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Kim Yam Prepares Paczki at Dexter Bakery, February 1997 Photographer: Francisco Kjolseth

Kim Yam Prepares Paczki at Dexter Bakery, February 1997 image
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1997
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Ann Arbor News, February 11, 1997
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Kim Yam, co-owner of the Dexter Bakery with her husband, Saing, moves a tray of paczki ready to be filled. The Yams are ethnic Chinese from Cambodia who were busy Monday making about 2,000 dozen of the Polish pastries in celebration of Fat Tuesday, the day before the start of Lent.
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Legacies Project Oral History: Wanda Capps

Wanda Capps was born in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois to Polish immigrant parents. As a young woman, Capps worked as a bank clerk and saved money to go to Illinois College, where she met her husband. After stints in Nebraska, Alabama, and Detroit, they settled in Ann Arbor with their three children. Her husband worked in a pharmaceutical laboratory. The family enjoyed traveling and spent summers in Grand Traverse Bay. She enjoys quilting and volunteering in the library at Glacier Hills Senior Living Community.

Wanda Capps was interviewed as part of an internship at Applied Safety and Ergonomics in Ann Arbor in 2008 as part of the Legacies Project.

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