IMPRESSIONS WASHTENAW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWSLETTER • MAY 2001

. BY LOUIS WM. DOLL The House At 411 N. State

the corner of and Kingsley Streets. She hadjust OFFICERS come from the fanner's market and had purchased a bushel of PRESIDENT Pauline V. Walters apples, which were drawn in a cart by a boy my own age The IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT apple cart had overturned at Susan Cee Wineberg Diroff's (now the site of VICE PRESIDENT Zingerman's) just as I came Virginia Hills along and she asked my name TREASURER and if I wouldn't help the Tice Patricia W. Creal boy who was pulling the cart. I RECORDING SECRETARY discovered that she lived across Judith Chrisman the street in a decrepit old house at 418 N. State. She fascinated CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Photo: Susan Wineberg me right from the start! I visited 411 N. State, once the home of playwright Arthur Miller. her often to hear her tell of Ann DIREaORS AIbor and its history. I learned Rosemarion Blake Doll's family lived on North State in the about the houses she had owned and told the Ann DeFreytas 1920s-1950s. The famous playwright Arthur dates of construction. I was only a child and Julie Creal Goodridge Miller lived in this house in 1936-38 while a only remembered the date of our house since it Peggy Haines student at UM. In his book Tunebends, Miller was same year as my father's birth, 1877 [This Pamela Newhouse described the Dolls as "a family of giants, is actually the date Miss Morse sold the house. Karen K. O'Neal It was probably built ca. 1860]. Peter Rocco bending over to pass through the doorways of Karen Simpson their tiny nineteenth-century Midwest house. " Not long after we moved in, we had three Jay Snyder Doll now lives in BayCity but keeps his avid student rooms built in the large attic. In each Patricia E. Thompson interest in Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County room were two beds and we rented them for Esther Warzynski alivel Continued on page 4 DIREaORS·AT·LARGE My family bought the house at 411 N. State and we moved there from Chelsea on July 5, Ralph P. Beebe 1922. I was not quite eleven. This was one of May Program Tom Freeman the houses purchased in the 1870s by Miss Ellen Scott Jacob Morse for students. It had crudely been made Our May Program is our Annual over into four two-room light housekeeping Meeting, Election of Officers and Potluck, apartments. There were several rooms left for to be held on Wednesday, May Wh at the INFORMATION the use of the family. It is an example of the Webster Church in Webster Township. Our speaker will be Willah Weddon, a former Published Seven Times A Year housing shortage and crowded conditions in From September.May. Ann Arbor at that date, that these journalist and member of the Capitol Press Susan Cee Wineberg, Editor accommodations were eagerly sought at $10.00 Corps. Ms. Weddon has written about the [email protected] a week, and there were no vacancies. There First Ladies ofMichigan and has published Museum On Main Street four books on the First Families of 500 N. Main Street at Beakes Street was a little stove for cooking and all occupants Post Office Box 3336 used the common icebox on the back porch. In . She has won many awards for Ann Arbor, Mich. 48106·3336 the winter, the window box was used. There her publications. Please bring a dish to Phone: 734.662.9092 was only one complete bathroom on the second pass tllat will selVe 8 people. We will supply Fax 734.663.0039 floor in the rear and a single toilet in a tiny plates and eating utensils of the plastic sort. Email: [email protected] closet under the front stairs. Ifyou want the good stuff, bring your own! Web Site: www.hvcn.org/info/gswc/ Beverages will also be supplied. society/socwashtenaw.htm I first met Miss Morse on an autumn day on WASHTENAW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY IMPRESSIONS MAY 2001

DR. PATRICIA WHITESELL, DIRECTOR A Tour Of The Detroit Observatory

On Sunday. April 2]"1, Director and model; Henry Walker, Detroit railroad Curator Patricia ("Sandy'') Whitesel~ man, who (with others) bankrolled the assisted by Program Coordinator Karen project (hence the name Detroit Woolams and docents John Dodds and Observatory); Walker's business interests Ed Krasny, hosted a group of35 people which required accurate timekeeping; for a historical tour of the 1854 Detroit discussions of the various telescopes, Observatory. In deference to Dr. clocks and their makers; portraits and Whitesell:S request to respect Alice biographies ofRichard Harrison Bull, the Ziegler; this talk was not tape-recorded. architect, Franz Brunnow, the first It was written up in the February 1999 Director of the Observatory, and JC Impressions by Alice, and was one afthe Watson the next director; old photos of last pieces she wrote. the many phases of tIle building(s); and various stages of the renovation work done Dr. Whitesell began by explaining how by local preservation architects Quinn! the Observatory developed over time, was Evans. expanded several times, and then Some interesting facts about the Detroit threatened with demolition in 1976. Observatory are noted in their handout. Preservationists in Ann Arbor were able It was the first observatory established in to save the original building but it the state of Michigan and the second only languished for almost 20 years while an Photo by Susan Wineberg to the Cincinnati Observatory (1843) in appropriate use for it could be fOUIld It Henry Phillip Tappan, UM's first president and tIle Midwest. It is the second oldest extant buiider of the Observatory. was at the urging of then UM President building at the James Duderstadt and his wife Anne, that furnishings or replace those that were and the oldest building on campus in a request was made to Dr. Homer Neal missing, and restore the original unaltered form. The first Director, who asked Sandy to write a proposal in instruments. Sandy oversaw the Berliner Franz Brunnow, was the first 1993 to restore the Observatory as a restoration and was named director in faculty member to hold the Ph.D. It is the museum. A private donor supplied the 1998. She has also published a book most important physical legacy of the $1.4 million that was needed to restore entitIedA Creation ofHis Own: Tappan's University's early scientific preeminence the building, refurbish original Detroit Observatory (UM Press, 1998). and was the training ground for many Today, our Detroit Observatory is the oldest extant observatory in America to retain its original telescopes in working condition in their original mounts. The Observatory is open to the public only 2 days a month during special open houses. These average about 15 visitors, who come to see the Observatory and also the Museum for the Study of 19th century Science and Technology. With the addition of a new award-winning website which is a virtual museum (www.DetroitObservatory.umich.edu). the museum is attracting more people all the time. What is still needed is $3 million for an endowment to keep the Observatory functioning and open more often. Slides were shown covering the early . Cropsey drawings done in the 1850s; President Tappan and his prominence in Photo by Susan Wineberg higher education and his creation of the Photo by Susan Wineberg Detroit Observatory·1854 research university based on the Prussian "Sandy" Whitesell, Observatory Director, speaks about the restoration

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House Update

Karen O'Neal is excited about the new outdoor lights recently installed along the fence on Main Street by Teri Jefferson and Joe Majorana. Come down and see for yourself. The house looks especially good at night when the lights are on. Work is also proceeding on repairing our fence, getting new signs, and installing a French drain to take care of the perennial drainage problem. We also had to have a new sump pump installed when the electricians noticed the old one was smoking! Never a dull moment at MoMS! Pat Thompson, our avid gardener, has been busy planting pansies around the Photo by Susan Wineberg trees in the extension. She recently won Board Member Carol Birch finds rotating the a grant of $150 from the Master dome a snap. Gardner Alumni Association. It will be prominent astronomers of the 19th century. used to purchase historic looking plant In fact, it is here that 21 asteroids (minor ID tags. Pat hopes that our members will planets) and two comets were discovered! be able to donate 3 fern stands and some The Observatory was also the home of the blue and white jardinieres (for 10" wide first scholarly journal published by the and 14" wide plants) to use for the Photo by Susan Wineberg University (Astronomical Notices by houseplants. They look so much better New lights shine brightly at the Museum's entrance. Brunnow) and was the site where the in a proper container.. longitude of Ann Arbor was first established in 1861. And, it is the repository of the oldest, large objective telescope lens made by Henry Fitz that has not been reground, as well as the home of the 1854 Pistor and Martins meridian Historic Travel circle telescope, the oldest intact We Are Winners! instrument of its type in America. th Has A Web Site On April 27 , the Michigan Historic The 1854 brick structure, built in the Preservation Network presented the Greek Revival and ltalianate styles, which Looking for tips to guide you to historic WCBS with a 2001 Community Award. was stuccoed and scored to resemble a places worldwide? Look no more. David these awards are given at the Annual stone Greek temple, was placed on the Keene, an anthropologist and historic Meeting oftlle Network, which was held National Register of Historic Places in 'preservationist for 20 years, is president in Detroit. They recognize outstanding 1973. It is one of the most perfectly of travelthepastcom. Witll this website, rehabilitation projects that have made a preserved scientific buildings of its era. you can search a database by theme, time significant contribution to the The Observatory will be open period, and state. Tourists can read preservation of Michigan's heritage. We Wednesdays May 2, 3-5 PM, May 23, briefings on hundreds of historic places, are to be congratulated! 11 AM-2PM, and June 13, 3-5 PM. It including directions, fees and phone The award is tlle result of a nomination will also be open Tuesday June 26, from numbers. The site includes an affiliate made by former board member Caroline 11 am-2 PM. It is closed in July and section, bed and breakfasts, and lists of Mohai. Immediate Past President (and August. Call (734) 763-2230 for more endangered landmarks. Later this year, your editor) Susan Wineberg will be information. the site will introduce a mapping and trip­ accepted the award on behalf of the planner section. They hope to encourage society. This award recognizes our nine heritage tourism and stimulate local years of hard work in moving and communities to preserve the treasures restoring the Kellogg-Warden House as a they have around them. Check it out! local historical museum.

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The House At 411 N. State'

Continued from page 1. downstairs rooms but stopped with the there. There were also day laborers and $2.50 a week. My oldest brother Jim lived two parlors when Mr. Kearney became members of the great unwashed, wh<;> had in the one on the south side. Arthur ill. They placed his bed in the back parlor to be instructed on how to wash the'ring Miller, the now famous American where he died. They did not want to out of tlle tub after a bath. There were playwright., lived with a roommate on the disturb him by laying the floor. Anny officers, plumbers, a few elderly north side. How long this house remained By 1940 we were arranging the otller single women, gamblers, superstitious iIi Miss Morse's possession I do not know. apartments by adding better toilet and people, petty crooks, one attempted In 1877, she sold it to Ambrose Kearney kitchen facilities and then the war came suicide and one set of shoplifters. There and family. He was one of the most and put an end to everything. I left for were two young couples who lived in the prosperous grocery merchants in Ann service in 1942. After I completed a course downstairs apartment and the front one Arbor. He made the house over into a in Japanese, I signed up to join the upstairs. The husbands had good jobs. very magnificent Victorian home, vestiges Occupation of Japan. There I met three One day the sheriff knocked on the door of which were still apparent in 1922. He men who had boarded in our house as with a search warrant for their apartments. lived in the house until 1892 and died students in the 1930s! My brother and I My surprised mother got they keys and around 1908. [Editor's note: The had corresponded with them, but it had let the sheriff in. Inventory disclosed that Kearneys also lived around the corner at ended in 1937. All had secondary but in each apartment were shoplifted goods 60 I Lawrence and the yards of these two important positions in Japan during tlle to the value of $3,000 consisting of properties intersect]. war. I have written a book on my nunlerous bolts of clolli and women and In the backyard there was a two-car experiences in Japan, but it has not yet children's clotlling of every kind! garage, which was converted from a been published. somewhat decrepit stable [it is still In 1944 my mother died and in 1948 standing]. This had apparently been built father remarried. His new wife thought when Mr. Kearney bought the house. The they ought to have more income from that How To Join northern half stabled the horses while the big house so she embarked on an southern half had the carriage. In this expensive project creating as much as the Send name, address and phone section was a stairway leading to the house as she could into rental space, in number willi check payable to WCHS hayloft. On the wall beside the stairway the process coming into constant conflict to: Treasurer, WCHS, POBox 3336, was a name written in block letters about with the Ann Arbor building code. Ann Arbor, M1 48106-3336. Annual one in high: Clinton Ambrose Devies There was one telephone for the whole dues are individual, $15; couple/family Firestone. house. It was located on a shelf in the $25; student or senior (60+) $10; senior I learned then that a member of the first floor hall. It was the stand-up type couple $19; business/association $50; Kearney family, probably Ambrose's ('candlestick") and you had to call tlle patron $100. For information call (734) daughter, had married a Firestone. As operator to place a call. Our number was 662-9092 or e-mail us at WCHS there were many Firestones who attended 4742 before the dial system was [email protected]. the University of Michigan, this must be introduced. how the romance developed. Clinton was It should be noted that the house at 403 apparently a younger visitor who was N. State was the original location of the experimenting with a birthday or Anna Botsford Bach Old Ladies Home. Around Christmas present. After the horses were The big house to the north was the first gone, the hayloft was used for storage, and St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, given to tlle The Town at one time by brother Jim, in play Sisters (Nuns) by Miss Morse, and used production, had over 700 costumes stored by the Anna Botsford Bach organization Cobblestone Farm is asking for vol­ there on racks. My other brothers used it after the new hospital was built unteers for a new Historic District Study for rainy day play. During the 20 years it was my home, a Committee. In 1982, a group of vol un­ The rental business held up until 1930, procession of tenants representing Ann teers produced "Preservation for Cobble­ and by then the Crash (Depression) was Arbor society came through. Of course stone Farm: Report of the Cobblestone the most famous was Arthur Miller from felt everywhere. Not a single apartment Farm Historic District Study Commit­ or student room was rented. In 1936, 1936-1938. One student became a tee. " It is time to revise this Master Plan. economic conditions improved so that we professor at Michigan State University. The Cobblestone Farm Association would could afford to live more comfortably. We Another became a Professor of like to start by late summer or early fall. moved the flimsy partition in the back Mathematics at one of the larger parlor and laid new hardwood floors in universities. Others graduated in music, If you are interested in serving on this both parlors. A visitor who came along forestry, teaching and many other fields committee, please call George Taylor at at thai time told us that the Kearneyfarnily of academe. Because of the hospitals, 734-434-4753 or e-mail him at was laying hardwood floors in the every kind of medical technician lived [email protected] • Page 4' WASHTENAW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY IMPRESSIONS MAY 2001

Around The Area Future Programs

Detroit is 300 years old this summer Hoosen Farm presents Downtown Saturday • June 2nd and many celebrations are planned. Look Rochester Walking Tours-Just for 8:30 AM·5:00 PM forthe Tall Ships in July and many events Ewe! The tour will include seeing the Our Annual Bus Tour will visit at Fort Wayne. Preservation Wayne display of decorated fiberglass sheep. Cranbrook inCluding Saarinen House celebrates 300 years of Detroit every Tours are from 7-8:30 PM on Thursday and tlle Museum. The cost will be Saturday from May 5th-October 27th with June 14th and August 16th• Tickets are Art $60.00 and will cover the bus, the tour walking tours of five historic districts. $3. Call 248-608-8198 to make required and a lunch. Reservations must be made Thurs will be given of the Downtown, reservations. th by May 28 • Some walking will be Eastern Market, Midtown, Auto The Troy Museum continues its lecture required. Heritage (Model T Factory at Piquette) series with From Durantto Ford: Names and New Center Areas. Tickets are $151 and Faces in the Motor City on Tuesday person, with discounts for PW members June 1911> at 7:30 PM. Admission is free Sunday • September 16th and students. Tours are limited to 25 but donations are welcome. Call 248-524- 2:00 PM people. Call 313-577-3559 to make 3570 to make reservations. Louisa Pieper has been busy! We are reservations or visit their website at Meadow Brook Hall Concours already confirmed for this date for a tour preservationwayne.org. d'Elegance is scheduled for Sunday, of the Rentschler Farm in Saline. th Wayne State University's College of August 5 . Seen as one of the world's Wayne Clements will be the speaker. Urban L a bor and Metro Affairs most spectacular international Louisa is planning future programs (CULMA) will explore the value of celebrations of the automobile, it has based on the theme "Focus on the historic preservation through a series of attracted 20,000 people! There is a golf County." We hope to go to the Hack lectures in May and June. The Van Dusen event, race and fashion show and art House in Milan, The Dexter Train Urban Forum Lunch series will feature auction. Admission is $20 for adults and Musemn, and the restored buildings in Alexander Garvin on Thursday, May $10 for children. Call 248-370-3140 or Webster Township. Louisa will report on th 10 , Donovan Rypkema on Thursday visit their web page at tlllS at tlle Annual Meeting. th May 24 , Jane Brooks on Thursday www.mbhconcours.org. May 31't, and Sta nley Lowe on Marshall, Michigan has already Thursday June 7th. Call 313-577-5071. announced the date of its 38th Annual The Historic Indian Village 2001 Historic Home Tour. It will be Saturday Help Park Home and Garden Tour returns this year and Sunday September 8th and 9th and on Saturday June 2nd from 9-5. Ten will include 15 structures including eight Cars elegant homes will be featured that date private houses, dating from 1844-1920. from 1895-1929 and were designed by Advance tickets may be purchased from During Art such architects as Albert Kahn and Louis the historical society by calling 616-781- Kamper, with contributions by Pewabic 5163. Fair Pottery and Jens Jensen. Tickets are $12 Tecumseh, in Lenawee County, (advance) and$15. Call 313-924-389lfor presents its 26th Annual Home Tour and TCF Bank is once again loaning information. Promenade Tecumseh on Saturday and us tlleir parking lot during Art Fair The 15th Annual Corktown Historic Sunday May 19th and 20th . The tour will so tllat we can raise money by parking Home and Garden Tour will be held on feature six houses and a designer house. cars after banking hours: 5:30 to rd Sunday June 3 . It is a self-guided tour Tickets are $10 (advance) and $12. Call 8:30 PM; Saturday 8:00 AM to 4:00 beginning at Holy Trinity Church at noon. 517-423-3740. Tecumseh is also PM. We need YOU to help park It will be one of the largest ever held in displaying a Smithsonian Institute cars July 18-21. Call Pauline at 734- this neighborhood. Tickets are $10 Traveling Exhibit entitled "Yesterdavs 662-9092 to sign up. Work with a (advance) and $12.50. Call 313-962- Tomorrows: Past Visions ofan American buddy. You do not have to drive the 5660. Future." You can take a virtual tour at cars, just collect the money as they The 8 th Annual Mount Clemens www.historictecumseh.com. Itis a pull into "our" lot! Historical Homes Tour will be held on fantastic website which I highly Saturday June 16th from 9:30-4PM. The recommend. $12 tickets are limited and are by advance sale only. Call 810-469-8666 to reserve your tickets. The Rochester Hills Museum at Van

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The historic Hack House in Milan has received a $28,000 state grant to pay for restoration of the main house, east porch, outhouse and summer kitchen. The State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) awarded the grant through the Washtenaw County Historic District Commission. The city of Milan will provide $19,000 matching funds. The house was built in the Queen Anne style in 1888 by Olive Friend and later purchased by William Hack, son of pioneer Bethuel Hack The Milan Area Historical Society accepted the house as a donation in 1980 from Owens-illinois Corporation and has maintained the house as a museum It is on the National Register of Historic Places. Our Program Chair Louisa Pieper has arranged our October meeting at the Hack House in the fall of 200l. Sculptor Elizabeth Rogers unveils her bust of Orange Risdon while her mother Alberta looks on. Ypsilanti's Heritage Festival is ranked the second-best small festival in the state, well -known artist Elizabeth Rogers. The according to the latest edition ofMichigan bust was commissioned in honor of Ken More Exhibits Living published by AAAMichigan (Ann Rogers, Sr.,her father. Speakers after Arbor's Art Fairs is rated fourth!) So dinner included Rochelle Balkam of the Are Planned mark you calendars now for this year's EMU History Department, Dr. Justin th festival, Friday-Sunday, August 17-19 • Krasnoff from the Michigan Map Our Exhibits Coordinator Scott Jacob The Genealogical Society of Society, Gladys Saborio of the US-12 is already hard at work on our next exhibit. Washtenaw County has Jasper Heritage Route Committee, and William Entitled "Delivery Days," it is about an Pennington speaking on Sunday May Stark, Jr. Executive Director of the em we all fondly remember. This is when 20th on "Researching Church Records." Michigan Museum of Surveying. Then many products and services were The class will discuss "There are no we ate cakes with pictures of Orange delivered to ours doors, including butter Dumb Questions." Lectures and classes Risdon and his 1825 Survey Map of SE eggs and milk, laundry, groceries, and are held at S1. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Michigan. Saline really knows how to department store purchases. We would Education Building, 5301 E. HuronRiver throw a good party! like to have the entire county represented Drive. Use Parking Lot P. Call 734-482- We'd like to remind you th3t Saline's and are asking you to help us. We need 2799 for info. Rentschler Farm Museum will re-open photos of delivery trucks, wagons, people We've written a lot about Saline's Saturday May 19th from 11-3 PM. Baby and businesses as well as advertisements, celebration of Orange Risdon and they animals and farm photos, storytelling, bottles, boxes or crates. We could also responded in kind by giving us two free food, crafts music, and much more will use uniforms, delivery schedules and tickets to the Founders Week Dinner at be the order of the day. New areas of the actual vehicles if possible! Special th Weller's held April 25 • I attended with house have been restored including the provisions will be made for vehicles Collections Chair Judy Chrisman. Before porch, the parlor, the hired man's room loaned to us. Feel free to offer anything we ate our wonderful dinner, and the workshop. Bedrooms upstairs you think we can use. We feel it is proclamations were read to the over 100 will also be open for the first time. It's all important to the success ofour exlubit that guests by Mayor Gretchen Driskell, and free so spend a lovely day in Saline. The all communities in Washtenaw County are by a representative from Governor farm will remain open Saturdays until represented. This exhibit will be up from Engler and State Rep. Gene DeRossett October 6th and is located at 1265 E. late June to mid-October. If you have The highlight of the evening, however, Michigan Ave (US-12). Call 734-944- anything to contribute, please contact was the unveiling of a plaster bust of 0442 or 734-769-2219. President Pauline Walters at (734) 662- Risdon, done by Saline native and now 9092 .

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Still More On John Geddes

Denise Frederick, the Washtenaw County GenWeb webmaster who published John Geddes' diary on the Internet, came to visit Ann Arbor in early April. She was feted by Connie Dnnlap (thank you Connie!) at a 'lovely dinner party attended by Russell Bidlack, myself and WCHS officers, and for lunch by the board ofthe Washtenaw County Historical Society. A good time was had by all, The biggest mystery of all, however, was NOT solved. No one knows where the original diary of John Geddes resides. We only have a copy which Denise received from Timothy Kreh of Washington DC bye-mail in April of 2000. Denise is a native of Ann Arbor and has ancestors from Dexter, but she now resides in Petoskey where she is the advertising representative for four local newspapers. She has a husband and two Photo by Susan Wineberg kids and a full-time job, yet still feeds her Denise Frederick and Pauline Walters smile about John Geddes. passion for genealogy by volunteering to adopt a county for Gen Web. She proves the adage that if you want something done, give it to a busy person!

PRESIDENT PAULINE WALTERS ASKS Board Member lIDo You Have A Few Hours Resigns To Spare?" Board Member Nancy Bryk, Curator Drop by the Museum and LET'S ganize the lists and direct the mailing at the Henry Ford Museum, has resigned. TALK or call 662-9092 of letters and the fundraising token. She has an extremely demanding schedule and can rarely make meetings. She has The Society, now that the Museum on MAINTENANCE CHAIR: develop offered us her consulting talents, which Main Street is "up and running" needs a team to do minor repairs, minor paint­ we hope to put to good use in the future volunteers to help us run more ing and general maintenance. since she is an expert on Mission smoothly. We are seeking persons with OFFICE ORGANIZER: someone Statements, We are sorry to lose Nancy varied talents and skills for some occa­ that likes and is good at sorting out the and thank her for all the hard work she sional and some on-going tasks. They volume of paper and items that are ac­ has done on behalf of the society for the are: cumulating. After the initial "shake down" of decision-making it could be a last four years. We are especially grateful MEMBERSHIP CHAIR: during the couple of hours weekly task. for her help with the opening of MOMS, membership drive month would take with the Pancake Supper and for recently three or four hours for a couple of weeks EXHIBIT PREPARATION HELP­ writing a grant proposal for us. Thanks and a few hours during the mailing ERS: in June the new exhibit, Deliv­ Nancy. We will miss you! week the rest of the months. ery Days, will be gathered and made ready for exhibition. Scott and Judy FUND RAISING CHAIR: during the would welcome willing hands to help membership drive, in mid-sununer, or- mount the exhibit.

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Our Annual June Trip will be the bus. Reservations are required! Of Impressions Saturday June 2Dd and we will be Checks are due by May 28th. taking a busload of 47 people to Needed Cranbrook for the day. The cost of the trip is $60 which includes a box lunch . We have had a request from the ADen of ham, turkey or chicken salad on a Recent County Public Library for back issues croissant with pasta salad, apple, chips, of our newsletter Washtenaw chocolate chip cookies plus choice of Donations Impressions. Ifanyone has issues prior soda or bottled water. The library to 1984 please contact President Pauline meeting room at the Museum will house Collections Chair Judy Chrisman Walters at (734) 662-9092. Allen us for the lunch. The trip includes a visit reports the receipt of a black (!) wedding County is on the Internet and would be an excellent repository for any of our to the Art Museum and Saarinen House, dress from 1841. It was WOUl by as well as the grounds withsculptures by Pamela Stencil at the age of 19 and back issues. Carl Milles. This is a rare opportunity to comes with her marriage certificate to view this National Historic Landmark George Keal. Phebe Judson, arelative in Bloomfield Hills designed by Albert of the Ruthrufffamily that lived in our Business Support Kahn and Eliel Saarinen, featuring building in the 1850s, donated the dress! This month's issue of Impressions Pewabic Pottery and much more. We will Judy says that black dresses were not is co-sponsored by meet at the parking lot of Arborland at unusual in that time period. We now 8: 30 AM and return at 5 PM. Please call have almost a dozen wedding dresses. CHARLES & IRENE (734) 662-9092 to reserve a spot on Sounds like a future exhibit to me! HURBIS

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