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Origami Folds Easily Into Local Culture

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30
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December
Year
1992
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Whale Of A Project

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22
Month
November
Year
1997
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Prairies

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26
Month
November
Year
1995
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Dan Long And His Pumpkin Pole, October 1997 Photographer: Robert Chase

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1997
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 31, 1997
Caption:
Slauson Middle School Orchestra Director Dan Long got help from his students to create a pumpkin pole of 26 carved pumpkins lit with lights.

Tough course has ups, downs

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25
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May
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1997
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AACHM Oral History: Shirley Beckley

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Shirley Beckley was born on July 30, 1942. She was raised by her mother on Wall St. and attended Jones School, Mack School, and Bach Schools in Ann Arbor. Shirley started as a housing manager for the Ann Arbor Housing Commission, later becoming housing director in Lansing and Muskegon. She reminisces about working at Jacobson’s, dances at the Dunbar Center, businesses on Fourth Avenue and Ann Streets, and tense racial incidents in the schools. Shirley continues to be deeply involved in social justice issues at the local level.