Ypsilanti museum to restore portraits

YPSILANTI - The Ypsilanti Historical Museum and Archive has received grants totaling $7,520 to restore three 133-year old portraits and survey future space needs.

The grants were $3,500 from the Detroit, Institute of Arts, $2,000 from the' National Endowment for the Arts, and $1,500 brans tie Mary Fletcher Memorial Fund of the Ypsilanty Historical Society.

The portraits are of Mark Norris (1796-1862), one of the first trustees of the village of Ypsilanti; his wife, Roccena Vail Norris, who opened a school in Ypsilanti in 1928; and their son, Lyman Decatur Norris, who graduated in the first University of Michigan class and, as a lawyer, represented the owner of slave Dred Scott in court.