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A2 siblings create 
signery after storm

‘U’ student, brother 
creates signs from 
materials wrecked 
in windstorm

After a straight-line windstorm 
carrying up to 100 miles per 
hour winds devastated Northern 
Michigan on Aug. 2, 2015, Ann 
Arbor siblings Bella and Zack Pryor 
felt inspired to take action. They 
started making wooden signs out 
of the old fences, broken docks and 
scraps of wood found in Glen Arbor 
and selling them — thus creating 
MichAgain Signery.
Bella, a Business sophomore at 
the University of Michigan, and her 
younger brother Zach, a junior at 
Pioneer High School, spend about 
three months each summer in Glen 
Arbor with their family. When the 
windstorm hit, they felt its impacts 
first-hand.

“We’ve been coming up to Glen 
Arbor, Michigan since we were 
born basically,” Bella Pryor said. 
“After the storm, there were a lot of 
trees down and just a lot of general 
devastation on the hiking trails and 
bike trails.”
Bella Pryor said wood such as 
docks, fences and farm structures 
had been damaged during the 
storm, and they did not want to let 
it all go to waste.
“We just decided to get a trailer 
and just load up some wood and 
bring it home,” she said. 
The Pryor siblings had an idea 
to use the wood from the storm to 
make wood signs representing the 
parts of Glen Arbor most special to 
them using design and art.
“What inspired us to make the 
signs in particular rather than other 
wood products was so that we could 
use art as a way to also express the 
beautiful areas that are in Northern 
Michigan,” Bella Pryor said.

Attendees 
participated in 
book swap, family 
friendly events

The Ypsilanti Freighthouse 
hosted 
the 
first 
annual 
Booksilanti Readers’ Fair on 
Saturday. 
The 
day-long 
fair 
featured book swaps, a market 
for local book shops and authors 
and child-friendly activities like 
story times and a bookmark-
making station. 
Black 
Stone 
Bookstore 
& 
Culture 
Center, 
located 
in 
downtown Ypsilanti, was one of 
the vendors at the event. As an 
African-American bookstore and 
cultural center, Black Stone sells 
books about African-American 
diaspora. The store also houses 
Black Men Read, a literacy 
program that works to normalize 
Blackness and highlight the 
cultural contributions of Black 
people 
through 
literature. 
Owner Kip Johnson said as an 
Ypsilanti native, he was thrilled 
at the chance to be a part of 
Booksilanti.
“How could I not be a vendor?” 
Johnson said. “Anything that’s 
dealing with literacy programs, 
dealing with Ypsilanti, you’ve 
got to come and support.”
Jessica Tapley, an attendee 
of the fair and self-proclaimed 
book lover, said she came to see 

the bookstores and artists and 
support vendors. She echoed 
Johnson’s sentiments about the 
fair being a space that highlights 
Ypsilanti’s 
community 
and 
culture.
“I thought it was really cool,” 
Tapley said. “I just like seeing 
the community of book lovers in 
Ypsi.”
According to Julie Palmer, 
the assistant events manager at 
the Ypsilanti Freighthouse and 
School of Literature, the event 
was meant to evoke the sense of 
community Johnson and Tapley 
both felt. Palmer, a University of 
Michigan alum, explained while 
a love of literature underlines 
Booksilanti, she wanted the 
event to reflect the diversity in 
Ypsilanti’s communities. 
“In true, unique Ypsi style, 
we wanted to highlight the best 
and brightest from our own 
community,” Palmer said. “There 
began some fun brainstorming 
and just new ideas about how 
we could celebrate many aspects 
that are tied to a love of books, 
whether 
it’s 
reading 
books, 
buying books… All of that was 
what we wanted to bring here.”
Palmer also hopes Booksilanti 
will help draw the already 
close-knit Ypsilanti community 
together.
“My personal hope is that 
they experience joy, community, 
connection, and that we continue 
to fuel their love of reading, their 
love of books,” Palmer said.

Inaugural book 
fair comes to Ypsi

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