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Ann Arbor Observer, June 2019

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Ann Arbor Observer
Month
June
Year
2019

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Ann Arbor Observer, May 2019

Parent ID
Ann Arbor Observer
Month
May
Year
2019

The following articles appeared in the May 2019 issue of the Ann Arbor Observer:

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Trinity Lutheran, 1893-1993

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Ann Arbor Observer, July 1993

When Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church was built in 1893, on the corner of Fifth Avenue and William, its mission was to give Ann Arbor's Lutheran population the choice of English-language church services. Ann Arbor's original Lutheran church, Zion Lutheran, held its services in German. That left the city's growing number of Lutherans of other nationalities unserved. And by then, even some German Lutheran families were more comfortable speaking English. Longtime Trinity member Gladys Brown remembers that her parents joined the new church because "they wanted their children brought up in an English-speaking church."

The impulse that led to Trinity's founding came from Carl W. Belser, a Lutheran minister who taught Semitic languages at the U-M. Concerned that Lutheran college students did not have a church home in Ann Arbor, he began in 1892 to hold informal Sunday afternoon sessions. As the group grew and townsfolk also began coming, he appealed to the Home Mission Board of the General Synod for help in starting a permanent congregation.

The first minister of Trinity was William. L. Tedrow, who came from Indiana to preach one Sunday and was so well liked that the congregation asked the board to let him stay. He took over in February 1893. The congregation was formally organized on Easter Sunday, April 2, 1893, with forty charter members, and by June they had found a building site on the corner of William and Fifth. They moved the wooden Italianate house standing there to the back of the lot on the William Street side, where it became the parsonage. The congregation met at the U-M's ecumenical student center, Newberry Hall (now the Kelsey Museum), while the 400-seat church was under construction. The completed church was dedicated April 5, 1896.

The Ann Arbor Register for April 9, 1896, described the new church as "a neat and cozy structure and a ·great credit both to the pastor and people." Entering from either William or Fifth, people would go down an aisle to the sanctuary, its two identical wings decorated with arch-shaped stained-glass windows. The basement, divided into two rooms and a Small kitchen, was used for Sunday school classes and group functions.

Music was supplied by a hand-powered pump organ. Old-timers remember the Christmas when the man who pumped the bellows for the organ agreed to play San~a. In the middle of the service the organ suddenly stopped. It turned out that the glue holding Santa's beard contained chloroform, which had put him to sleep.

The ambitious building plan left the young congregation financially strapp~d: though the church was designed with a tall central bell tower, it stood empty until 1919, when Saranda Miller, an employee at Muehlig's, gave money for a bell in memory of her husband, Joseph. From then on, the bell rang before each service. At midnight on Christmas Eve, member Gertrude Wagner remembers, the choir would climb a ladder to the top of the tower and sing Christmas carols, the music wafting out over the surrounding homes.

From the beginning, Trinity had a close relationship to the university. Lutheran college students were encouraged to sing in the choir or teach Sunday School, and women from Zion and Trinity took turns serving them Sunday dinners. With the .increase in university enrollment after World War I, Trinity pastors took on the additional job of student ministry. After World War II, with another enrollment jump, the United Lutheran Church bought property at Forest and Hill to build the Lord of Light campus ministry, and hired the Reverend Henry Yoder (pastor from 1932 to 1945) away from Trinity to lead it.

Yoder's successor at Trinity, Walter Brandt, was the last pastor to live in the William Street parsonage. Already an old house when the church was built, it was very run-down by the late 1940's. The congregation renovated the parsonage to make it the parish hall, housing the office, five much-needed Sunday school classrooms, and a caretaker's apartment. They bought a house on Granger for Brandt and his wife, Mary.

At the same time, the congregation decided also to attack the backlog of church repairs that had piled up during the Depression, when there was no money, and World War II, when there were no supplies. Some suggested it would make more sense just to move, but the love of the original building and the importance of the downtown location--especially since Zion Lutheran had just moved out to West Liberty- made them hesitate.

In the end, the decision was made for them. Brandt's successor, Richard Pries, had been on the job only two days in 1956 when he was visited by representatives of the YM-YWCA. The YWCA had for years been based in the former Christian Mack house at the comer of William and Fourth A venue, and the YMCA had its own building on North Fourth. But the organizations had merged in 1953 and wanted to build a joint facility on the whole block of William between Fourth and Fifth. They needed the church and parish hall to complete the parcel.

Parishioners were shocked. In her history of the church, 100 Years in God's Grace, Mary Sedlander writes, "They were a congregation of 335 people, few of whom were well-to-do: They had only, within the last few years, managed to get their budget balanced and their property in good repair. They had just welcomed a young, inexperienced pastor after having had none at all for six months. Now they were being asked, within a period of two years, to locate suitable property and erect a new church building."

But rather than face being enclosed on two sides by the "Y," they agreed. They bought a piece of land on Stadium from Gottlob Schumacher. U-M architecture professor Ralph Hammett, a Trinity member, designed a modem church very different from the original. He did keep one feature: a central tower, from which Saranda Miller's bell still rings.

Both the "Y" and the church thrived in their new locations. Since the move, Trinity's membership has grown to 1 ,250, making it one of the city's largest churches. Unlike many Lutheran congregations, Trinity's is ethnically diverse. Current pastor Walter Arnold says that about half the members are not even from Lutheran backgrounds.

Trinity is celebrating its hundredth anniversary this year with a series of events structured to look ahead as well as back. In January they celebrated the past by inviting former pastors and interns and conducting a service with an old liturgy. A March service was devoted to the present, and in April they used a new liturgy and music. by contemporary composers. For his sermon, Arnold used Jeremiah 29: 11, "For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

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Nickels Arcade: The First 100 Years

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Ann Arbor Observer, July 2017

It's a mystery why State St. butcher Tom Nickels decided to build an elegant shopping arcade. According to his family he'd never seen an arcade, yet the one he built is breathtakingly beautiful. His descendants still own it, and four generations of family members are convening this month to celebrate its 100th birthday.

Nickels' father, John, had a butcher shop at 326 S. State and an ice business directly behind it, selling ice from Traver Creek. He lived at 334 S. State with his wife, Elizabeth, and their four children.

John Nickels died in 1907 and Elizabeth in 1913. Tom inherited the meat market, ice company, and family home, and bought the land back to Maynard from his siblings. His granddaughter, Elizabeth Herbert Becker, who now owns the arcade with her brother Fred Herbert and cousin Fred Nickels, surmises that he learned about arcades from European magazines and newspapers.

Nickels hired local architect Herman Pipp, who designed the arcade in an elegant beaux arts style with three-story pillars on the State St. side and an ivory-colored terra-cotta facade. Separated by an arch, the rest of the arcade is more modest, two stories high and faced with yellow brick, but with terra-cotta windowsills decorations tie it in with the front.

Nickels didn't build the whole arcade himself: the southeast corner was constructed by the Farmers and Mechanics Bank, which bought the land from him and also gave him a loan. The bank was finished in 1915, but the rest of the arcade wasn't ready for occupancy until 1917 due to shortages of materials during World War I. There were eighteen stores on the first floor, each with a mezzanine and a basement storage area. The second floor was rented to offices or businesses. "It's a little gem box," says Gene Hopkins, an architect who worked on its 1987 restoration. "It's unique. You don't see things like it every day."

Tom's daughter, Theodora Nickels Herbert, recalled the grand opening in a 1974 interview: "There were flowers all around, and it was quite a deal." They came from the Blu Maize Blossom Shop in the arcade. There's still a florist in the arcade, the University Flower Shop. The Arcade Barber Shop now has the spot where barber Myron Baker opened in 1917.

In 1921, Peter Van Boven opened a men's clothing store in the north State St. storefront, opposite the bank. He added a shoe store on the other side of the arcade in 1933. Karen Godfrey, third generation of the Van Boven line and first woman to work in the clothing store, explains its origins: "I understand that my grandpa went into the men's clothing business because he was a dapper fellow and had an interest in men's fashions. Back in the day, the store's emphasis was on selling suits and furnishings. As times changed the store had to adapt." They continue to sell formal clothes but now also have T-shirts, golf attire, Hawaiian shirts (including a Michigan one), and blue jeans.

The Caravan Shop opened in 1927. It was the creation of Frank Karpp, who had worked for Texaco in Africa and the Far East. He used his connections there to procure unique items for his store. It too has been there ever since.

Many other stores that opened in the first decade stayed for years, including a post office substation (until 1998), Bay's Jewelers (until 1992), the Betsy Ross Restaurant (1975), and the Van Buren lingerie shop (in the arcade until 1987, and nearby on State until 1994).

Early second-floor occupants included two prominent doctors, R. Bishop Canfield and Albert Furstenberg. Clarence Fingerle's Arcade Cafeteria, upstairs from the post office, sold reasonably priced food like creamed shredded chicken and dumplings and baked Virginia ham. The late Ted Heusel remembered eating there regularly with his mother.

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When Tom Nickels died in 1933, the business passed on to his two children, Dora Herbert and her brother, James Nickels.

James' son Fred Nickels, now ninety, recalls that during the Depression, some tenants paid part of their rent in kind, including Roy Hoyer, who had his dance studio on the second floor. "I had to take tap dancing lessons for five years before being allowed to quit," he laughs.

Fred Nickels remembers accompanying his mother to the arcade when she got her hair styled at the Blue Bird Salon, and Mr. Karpp at the Caravan Shop warning him not to touch the exotic merchandise. He had a better time hanging out with janitor Zonie Steinke, his maternal uncle, while he closed up for the night, stoking the furnace and filling the coal bin under the Maynard St. entrance.

James died from tuberculosis in 1936. His half of the ownership went to his two sons, Fred and Bob, but since they were still children, a professional management group was hired. In 1965 the family bought the original bank building and now owns the whole arcade.

"You could survive at the arcade with everything you needed," recalls Dora's daughter, Elizabeth Herbert Becker, who was born in 1936. "You had a post office, restaurant, a bank, and ladies' and men's stores. Everything but groceries, and you could get those at White Market" around the corner on William. As a teenager, Elizabeth worked for her aunt, Bee Nickels, who lived in the Nickels house on Maynard (site of the Collegian building) and owned a store that specialized in baby and children's clothing imported from Europe. As a young adult, she worked at Bay's.

Elizabeth's brother, Fred Herbert, born in 1941, recalls how important the arcade was to their mother: "It was a vital, essential part of her life. She patronized it two or three days a week. She was friends with the tenants." His childhood memories include "the aroma of grilled pecan rolls from the Betsy Ross wafting up from a vent into the concourse."

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Van Boven's two stores made it through the Depression and World War II. In 1973 the family hired Robert Frost to manage the shoe store, which he later bought. Frost remembers those as the golden years of the arcade, when Jacobson's department store and then Borders books drew a high-end clientele to the area. "We thought it would never end. We had such pride to be on State St.; it was the place to be."

In 1990, U-M student Rich Bellas started working in the shoe store part time. He stayed on after graduation, and became Frost's partner. In 2014 they sold the store to Roger Pothus, the owner of Renaissance clothing. Bellas still works there, but Frost runs shoe stores in Petoskey and Traverse City.

After the Nickelses and the Van Bovens, the arcade's other great dynasty began in 1963, when Jim and Augusta Edwards opened Maison Edwards. Augusta, from Italy, based the inventory on things in European stores such as leather goods, scarves, perfume, chess sets, and pens. In 1964 the couple bought the store next door and turned it into a tobacco shop. From then on Jim ran the tobacco store and Augusta the original store. In 1965 the Edwardses bought the Van Buren shop, and in 1973 they bought the Caravan Shop from the Karpps.

"When they sold to Jim Edwards, they charged him full price for every item in the store, even some damaged things," recalls Fred Herbert. Even so, as the Karpps were childless, the Edwardses helped them out in their declining years. "When the Karpps died," Herbert adds, "they left them more money than they'd paid for the shop."

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The Edwardses hired Linda Liechty to manage the Van Buren shop and eventually sold it to her. They also helped Liechty's daughter, Rhonda Gilpin, buy the arcade's antique shop when she was just nineteen. She'd asked Jim for advice, and when she couldn't get a bank loan, he lent her the money himself. She opened the Arcadian in 1983, and ten years later, when Edwards was ready to retire, bought the Caravan Shop, too.

Gilpin's children grew up in the arcade, just as she did. "Most kids learn to ride their bikes on the sidewalk in front of their house. I learned riding down the arcade," explains her daughter Bailey, who works with her mother in the Arcadian. Son Steve is working on a master's at U-M but still works with his mother in the summer.

Chuck Ghawi also got involved in the arcade at a young age. As a student at U-M in the 1980s, Ghawi walked into Maison Edwards Tobacconist and asked for a job. He remembers that "three men in three-piece suits all said 'no' at the same time." But he kept coming back, and they finally relented and hired him part time. After graduation Ghawi kept in touch with the Edwardses, and in 1991 they sold him the store. Although he only occasionally smokes a cigar or a pipe, he still loves the business and the chance to visit with customers. "I don't get to travel because I have to be in the store, but the world comes here," he says.

In 1987, when the arcade was seventy years old, it received National Register of Historic Places designation. Architects Four was hired to do a restoration. They repaired or replaced terra-cotta that was cracked or damaged, repaired the skylight, designed consistent signage, moved the AC units, and removed the asphalt tile covering the glass-block floors.

The biggest retail tenant now is Bivouac, which sells outdoor gear and clothing from the former bank and several neighboring State St. storefronts. But owner Ed Davidson says that when he first talked to the arcade's management company about renting space, they turned him down. "They said, 'You look like a bum off the street, and you want to rent a clothes store?'" he recalls.

Davidson argued that the jeans and army surplus he sold were the new trend, but his long hair and brief credit history--he'd only been in business a year and a half--worked against him. So he phoned Dora Herbert to plead his case, offering to put up as many months' rent as she wanted in escrow. To his surprise, she asked only for two months' rent--and came to his grand opening in her wheelchair.

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Today, Nickels Arcade is a mix of new and old stores. Entering the tobacco store is like being in a time warp, while Comet Coffee and Babo provide a hip European look. Many tenants have left the floor bare with the original maroon, gray, and white tiles. Some have also kept the mezzanines, usually for offices. The original bank safe and vault are still in the basement of Bivouac, used for storage.

The arcade does show its age. Tenants note that there are no elevators to the second floor, uncertain heat, and no central air. And as beautiful as it is, it's a landmark mainly to people who spend time on campus. "I have people come in and say they've lived in Ann Arbor for twenty years and never knew this existed," says Rich Bellas.

Still, the overwhelming opinion of the tenants is that they love the arcade. Graphic artist Mike Savitski, who designed the concourse banners announcing the 100th birthday, has had an office upstairs since 1998. He says he especially appreciates the location during Art Fair, when he can work quietly, then walk out to "find the place packed like sardines," and at Christmas, when the arcade becomes "a Dickens-looking scene with greens hanging, lights glowing, troubadours singing, and the cold outside."

Architect Lincoln Poley, a tenant since 1987, loves "the architectural style, the openness of the building, the fenestration, and the decorative elements." Landscape designer Norm Cox (1995) appreciates "the sense of community combined with the cool factor of working in a pedestrian arcade located across the street from the Central Campus and all of its energy."

"I'm an architecture and history buff from way back," Savitski says. "The arcade embodies both these things. To walk through it several times a day is a real treat."

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For nearly two centuries, volunteers and professionals have connected local readers to a wider world.

From its earliest days Ann Arbor has been a reading town with enthusiastic library supporters. Its first library was launched in 1827, just threeyears after the ci!J was founded. Even so, the history of our libraries is not a straight line from then to now. Different threads, professional and volunteer, paid and free, have woven back and forth ever since.

Today those strands are woven tightly together: we now have the professional Ann Arbor District Library and two independent volunteer groups that work closely with it. The Friends of the Library turns sixty-three this year, and the Ladies Library Association celebrates its sesquicentennial this month -- jointly with the AADL, which is marking its own twentieth year of independence (see Events, October 1).

We know about the 1827 library because in 1830, George Corselius ran an article lamenting its deficiencies. The editor of the Western Emigrant sought "twenty or thirty individuals" able to pay $3 each to expand that small collection into a more robust "circulating library." For that fee, readers could read Fanny Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans or the Encyclopedia Americana. Other private libraries followed, as well as reading clubs whose members bought books to share.

It wasn't until 1856 that the city had its first free, publicly accessible library. When the Union High School opened that year at the comer of State and Huron, citizens could use the library in the superintendent's office.

In 1866 the Ladies Library Association was formed as a subscription library. According to the group's history, the thirty-five founders -- "a determined group of socially prominent local women" -- paid $3 to join and $1 a year in dues for the privilege of borrowing books from its collection. They also sponsored lectures, concerts, art shows, and readings.

After renting various places, in 1885 the LLA bought a lot at 324 E. Huron. The club hired Chicago architects Allen and Irving Pond -- whose mother, Mary, was a member of the LLA -- to design the city's first freestanding library there.

Four years later, in 1889, the school board moved the high school library into its own room, and hired twenty-three-year-old typist Nellie Loving as the district's first librarian. She stayed for thirty-nine years and was an energetic advocate. "She even went to the firemen at the station," recalled Elizabeth Stack, a founder of the Friends of the Library. "They were just sitting around. 'Why don't you read something?' she asked." She followed up by bringing them books, which they later returned asking for something "livelier."

Loving's response is not on record, but the ladies of the LLA didn't just want to entertain readers-they saw themselves as "a force for intellectual and moral improvement." The minutes of the group's 1872 annual meeting observe that though the demand for fiction exceeded the supply, "we are happy to state that a large proportion of the books purchased during the year are of a character to stimulate earnest thought and fully meet the needs of the intellectual mind."

From its start, the LLA women wanted a free public library -- but they couldn't get the city to fund it. Finally, in 1902, LLA president and school board member Anna Botsford Bach suggested that the two groups apply jointly for a $20,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate who was building libraries all across America. However, they deadlocked over the location: the school board insisted that the library be in or near the high school, while the LLA wanted a separate site.

The problem was solved two years later, but at a high cost: in 1904, the high school burned down. Luckily students rescued most of the 8,000 books in the middle of the night; they were stored across the street in the Methodist Church's parlor.

The school board applied for and won a new $30,000 Carnegie grant. The library was built alongside and connected to the new high school, but the school faced State St. and had a skin of brick, while the library faced Huron and was finished in stone.

In 1916, on its fiftieth anniversary, the LLA gave its collection of several thousand books to the public library, and its building to the school board. The building was used by the Red Cross in World War I, and later by the Boy Scouts. It was tom down in 1945; its site is now occupied by the fortress-like Michigan Bell building.

In 1928, Nellie Loving's successor, Frances Hannum, separated the school and public collections. She moved the schoolbooks to the third floor and made the bottom two floors a public library, with the lower level the children's room.

In 1953, the city sold the high school to the U-M, using the money to start work on what is now Pioneer High. The university renamed the old school the Frieze Building, after a beloved classics professor. When it was tom down in 2007 to make way for North Quad, the library's Huron St. face was incorporated into the wall of the quad-what preservationists call a facadectomy.

The school's move again brought up the question of where the public library belonged. The Friends of the Library was organized in 1953 to lobby for a downtown site: the comer of Fifth and William, where the old Beal house was for sale. Elizabeth Stack organized the Friends' first fundraising book sale on the grounds of the house. Friends member Bob Iglehart recalled in

The Ladies Library Association built its own "circulating library" on Huron in 1885. a 1995 remembrance that "it was a rather pitiful affair, not a whole lot of books, but there were also homemade cookies, potted plants, and the general aspect of a ladies church affair." And it raised enough money to rent a bookmobile to take books to playgrounds that summer.

The schools did buy the site, and the new library, designed by Midland modernist Alden Dow, was dedicated on October 13, 1957. Clements Library director Howard Peckham said that the shared civic space "added an extra room to each of our houses." The Friends moved their growing collection of donated books out of Stack's garage and into the library's basement, and their sales to its sheltered front porch.

The new library was still run by the school system, so the Friends lobbied for a citizens' committee to advise the school board on the library's needs. Fred Mayer, a committee member in the 1960s, recalls that they dealt with such issues as fees for nonresidents, problem patrons, new programs, and summer reading.

Finances got easier after 1973, when the school board put a separate 1.3-mill tax for the library on the ballot. It got more votes than the schools millage, and in 1974, the library added a 20,000-square foot addition. Designed by architect and book lover Don Van Curler, its high wells of windows and enclosed garden fit with the original Dow design. In 1991 Osler/ Milling designed a second addition, adding two floors to the Van Curler addition, renovating the older part, and updating mechanical systems.

In 1980 the Friends expanded their annual sales into a bookshop in the library's basement. Elizabeth Ong, who organized it, is still an active volunteer. The shop was managed for many years by volunteer Mary Parsons, who stressed in her final report that "the sales should always be considered a community service first." But in addition to getting books into the hands of new readers, the sales also raised a lot of money. The Friends used to sponsor the "Booked for Lunch" speaker series and many other services and amenities such as literacy programs, staff workshops and scholarships, and taking books to hospitals and senior residences. They also advocated for the new branches and led millage campaigns.

In 1994, when the state's Proposal A took away school boards' authority to levy taxes for public libraries, the schools and city council sponsored creation of a new district library. An interim board was created, with Mayer as president, to divide the buildings and land, and reconfigure services that had been provided by the schools.

On June 10, 1996, voters in the Ann Arbor School District overwhelmingly approved a two-mill district library tax, and elected the first library board. Of the original seven members, only Ed Surovell remains today. Twenty years later, he says, "We're dramatically better, with higher attendance and a higher number of programs." He points to advances such as more foreign language books, the incorporation of the county library for the blind, and the construction of three new branches, Malletts Creek, Pittsfield, and Traverwood, plus the expansion of the Westgate branch.

As for the Internet, Josie Parker, director of the library since 2002, says, "We decided, instead of fighting it, to use it as a tool." Parker points out that "the public can now use the library's catalogue 2417 wherever they may be." Reserving or renewing books and getting books from other libraries are also much easier. The online Summer Game attracts 7,000-9,000 players, from children to adults.

Although Ann Arbor voters have a history of supporting library funding, in 2012 they turned down a millage to build a new downtown library. Since then, the AADL has been figuring out how to best use the present building, make necessary repairs, and, in Parker's words, "match the collection with the space." Fiction has been moved to the second floor and magazines and local history materials to the third floor. The first floor still has art prints, DVDs, and new and Zoom Lends books (high-demand volumes that rent for $1 a week), along with art, science and music tools. These are stored on wheeled carts, so a large area can be cleared for special events such as the Maker Faire and a comic book convention. A library board slate running in November (seep. 35) says they'll make a new millage vote a priority.

Like the library itself, the Friends now make greater use of the Internet. In Parsons' time, when they spotted valuable books or documents, they worked at either finding a place to donate them, perhaps to the Bentley or Clements, or sold them. The Internet has made this process much easier. (It helps that many of their sorters are retired librarians or specialists who are good at identifying books of interest.)

When the elevators failed during a routine inspection in 2014, the Friends bookstore moved up to the first floor. Business was so good there that they stayed. The group now annually gives the library $100,000 or more; the money is used mostly for children's activities, including library visits for every second grader in the district. The Friends' former basement space is now the AADL's "Secret Lab," where children can work on messier projects such as cooking or art.

The Ladies Library Association also is still active. One of its earlier members, Alice Wethey, "was a terrific treasurer," says Joan Innes, a member for sixty-three years. "She was a tremendous investor and put our money into blue chip stocks." The LLA's twenty-woman board, which includes both Innes and her artist daughter, Sarah, uses the income to support the library's purchase of art books, framed fine art reproductions that patrons can borrow, and art-themed games for the children's department. As the new branches opened, the LLA also bought original works by local artists to display there.

The library has just hired its own volunteer coordinator, Shoshana Hurand, formerly with the Arts Alliance. "It's a real breakthrough and will offer volunteers a wider variety of opportunities," says library board member Margaret Leary. Parker explains that until now library volunteers have been handled by whoever answered the phone for the specific project. Now one person will see where volunteers might fit-maybe with kids' sewing or art projects, or online help, or in many other ways. The Friends will stay totally separate, although both entities will probably send people to each other.

On October 1 (see Events), the Ann Arbor District Library and the Ladies Library Association will celebrate their twentieth and !50th anniversaries, respectively. The event will feature a talk by Francis Blouin, U-M professor of history and information and retired head of the Bentley Historical Library, entitled "Connecting the City."

"We talk a lot these days about 'connectivity' that now means being plugged into the Internet and all the information it provides," Blouin explains. "But being connected certainly predates the arrival of the smartphone. Ann Arbor in the nineteenth century, though a small town, also wanted to be connected to the wider world." Thanks to generations of avid readers and hardworking library supporters, those connections now are stronger than ever.

[Caption 1]: Founded in 1866 as a subscription library, the Ladies Library Association continues to support library purchases. Artist-member Sarah Innes envisioned an early meeting (left) and painted a group portrait today (below).

[Caption 2]: A $30,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie paid for the city's first dedicated public library. Only its facade survives, on North Quad.

[Caption 3]: The Ladies Library Association built its own "circulating library" on Huron in 1885.

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Ann Arbor Observer, November 2017

Parent ID
Ann Arbor Observer
Month
November
Year
2017

The following articles appeared in the November 2017 issue of the Ann Arbor Observer:

  • Homeless Art [UpFront], page 11
  • Keywords:
    • Ann Arbor Women Artists
    • Art & Artists
    • Homelessness
    • Exhibits
    • Liberty Plaza
    • Delonis Center
    • Ann Arbor Art Center

    People:

    • Mary Murphy
    • John Schippers
    • Marsha Chamberlin
    • Becki Spangler
    • Pam Taylor

    Places:

    • 312 W Huron St

  • Clean Coach [UpFront], page 11
  • Keywords:
    • University of Michigan - Athletics
    • Crime & Criminals
    • Criminal Investigations
    • Basketball
    • Polls & Surveys

    People:

    • Tommy Amaker
    • John Beilein

  • Fifth Avenue Press [UpFront], page 11
  • Keywords:
    • Authors
    • Ann Arbor District Library
    • Fifth Avenue Press
    • Publishers
    • Memoirs
    • Polio

    People:

    • Ginger Ford

  • A Quirky Mentor [UpFront], page 11
  • Keywords:
    • University of Michigan - Alumnus
    • University of Michigan - Faculty & Staff
    • Peace Corps
    • Infants
    • DreamNest
    • Adapt Design
    • Inventions
    • Disabilities

    People:

    • Lindsay Brink
    • Allen Samuels
    • Laura Murphy
    • Sidney Krandall

  • Tax Votes [Inside Ann Arbor], page 13
  • Keywords:
    • Elections - Ann Arbor
    • Elections - Washtenaw County
    • Millages
    • Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department
    • Ann Arbor City Council
    • Washtenaw Intermediate School District
    • Mental Health Services
    • Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners
    • Laws & Legislation

    People:

    • Jerry Clayton
    • Scott Menzel
    • Andy LaBarre
    • William Gordon
    • Kathy Griswold

  • Going Up [Inside Ann Arbor], page 13 - 15
  • Keywords:
    • Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority
    • Parking Structures
    • Ann Arbor City Council
    • Taxation - Ann Arbor & Washtenaw County
    • Underground Printing

    People:

    • Susan Pollay
    • Rishi Narayon
    • Christopher Taylor

  • New Path [Inside Ann Arbor], page 15 -
  • Keywords:
    • University of Michigan - Faculty & Staff
    • Matthaei Botanical Gardens
    • Nichols Arboretum
    • Bicycling
    • Border-to-Border Trail
    • Matthaei Botanical Gardens Trail
    • Parker Mill
    • Beckett & Raeder Inc.
    • Ann Arbor Township

    People:

    • Karen Sikkenga
    • Brian Barrik
    • Bob Grese
    • Mike Moran

  • Canadian Bacon [Inside Ann Arbor], page 17 - 18
  • Keywords:
    • Books & Authors
    • History
    • Hockey
    • University of Michigan - Athetics
    • Coaches
    • Rackham Hall

    People:

    • John U. Bacon
    • Joseph Barss

  • Barton Dam: Picturesque, Historic and Green [Outside], by Bob Feldman, Jorja Feldman , page 21
  • Keywords:
    • Barton Dam
    • Barton Pond
    • Water Supply
    • Historic Landmarks
    • Water Treatment Plant
    • Hydroelectric Power

    People:

    • Brian Steglitz

  • Crime Map, page 23
  • Keywords:
    • Ann Arbor Police Department
    • Crime & Criminals
    • Statistics

  • Jessica Prozinski: Anti-Trump Activist [Ann Arborites], by Sabine Bickford, page 25
  • Keywords:
    • United States - President
    • Politics
    • Elections - Federal
    • Stop Trump Ann Arbor (STAA)
    • Demonstrations & Protests
    • University of Michigan - Alumnus
    • Cancer

    People:

    • Jessica Curtin Prozinski
    • Donald Trump
    • Mike Prozinski
    • Leroy Lewis Jr.
    • Keysha Wall
    • Veronica Prozinski

  • The Last Odd-Year Vote, by James Leonard, page 27 - 29
  • Keywords:
    • Elections - Ann Arbor
    • Ann Arbor City Council
    • Ann Arbor - City Charter
    • Democratic Party
    • Republican Party
    • Real Estate Development - Ann Arbor
    • Library Lot

    People:

    • Jane Lumm
    • Jared Hoffert
    • Jack Eaton
    • Diane Giannola
    • Chip Smith
    • Ali Ramlawi
    • David Silkworth
    • Christopher Taylor
    • Alex Yerkey
    • Jamie Magiera
    • Sumi Kailasapathy

  • The Crucial Role of New Voters, by James Leonard, page 29
  • Keywords:
    • Elections - Ann Arbor
    • Demographics
    • Ann Arbor City Council
    • Real Estate Development - Ann Arbor
    • Library Lot

    People:

    • Jason Frenzel
    • Anne Bannister
    • Zach Ackerman
    • Chuck Warpehoski

  • State of the State, by Patrick Dunn, page 31 - 33
  • Keywords:
    • State Theatre
    • Michigan Theater
    • Historic Preservation
    • Remodeling & Renovation
    • Michigan Theater Foundation
    • Commercial Real Estate
    • Fundraising
    • Kresge Foundation
    • Cinetopia International Film Festival
    • Ann Arbor Historic District Commission
    • Architects
    • Urban Outfitters
    • W. S. Butterfield Theaters Inc.
    • George Kerasotes Corp (GKC)
    • Aloha Entertainment
    • Quinn Evans Architects
    • O'Neal Construction Inc.
    • Organs

    People:

    • Russ Collins
    • Judy Dow Rumelhart
    • Jim Chaconas
    • Barry Margolis
    • Shelly Mendelson
    • Jody Mendelson
    • Ron Weiser
    • Halsey North
    • Lee Berry
    • C. Howard Crane
    • Tom Borders
    • Patrick Roach
    • Susan Wineberg
    • Tim Stout

    Places:

    • 233 S State St

  • Big Night: At Cantoro Trattoria [Restaurant Reviews], by M. B. Lewis, page 35
  • Keywords:
    • Restaurants - Reviews
    • Cantoro Trattoria

    Places:

    • 15550 N Haggerty Rd Northville Twp

  • First Bite: Salds, Sandwiches and Kava [Restaurant Reviews], by M. B. Lewis, page 36
  • Keywords:
    • Restaurants - Reviews
    • First Bite Restaurant

    Places:

    • 108 S Main St

  • Kiwanis Goes West [Marketplace Changes], page 39
  • Keywords:
    • Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor
    • Thrift Shops
    • Fundraisers

    People:

    • Bob Gray
    • Alan Berg
    • Sherry Springer
    • Greg Meisner

    Places:

    • 100 N Staebler Rd Scio Twp

  • A Trio of Jewelry Store Changes [Marketplace Changes], page 39 - 40
  • Keywords:
    • Business - Closings
    • Jewelry - Retail & Custom Design
    • Retirement
    • Urban Jewelers
    • Commercial Real Estate
    • Historic Buildings
    • Footprints Shoe Store
    • Austin & Warburton
    • Stadium Opticians
    • Estate Jewelry by Michael
    • Michael's Jewelers

    People:

    • Mark Urban
    • Stanley Urban
    • Reza Rahmani
    • Cheryl Urban
    • Craig Warburton
    • Brenda Warburton
    • Jack Austin
    • Brian Pierce
    • Chuck Meldrum
    • Peter-John Parisis
    • Tom Macek
    • Stephen Michael Hanchon

  • Shake-Up at the Scrap Box [Marketplace Changes], page 40 - 42
  • Keywords:
    • Recycling
    • Scrap Box
    • Non-profits
    • Retirement
    • SCRAP Box
    • SCRAP USA
    • Volunteers & Volunteering

    People:

    • Karen Ensminger
    • Kelly Carmichael Casey

    Places:

    • 581 State Circle

  • Le Bon Macaron [Briefly Noted], page 42 - 44
  • Keywords:
    • Le Bon Macaron
    • Bakeries & Confectioners
    • Perpetua Boutique
    •  
    •  

    People:

    • Kelly Toland
    • John Kobus
    • Drew Toland
    • Charlotte Toland
    • David Gilbert

    Places:

    • 209 S Fourth Ave

  • Craft Breww City [Briefly Noted], page 44
  • Keywords:
    • Restaurants
    • Craft Breww City
    • Happy's Pizza

    People:

    • Ryk Nordell
    • Joe Affeldt

    Places:

    • 640 Packard Rd

  • Altar'd State [Briefly Noted], page 44
  • Keywords:
    • Clothing - Retail
    • Home Furnishings
    • Altar'd State
    • Briarwood Mall

  • Kirkland's [Briefly Noted], page 44
  • Keywords:
    • Kirkland's
    • Home Furnishings
    • Maple Village Shopping Center

    Places:

    • 341 N Maple Rd

  • Closings [Marketplace Changes], page 45
  • Keywords:
    • Business - Closings
    • Orchid Lane
    • Orchid Lane Warehouse
    • Bella Italian Pizza & Pasta
    •  

    People:

    • Leif Elias
    • Nancy Elias
    • Katie Millan
    • Jim Millan
    • Giuseppe Cincinnato
    • Rosa Cincinnato

  • Chirp: No Frills [Jam Bands], by Patrick Dunn, page 46
  • Keywords:
    • Music - Reviews
    • Chirp (Musical Group)
    • ABC Microbrewery
    • Session Room

    People:

    • Jay Frydenlund
    • Ken Ball
    • Brian Long
    • John Gorine

  • Zoe Speaks: Kentucky Traditions [Old-Time Music], by James M. Manheim, page 57
  • Keywords:
    • Music - Reviews
    • Zoe Speaks (Musical Group)
    • The Ark

    People:

    • Mitch Barrett
    • Carla Gover
    • Owen Reynolds

    Places:

    • 316 S Main St

  • Chicana Fotos: Nancy De Los Santos Shoots the 1970s [Gallery Review], by Sabine Bickford, page 59
  • Keywords:
    • Art - Reviews
    • Galleries
    • Exhibits
    • University of Michigan Lane Hall Gallery
    • Photographers

    People:

    • Nancy De Los Santos

  • God of Carnage: The Liberal Elite Show What They're Made Of [Theater], by Sally Mitani, page 61
  • Keywords:
    • Theater - Reviews
    • Purple Rose Theatre Company

    People:

    • Michelle Mountain
    • Paul Stroili
    • Kate Thomsen
    • Rusty Mewha
    • Jeff Daniels
    • Guy Sanville

    Places:

    • 137 Park St, Chelsea

  • American Romanian Festival: Opposites and Different Trains [Classical], by Arwulf Arwulf, page 67
  • Keywords:
    • Music - Reviews
    • American Romanian Festival
    • Kerrytown Concert House

    People:

    • Marian Tanau

    Places:

    • 415 N 4th Ave

  • Avi Avital, Kinan Azmeh, and The Knights: A Melding of Master Musicians, by Sandor Slomovits, page 68
  • Keywords:
    • Music - Reviews
    • The Knights (Musical Group)
    • Rackham Hall

    People:

    • Avi Avital
    • Kinan Azmeh

    Places:

    • 915 E Washington St

  • In the Heat of the Night: Still Relevant, and Radical [Film], by Megan Inbody, page 70
  • Keywords:
    • Movies - Reviews
    • Michigan Theater

    People:

    Places:

    • 603 E Liberty St

  • Kaveh Akbar: God-Haunted [Poetry}, by Keith Taylor, page 76
  • Keywords:
    • Poetry
    • Neutral Zone

    People:

    • Kaveh Akbar

    Places:

    • 310 E Washington St

  • September 2017 Home Sales, by James M. Manheim, page 84
  • Keywords:
    • Real Estate
    • Houses - Cost of
    • Statistics

  • I Spy [Back Page], by Sally Bjork, page 87
  • Keywords:
    • Contests
    • Ayse's Restaurant
    • G. G. Brown Building
    • Sculpture
    • University of Michigan - Campus

    People:

    • Megan Szakasits
    • Eileen Hoekstra
    • Judi Taylor
    • Philp Stewart
    • Susan Daron
    • Chuck Vest
    • Chris Pannier

Ann Arbor Observer, October 2017

Parent ID
Ann Arbor Observer
Month
October
Year
2017

The following articles appeared in the October 2017 issue of the Ann Arbor Observer:

  • The Price of Security [UpFront], page 11

    • Keywords:

    • Grizzly Peak Brewing Company
    • Fairs & Festivals
    • Oktoberfest
    • Ann Arbor Police Department
    • Public Safety
    • Terrorism
    • Arbor Brewing Company

    People:

    • Stacy Baird
    • Jim Baird
    • Molly Maciejewski
    • Dave Cicotte


  • Dreamers In Limbo [UpFront], page 11

    • Keywords:

    • Immigrants & Immigration
    • Laws & Legislation
    • University of Michigan - Students
    • Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
    • Student Community of Progressive Empowerment (SCOPE)
    • Demonstrations & Protests
    • Fundraisers


  • Aut-Pouring [UpFront], page 11

    • Keywords:

    • Aut Bar
    • Vandalism
    • Kerrytown
    • Gay & Lesbian Community
    • Michigan House of Representatives
    • Fundraisers
    • Common Language Bookstore
    • Jim Toy Community Center

    People:

    • Keith Orr
    • Martin Contreras
    • Yousef Rabhi

    Places:

    • 315 Braun Ct


  • Make Way For Drones [UpFront], page 11

    • Keywords:

    • University of Michigan - Research
    • University of Michigan - Buildings
    • Matthaei Botanical Gardens
    • University of Michigan Weather Station


  • Be Nice! [Inside Ann Arbor], page 13

    • Keywords:

    • Computers - Applications & Software
    • Local History
    • Facebook

    People:

    • Sara Hathaway
    • George Sedgwick
    • Wystan Stevens
    • Trevor Staples
    • Victor Cardoso


  • Meta-Franchise [Inside Ann Arbor], page 13 - 16

    • Keywords:

    • Franchises
    • Hutzel Building
    • Franworth Franchise Development Co.
    • University of Michigan - Alumnus
    • University of Michigan - Athletics
    • Football
    • Service Brands International
    • Dominos Pizza
    • Awards Honors Prizes
    • Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea

    People:

    • John Rotcha
    • Mike Skitzki
    • Bo Schembechler
    • David McKinnon
    • Tom Monaghan
    • Jim Harbaugh
    • Drew Brees
    • Lisa Bee
    • Wei Bee
    • Helaine Knapp

    Places:

    • 106 E Liberty


  • Other Side of Eden [Inside Ann Arbor], page 16 - 18

    • Keywords:

    • Sculpture
    • Art & Artists
    • Attorneys
    • Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra

    People:

    • Tom Blaske
    • Mary Steffek Blaske
    • Thomas Yano
    • Jane DeDecker
    • Andrew DeVries
    • Catherine Carignan
    • Patricia Purdy


  • Chipmunks Cherish Their Solitude: Living Alone Underground [Outside], by Bob Feldman, Jorja Feldman, page 21

    • Keywords:

    • Wildlife
    • Critter Control
    • Animal Control
    • University of Michigan - Faculty & Staff

    People:

    • Scott Purr
    • Cody Thompson
    • Ben Dantzer


  • Crime Map, page 23

    • Keywords:

    • Ann Arbor Police Department
    • Crime & Criminals
    • Statistics


  • Kevin Spangler: Pedaling Recovery [Ann Arborites], by James Leonard, page 25

    • Keywords:

    • Drug Addiction
    • Buddhism
    • Boober Tours
    • Delonis Center
    • Homelessness
    • United Way of Washtenaw County
    • Ann Arbor Police Department

    People:

    • Kevin Spangler
    • Romando Spangler
    • Jeff Kosmyna
    • Susan Beckett
    • Devon Schiller
    • Deb Bratkovich
    • Tim Marshall
    • Renee Bush


  • Stuck In Traffic, by Michael Betzold, page 27 - 29

    • Keywords:

    • Traffic Control
    • Streets & Roads
    • Real Estate Development - Ann Arbor
    • Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority (AAATA)
    • Mass Transit
    • Washtenaw Area Traffic Study (WATS)
    • Stastics
    • University of Michigan - Students
    • University of Michigan - Faculty & Staff
    • Swisher Commercial
    • Downtown Ann Arbor
    • Transportation
    • Red Hawk Bar & Grill
    • Millages
    • Ann Arbor Ecology Center
    • Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority
    • University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

    People:

    • Chris Simmons
    • Ed Shaffran
    • Mark Farrell
    • Dave Hamilton
    • Roger Hewitt
    • Charles Griffith
    • Debra Bezzina


  • We All Feel Insecure, by Eve Silberman, page 31 - 33

    • Keywords:

    • Immigrants & Immigration
    • Laws & Legislation
    • United States - Presiden
    • Elections - Federal
    • Huron High School
    • University of Michigan - Alumnus
    • DTE Energy Technologies
    • Citizenship
    • Di Maggio Tires
    • University of Michigan - Faculty & Staff

    People:

    • Lorenzo Romeri
    • Anna Romeri
    • Alessandra Dagostin
    • Rocco Romeri
    • Agata Di Maggio
    • Manuel Rodriguez
    • Juan Di Maggio
    • Annemarie Toebosch
    • Dina Toebosch-Janssen
    • Timo Surratt
    • David Dugger
    • Joris Surratt


  • Jefferson Market: Your Neighbor's Place [Restaurant Reviews], by Lee Lawrence, page 35

    • Keywords:

    • Restaurants - Reviews
    • Jefferson Market
    • Old West Side
    • Mighty Good Coffee

    People:

    • Dave Myers
    • Nic Sims

    Places:

    • 609 W Jefferson


  • Vedge Cafe: No Meat St. [Restaurant Reviews], by M. B. Lewis, page 35 - 36

    • Keywords:

    • Restaurants - Reviews
    • Vedge Cafe

    Places:

    • 205 N Main St


  • Table Talk [Restaurant Reviews], by Sally Mitani, page 36

    • Keywords:

    • Bruegger's Bagels
    • Lurie Terrace

    People:

    • Shari Pettit
    • Samira Brewer


  • Don Kwon is Now Kosmo [Marketplace Changes], page 39

    • Keywords:

    • Kosmo's Bop Shop
    • Kosmo Diner
    • Kerrytown
    • Lucky Monkey Tattoo Parlor

    People:

    • Don Kwon
    • Reza Rahmani

    Places:

    • 308 S Ashley


  • Argus Grows [Marketplace Changes], page 39 - 41

    • Keywords:

    • Argus Farm Stop
    • Farms & Farming
    • Clague's Grocery & Market

    People:

    • Kathy Sample
    • Bill Brinkerhoff
    • Alex de Parry
    • Dick Dyer

    Places:

    • 1200 Packard


  • Aiming High [Marketplace Changes], page 41 - 42

    • Keywords:

    • Everest Sherpa Restaurant
    • Himalayan Bazaar
    • Oak Valley Centre
    • Lotus Thai Restaurant
    • Cardamom Restaurant

    People:

    • Pem Dorjee Sherpa
    • Moni Mulepati

    Places:

    • 2803 Oak Valley


  • The Iraolas' Labor of Love [Marketplace Changes], page 42

    • Keywords:

    • Chela's Restaurant & Taqueria
    • Jerusalem Garden Restaurant

    People:

    • Adrian Iraola
    • Lori Iraola

    Places:

    • 307 S Fifth Ave


  • Ann Arbor Automotive [Briefly Noted],page 42 - 44

    • Keywords:

    • Ann Arbor Automotive Inc.
    • Automobile Dealerships
    • Fox Motors Group
    • Remodeling & Renovation

    People:

    • Doug Fox
    • Diane Maher


  • Ulrich's Bookstore [Briefly Noted], page 45

    • Keywords:

    • Ulrich's Bookstore
    • Launch Board Shop

    Places:

    • 610 Church St


  • Closings [Marketplace Changes], page 45

    • Keywords:

    • Business - Closings
    • Mark's Carts
    • Orange Leaf
    • Joe's CrabShack
    • Pizza Pino

    People:

    • Mark Hodesh
    • Kelly Vore
    • Scott McLean


  • Rhyta Musik: Balkan Traditionalists [Balkan], by Patrick Dunn, page 48

    • Keywords:

    • Music - Reviews
    • Rhyta Musik (Musical Group)
    • University of Michigan Residential College
    • Anniversaries

    People:

    • Drew Schmieding
    • Eric Schweizer
    • Bethanni Grecynski
    • Xavier Verna
    • Joe Fee
    • Molly Jones
    • Ross Huff
    • Neal Anderson


  • The Unfinished Conversation: Timely Video Art [Gallery Review], by Lindsay-Jean Hard, page 53

    • Keywords:

    • Art - Reviews
    • Stamps Gallery
    • University of Michigan School of Art and Design

    People:

    • Terry Adkins
    • Gaetane Verna
    • Mark Sealy

    Places:

    • 201 S Division St


  • Sixteen Hands: The Emerson and Calidore Quartets [Chamber Music], by Arwulf Arwulf, page 57

    • Keywords:

    • Music - Reviews
    • Emerson Quartet (Musical Group)
    • Calidore Quartet (Musical Group)
    • Rackham Auditorium

    Places:

    • 915 E Washington St


  • Mitski: Raw and Relatable [Indie Rock], by Sabine Bickford, page 59

    • Keywords:

    • Music - Reviews
    • Blind Pig Music

    People:

    • Mitski

    Places:

    • 208 S 1st St


  • David Bromberg: Extreme Blues [Blues], by James M. Manheim, page 65

    • Keywords:

    • Music - Reviews
    • The Ark

    People:

    • David Bromberg

    Places:

    • 316 S Main St


  • Douglas Trevor: The Strange Ways of Books [Fiction], by Keith Taylor, page 67

    • Keywords:

    • Books - Reviews
    • Authors
    • Literati Bookstore

    People:

    • Douglas Trevor

    Places:

    • 124 E Washington St


  • Andrew Drury: The Shaman of the Drums [Avant Jazz], by Piotr Michalowski, page 69

    • Keywords:

    • Music - Reviews
    • Encore Records
    • Kerrytown Concert House
    • Concert Provider (Musical Group)
    • Bethlehem United Church of Christ

    People:

    • Andrew Drury
    • Ingrid Laubrock
    • Briggan Kraus
    • Brendan Seabrook
    • Joe McPhee


  • Amir ElSaffar: Rivers of Sound [World Music], by Piotr Michalowski, page 72

    • Keywords:

    • Music - Reviews
    • River of Sound (Musical Group)
    • University Musical Society
    • Power Center for the Performing Arts
    • Ragamala Dance Company

    People:

    • Amir ElSaffar

    Places:

    • 121 Fletcher St


  • August 2017 Home Sales, by James M. Manheim, page 88

    • Keywords:

    • Real Estate
    • Houses - Cost of
    • Statistics


  • I Spy [Back Page], by Sally Bjork, page 91

    • Keywords:

    • Contests
    • Zingerman's
    • University of Michigan - Students
    • University of Michigan - Buildings
    • G. G. Brown Building

    People:

    • Chad Rupley
    • Gem Steward
    • Kim Perlman
    • Ken Koral
    • Marianne Flinn
    • Eric Sobocinski
    • Bob Baird
    • Tim Reade
    • Jennifer Manning
    • Lucia Manning


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