Author Event | Vanishing Ann Arbor
When
Thursday July 25, 2019: 7:00pm to 8:30pm Add to Calendar / Add to Google Calendar
Where
Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room
Description
What restaurant did Car & Driver magazine rank as one of the best places for ribs?
When did we finally get a professional fire department?
What was special about the downtown Denny's franchise?
Which longtime business got a Centennial Award even though it wasn't quite 100 years old?
And who exactly was the man whose name is still inscribed at Fourth Avenue and Ann Streets?!
Join Vanishing Ann Arbor authors Patti Smith and Britain Woodman as they take you on a tour of our city’s past, from Bach & Abel’s dry goods store to Aunt Agatha’s bookstore. Learn about the history of public schools in Ann Arbor beginning with the log cabin built at the corner of Main and Ann Streets, through the ward schools, and to Ann Arbor High. Find out how folks passed time in the 1880s, from ice skating to bowling to socials. Trace the history of bookstores from Wahr’s and Sheehan’s to Common Language and the Wooden Spoon. Walk the streets with school principal Mary Clark, philanthropist Elizabeth Dean, and publisher Alvin Chase.
Come along to reminisce about the places you remember—Maude’s, Fiegel’s, Drake’s—and learn about the places you don’t.
This event includes a book signing and books will be for sale.
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Subjects
Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room
Adult
Adult
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Comments
Please include African…
Please include African American spots so no one is invisible.
Hi! We will be talking about…
Hi! We will be talking about the Kayser building for sure. What else did you have in mind? Thanks!
Check this out! In 1991 my…
Check this out! In 1991 my coworker took me to the Community Leaning Post. I had no idea the honor at the time.
https://aadl.org/annstreetblackbusinessdistrict
I checked out and read the…
I checked out and read the book. I was caught off guard and found the content entirely different than I expected. To be honest, the very end of the book reflects my expectation of the direction of the narrative.
The city now, vs. the pictures in the book are not what my dad (of yesteryear) remembers.
Hi! Thanks for reading our…
Hi! Thanks for reading our book. If you don't mind my asking, what sort of information were you and your dad anticipating? Thanks!