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Sunday Morning in Ann Arbor

by Carl MillesSeveral annual events many o them centered

on perorming and visual arts draw visitors toAnn Arbor. One such event is the Ann Arbor ArtFairs, a set o our concurrent juried airs held ondowntown streets, which began in 1960. Sched-uled on Wednesday through Saturday in thethird week o July, the airs draw upward o hala million visitors. One event that is not related tovisual and perorming arts is Hash Bash, held onthe first Saturday o April, ostensibly in supporto the reorm o marijuana laws. It has been cele-brated since 1971.

A person rom Ann Arbor is called an "AnnArborite", and many long-time residents callthemselves "townies". Te city itsel is ofencalled A ("A-squared") or A2 ("A two"), and, lesscommonly, ree own. Recently, some youthshave taken to calling Ann Arbor Ace Deuce orsimply Te Deuce. With tongue-in-cheek reer-ence to the city's liberal political leanings, some

occasionally reer to Ann Arbor as Te Peo-ple's Republic o Ann Arbor or 25 square milessurrounded by reality, the latter phrase beingadapted rom Wisconsin Governor Lee Drey-us's description o Madison, Wisconsin. AnnArbor sometimes appears on citation indexes asan author, instead o a location, ofen with theacademic degree MI, a misunderstanding o theabbreviation or Michigan.

Customer Service Center

(Located diagonally across the street rom City Hall)

City Center Building, 1st Floor

220 East Huron

Ann Arbor, MI 48104

(734) 994-2700

Fax: (734) 994-1765

E-mail: customerservice@a2gov.org

Welcome to Ann Arbor

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Geography &DemographicsAnn Arbor is a city in the U.S. state o Michigan and the

county seat o Washtenaw County. It is the states seventhlargest city with a population o 114,024 as o the 2000Census, o which 36,892 (32%) are university or collegestudents. Te city, which is part o the Detroit-Ann Ar-bor-Flint, MI CSA, is named afer the spouses o the citysounders and or the stands o trees in the area.

HistoryAnn Arbor was ounded in January 1824 by John Allenand Elisha Rumsey, both o whom were land speculators.On May 25, 1824, the town plot was registered with WayneCounty as Annarbour. Te city became the seat o Washt-enaw County in 1827, and was incorporated as a village

in 1833. Te town became a regional transportation hubin 1839 with the arrival o the Michigan Central Railroad,and was chartered as a city in 1851. During the 1960s and1970s, the city gained a reputation as a center or liberalpolitics. During the 20th century, the economy o AnnArbor underwent a gradual shif rom a manuacturingbase to a service and technology base, which accelerated inthe 1970s and 1980s.

University of MichiganAnn Arbor is home to the University o Michigan, es-

tablished in 1837. As the dominant institution o higherlearning in the city and one o the top public universitiesin the world, the university provides Ann Arbor with a dis-tinct college-town atmosphere. Te university shapes AnnArbors economy significantly as it employs about 30,000workers, including about 7,500 in the medical center. Tecitys economy is also centered on high-technology, withseveral companies drawn to the area by the universitysresearch and development money, and by its graduates. Onthe other hand, Ann Arbor has increasingly ound itselgrappling with the effects o sharply rising land values andgentrification, as well as urban sprawl stretching ar intothe outlying countryside.

AttractionsMany Ann Arbor cultural attractions and events are spon-sored by the University o Michigan. Several perormingarts groups and acilities are on the universitys campus,as are museums dedicated to art, archaeology, and naturalhistory and sciences. Regional and local perorming artsgroups not associated with the university include the AnnArbor Civic Teatre; the Arbor Opera Teater; the AnnArbor Symphony Orchestra; the Ann Arbor Ballet Teater;the Ann Arbor Civic Ballet (established in 1954 as Mich-

igans first chartered ballet company); and PerormanceNetwork, which operates a downtown theater requentlyoffering new or nontraditional plays.

Te Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, located in a renovat-ed and expanded historic downtown fire station, containsmore than 250 interactive exhibits eaturing science andtechnology. Multiple art galleries exist in the city, nota-bly in the downtown area and around the University oMichigan campus. Aside rom a large restaurant scene inthe Main Street, South State Street, and South UniversityAvenue areas, Ann Arbor ranks first among U.S. cities inthe number o booksellers and books sold per capita. TeAnn Arbor District Library maintains our branch outlets

in addition to its main downtown building; in 2008 a newbranch building replaced the branch located in PlymouthMall. Tis new branch is called the raverwood Branch,and opened on June 30, 2008. Te city is also home to theGerald R. Ford Presidential L ibrary.