Ann Arbor Stories | Ann Arbor District Library Podcast
1) #47 Ann Arbor Stories: The Billboard Bandits
The shrill, biting staccato whine of a chain saw pierces the cold, night air. Thud. Another billboard falls to the ground along a highway in southern Michigan. An estimated 167 billboards in all—cut, ...Show More
2) #46 Ann Arbor Stories: The Battle of Ann Arbor
Four nights of rioting, dozens of injuries to cops and citizens, and more than 70 arrests—it was an event The Detroit Free Press dubbed “The Battle of Ann Arbor”. What sparked this violence and how di...Show More
3) #45 Ann Arbor Stories: Highway Snipers
There wasn't a lot of traffic on M-14 on that last day of August 1981. It was 3am. Semi trucks bound for points in Michigan and throughout the Midwest, cars carrying people headed to work, cars taking...Show More
4) #44 Ann Arbor Stories: Professor Foxy Truesport
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 note...Show More
5) #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, colle...Show More
6) #42 Ann Arbor Stories: The Chameleon
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...Show More
7) #41 Ann Arbor Stories: Skyscrapers
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 ...Show More
8) #40 Ann Arbor Stories: Train Crashes
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: C...Show More
9) #39 Ann Arbor Stories: We Had a Zoo
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 del...Show More
10) #38 Ann Arbor Stories: Top 10 Astronauts
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 limi...Show More