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There Was Only One Ollie McLaughlin

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There Went The Neighborhood - Audio Interview: Mary Hinton-Branner

Sat, 08/10/2024 - 5:37pm

Mary Hinton-Branner attended Jones School in the 1950s, from kindergarten through sixth grade. She remembers going to the Dunbar Community Center and playing in the neighborhood with her eleven siblings. She recalls how the rise in public housing led to the gentrification of “The Old Neighborhood.”

More interviews are available in the There Went The Neighborhood Interview Archive.

Inscape: The Incredible Barbara Lewis

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Writings by Michael Erlewine

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December

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2014

Barbara Lewis is from the Ann Arbor area where I grew up. She was born in Salem Township, part of Washtenaw County, and just outside Ann Arbor. Lewis was managed by Ollie McLaughlin, whom we all knew. McLaughlin not only produced Barbara Lewis, but also Dion Jackson, who was a friend of ours. And our one-time manager Hugh "Jeep" Holland and McLaughlin worked together in the same Ann Arbor scene. Pop- group manager Jeep Holland met his match in our group, the Prime Movers Blues Band.

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Children Play In The Huron River, May 1955

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1955

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, May 28, 1955
Caption:
SHELL GAME: Barefoot, Barbara Lewis (left) of 2007 Arlene St. and Herb Alvord of 2009 Arlene, delightedly search for snail shells in the Huron River at Island Park. They found some.