As I explained in an earlier post, I’m in the process of making my way through the house and separating the wheat from the chaff, determining which items will remain in our family archive, and which will be jettisoned into the ever-churning gyre of garbage that surrounds us. What follows is my justification for keeping […]
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Maynard-Lao Archive: Item 0002 [Historic Ann Arbor Farmhouse Brass Doorknob]
Posted in Education, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1995, American Studies, Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, archeology, arson, creative writing, Ed Rutsch, EMU, farmhouse, hands-on education, Hands-On History, Henry Ford Museum, historic archeology, historic artifacts, Linette Lao, Mark's chances to change history, Mark's jobs, Sears catalog, Seva, Smithsonian Institution, Society for Industrial Archeology, summer camp, teaching, University of Michigan, work-study, Ypsilanti State Mental Hospital 9 Comments
Old man with bad back requests help rioting: Ann Arbor
At some point in 1991, I had the occasion to witness a basketball-related riot in Ann Arbor, as I stood wedged between an open 450-degree pizza oven and a large plate glass window facing the intersection of Church and State. I can’t recall, but I don’t think my friend Roger and I, who were busy […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged Backroom Pizza, Church Street, frats, life's not fair, misremembering, NCAA, pizza, riots, South University, student riots, tear gas, University of Michigan, vandalism 24 Comments
Video proves what I’d always suspected… I could have been having a much better time as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan
Inspired, I’m assuming, by the success of Girls Gone Wild, a pair of undergraduate filmmakers from the east coast have been traveling the country, documenting the debauchery of American undergraduates. And, unfortunately for the University for Michigan, they’ve already stopped in Ann Arbor twice. Here’s their most recent footage. This, I think it’s safe to […]