Ann Arbor Stories | Ann Arbor District Library
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- Website
- http://www.aadl.org/
- Description
- Ann Arbor Stories features sometimes well known and sometimes obscure short tales from Ann Arbor's past. Everything from music, money, and murder, to the extraordinary people and events that have shaped Ann Arbor since 1824. Ann Arbor Stories is presented by Richard Retyi and Brian Peters, in partnership with the Ann Arbor District Library.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2017-10-12 09:45
- last episode published
- 2017-10-12 09:30
- publication frequency
- 13.67 days
- Contributors
- Ann Arbor District Library
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 44
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Places & Travel History Government & Organizations Regional Arts
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2017-10-12 | This is the story of Thomas Clarkson Trueblood—the first golf coach at the University of Michigan, one of the most respected orators in the world during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and noted professor --- of lovemaking. Get to know Professor... | |
| 2017-09-28 |
#43 Ann Arbor Stories: How the Hippies Almost Killed Football In 1970, one man tried to stop the University of Michigan and Michigan State from playing their annual football game. And he kind of had an argument. A story of rock music, drugs, sex, love-ins, college football and judicial precedent - fun for the who... |
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| 2017-09-14 | You're going to hear a story about a man. It may seem too good and too weird to be true, but trust me—what you are about to hear is 100% real. This is the story of William Douglas Street, better known as The Chameleon. Music by Shout Out Out Out Out | |
| 2017-08-31 | Skyscraper is such an elegant word. Two decades after it was first used in print to describe Chicago's tall-building craze, Ann Arbor had its first skyscraper—the seven-story Glazier Building. Twenty years later, the 10-story First National Building we... | |
| 2017-08-17 | Ann Arbor has a rich history of railroads and trains. So so much rich history. This is not that story. This is a story of the most spectacular train crashes in Ann Arbor's history. Listener Warning: Contain references to train crashes, more train crash... | |
| 2017-08-03 | Bears. Bobcats. Badgers. Red foxes. Raccoons. And a wolverine. Once upon a time they watched from campus with their predatory eyes as students at the University of Michigan, townies, and delicious delicious children walked past. Their territory on the ... | |
| 2017-07-20 | There are enough amazing Ann Arbor astronauts to create a top 10 list, so that's what we did. Men with righter than right stuff, pilots and scientists and world record holders who broke the outer limits of the atmosphere, touched the stars and zoomed a... | |
| 2017-07-13 | Each episode of Ann Arbor Stories ends with our email address: AnnArborStories@gmaill.com and an ask to you, our great listeners, for feedback, story ideas or shockingly personal questions. We personally answer each email, but some of these questions a... | |
| 2017-07-06 | The woman the papers called "the pretty Michigan housewife" had never left the United States before planning her 1967 flight around the world. Not in a modern jet, but in a 30-year-old plane that had 14 previous owners, one crash landing, and most rece... | |
| 2017-06-28 | This first Ann Arbor Stories walking tour is intended to be listened to while actually exploring a few city blocks in downtown Ann Arbor. It takes listeners from the corner of Huron and Fourth, outside the Embassy Hotel all the way to the corner of Lib... |