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Below is a list of Ypsilanti Gleanings issues, 2010-2019. Browse a different decade. Jump to a specific year: 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Spring 2010	Summer 2010
2010 (Back to top)
Eph Thompson – Elephant Trainer Harvey C. Colburn The Swift House The 1944 Christmas Eve Air Plane Crash Ward G. Swarts (1906-1979) The Famous Ypsilanti Fence Trial Rest at Ease Mr. Opem When Lions Stalked the Streets of Ypsilanti They Called Him “Yip” Enlightened Ypsilanti Fatal Accident Followed by Tragedies Music at the Museum	Peckville A Tribute to the Unknown Dead Laura Bien and “Tales from the Ypsilanti Archives” On the Banks of Sneak-a-Leak-Creek 126 North Huron Street The Chautauqua Movement – More of the Story Cemeteries, Kaiser-Frazers, a Japanese Opera and More Polio, Iron Lungs, Cereal and K-Rations – The Life of Lamar Kishlar An Old Girl Comes Home The First of August Celebrations The Florence Babbitt Collection From the President’s Desk… Museum Board Report… Scraps of History… Answers found HERE Fletcher White Archives…
Fall 2010	Winter 2010
"Lost Restaurants” of Ypsilanti Dining in the Museum Reed Organ Donated to the Museum Marilyn Begole Chose Love River Street Neighbor’s Gossip and the Hutchinson Marriage Back to the Future Book Review: Wicked Washtenaw County Portrait in the Library YHS Archives Postcard Collection Finding the Home of Benjamin Schofield Plenty of Elbow Room The Ypsilanti Phantom Prowler Lamar Kishlar: Blondes Beware Ida Bourgdoff Goes Missing From the President’s Desk… Museum Board Report…	An Odoriferous Education Early Settlers of Augusta and Superior Townships Zwergel’s on West Cross Street Scraps of History from the Scrap Heap with answers HERE The Farmer and the Poet Ralph Garfield Ridenour When Women Won the Vote Local Education and History Collaborate The Visit to Ypsilanti by George Francis Train Family Photo Pageant Among the Rocky Mountains in Colorado Strange Story of a Nine Year Old Winter on the Banks of Sneak-a-Leak Creek And We Still Live! From the President’s Desk… Museum Board Report…

Spring 2011	Summer 2011
2011 (Back to top)
Education Night at the Archives Lost Businesses of Ypsilanti Voice of America Visits Ypsilanti George H. Jackson Demetrius! Where are You? An Automobile Trip – 1915 Style For the Sake of Progress Charles Stewart Mott Stained Glass Portrait Ypsilanti History – It’s a Test! City Council Budget Battles of the 1920s Two Killed by Interurban The Humble Hobby Shop The Bomber Restaurant Ypsilanti Patents From the President’s Desk… Museum Board Report…	Civil War -Comrades in Arms Local Historic Districts Ypsilanti Train Flower Girls General on Display Whooping Cough Prerequisite for Party Sarah Santure Went Missing Sister Mary Theodosia (Mug)--Touched by a Miracle Community Groups Focused on History George Hammond and Simmocolon Stock Farm Ypsilanti History-It's a Test! and answers Here A Picnic in the Park: A Snapshot of Ypsilanti Family Life in the 1950s From the President's Desk Museum Advisory Board Report News from the Fletcher-White Archives
Fall 2011	Winter 2011
"Keep Smiling" Brown The Friendly Feud--"Ypsi and Annie" in 1891 Poetry Ypsilanti History--It's a Test! and answers HERE Family Bible Collection Civil War Blood Vials The Ypsilantis: Constantine, Alexander, and Demetrius Cemetaries Found at EMU Ypsilanti History in Photographs: An Update on the Digital Photo Archive Project Abortion for Wicked Purposes Ypsilanti Songs Peck Street: A Story of Broken Dreams Brayton Mausoleum was First in the County From the President's Desk Museum Board Report Fletcher-White Archives	Claude Wilbanks: Tennis Coaching Legend 1929 Train Wreck Joe Thompson's "Early Depot Town" Ypsilanti's WWI Hero Ypsilanti History - It's a Test! How Clark's Lake Sank Unique Grave Markers Search for W. H. Worden The Second Wife Skating Archives Film Production We're ready for our close-up, Mr. DeMille Tax Credits for Old Cars? Panorama Views

Spring 2012	Summer 2012
2012 (Back to top)
World War II, 11 May 1945: Austin Norton Remembers It Well It's A Test: Timeless Apothegems 5th Anniversary Moving Pictures Water Street Auto Dealers Ypsi's Role in War of 1812 Archie Foster, Class of '88 Settler's Family Still a Presence Frederic H. Pease, a Man For All Seasons An Invitation to Contribute to Gleanings The Twin Towers House Before the Grove	Bob Arvin - An Ypsilanti Hero The Days Before Godfroy Ypsilanti Parades Walter B. Hewitt: A Success Story Worthy of Dickens It's a Test A Cow For All Ages Warren Lewis and his Auction Sales Pavilion House Tour Guide Ypsilanti's "Hardware Man" Discovering Adan Freeman - Family Patriarch Chautauqua's Coming
Fall 2012	Winter 2012
Samuel Post: Ypsilanti's "Squeaky Clean" Politician Quilt Exhibit The Contagious Hospital Nickelodeon Controversy Craig Porter - Freestyle Champion Competitive Swimming, Then & Now Roberts' Corner Gerganoff (continued) Sanscrainte Was Here! Bridge Built in 120 Hours	Ypsilanti's Natural Crowning Jewel: The Camperdown Elm Climbing Camperdown Civil War Marker Peter B. Fletcher The Union Schools School QUIZ Freddie Finds the Future I Might Have Played in the NBA! Beekeeping History The "Buzz" on Bees The Tunnels - Again French Connection King of Hamburgers The Norton Solarium

Spring 2013	Summer 2013
2013 (Back to top)
There's always been heavy traffic on downtown's Michigan Avenue Y-Town Cruisin' Ypsilanti MCRR find in the Archives How did it get there? B-24 bomber monument Model T Ford ad Community Choir presents "Liberator" concert A Sanscrainte Timeline Sanscrainte III Donald H. Porter Historic surnames Hebe Fountain found Are you smarter than an 8th grader? Horse thieves The Gilbert family The Skeletons of Bell Street Farm gate controversy Where do you think you are? From the President's Desk Museum Board Report	The Gilbert Family - Part II Gilbert House Boys Club Named for President Lincoln Ypsilanti History in Detroit Historical Museum A Sleeping Lamb for Winnifred The Saga of the EMU Hurons The Washtenaw County Clash of 1930 Tom Dodd - Community Leader and Activist The Green Book Ypsilanti - Named by Woodward From the President's Desk Museum Board Report
Fall 2013	Winter 2013
The Dynamics Ypsilanti History on the Internet Ypsilanti's Dutch Town An Ypsilanti Childhood First Prize to Ypsilanti's Neptune No. 1 Ypsilanti's Own "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" An Artist at the Bomber Plant The Search for Anastacio Cardenas First Free Church of Michigan Case of the Lost Handbag Wanderer Arrested Just Suppose Whiskey was the Antidote From the President's Desk Fletcher White Archives Report Museum Board Report	Ypsilanti Players From 1915 -1957 Lovely Model "Shot" in City Park Walter Owen Briggs Ypsilanti Children Share Many Connections with Walter Briggs The Ladies Buy a House – A Centennial Celebration The G.A.R. Hall “Cub” Berdan The Saga of the Men Behind “Ralphie” Parker’s Coveted Red Rider Quiz Questions Mark Jefferson – Glass Plate Negative and Other Wonderful Things War of the Clothesline Balloon Ascension The Vietnam War Memorial Quiz Answers From the President's Desk Fletcher White Archives Report Museum Board Report

Spring 2014	Summer 2014
2014 (Back to top)
The Parents of Depot Town - Mark & Roccena Vail Norris Early Physical Education in Ypsilanti Public Schools A Great Lady is Gone Saturdays at Vic and Mac's Legend of the Smeet Frog John Challis - The Musical Maverick Who Revolutionized the Harpischord The Mansion House - A Lost Landmark Early Soapmaking Characters The Soldiers' Monument at Highland Cemetery Chicago Road Marker Case of the Missing Ring Students Saved From Jail From the President's Desk Fletcher White Archives Report Museum Board Report	The Damoose Family in Ypsilanti The River Street Saga Continues: Benjamin and Elvira Norris Follett Norval Hawkins: The Greatest Salesman in the World The History of the Peck Street Primary Ypsilanti in the 1940s Paul E. Hubbell - Professor, Pacifist, Poet Gertrude Bennett Went Missing Artist Lays Down His Brush From the President's Desk Museum Board Report
Fall 2014	Winter 2014
Terror in the Streets A View From Olive Street The River Street Saga Continues: The Story of Edwin and Alice Follett Uhl The Other "Real McCoy" Volunteers Receive Service Awards Finds - The YHS Archives An Ypsilanti Landmark Centennial Controversy on the Michigan State Normal Campus Professor Phelps and the Teaching of Sex Hygiene Chautauqua at the Riverside Snapshots of Ypsilanti From the President's Desk Museum Board Report	Ypsilanti's Mineral Water Sanitariums The 1893 Cyclone - A Terrible Night of Desolation in Ypsilanti Leonard Menzi's Lost Negatives Huron Valley Road Runners The River Street Saga Continues: "The Dolls are Home Again!" Life Begins at Forty - The Story of Walter B. Pitkin Detroit's 250th Year Anniversary in 1951 The Grant Monument A Tribute to Those Who Served From the President's Desk Museum Board Report

Spring 2015	Summer 2015
2015 (Back to top)
The Force Behind the Yankee Air Museum Memphis Belle vs. Hot Stuff: How History Came to Celebrate the Wrong WWII Airplane The Towner House: A Diamond in the Rough A Tale of Two River Street Men: Justus and Lyman Decatur Norris The Ypsilanti Nomads Ypsilanti History Quiz and answers HERE History of Adult Education in Michigan The Lay House Waiting Room to the City of the Dead: The Receiving Vault at Highland Cemetery Summit Street Cemetery Dealership/Salesman Quiz and answers HERE The King and Meyer Saloon Controversy From the President's Desk Museum Board Report	Michigan Ladder - An Ypsilanti Success Story The Big Beat "Keeps You Rockin" Pease Auditorium Turns 100 Magnificent Years Ypsilanti Vigilance Committee - 1838 Monument for Mortimer Rosecrants The Ypsilanti Centennial Celebration: Stagecoach Special George Payne and the Assault on Officer Rehill From the President's Desk Museum Board Report Fletcher White Archives Report
Fall 2015	Winter 2015
In Search of the Real Rosie the Riveter The Mushroom Traffic Signals The George Families of River Street Finding George Family Tombstones in the Anschuetz Family Backyard One Tower House Big Sister is Watching Holy Trinity and the Anniversary That Will Not Be Return of Education Movie Night The Way We Word Incident at the Archives From the President's Desk Museum Board Report	My Dad, John Nick Pappas, Sculptor Marjorie Walters - One of the Original "Rosie the Riveters" The History of Frog Island Park - The Island That is Not an Island Childhood Memories of Frog Island from the 1970's The Final Resting Place of the Nordmeer's Anchor The Article I Never Wanted to Write Primitive Open Hearth Trammel Terhune Pioneer Memorial Park - Current Site of Pioneer Cemetery An Ypsilantis in Ypsilanti From the President's Desk Museum Board Report

Spring 2016	Summer 2016
2016 (Back to top)
100 Years of High School Basketball Tournaments - 1916-2006 Council approves Eagle Statue Providing for the Family During the Great Depression A Travel Through Time: Riverside Park April Movie Nights George Ridenour - An Appreciation Summer and Winter Fun at Riverside Park Sweet Memories Senator Alma Wheeler Smith Johnson Smith Catalogs The Map Hoax Ypsilanti's Forgotten Hero From the President's Desk Museum Board Report	A History of the Cleary Family in Ypsilanti The Surprise Treasure Box Joe Butcko World War II: An Interview with Virginia Davis-Brown The Butcher Boy of Ypsilanti Meredith Bixby - An Entrepreneurial Puppeteer Famous Ypsilanti Sports Figures From the President's Desk Museum Board Report
Fall 2016	Winter 2016
A Visit to the Ypsilanti Historical Society A Memoir of Robert "Bob" Schrepper and His War Horse The Cornwell House The Minzeys Move to Ypsilanti Non-Mystery of the Ypsilanti Glider Port The Ypsi Alehouse Opens in the Historic Centennial Center Building Debate Over Liquor Licenses Helen, The Little Polish Wanderer From The President's Desk Museum Board Report	My Time With John Porter The Story of Water Works Park A History of Helen Clarke (Jenks) Cleary The First National Bank Building The Coney Island Hot Dog Growing up on the Great Lakes Terror in Ypsilanti Notes from the Normal From the President's Desk Museum Board Report