After nearly 25 years in Ypsi, the empowered little girl you see below will soon be breaking free. Please join me in wishing Christine Laughren safe travels as she embarks on the next chapter of her life, far away from the American midwest… Here’s her official exit interview. MARK: What first brought you to Ypsi? […]
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Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Christine Laughren
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Africa, Agriculture, Andrew Cipolla, Back to Ypsilanti, Carpenter Road, Dan DuChene, Dom Bakery, Eastern Echo, ebola, Elbow Room, EMU, exit interviews, FLY Children's Art Center, Ford Lake, Frog Island, frogs, From Michigan to Ghana with Love, Ghana, Growing Hope, Heritage Media, Highland, iSPY, karaoke, Lincoln Consolidated, Mark Norris, Pakmode Media, Peace Corps, Pure Michigan, Ridgewood Apartments, Shadow Art Fair, sprawl, Visit Ypsilanti, water tower, Ypsi Citizen, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews, Ypsilanti Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Ypsilanti Citizen, Ypsilanti Frog Killing Coalition, Ypsilanti Township 8 Comments
The closing of the Ypsi Citizen
And it keeps on coming… Not only does it look like Ypsi is losing the Elbow Room and Bombadill’s, but, as of today, we’re also without our local online news source, the Ypsi Citizen. The following clip, written by Dan DuChene and Christine Laughren, comes from their website: …Every minute of our work on the […]
Posted in Media, The Spitting Cat, Ypsilanti Also tagged Bombadill's, Dan DuChene, Elbow Room, spitting cat, Ypsi Citizen 12 Comments
Putting the History of Ypsilanti online
I still haven’t had an opportunity to catch the wildly popular History of Ypsilanti puppet show at the Dreamland Theater, but, thanks to Christine Laughren of the Ypsilanti Citizen, I’ve now at least been able to see my part… Speaking of this show, which was funded by a Shadow Art Fair grant, I’m wondering – […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Shadow Art Fair, Special Projects, Ypsilanti Also tagged Dreamland Theater, logging seals, night blogging, puppet Mark, seal blogging, Shadow grants, Ypsilanti Citizen 9 Comments