young man College. From there he went to West Point his daughter. She was nolt white, but was also received a Congressional Medal of on a scholarship. He became one of the a light-complected black! The court martial Honor. You will notice a staron his label- very few blacks to have attended West it is this Medal of Honor. He is wearing a Point. In fact, he became the first black ~::t~fl~:r;t ~:\~:~~k~~::m~: suit to go back to Clayton, Alabama after man to graduate from West Point, and great American. He did ~ot stop because his service in the Army to again work on therefore the first black officer. He became they tried to make life hard for him. He the farm and help his aged father, my great- a 2n~ Lt. in the 1O lh Cavalry and he served at went on to become the t1r~t black man ever great-grandfather! He had thwarted a Fort Leavenworth, Fort Sill and others. He to play baseball in the major leagues. This robbery of the Fort Thomas' payroll in 1889 is known to have ridden over 90 miles in a was Jackie Robinson. There are a million and his bravery and heroism in going to day and a half to protect his army brothers. more stories like these in lthe military, but get help despite wounds in both legs led He was also a great horseman and sharp in the past were always told a slanted to his being given the Medal. young man and very handsome. His great version. I "Back in the 1870s, women could not be ''I'd like to sum up the kchievements of in the armed forces. However, LuVern the Buffalo Soldiers. The~e were 18 blacks Mayweather talked about Cathay that received the Congressional Medal of Williams, a woman Buffalo Soldier (381h Honor from 1866-1890. ~ that period there Infantry, Company A) born a slave near were some 130 (I may be wrong about this Independence, Missouri who decided to number) medals given lout. So blacks pose as a man to enter the Army. Her father received more than 10%?f all the Medals was a free black, but the master would not awarded and most have been well above grant freedom to her mother. Cathay average and were the i,orld's greatest enlisted at the age of24 as William Cathay soldiers. Look at the enlistment rate, the after aiding soldiers throughout the Civil desertion rate, the AWOrL rate, and you'll War as a cook and laundress. She was see the experiment provJd that the black later quoted about her enlistment as a man: man could become a great' soldier. The only 'I wanted to make my own living and not unfortunate result of their military service be dependent on relatives or friends.' Her (which we know of from black men who comrades didn't know she was a woman. have written diaries) waJ their sadness at Mayweather referred to a book by Philip helping take away the freedom 'from the Thomas Tucker entitled From Slave to Indians. As newly fre ~d from slavery Female Buffalo Soldier. She served in the Photo by Susan Wineberg themselves, they felt a special pang at 281h from 1866-68 at Fort Cummings, New This T-shirt tells the story of Cathay Williams, reducing the freedom of other oppressed Mexico, but her identity as a woman was a woman who enlisted as a man. peoples.
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"We have a few more people in the West we'd like to discuss. There was a movie Program entitled Tomahawk in 1951 with a man named Jim Beckworth played by an actor. Schedule 2002 I saw this movie when I was a kid and I discovered recently that he looked a little All programs are on th~' d Sunday of different from the actor. The real Jim the month, from 2-4, and e free and open Beckworth grew up in St. Louis,went out to the public. Light refres ents are often West, and he was black! In fact, if you served. Members receivla post card each were to travel west from Reno, Nevada month with more details nd maps of how into California, you'd be going through to reach the meetings. Beckworth Pass and he's the guy who discovered it! Jim Beckworth was a very 2~r strong, dominating person and the Indians SUNDAY • MARCH 2002 • 2 PM called him Chief Bloody Arm because of (note this is NOT the thz1d Sunday) his fighting exploits. Tammy Szatkowski 'till give us a tour "The next person we'll discuss is a of the Sindecuse Dental Museum, a scoundrel, and yes, there were black fascinating and overlookdd museum in the scoundrels in the West in that era, just like heart of the U-M campul See collections there are black scoundrels here in Ann of old toothpaste tins, tooth brushes, false Arbor today. But Ben Hodges is a colorful Photo by Susan Wineberg teeth and dentists' officeJ, much from the scoundrel. Ben got away with many things, . Hat worn by the Buffalo Soldiers with the collection of Dr. Ron an~ Maggie Berns. usually by pretending to be dumb. He buffalo insignia. The museum is in the lower level of the often would steal people's goods, sell them marshalls around and always treated WK. Kellogg Institute I(the old dental back to them, and escape before the people humanely. He worked for Judge school) at the comer of Fletcher and North duplicity was discovered! Harker, the "Hanging Judge." Bass went University. "Here is one of the best cowboys of the all over the Southwest and was a noted era-Nat Love (Deadwood Dick) who lawman. Another colorful character was SUNDAY • APRIL 21,2002 • 2 PM would be the Michael Jordan of cowboys Mary Fields (Stagecoach Mary), a big, Rachel Szymanski will speak on if he lived today. He reigned all over the tough woman who started a laundry and west, and there's a town in the Dakota Katherine Dexter M f Cormick, the was so powerful she was allowed into Territory called Deadwood (now South granddaughter of Samuel Dexter and saloons. No one messed with her. She hit I . Dakota) that was named after him because founder of the Village of Dexter. She IS an white men and lived to tell the tale! Another he could outshoot, outride, outrope IIIh grade student at DeJ ter High School character who was a great horseman was everybody around. After he was too old and won a prize for this pJoject. Katherine Isom Dart traveled throughout the to be punching cows he got a "good job" McCormick was active ~ n the women's Southwest and could break any horse as a Pullman porter. And that's the suffrage movement an~ birth control brought to him. One of the richest rrien difference 100 years makes. The best men movement led by Margaret Sanger. She from 1870-1890 was Henry O. Wagoner. in those days, to get a good job, had to also hired architect Pro ~. Emil Lorch to He owned hotels in Colorado and Nevada wait on others and fetch and carry for them. restore her grandfather'sl home, Gord?n and one called Ford's Inter-Ocean Hotel. Today, a Michael Jordan would not have Hall, and later donated it to the UnIVerSIty He used the name Ford to distance the to do something like that! So, there has hotel ownership from himself because of of Michigan. It was receAtly designated a been improvement. landmar~ prejudice against blacks. county historic and will be sold "Some blacks formed gangs, one of "There are towns out West that have by the University. St. JFseph Catholic which was the Rufus Buck Gang. They always been 100% black. Some wagon church, 3450 Dover, DeT er. were often people of mixed race (black, trains were integrated but towns were not. white, Indian) and they were mean and By the way, did you know that all cowboys WEDNESDAY • MAY 15,2002 vengeful. The photo shown on the screen were black? The 'boy' part gives this away, is of the group before their execution. 6PM I being a remnant of the plantation days. Annual Meeting and Potluck will be "The last bad guy we'll talk about is a HoJlywood introduced the concept of held in Ypsilanti at the Ladies Literary man named Cherokee BiD. He only lived white cowboys. Whites were to be 20, but at the age of 17 he started Club. cowpunchers or cattlemen, not cowboys. stealing and he shot more people than Billy Only blacks were cowboys. Of all the the Kid. cowpunchers, 30% were black. "Now to the good folk. Bass Reaves "And that's the Story of the Buffalo had two stints in the Army and then Soldiers! This is HIStory, history from our became a Marshall. He was said to be point of view." illiterate. But he was one of the best
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BY LOUIS WM. DOLL The 'Old Ladies Home Association
"When my family bought the house at boiler for heating the main building. Above 411 N. State St. in Ann Arbor and moved this was an apartment for the boiler there from Chelsea on July 5, 1922. we operator, care-taker, and janitor, all jobs . I found that the big house next door.on the veste d In one person-Mr. Jack Tann, a
north [419 N . State] was the Anna Botsford mul atto, who lived there WI' ith his wife. He Bach (pronounced Baw) Borne for Old was a friendly, cheerful and very useful Ladies. man. "The Old Ladies Home Association was "I remember one Christmas when the started sometime before 1909, for in that Phoebe Bea1 Circle of the King's Daughters year the Association purchased the large presented each of the residents with a house at 403 N. State St. on the northwest beautiful Jerusalem che~ plant. A few comer of State and Lawrence [one block days after Christmas, one of the residents I south]. After they left it in 1919, it was came over and gave us her plant. They made into apartments. I owned it from 1950 were apparently not very popular, for in until 1979. the next few days, one b~ one came over "In 1919 they purchased the property at to give us a plant until we had seven or 1 .~ ) ~ I rs l·~!-l . DOCaL 419 N. State on the SW comer of State and eight! I Kingsley Streets, the original St. Joseph's "I understood that a board of twenty -V.> L.~ _ Cb" F Mercy Hospital, and moved there. In 1922 Ann Arbor women governed the home. Louis Doll self-portrait, 1986. there were about 18 elderly women living They decided to enlarge the home by there. A few were bedridden, a few rarely building an addition. The coal for the As we reported in an earlier issue. Louis left their rooms, and the rest were very boilers came in over a bveway on the Wm Doll died in Bay City in October at active. They soon stopped to talk to me, west side of the house, while the entrance the age of 90. Doll was a longtime age eleven, and my two younger brothers, was on Kingsley St. They decided to build supporter ofth e WCHS and donated many ages nine and six. I ran errands for them the addition over the driveway. Soon, big family items. including a doll dubbed once in a while. trucks were corning doJ,n our driveway, "Miss Emily." which relate to the Doll. "On the south side of the big house turning into our back yard, unloading on Staffan and Beisselfamilies of Ann Arbor was a story and a half rectangular frame their property, and then backing out our and Chelsea. Doll, a trained historian, building on the spot now covered by the drive. It was a dangerous situation, as my kept an enthusiasm for local history alive garages. This housed on the first floor the brothers and I were accustomed to playing despite his 50-year residency in Bay City. I He penned three books on the beloved realm of his youth. which included a history ofS t. Thomas Parish. a history of the newspapers of Washtenaw County, and a biography of Chelsea 's most colorful citizen. Frank Porter Glazier. None of these accomplishments was enough to warrant a story in the Ann Arbor News, however! So Louisa Pieper, Grace Shackman. Pauline Wa lters. and myself paid to have his obituary run in the paper. Doll submitted many manuscripts to me during a correspondence we maintained for over ten years. Here is just one. to honor his memory and that ofD oris Anna Bach, another benefactor who also died last year and is a descendant of Anna :.~·',"·';,·~~i;~,i;::~~~~~~~~·.·.· ~ ·i~.:;. ; ·· Botsford Bach...... :. . r'" 7 ' • ..•. 419 N. State Street, drawing by Milt Ke~nitz in Ann Arbor Now and 7ihen, 1972.
. • Page 5· I WASHTENAW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY IMPRESSIONS MARCH 2002 with our friends in the back yard. My search for a new building, but in any case, Staebler family. Sgt. Mic el Logghe will mother came out on one occasion-my they purchased Dr. McKenzie's mansion talk on April 17 on "TrJe Crimes in the father was working-and told the driver in 1927 [1422 W Liberty which is the Anna History of -the Ann IArbor Police that it was our drive and that they couldn't Botsford Bach Home today]. The women Departmenf' and the fin~llecture will be use it. who were mobile were bitterly on April 24 by Ronald Harris of the Old "One of the board members was Agnes disappointed because they could no Westside German Methl,Odist Episcopal Finnell, an Ann Arbor real estate dealer. longer walk to the campus for lectures and Church. Her brother Edward married my father's concerts. They missed the liveliness of the The folks at Cobbl~tone Farm are sister, Mary Doll and so was well known busy comer as well, and watching the getting ready for spring and are trying to to my family. Agnes came to the door one scores of students on their way to and get ideas on how to diSCO~ rage birds from day and in a nasty tone of voice informed from class. nesting in the shutters. In the old days my mother that they had the right to use "Not long before they moved, the boiler the shutters were used a I, t but today they the driveway and that we couldn't stop house caught fire and was badly burned. don't get closed mudp and are too them. So we got the abstract and found 419 was sold and made into apartments, attractive to birds. Any l i~eas on a kind that Miss Morse, the builder of both and a new central heating system was put method of discouragement? The Family houses, had granted 419 the right to use in. The old boiler house was taken down Dance Series continues 09SlUlday, March the 411 driveway until either house was and garages and a driveway replaced it on 17 from 2-4:30. And mark your calendar sold. As she had sold both long before, the State St. side, taking up most of the for Friday, June 7, Whe~1 AAPS Middle the right had expired. former lawn. At one time the famous Mrs. Schoolers will hold a Civil War "So. we waited to see what would Rosa Luick owned it." Reenactment in Buhr Pari . The farm is at happen next. Another board member called 2781 Packard Road, 73~ .994.2928 and and informed us that the lot line ran down is owned and operated b)11the City of Ann the middle of our driveway and that would Arbor Parks Department. give them enough room to continue using Around Carol Mull, our speaKer in November it. My parents and Mr. and Mrs. Litteer (see the February 2b02 issue of who owned the propyrty adjoining the The Town Impressions), has beeJ appointed by Bach Home on the west on Kingsley, and Governor Engler to the Michigan Freedom who were also concerned about the truck The Kempf House is presenting another Trail Commission. Congiatulations are in drivers. offered to go shares in having the exciting group of noon lectures beginning order! I lots surveyed. This was promptly rejected March 6th • All lectures are held at noon at We'd also like to menti9n that our former by the board-they knew where the lot the house located at 312 S. Division. Corresponding Secretary, Harriet Wuerth line was. So the Litteers and my parents Parking is available at the public lot for the Birch, was fe atured in the January 2002 hired one of the best local surveyors to library. You are encouraged to bring your issue of the Old West Side News, which mark the line. We put up a pipe fence on lunch. but you must eat in the dining room ran a story about her grJndfather David the line that was exactly where we knew it only. The entry fee is $1.00 for members Allmendinger and his ~ouse at 719 W was. The board decided that our surveyor and $2.00 for non-members. The first :r~~~~;:~t~~P~:;ko~~~ ~:: didn't know his work, so they hired the lecture on March 6 is by Donna Lehman !:: county surveyor. They got a good shock who is an archives specialist at the Gerald thought to be 550 years bid. It was a sad and a lesson in manners when it was R. Ford Library. On March 13, Ken day when it had to comd down in 1909, discovered that they lost about a foot on Scheffel, the Field Rep of the Bentley and to assuage his ~ orrow David our side and half a foot on the west side. I Library, will talk about his work there. On Allmendinger saved wO ~d from the tree will never forget the hearty laugh my mother March 30, Dr. Howard Markel of the UM and made tables for each of his 13 children. and Mrs. Litteer had when they met after Medical School will speak on Dr. David Some of these tables and other getting the news. The Litteers put up a M. Cowie. who ran a hospital for over 40 Allmendinger items havd been displayed pipe fence on the county surveyor's line, years in the house just south of the Kempf at our Museum in the paft ' but we left ours in place. House. Cowie is world famous for his Anyone wanting to do genealogy work "So, the home was without a driveway promotion of the use of iodine in salt. at the LDS Library shoLld know that is to bring in the rest of the building materials On March 27, Mary Branch, the now at Huron Towers in the B Building and the coal for the boiler. One of the board founder of Willow Building Co., will speak that is for about six months while an members came very politely to us and on how her company has helped restore elevator is installed in Ithe Hill Street asked permission to use our drive until the some of Ann Arbor's older houses. On building. We'll keep YOl!l posted. Huron addition was completed. My parents gave April 3, Tom Dodd will speak on "Depot Towers is at 2200 Fuller d.across from the penrussion provided that the drivers would Towll Tales of Ypsilanti" and on April VA Hospital. I be very careful not to hit us. This building 10, Burnette Staebler will speak on her The UM Detroit O~servatory on blunder may have been the reason for their life in Ann Arbor since 1928 and the Thesday, March 12 at 3 PM will host W.
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Andrew Achenbaum speaking on "Aging earliest settlements at Three Oaks, Galien, the museum is also the city to .. ,.lIied by··. in 19''' Century America: The Elderly Niles, White Pigeon, Sturgis, Coldwater, the sqciety. Efforts to purchase both before the Age ofEntitlemtmt." The final Allen and Moscow, Saline, Ypsilanti and buildings in 2000 hav6 been postponed lecture this tenn will be by David Scobey Inkster (among others). Eventually, the until more funds can fue raised. Society on Thesday, April 9 at3 PM. He wjll speak entire Trail will be designated and President Joan Carpe~~r noted that they on "Impressions of the Nation: Print showcase the surviving inns, towers, and can now renovate the museum to its Technologies, Victorian Culture, and fonner coach stops of early Michigan. For original look and displ~y items that have American Nation Building." Open more infonnation, contact the Committee been in the basemen ~ for years. The houses will be held at the newly restored at 517-467-4414 (Walker Tavern VISitor museum is open 8 ~-noon Monday- 1854 Observatory on Thesdays, March 19 Center) or visit their website at Wednesday, 9AM-no
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The most pressing needs now are Ina Hanel attended the NEW Center's storage shelving for collections to be session on introductory web page design housed at the museum. Judy Chrisman, using Dreamweaver last November. She We are still greatly in who recently retired from her day job, will is very grateful to the folks there for the to plan our programs next year. We be getting a state-of-the- art system as well scholarship she received for their know it is hard to Louisa Pieper as a digital camera to document all our items Nonprofit Enterprise at Work's fall 200 1 love finding for inventory and insurance purposes. "Managing for Nonprofit Excellence interesting programs as as she does. Judy reports the accession of a wonderful Workshop." These workshops are funded If that person is you, please contact antique clothes rack from Marion Marzolf. by MACAA, the Junior League of Ann President Pauline at 734-662- This will be very handy for displaying items Arbor, the City of Ann Arbor, and 9092, who suggests and we are very grateful to Marion. Washtenaw County. The purpose of NEW for a team to tackle. Other pressing needs are being addressed is to "enhance the quality of life in by architect Ilene 1Yler and builder Joe Washtenaw County by promoting Majorana, who have met with Pauline leadership development, management Walters to discuss insulating the attic and excellence, and effective service delivery Business shoring up the second floor to allow for within the nonprofit sector." For more the storage of heavy filing cabinets. They information contact Andrea Grover at are also dealing with our door and [email protected] or call 734-998-0160. hardware problems and seem to have found a simple solution. Hooray! of Ann Arbor
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