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Customer Service Center (Located diagonally across the street rom City Hall) City Center Building, 1st Floor 220 East Huron Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Phone: (734) 994-2700 Fax: (734) 994-1765 E-mail: [email protected] Sunday Morning in Ann Arbor by Carl Milles Several annual events – many o them centered on perorming and visual arts – draw visitors to Ann Arbor. One such event is the Ann Arbor Art Fairs, a set o our concurrent juried airs held on downtown streets, which began in 1960. Scheduled on Wednesday through Saturday in the third week o July , the airs draw upward o hal a million visitors. One event that is not related to visual and perorming arts is Hash Bash, held on the first Saturday o April, ostensibly in support o the reorm o marijuana laws. It has been celebrated since 1971. Welcome A person rom Ann Arbor is called an “Ann Arborite”, and many long-time residents call themselves “town- ies”. Te city itsel is ofen called A² (“A-squared”) or A2 (“A two”), and, less commonly, ree own. Recent- ly , some youths have taken to calling Ann Arbor Ace Deuce or simply Te Deuce. With tongue-in-cheek reerence to the city’s liberal political leanings, some occasionally reer to Ann Arbor as Te People ’ s Repub- lic o Ann Arbor or 25 square miles surrounded by reality , the latter phrase being adapted rom Wiscon- sin Governor Lee Dreyus’ s description o Madison, Wisconsin. Ann Arbor sometimes appears on citation indexes as an author, instead o a location, ofen with the academic degree MI, a misunderstanding o the abbreviation or Michigan.
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Customer Service Center
(Located diagonally across the street rom City Hall)
City Center Building, 1st Floor
220 East Huron
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Phone: (734) 994-2700
Fax: (734) 994-1765
E-mail: [email protected]
Sunday Morning in Ann Arbor
by Carl Milles
Several annual events – many o them centered onperorming and visual arts – draw visitors to AnnArbor. One such event is the Ann Arbor Art Fairs, a
set o our concurrent juried airs held on downtownstreets, which began in 1960. Scheduled on Wednesday through Saturday in the third week o July, the airsdraw upward o hal a million visitors. One event thatis not related to visual and perorming arts is HashBash, held on the rst Saturday o April, ostensibly insupport o the reorm o marijuana laws. It has beencelebrated since 1971.
Welcome
A person rom Ann Arbor is called an “Ann Arborite”,and many long-time residents call themselves “town-ies”. Te city itsel is oen called A² (“A-squared”) orA2 (“A two”), and, less commonly, ree own. Recent-ly, some youths have taken to calling Ann Arbor AceDeuce or simply Te Deuce. With tongue-in-cheek reerence to the city’s liberal political leanings, someoccasionally reer to Ann Arbor as Te People’s Repub-lic o Ann Arbor or 25 square miles surrounded by reality, the latter phrase being adapted rom Wiscon-
sin Governor Lee Dreyus’s description o Madison,Wisconsin. Ann Arbor sometimes appears on citationindexes as an author, instead o a location, oen withthe academic degree MI, a misunderstanding o theabbreviation or Michigan.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state o Michigan andthe county seat o Washtenaw County. It is the state’sseventh largest city with a population o 114,024 as o the 2000 Census, o which 36,892 (32%) are univer-sity or college students. Te city, which is part o theDetroit-Ann Arbor-Flint, MI CSA, is named aer thespouses o the city’s ounders and or the stands o trees in the area.
Ann Arbor was ounded in January 1824 by John Allenand Elisha Rumsey, both o whom were land specu-lators. On May 25, 1824, the town plot was registeredwith Wayne County as “Annarbour”. Te city becamethe seat o Washtenaw County in 1827, and wasincorporated as a village in 1833. Te town became aregional transportation hub in 1839 with the arrivalo the Michigan Central Railroad, and was charteredas a city in 1851. During the 1960s and 1970s, thecity gained a reputation as a center or liberal politics.During the 20th century, the economy o Ann Arborunderwent a gradual shi rom a manuacturing baseto a service and technology base, which accelerated inthe 1970s and 1980s.
Regional and local perorming arts groups not associ-ated with the university include the Ann Arbor CivicTeatre; the Arbor Opera Teater; the Ann ArborSymphony Orchestra; the Ann Arbor Ballet Teater;the Ann Arbor Civic Ballet (established in 1954 asMichigan’s rst chartered ballet company); and Peror-mance Network, which operates a downtown theaterrequently ofering new or nontraditional plays.
Te Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, located in a ren-ovated and expanded historic downtown re station,contains more than 250 interactive exhibits eaturingscience and technology. Multiple art galleries exist inthe city, notably in the downtown area and around theUniversity o Michigan campus. Aside rom a large
restaurant scene in the Main Street, South State Street,and South University Avenue areas, Ann Arbor ranksrst among U.S. cities in the number o booksellersand books sold per capita. Te Ann Arbor DistrictLibrary maintains our branch outlets in addition to itsmain downtown building; in 2008 a new branch build-ing replaced the branch located in Plymouth Mall.Tis new branch is called the raverwood Branch, andopened on June 30, 2008. Te city is also home to theGerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
Ann Arbor is home to the University o Michigan,established in 1837. As the dominant institution o higher learning in the city and one o the top publicuniversities in the world, the university provides AnnArbor with a distinct college-town atmosphere. Teuniversity shapes Ann Arbor’s economy signicantly asit employs about 30,000 workers, including about 7,500in the medical center.
Te city’s economy is also centered on high-technol-ogy, with several companies drawn to the area by theuniversity’s research and development money, andby its graduates. On the other hand, Ann Arbor hasincreasingly ound itsel grappling with the efects o sharply rising land values and gentrication, as well as
urban sprawl stretching ar into the outlying country-side. Many Ann Arbor cultural attractions and eventsare sponsored by the University o Michigan. Severalperorming arts groups and acilities are on the univer-sity’s campus, as are museums dedicated to art, archae-ology, and natural history and sciences (see Museumsat the University o Michigan).
