AACHM Oral History: Lydia Belle Morton
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Lydia B. (Cromwell) Morton was born in Ann Arbor in 1916. Her Great-Grandmother came to Ann Arbor with Judge Kenny’s family in 1867. Her grandmother Laura Bell Chester was born in Ann Arbor in 1874 and her mother was born in Ann Arbor in 1894. Mrs. Morton has one brother George Richard Cromwell. From her four children, she has 12 great grand children, 6 great, great, grand children; all but four were born in Ann Arbor. Seven generations have lived here in Ann Arbor.
Garden Club Plans Annual Holiday Walk
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December
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1963
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Holiday Potpourri: Select Foreign Theme For Christmas Decorations
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December
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1956
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Garden Club To Decorate Christmas Trees In Style Of Foreign Countries At Holiday Tea
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1956
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Farm and Garden Club Members Plant Trees Around the Women's City Club Photographer: Eck Stanger
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1962
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Ann Arbor News, May 22, 1962
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PLANTING SPREE: The inside as well as the outside of the Women's City Club was abuzz with activity yesterday. While Ann Arbor Garden Club members and guests met for lunch before the beginning the annual spring garden tour, members of the Ann Arbor Branch of the National Farm and Garden Club gathered outside to plant new shrubs, trees and flowers around the new addition. Mrs. Karl Malcolm, jr., (left) and Mrs. W. Kelly Goss arrived at 9 a.m. ready for a full day's work planting marigolds, petunias and trees. Both the Farm and Garden Club donated the money for the new plantings.
Ann Arbor News, May 22, 1962
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PLANTING SPREE: The inside as well as the outside of the Women's City Club was abuzz with activity yesterday. While Ann Arbor Garden Club members and guests met for lunch before the beginning the annual spring garden tour, members of the Ann Arbor Branch of the National Farm and Garden Club gathered outside to plant new shrubs, trees and flowers around the new addition. Mrs. Karl Malcolm, jr., (left) and Mrs. W. Kelly Goss arrived at 9 a.m. ready for a full day's work planting marigolds, petunias and trees. Both the Farm and Garden Club donated the money for the new plantings.
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Gingerbread House Cookie on Christmas Tree at the Ann Arbor Garden Club's Foreign Christmas Tree Display
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1956
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Ann Arbor News, December 7, 1956
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FROM A STORY BOOK: This very elaborate cooky, made and decorated by Mrs. C. Merie Dixon, a member of the Ann Arbor Garden Club, appeared on one of the very authentically decorated foreign Christmas trees at the Women's City Club yesterday. Her trees showed the early Germany style. The cooky is in the form of a gingerbread house.
Ann Arbor News, December 7, 1956
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FROM A STORY BOOK: This very elaborate cooky, made and decorated by Mrs. C. Merie Dixon, a member of the Ann Arbor Garden Club, appeared on one of the very authentically decorated foreign Christmas trees at the Women's City Club yesterday. Her trees showed the early Germany style. The cooky is in the form of a gingerbread house.
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Holiday Potpourri
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1956
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Foreign Themed Christmas Dishes Exhibit at the Ann Arbor Garden Club Christmas Tea
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1956
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Ann Arbor News, December 7, 1956
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ENTERTAIN WITH TRADITIONS: Pick a foreign theme for your holiday entertaining as Dr. Jane Hayward shows here in her exhibit featuring steaming hot wassail and mincemeat tarts. According to custom, they are severed on Christmas Eve and on Twelfth Night.
Ann Arbor News, December 7, 1956
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ENTERTAIN WITH TRADITIONS: Pick a foreign theme for your holiday entertaining as Dr. Jane Hayward shows here in her exhibit featuring steaming hot wassail and mincemeat tarts. According to custom, they are severed on Christmas Eve and on Twelfth Night.
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Ann Arbor Garden Club Decorates Christmas Trees from Foreign Lands
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1956
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Flower Lover Kathyrn Leidy Dies at 99
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12
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October
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1993
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