Having grown up in Ann Arbor, I was eager to show off my frozen custard at one of the city’s premier events, the annual Art Fair. I have owned and run Fluffy Bottom Farms for three years now. Although we’re mainly...
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My life in Ann Arbor began as a U-M freshman, when my mom and I filled her banana-yellow Volkswagen Rabbit with most of my belongings and drove up US-23 from my hometown of Columbus. Unfortunately, she couldn’t chauffeur...
Read MoreWe plan to gather at Island Park. We’ll have a fire in a brazier and invite dance, performance, and conversation among friends. I will present a dance about a firebird emerging from the heart of a tree. Just before the...
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One ring? Ann Arbor has one ring road encircling it?Or, as lively as our city is, is it just a...
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On July 4, 1978, fireworks lit up the night sky over Buhr Park. A crazy quilt of blankets covered...
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It was the antlers that piqued my interest in the house at 411 Longshore Dr.: the huge pair of...
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When the U-M baseball field was named Ray Fisher Stadium in 1970, it honored the winningest coach...
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Ever since I was little, I wanted to visit an arcade. I’ve always had a fascination for...
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I was a U-M student in the late 1960s, when the military draft loomed, women joining the workplace...
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“Who are you?” I nervously asked the unfamiliar young man sleeping on my couch. Barely...
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I didn’t realize, when Ken Burns’ Civil War series made its debut on PBS in 1990, that...
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A pokeweed plant insists on my attention. It has rooted near the chain-link fence, pushing...
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Winter is the time to hear and feel crunching underfoot. But it happened to me in May, on the...
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Hard to believe, but it’s been almost ten years since Jake Woods died. Never without his...
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The Ann Arbor Area Pipe Society is in session near the window at Tobacco Rose cigar shop. Mike...
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I live on a street lined with old crabapple trees. Early last summer, a city forestry crew came...
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My wife and I have lived in the area now known as Water Hill for thirty-seven years, in two houses...
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I’ve just sent off the final payments and tax information for my family’s business,...
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My wife and I both hate crowds, but Susan felt she had to go downtown to be part of history the...
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