Blog Post
Taking Your Dream Library to the Next Level
by eli
I've worked in the Downtown Library for almost 28 years now, and from my first day at work for AADL in 1997, I was always thinking, well that part is nice, but why is THAT like THAT? And why is THAT THERE? And where does THAT HALLWAY go to? Because the Downtown Library is actually 3 buildings built in 1957, 1974, and 1991 glued together (in some places, it is literally glue), there are many puzzles within. My least favorite, and still unsolved, puzzle is: which roof drain feeds into the sanitary sewer sump? But, I digress.
Since 2019, when we released a feasibility study for a mixed-use library, I've been thinking about how a new library could solve all these puzzles, and how great it could be to have multiple stories of housing above Ann Arbor's new Downtown Library. And this summer, on August 5th, the voters of the City of Ann Arbor will decide whether AADL builds a new Downtown Library with housing above on just its current site, or if the project is built both on the current site and the surface of the Library Lane Parking Structure across Library Lane to the north.
As we consider the possibilities, we're inviting our patrons to join us in the act with our Your Dream Library gallery! We're looking for contributions in all media: pencil, crayon, marker, stickers, Perler beads, ceramics, embroidery, latch hook, cross-stitch, whatever inspires you! You can upload your dreams to our gallery and we'll feature our favorites as the Summer goes on.
Now, my background is in architecture, so I wanted to offer some extra options and info for those of you who might want to explore the possibilities of the potential project, especially for those who might want to make their own template, or work to scale in Minecraft or LEGO. And yes, there will be a special category at our 20th Annual LEGO contest on August 3rd just for Dream Libraries... so get stacking!
So, in addition to the blank template, you can start with a top-down plan, a Fifth Avenue elevation to draw from the side, or an isometric 3D template to help your idea leap off the page! (Here's a no-frills video about drawing buildings using isometric graph paper.)
If you want to work with your own medium and want to keep the project to scale, here are some specs to make your own combined site:
- Draw a rectangle 3 units high x 4 units wide. (You pick the units!)
- Draw a second, identical 3x4 rectangle directly below and touching the first rectangle.
- The bottom 1x4 strip of the top rectangle is Library Lane.
That's it! The sites are literally 2 boxes, each with proportions of 3 by 4; in fact 198' x 264' each. The strip for Library Lane includes the street, the parking lanes, plus the sidewalks on both sides.
To make this to scale in Minecraft, each of the two sites should be 60 by 80, with Library Lane at 20. Here's a mockup of what that would look like:
If you want to tackle the possibilities in LEGO, there are a few obvious scales to try! First, microscale, with 2 3x2 plates, a 2x4 plate and a 1x4 to be Library Lane:
The next step up would be for each lot to be a 6x8 plate, or two 6x4s. This version shows Fifth Ave and William in addition to Library Lane:
Of course you can go up from there, with 2 12x16 sites, or 24x32, etc. etc. If you'd like to work in LEGO, no need for the actual pieces; the above renders were done with Bricklink Studio, free digital design software from the LEGO Group with all the bricks you could ever need for your digital builds. Digital LEGO Dream Libraries are highly encouraged! Here's my file with the 3x4 and 6x8 versions to start you off.
We hope to share some Dream Libraries from other patrons with you soon! Show us what you're thinking and we might feature your Dream Library in an upcoming share!
Just contact us or comment below if you have any questions. We can't wait to see what you come up with! We'll choose Dream Libraries to share each week, and the project comes to an exciting conclusion on August 3rd with the 20th Annual AADL LEGO Contest. Hope to see you there!
Blog Post
What IMLS Does
by eli
Last week, the Institute for Museum & Library Services was the subject of an Executive Order, calling for it to be "eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law". A new Acting Director was appointed, who released a first statement. As I write this, it is unknown how the agency's programming, grantmaking, data collection, staffing, and support for local institutions across the US will be impacted.
We've started getting questions from AADL patrons about how this would impact AADL, wanting to know more about how IMLS supports AADL and other institutions. So, I'd like to cover what this means for AADL and its patrons, and recount some of the IMLS work that I've been involved with over my career, to help illuminate the broad range of public works they support, the efficiency and care with which that work is done, and the astounding impact of this tiny corner of the federal government.
TL;DR: While AADL does not receive any direct funding from the federal government or IMLS, AADL patrons do use statewide services, such as MeLCat, that could be affected if IMLS's grantmaking does not continue.
Read on for more about what IMLS is, all the important work it makes possible, what sorts of IMLS projects AADL has been involved with in the past, and how you can help.
IMLS was established by the Republican congress in 1996, combining the National Commission on Library and Information Science and the Institute of Museum services in the Museum and Library Service Act, which was renewed in 2003 and again in 2010. It's an independent federal agency with about 75 full-time employees with a budget of around $300 million. For an agency that operates across the entire US, that is miniscule. To put that in perspective locally, the Ann Arbor Fire Department, that serves a community of about 125,000 residents across 28 square miles has 88 employees. The Ann Arbor Public Schools serve about 17,000 students with a staff of 2,000 employees and have an annual budget of around $300 million.
IMLS is responsible for 0.003% of the US federal budget and costs each American about 75 cents per year. But what they do with that sliver touches every US state and territory, and makes things possible across our society that would not have happened any other way. At the moment, you can see for yourself all the projects that IMLS has funded across the US in the past year with the $266 Million they awarded. (And here's a link to a January 2025 copy of their website from the Internet Archive, in case it's no longer there by the time you read this post.)
Michigan received about $8 Million in grants from IMLS in 2024. $4.8M of that is awarded to the Library of Michigan, sometimes called the State Library. At the moment, every state of the union has a State Library; in most states, it is both an archive of legislative and state history, and critical infrastructural and legal support for the libraries in their states. Two-thirds of IMLS's $266M in grants were paid to state or territorial libraries, in the form of $177M of LSTA (Library Services and Technology Act) grants. Each State Library then uses that funding to provide statewide services and smaller grants to libraries in their state, according to that State Library's goals and strategic plans.
In Michigan, that $4.8M funds the Michigan eLibrary, and MeLCat, which makes it as easy to borrow items from any library in Michigan as it is to borrow an item from another branch of your own library. AADL is a heavy user of MeLCat; in 2024 AADL patrons borrowed 23,181 items from other libraries through the system, and AADL loaned 20,796 to patrons of other libraries. From a technical perspective, MeLCat is an absolute marvel. It combines the catalogs of 437 different libraries into a single catalog of almost 35 Million copies of 9.5 Million different titles, all of it available to anyone with a library card at a participating library.
In addition to MeLCat, the Library of Michigan uses those IMLS funds to provide statewide access to 86 different databases through the Michigan eLibrary, including test prep, business databases, journals, magazines and more. But a large part of the good those IMLS dollars do for the state takes the form of the Library of Michigan's support for dozens of tiny, often rural libraries throughout Michigan, where they provide training for staff and boards, support for early literacy, digitization, and technology, and their own grantmaking program, powered by IMLS dollars, that are often the only way that small libraries are able to try anything new or adapt to the changing needs of their communities.
And that's all in addition to IMLS's direct grant programs. In 2024, on top of the $4.8M paid to the Library of Michigan to support MeLCat and all those other programs, another $1.8M went to 9 museum projects, and $1.6M went to 12 library projects. You can see the details of what those projects were directly from IMLS at the moment. There was also a $10,000 award to the Kent District Library, who won a National Medal for Library Service in 2024. Because in addition to all that work supporting the state libraries and their programs, and their National Leadership Grant program to spread innovation across the industry, and the Native American Library Service Enhancement Grants, IMLS also recognizes and honors excellence in their field.
When I look back through all the IMLS-funded projects I've participated in over my 27 years at AADL, I see some of the most exciting, innovative, and industry-leading work I've had the honor to be involved with. Starting in the late 1900s (ouch), I had the opportunity to work on some flash games to teach science to kids as a part of a partnership between AADL and the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. I made a cave for players to search through, including a tectonic plate puzzle, an earthquake simulator, and an archeological dig. The next year I made a game about a stone-age village where you could tell each villager what you wanted them to work on that week. These games were loaded onto computers (oh yes, Bondi Blue iMacs) at the museum where kids could play them as part of their visit!
For several years, IMLS put on an annual conference called WebWise for staff from both Museums and Libraries to learn best practices from each other. I always found this conference to be an outstanding value for all involved; for a while it was where museums learned from libraries that putting their collections online led to more visits, not fewer visits; and where libraries learned from museums how to deliver high-quality, destination experiences to their patrons. In 2008, we were asked if AADL would be willing to throw something together for a WebWise preconference on mashups. (This was before everything was a mashup.) My team had an idea for a tool that could take data about items from museum collections, run it through a Yahoo! term-extraction system to get the important words from the title of the item and then search for matches on eBay. We called it GoldDiggr (missing vowels were still a new fashionable thing at the time) and demoed it during the conference, showing how data sources could be mashed together quickly in new and interesting ways.
Later at a session at that conference, I made a comment about how applying for federal grants can be a pretty heavy lift for small organizations along several axes; they can be complicated, require in-kind or dollar-for-dollar matches that would put them out of reach for many museums and libraries, and asked if there was some way to lower that threshold to provide smaller grants to smaller orgs without such a hill to climb to apply. An IMLS staffer later told me that my question led to the creation of the IMLS Sparks Ignition Grant program, which did exactly what I had hoped for, leading to some small orgs getting to do new things that might not have been able to apply for the larger grant programs. I later served on expert panels to review Sparks grant applications and other IMLS proposals, visiting IMLS's modest offices near L'Enfant Plaza in DC, where the creativity and innovation in our field -- and the extent of the need in community institutions across America -- was laid bare before us in the applications we reviewed.
Around 2010, AADL and several other libraries participated in an IMLS National Leadership Grant, led by the King County Library System, to help add functionality to the Evergreen open-source Library Automation System, created by the PINES Library Consortium in Georgia, to bring it to the point where it had what larger library systems expected out of their software. (I currently serve on the board of The Evergreen Project, the nonprofit that governs the software.) KCLS moved to Evergreen shortly thereafter, and AADL moved to it in 2018. To give an idea of the scale of the impact of that work, when we moved to a new commercial library system in 2005, it involved an initial purchase price around $500,000 and annual fees of $60,000. When we moved to Evergreen in 2018, it involved no license fee at all, and no annual software license maintenance costs, delivering a much better, more reliable, more flexible system than its proprietary competitors, thanks to the work funded by IMLS, and all the contributors who built Evergreen out along the way.
In 2013, I participated in a project led by the University of Washington and the Music Library Association to attack the thorny problem of how libraries could collect and archive online-only music that had no physical releases, and were only available through unstable platforms with complicated rights. AADL had become a leader in direct licensing at that time and it was an exciting discussion that led to a paper laying out the challenges for music libraries in future, that have only grown as physical music releases have dwindled and online music distribution has amalgamated.
This is just a sample of the things I've been directly involved with, leaving aside all the requests for information about AADL and our initiatives that came from IMLS-funded research projects at library schools across the US; the many IMLS-sponsored training events for library staff where I was invited to speak, and the frequent focus groups from IMLS grantees looking to inform their projects with what works and what doesn't across the industry.
While it only represents three thousandths of one percent of the federal budget, IMLS has touched just about every community of the USA through its most valued local and state institutions, with creativity, innovation, fairness, fiscal discipline, and a return on investment that business can only dream of. IMLS is government at its best; focused, nimble, cost-effective, providing broad value, and amplifying the impact of its dollars with every action it takes.
As of right now, there has not been news of IMLS staff being terminated, and the National Museum and Library Services board, which advises IMLS, sent a letter to their newly appointed director pointing out the laws that govern its existence, operation, and statutory requirements, clearly establishing IMLS as outside the discretionary reach of the Executive Branch. Some states are taking this opportunity to try to disband their State Library. The State of Michigan Department of Education has released a statement detailing the impact that the loss of LSTA funds would have in the state. The Michigan Library Association has released a joint statement with a number of Michigan professional associations. While the near- and long-term future of this work is uncertain, It's very clear that the USA has much more to lose than it stands to gain from the elimination of the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
So what can patrons do about this? EveryLibrary, a national advocacy organization for Libraries, has launched saveimls.org , with several actions you can take to express your support for IMLS. Depending on what happens next, there may be a place for state-level advocacy to shore up the $5M in LSTA grants to the State Library, but it's too soon to say where any of this might lead.
If you've made it this far, you must really love libraries. Thank you for that love and concern. While AADL is relatively well-insulated from this moment, IMLS needs your support for all it does for communities across Michigan and the USA. Thank you so much for reading all this, and thank you for using your library!
Blog Post
Downtown Kids Area Temporarily Closed for Upgrades!
by eli
January and February are usually some of our slowest months of the year at the Downtown Library. While we're not planning any further major upgrades to the current Downtown building, we’re still making the small changes that make sense to keep the building working as well as it can for patrons and staff, and this is a good time to do some small changes.
So, the Downtown Kids Area closed on Monday, January 6 for about 8 weeks for reorganization and updates. We’ll have a better idea of when it will reopen when we get closer to the end of the project. But when it does, patrons will find nice new furniture, more space to move around, a brand-new play feature, and a reorganized collection, using the category system we’ve been using at our branches for years.
Most of the work to be done is to unshelve, relabel, and reshelve almost 50,000 items in their new locations. Yes, the Downtown Kids Area has about as many items on its shelves as the entirety of Westgate Branch; it’s a lot of stuff! Ever since we finished reorganizing the collections at our branches into our category system, patrons have been asking if we can bring that system to the Downtown Library, especially to the Kids collection. That relabeling project is now underway, and teams of staff are relabeling hundreds and hundreds of items every day into this proven system. We’ve found it helps more patrons find more books they’d like to read, and that’s a big part of what libraries are for!
While we’ll be making some changes to the DVD and CD collections as use has been falling, and we’ll be moving shelves around to make better use of the space with wider aisles, the number of books in the room isn’t changing.
And about that new play feature; our Story Team spent time researching and testing different options over the past year to find something new that would be fun for kids of all ages and sizes to be able to play with; something that could also stand up to the heavy use of a busy library. So when the room reopens, patrons will find a brand-new magnet wall! Featuring movable magnetic ramps, spinners, tubes, gears, and more, patrons will be able to make their own ball ramps, working alone or together, and send soft rubber balls bouncing and rolling down the ramps to land in troughs along the wall. We can’t wait to see what our patrons make of this fun new thing to play with at the library.
In addition, furniture that has served a long and happy life will be replaced, and we have a plan for a new addition to the downtown fish tank… so stay tuned for that! In the meantime, we’ve set up a temporary mini Kids Room and play area in the Downtown Lobby, where the Friends of the Library shop was before their move to AADL’s Archives, Acquisitions, and Logistics Facility at 265 Parkland Plaza. This temporary Kids Room will have toys, seating, and a small browsing collection of kids books so that there’s still a good place for our kids and families to play inside at the Library during the coldest part of winter. More to come on the future plans for that space as this project wraps up.
Some patrons may be wondering if our category system will be applied to books at the Downtown Library outside the Kids Area, and the short answer is that we don’t have a plan for that at this time. The longer answer is that there are so many books to relabel, that project would really only make sense in the context of a major project, and that’s still over the horizon. When it starts to come into view… you’ll hear it here first.
Thanks to all our Downtown patrons for their patience through this project. We know that this is a major disruption and it will involve a little reorientation for regular users when it reopens. But we know these upgrades will make family visits to the Downtown Library even more fun and special, and we can’t wait to welcome you all back!
Thanks for using your library!
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A Bicentennial Year in Review: Eli's top 100 of the Ann Arbor 200
by eli
I can't believe I'm saying this in 2025... but Welcome to my Blog! To have one official place to link to when I want to post more than can fit on social media channels, we're bringing back the AADL Director's Blog, where I'll post about great stuff happening at the library, and keep our patrons updated on what's going on with library buildings, initiatives, and services. You can find older posts made to the Director's Blog as part of Library News.
It's official; Ann Arbor's Bicentennial Year is behind us, and with it the largest content production project AADL has ever attempted, even bigger than our gigantic Summer Game.
Hopefully you've been following along all year as we released documentaries, essays, features, music, art, poetry, newly-digitized documents, walking tours, exhibits, and much more. If not, that's ok; the plan is for it to all be around for the rest of time!
I am just so incredibly proud of the AADL Archives Team for the astounding amount of work they produced this year for the community. Every single one of these 200 releases is engaging, creative, informative, authoritative, and brings the history of our community to life in new and exciting ways. Thank you as well to all of the artists, filmmakers, musicians, poets, researchers, photographers, writers, actors, and mimes who contributed to this project.
But 200 things, that's a lot of things! It's easy to miss things that you might be super interested in. So as the year wound up, I started pulling together a list of my favorite projects from our bicentennial year.... and by the time we got to December 31st, my list had 100 projects on it. That is... also a lot of things. Ope!
Congratulations to our Archives Team for making through this very busy year: Amy Cantú, Darla Welshons, Elizabeth Smith, Heidi Morse, Katrina Anbender, Carolyn Countegan, and Archives Manager Andrew MacLaren, who had this bananas idea 4+ years ago. We know we've done justice to the work the Ann Arbor Public Library did in 1974 to honor the Sesquicentennial; and to our successors who will be celebrating Ann Arbor's Semiquincentennial in 2074... consider the gauntlet thrown!
So, here's my sorted list of my 100 favorite projects of Ann Arbor 200. I hope you'll take a look over the whole project; it was a challenge keeping this list to just 100 amazing bits of local history. Enjoy, and thanks for using your library!
Documentaries & Films
Yes, this is all 25 video projects we released this year. We do plan to put these on DVD for the circulating collection. You can also expect us to keep producing projects like these... just not 25 in a single year!
#010: There Went The Neighborhood: The Closing of Jones School
#013: Theater for All: Here Comes Wild Swan!
#020: The Ann Arbor Ozone Homecoming Parade
#050: Keith & Martin / Martin & Keith: Elegy for the \aut\BAR
#054: Branching Narratives: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Tappan Oak
#060: A Historic Tour of Hertler Brothers and Downtown Home & Garden
#107: Toast of the Town: The Story of Angelo’s
#131: Local Movement: Five Decades of Dance in Ann Arbor
#136: 50 Years of Celebration: The Dance for Mother Earth Powwow
#143: A Day at the Dairy: Ann Arbor’s Washtenaw Dairy
#149: Setting the Pace: Ann Arbor’s Running History
#154: The Loop of Pain: Ann Arbor’s Semi-official Mountain Bike Trails
#158: Craig Walsh: Monuments: Documenting the Wheeler Park Installation
#160: DeLong’s
#164: Lumpen Hippie Light Show
#170: I Remember When (Bicentennial Remix)
#173: Right to Read: The Ann Arbor King Case
#177: The French Dukes: Rhythm, Roots, and Legacy
#180: The Old Neighborhood Reunion
#187: Iyengar in Ann Arbor: An American Yoga Story
#191: A Walk Through the Ann Arbor Farmers Market
#194: Room for Change: Ann Arbor’s Fair Housing Protests in the 1960s
#195: Last Summer: Recording of Premiere Performance
#196: Relentless Warrior: Al Wheeler - Ann Arbor’s First Black Mayor
#198: Echoes of Techno: Electronic Music in Ann Arbor
Music & Sound
From climate data-based synthesis to a new track from Ann Arbor's own Athletic Mic League, here are 8 projects to keep your ears busy for months to come!
#043: Scoring the Archive
#097: “This is the Town That Was”, A Musical History of Ann Arbor, December 16th 1974
#125: Summer Echoes: An Original Composition Created from Climate Data
#150: Condemned to a Soulless Wealth: An Original Composition based on LBJ’s Great Society Speech
#159: Last Known Address: Original EP from Timothy Monger
#179: Made History: A New Track by Athletic Mic League
#181: Fifth Wall: A Soundtrack for the Michigan Theater
#183: WCBN Local Music Show Archive
Art & Poetry
In 2023, we issued a call for contributors, inviting local artists and writers to pitch projects to be a part of Ann Arbor 200. Some of the most unique and engaging works came from responses to this open call.
#041: Song of the Editor: Poems and Other Miscellany in the Signal of Liberty
#064: W.E. Upjohn Peony Garden: Original Letterpress Print
#100: Summer Game 2024 Map Annotated
#114: Parker Mill County Park through the Seasons
#135: Ann Arbor Signs: Original Prints
#140: Celebration and Recognition: A Woven Portrait of Local Female Leaders
#152: Natural Ann Arbor: A Map
#155: A Huron River Séance: Psychogeographic Performances by the River
#162: Black History Bicentennial Mural
#167: Recreated Postcards
#171: Beauty’s in the Eye of the Tree-Holder: A People’s Catalog of Ann Arbor’s Trees
#174: Four Poems
#176: Ceramic Leaves and Leaflets from Native Tree Species
#178: Was Here / Now Gone - Poem and film
#184: Lost Ann Arbor: New Paintings
#193: Original Poems Inspired by Robert Hayden
Local Business
There is a ton of Local Business content in the Ann Arbor 200, including interviews, documentaries, and advertising ephemera; these are just a few of my favorites.
#028: Metzger’s
#052: Seva
#070: Weber’s
#079: Angelo’s
#108: Treasure Mart
#117: NYPD
#161: Pilar’s
Digitization Projects
Several of the Ann Arbor 200 were huge projects in their own right; releases of newly-digitized or compiled materials now a permanent part of our online Local History collection. It's quite apt that the project began with the release of the full run of the Observer so far, and ended with just a taste of Wystan Stevens' enormous slide collection, which will continue to grow for years to come.
#002: The Ann Arbor Observer
#021: The Huron Valley Ad-Visor
#118: Ann Arbor Yearbooks 1885-2000
#120: Andrea Fulton Concert Photo Collection
#145: 200 Years of A2Votes
#147: Advertising Ephemera from Ann Arbor’s Past
#157: Art Fare Magazine: 1973-1979
#200: The Wystan Stevens Collection
Features
Ok, here's where I really struggled to be selective. So many of the Ann Arbor 200 were features about forgotten, unknown, or under-appreciated tales from our history. This certainly isn't all of them, but they were all highlights to me!
#007: Ann Arbor Takes Flight
#011: Looking for Love in Ann Arbor
#014: Ann Arbor’s Lost Poet: Charles Henry Shoeman
#024: A Full Dance Card: Ann Arbor’s Chequamegon Band & Orchestra
#030: Let’s Go Skating: Ann Arbor’s Ivory Palace Rollerdrome, 1938-1951
#044: The Art & Life of Virginia Hendrickson Irvin
#047: Old Wild Cat Times: Frauds, Fake Towns, and Counterfeits in the era of Free Banking
#053: E.J. Knowlton’s Portable, Pliable, Patented Baths
#056: Prentiss Ware: Optimism in the Face of Adversity
#062: Emma E. Bower: A Woman With Her Own Ideas
#065: In Memory of Ann Arbor’s Student Army/Navy Training Corps
#074: Titus “Potato” Bronson: Ann Arbor’s Pioneering Potato Man
#078: Clifford Bryant’s Namesake: Bryant Elementary School
#080: Lionel “Mike” Ames: Michigan’s Premier Female Impersonator
#087: Sophia Pierce: Columnist & Clairvoyant
#092: The Steel Magnolias: Ann Arbor’s First Women’s Hockey Team
#095: Sammy Ross: Ann Arbor’s Early Auto Racing Ace
#103: James Babcock: Ann Arbor’s Most Eligible Bachelor
#109: Bobby and the Old Professor: Adventures in Science, 1938-1949
#122: Ann Arbor Gymkhana: 30 Years of Trampolines, Spaceball, & Fitness
#132: From Ann Arbor to Normandy: 2nd Lieutenant Jack Weese
#188: The Instructors of the Army Japanese Language School
#189: A History of Mime in Ann Arbor
#190: Percy “Mr. Bones” Danforth
Essays & Stories
I'm so thankful that these writers chose to tell these stories as part of the Ann Arbor 200:
#165: There Was Only One Ollie McLaughlin
#172: Korean Restaurants Made Me Feel Less Alone
#185: Borders in the Community
#192: Wonderful Town
Exhibits
Some of these are online-only exhibits where you can slide across the image to compare then and now, and some were mounted and installed in the 2nd floor Archives Gallery at the Downtown Library. But they're all part of aadl.org now for posterity:
#005: Recapturing Ann Arbor: Then & Now Images
#023: Dance, Music, Art & Community: 50 Years of the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow
#046: For the Record: a Zine for Record Store Day
#059: Aerial Updates: Ann Arbor from Above, Then & Now
#139: Ann Arbor News Photographs In Color
#142: The Observer Observed: Online Exhibit and Interview Collection
#182: The Washtenaw County Courthouses in LEGO
Video games:
Dr. Alvin Wood Chase was quite an unusual guy, and these three retro games, playable in your browser or on mobile, give you an interesting take on his interesting life.
#199: Dr. Chase: A Trio of new Throwback Video Games about an Ann Arbor Legend
Thanks again to everyone who was a part of this enormous project. Rest assured that we'll be continuing to produce unusual takes on local history, and you can expect many of these pieces to show up on Social Media, in the Summer Game badges, and maybe even the Summer Game Shop for years to come!
Happy Birthday, Ann Arbor! Now... let's do something else for a while. =)