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LGBTQ+ Washtenaw Oral History Project - Lynden Kelly

Sun, 06/30/2024 - 3:25pm

70-year-old white woman with short hair wearing black t-shirt that reads A2QUA Lynden Kelly, who goes by Kelly (she/her), was born in 1954 in suburban Detroit. In 1972, she moved to Ann Arbor to attend the University of Michigan. She became involved in countercultural organizations and collectives such as the Ann Arbor Tenants Union and the People’s Wherehouse, a wholesale warehouse for the Michigan Federation of Food Co-ops. She recalls visiting LGBTQ+ spaces in Ann Arbor and beyond, including the U-M Gay Advocates’ Office (now called the Spectrum Center), Canterbury House, the Rubaiyat, and the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. From 1990 to 2003, she and business partner Kate Burkhardt ran Common Language Bookstore, which catered to feminist and LGBTQ+ readers, on Fourth Avenue. Kelly also discusses gender roles, coming out to her parents, marriage equality, and co-founding Ann Arbor Queer Aquatics (A2QUA), a queer swimming group.

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Painting In The Shadows

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Ann Arbor News, October 7, 1993

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October

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1993

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AADL Talks To: Robin and Jamie Agnew, owners of Aunt Agatha's

Fri, 04/19/2024 - 1:29pm

In this episode, AADL Talks To Robin and Jamie Agnew, owners of Aunt Agatha’s, their specialty mystery bookstore. The business began in Ann Arbor in 1992, and operated as a brick and mortar for 26 years before moving online in August 2018. Robin and Jamie talk about their experiences working in the store, their favorite memories here in town, and discuss some of the changes in the mystery book genre and bookselling business over the years.

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Dorothy Jane Manty Bicycles Fourth Avenue On A Cold Day, January 1966 Photographer: Duane Scheel

Dorothy Jane Manty Bicycles Fourth Avenue On A Cold Day, January 1966 image

Year:
1966

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 13, 1966
Caption:
University graduate student Dorothy Jane Manty of 708 W. Huron illustrates nicely how the cold weather of recent days need not hide a bicyclist's charms, though one must bundle up.