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Washtenaw Impressions -~!I..:'~" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ii'" WASHTENAW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY· Founded December 17, 1857 MAY 1984 9(~'~ ~( WASHTENAW IMPRESSIONS COBBLESTONE FARM WCHS 1984 BUS TOUR SATURDAY; JUNE 16, WILL VISIT _ SUMMER EVENTS CRANBROOK ART ACADEMY FOR A DAY WITH THE MUSES Cobblestone Farm, 2781 Pack­ A day with the muses at Cran- Elementary, Cran. brook Institute of ard Road, is open noon-5 p.m. week­ brook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Science, Christ Church Cranbrook ends and holidays May through Hills is in store for all attending the (Episcopal) and Cranbrook House, October. Free admission to WCHS WCHS 1984 bus tour Saturday, June the former Booth home, all in a members with membership card. 16. setting of lake, hills, trees, gardens, Special events include Cobble­ Flora Burt, a WCHS life fountains and sculptures. (The stone Farm Association's Spring member and alumna of Cranbrook, Booths had 18 gardeners). Festival 1-5 p.m. Sunday, May 20. has arranged a tour and box lunch The Booth home, designed by Folk music festival, Sunday, on the grounds of the}OO-acre Albert Kahn, and the church are June 24. educational community founded by English style. Most of the other First person re-enactment of the late Detroit News publisher, buildings are Art Deco by Saarinen. Ann Arbor's first Independence Day George Gough Booth, and his wife, Bus boarding at 8:45 a.m. at celebration of 1824 on July 4 with Ellen Scripps Booth, daughter of the Maple Village Shopping Center, ice cream social, children's games. paper's founder. , Maple Road just north of Jackson Civil War encampment, July The Booths invited Finnish Road, Ann Arbor. Return by 5 p.m. 14-15,with a behind-the-lines hospi­ Architect ElierSaarinen fo move The tour package will cost $25 tal scene. there, with his family, in 1924 to per person. Prepaid reservations Harvest Fair, August 26, co­ develop the academy. Saarinen due by Friday, June 8 to Mrs. sther sponsored by Project Grow and the brought the already famous Warzynski, 1520 Martha, Ann Arbor, City of Ann Arbor, farm owner. Swedish sculptor and pupil of M148103. Questions? Call 662-6275 TEDDY BEAR PARTY SET Rodin, Carl Milles (who did the U- or 663-8826. JUNE 2 AT KEMPF HOUSE M's Michigan League fountain). The only available bus is Ann Arbor harmonica virtuoso, Cranbrook includes the art smaller than last year. To be sure of Peter "Madcat" Ruth, will play at a academy, Cranbrook and Kin~s- a seat, please reserve early. Teddy bear party 2-4 p.m. Satur­ wood (High) Schools, Brookside day June 2 at Kempf House, spon­ IVAN PARKER TO DISCUSS 'THE HENRY FORD SCHOOLS sor~d by th~ Washtenaw Council AS I KNEW THEM' AT WCHS ANNUAL MEETING MAY 23 for the Arts. Visitors to GreenTlelO village hired by Ford on a handshake in Adults, children and favorite seeing the one-room schools Henry 1934. He taught in Willow Run and bears invited. Tours, exhibits of Ford attended may not realize that Macon Schools and served as prin- Teddy bears, raffle, refreshments. they and others were actually cipal at Macon and Greenfield Ruth program at 3 p.m. will include operated ey him as private school.s. Village until 1947, the year Ford bird whistles, animal sounds and Ivan Parker, a teacher and prln- died. "The Bear Went Over The Moun­ cipal in the Ford schools for 13 Please bring your own table , tain." Admission donation. years, will talk about "The Henry service and a dish to pass serving 8- Ford Schools As I Knew Th~m" at 10 persons. Beverages will be the WCHS annual potluck dmner provided. Election of.officers and .k~H~~ meeting at 6:30 p.m.Wednesd~y, business meeting also planned. The COLUMNIST WILL SPEAK May 23, at the Ann Arbor American ' meeting is free, open to public. ON MEDICAL GENEALOGY Legion. Questions? Call 663-5281 or 663- Virginia Block, writer of "Heri­ A U-M financial aid officer for 8826. tage Hunt" column in the Oakland 32years, now retired, Parker was Detroit Free Press will talk about WYSTAN' STEVENS HEADS SLATE OF WCHS NOMI,NEES "Genealogy from a Medical Point of Besides electing officers and be immediate past president. View" at the Genealogy Society of directors at the annual meeting May David Braun, Elizabeth Dus­ Washtenaw County meeting at 1:30 23, WCHS members will be asked t9 seau, Cal Foster and Johanna p.m. Sunday, May 20, in Hale Audi­ vote on a bylaws revision to raise Wiese were nominated to three-year torium of the U-M School of Busi­ the quorum for general meetings to terIJls on the board and Lucille ness Administration. Officers also "10 percent of the membership but Fisher and Doris Bailey to one-year will be elected. not less than 20 persons." . terms vacated by Pat Dufek and PARK TO GET MARKER The nominating committee has Mrs. Warzynski. Ypsiianti'sHistoric East Side nominated Wystan Stevens for Concern was expressed that a Association has raised $1,450 for a president; Esther Warzynski, vice­ five-percent quorum as adopted in state historical marker for Prospect president; Alice Ziegler, recording the newly revised by-laws was too Park which they hope to have secretary; Karen Murphy, low. The board voted to present the erected by the end of summer. corresponding secretary; and Peter . above proposal for a vote. , They're working on the text now. Rocco, treasurer. Patricia Austin will ~ FORD COUNTRY: FROM THE GLASS HOUSE TO THE INNER CITY sell. So he built a replica." David L. Lewis, U-M professor The museum has an outstand­ of business history, took the WCHS ing transportation exhibit inciuding April audience on a slide tour of more than 180 cars. Most notable, "Ford Country" when Professor perhaps, are Henry Ford's first car, ;' .George S. May had to cancel his the 1896 quadricycle, and the "999," I talk. the world's most famous racing car, Professor Lewis, author of The in which Henry Ford set a world Public Image of Henry Ford, showed r~cord of 91 miles an hour in 1904 familiar and not-so-familiar Ford and Barney Oldfield gained fame as sites in the Dearborn-Detroit area the world's leading racing driver. Henry and Clara Ford's "Honeymoon and posed his favorite question: House" as It looks today, minus 19th century There are also personal Ford "Where is Henry Ford buried?" Most wraparound porch, inatchlng railings around family cars including Clara's people don't know. top and bottom roof line. electric and Henry's last car, a 1942 The show started with the big tained Mr. Ford's perspnal V-B. "Ford" sign along 1-94 and the Ford laboratory where he liked to repair The garage where Ford built his World Headquarters Building (the watches. first car is in the Village. One of the Glass House), visible from the Tne powerhouse generators two doors is wider than the other. expressway and "almost any part of have been restored. The power­ When neither was wide enough to Dearborn." house is connected to the mansion get the car out, Henry widened the It itlcluded scenes of Henry by a 300 foot tunnel you can walk right one with an axe. Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, through on aSt~inday afternoon tour. The building was removed from the River Rouge and Highland Park Henry Ford died April 7, 1947, at 58 Bagley Avenue in downtown plants, of course, and Fairlane Fairlane. Someone in the audience Detroit n the 1920's. That site today mansion but also showed obscure, . reminded that the Rouge was is covered with a huge office build­ crumbling former Ford homes in flooded and the electricity off so ing and indoor parking structure. Detroit's inner city. that Ford died as he had come into There was a plaque, stolen in 1977, "A dining room and six bed­ the world, by candlelight. affirming it as the birthplace of the rooms for top executives are in the At the time of his death, the first Ford car. penthouse on the top floor of the company couldn't locate a Lincoln In the Village is Thomas Glass House. About a mile south is hearse, so a Packard (preferable to Edison's Menlo Park, New Jersey the former Ford Division head­ a GM Cadillac) carried Ford's body laboratory in which Edison created quarters, now Ford's N'orth to his grave, Lewis noted. the electric light bulb and the American Automotive operations Lewis's students and phonograph. headq uarters. audiences usually think Henry Ford In 1929, in commemoration of "Across and down the street is buried in Greenfield Village or the 50th anniversary of the event, from World Headquarters is the Fairlane. Actually, he is buried in the Edison re-enacted the invention of Henry Ford Centennial Library, built old Ford Family Cemetery on Joy the light bulb there. Henry Ford to commemorate the 100th Road, jus,t west of Greenfield, in immediately nailed Edison's chair to anniversary of Ford's birth (July 30, what is now Detroit. the floor. 1863) and opened in 1969. In 1947 it was open farm land. In the Village are actual homes "In front of the library is a life­ Henry and Clara Ford's graves are of Orville and Wilbur Wright, size statue of Henry Ford, one of covered with iron grillwork. For removed from Dayton, Ohio, and only two in the world, the other years, watchmen guarded the grave Noah Webster's from Connecticut. being in front of Ford of England's around the clock, for it was feared Webster compiled America's first plant." grave robbers might act on rumors dictionary.
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