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Episode 29: Café Ollie - Morning Punks and Third Space Coziness
In this episode, we’ll be in conversation with Danielle Schwerin, who once helped run Café Ollie, a staple of Ypsilanti brunch life and secret concert life in Depot Town, in the place where Miller’s…
Episode 28, Part II: The Native American Great Lakes and the Conquest of Michigan, Part II
In this episode, we’ll continue learning from renowned historian Matt Siegfried about the histories of different Native American communities in Michigan and Ohio, with some special focus on Southeast…
Episode 28, Part I: The Native American Great Lakes and the Conquest of Michigan, Part I
In this episode, we’ll be learning from renowned historian Matt Siegfried about the histories of different Native American communities in Michigan and Ohio, with some special focus on Southeast…
Episode 27: From Here to There by Land and Water Part 2, Railroads for Ypsilanti
In Episode 4 of Ypsi Stories, titled "From Here to There by Land and Water," we saw evolving ideas about how to move people and commerce across the United States and its territories. The country at…
Episode 26: ypsi experimental space and the Ineffable Spirit of Community Creativity
ypsi experimental space was started by accident on January 1st, 2016, at the site of a former drugstore turned black box theater (8 N Washington Street) and ended by eminent domain on January 1st,…
Episode 25: The Parkridge Community Center and the Fight for Racial Equality
The Parkridge Community Center on Harriet Street opened in December 1945 as a recreation center for Southside residents. It was funded through a World War II program that built recreation centers for…
Episode 24: Undertaking the Subject of Death in 19th Century Ypsilanti
For all of us there comes a day which is the end of the line, but how we are dispatched changes with the times. It would be unusual for a person in Ypsilanti today to die in a boiler explosion or to…
Episode 23: The Ypsi Farmers & Gardeners Oral History Project
The Ypsi Farmers & Gardeners Oral History Project (YFGOHP) is a new YDL digital archive sharing the stories of Ypsilanti’s Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and/or working class food…
Episode 22: President Roosevelt visits the Willow Run Bomber Plant
In the months that followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941, the United States began the transition from a peace economy to a war economy. Production of household items such…
Episode 21: On the State of Medicine in 19th Century Ypsilanti
The 19th century in Ypsilanti, as elsewhere, was on the doorstep of the remarkable medical advances of the twentieth century. People who came down with even a minor illness could be dead in hours.…
Episode 20: Fighting for LGBTQ Rights in Ypsilanti - A Double Retrospective
From 1997 through 2002, the LGBTQ community in Ypsilanti fought for their rights in the form of a Non Discrimination Ordinance for the City of Ypsilanti. The result of this struggle was one of the…
Episode 19: Shadow Art Fair - Ypsilanti's Interactive Art Experience
In this season's episode we learn about the Shadow Art Fair, which was a local social, cultural, and interactive art experience that for many years in the 00s and 10s marked the peak of summer in…
Episode 18: More Buses for Ypsilanti
In this season's episode we learn about the history of the 2014 campaign to expand transit in Ypsilanti, the state of transit then and now, and the power that this work had in terms of connecting the…
Episode 17, Part 2: Back to Ypsilanti with Lee Osler
Lee Osler is a musician who has lived in Ypsilanti almost his whole life, since he was two years old, and is most well known for his 1983 local hit, “Back to Ypsilanti,” released on his own label,…
Episode 17, Part 1: Back to Ypsilanti with Lee Osler
Lee Osler is a musician who has lived in Ypsilanti almost his whole life, since he was two years old, and is most well known for his 1983 local hit, “Back to Ypsilanti,” released on his own label,…
Episode 16: Red Lines and Racial Covenants - A Brief History of Housing Segregation in Ypsilanti and Beyond
In this episode, Lee Azus looks at the effect of Federal Housing Administration underwriting policies, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation risk maps, also known as redlining maps, and racially restrictive…
Episode 15: Tracing your Ancestral Path with the Washtenaw County African American Genealogy Society
In this episode, we will be learning about the work of the Washtenaw County African American Genealogy Society from founder and Co Chair, Cheryl Garnett. Ms. Garnett will also be discussing special…
Episode 14: Kiwanis Club of Ypsilanti’s 100 Years
The Kiwanis Club of Ypsilanti celebrated its 100th birthday on April 13, 2021. So, what is this service club all about and what has it done during this past century? In this episode, we'll be…
Episode 13: Milling Around the River - Industrialization Comes to Ypsilanti
Unless a town was founded for reasons other than the pursuit of agriculture, as was the case with lumbering or mining towns, the first industry established in most towns of the Upper Midwest were…
Episode 12: Highland Cemetery - Place of Peace and Rest
Highland Cemetery is perhaps the finest example of the garden cemetery in Michigan, which intended to make cemeteries beautiful. Highland Cemetery is a place of peace and nature, the perfect place to…
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