The Many Worlds of the Delonis Center
Homelessness is something many of us see for a second and feel a sudden sense of unease, until we...
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Community
New Pathways
If you stand on the corner of Freer and Dexter-Chelsea roads, at the northwest edge of the Oak...
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The Pink House on Henry St.
What they thought as newlyweds would be their starter house—a charming pastel-pink Victorian with...
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Mike and Caryl Burke
Mike and Caryl Burke met in a U-M physics class in 1971. Sparks flew, and they were married at...
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Susan and Palmer Morrel-Samuels
“It’s the kind of neighborhood that draws people out,” Susan Morrel-Samuels says over coffee in...
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Aztec Rentals
“Bonkers but brilliant” is a wonderful description. We wish Mayer had made that comment before The Fake Ad Book was published. We would have put it on the cover for sure.
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Fleming Building
“Okay, I was wrong last month, but this month really does look like the Fleming,” concurs Jacqueline Courteau, about the “Dow building that formerly housed U-M administration.” “As of August 27,” adds Ken Koral, it’s “entirely torn down.”
Read MoreA Sukkot Miracle
I came across my breast cancer goody bag the other day. The surgeon’s scheduler gave it to me five years ago, after we reviewed the pre-op paperwork. You may wonder: “What goes into a breast cancer goody bag?” It’s kind of like,...
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Peggy Sindlinger
Near downtown, in an area of mostly gentrified houses, is an old two-story house with a cornucopia...
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Before the Color Line
In 1882, Moses Fleetwood Walker led the U-M baseball team to a 10–3 season. The next year, he...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | October 2022
Q: The purple canoe sculpture in Bandemer Park is gone! What happened to it? A: That’s “Tulip,” ten aluminum canoes standing vertically and meeting at a point in the middle. In 2020 a vehicle crashed into it, and creator Ray...
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Family Secrets
“As amazed as I have been by the horrors my parents endured,” the U-M clinical psychologist adds,...
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Full Circle
One evening last September, my eight-year-old son and I stumbled into the rustic backyard of...
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A Beautiful Day for a Bike Ride
Ed Erickson’s profile on the Strava fitness app is a love letter to cycling. He posted road-bike...
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Everybody Loves Milton
An administrator hired on an eleven-month contract after two predecessors were forced out could be...
Read MoreQuestion Corner | September 2022
Q. Why does campus have a Diag? Was it planned from the start? A. An 1854 map of campus shows a dozen university buildings placed on the edges of the campus, but no Diag. The pastoral campus interior was without trees, allowing...
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The Manufactured Housing Puzzle
“Where do you live, ma’am?” the officer asked Kathy Hoos not long ago. “Scio Farms.” “You mean...
Read MoreAbortion Refugees
With the Supreme Court’s June reversal of Roe v. Wade, the decision that legalized abortion nationwide, existing state bans and restrictions went back into effect. Though Michigan, too, has an abortion ban on the books, courts...
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Three and Out
When Cox started here in September 2019, he was Ann Arbor’s fifth police chief in ten years. He...
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