When you think about Detroit's ethnic festivals on Hart Plaza and lights on the Ambassador Bridge, you have to think about city booster Diane Edgecomb, who died Tuesday at age 92.
John Gallagher of the Detroit Free Press writes:
As the longtime head of the former civic group the Central Business District Association, Edgecomb popularized the idea of ethnic festivals and campaigned with others to light the bridge, as well as promoted the Detroit Aglow festival and numerous other ways to enliven downtown Detroit from the 1950s through the 1990s.
Edgecomb, 92, died Tuesday after a long illness at her daughter's home in Clinton Township.
"(I've) been in Detroit since 11 years old," she said in 2010. "Loved my job and loved the people. I can't tell you how many people did so many things."
She worked with Mayors Roman Gribbs and Coleman Young, to help establish various city ethnic festivals,Gallagher writes.
