My Town: As Seen by Others

monster · 10-06-2011, 07:46 PM

This was a nice travel report to read. I was getting kind fed up by the place being dissed for snobbery, hippiedom and too much damn money.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/10/09...&smid=fb-share

Lamplighter · 10-06-2011, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

This was a nice travel report to read.
I was getting kind fed up by the place being dissed for snobbery,
hippiedom and too much damn money.

I guess that Travel Reports don't always find the most important stories about place.

The Univ of Michigan @ Ann Arbor has for many, many years had the best of reputations
among state public health, CDC, and NIH for work done there on immunizations
and their years of actually producing vaccines that are distributed worldwide.

Although vaccine production has now been moved to private and over-seas companies,
there is still the institutional memory at work in Ann Arbor,
as recognized by a grant last year from the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation.

ZenGum · 10-06-2011, 10:36 PM

According to google scholar, Ann Arbor is the author of 1,360 academic articles across a wide range of fields.

How could you diss a town with a research publication record like that?

Stormieweather · 10-31-2011, 02:40 PM

My favorite thing about Ann Arbor is the fairy doors.

Urban Fairies

Yeah, not very intellectual or whatever.

monster · 11-07-2011, 01:36 PM

There's at my pottery studio. I don't think it's listed on the website, though. There are so many of them now -the originator of the site is a local teacher. Our kids have done fairy door field trips and my daughter had a fairy door party one year. I found some cabinet door samples at The Scrap Box -they were perfect.

monster · 11-19-2011, 01:06 PM

Sloan museum

This looks to be an interesting museum. It's not quite my home town -it's in Flint, about 60 miles north, but I think we have some hockey games coming up up there, so might have to make a detour.

Lamplighter · 11-19-2011, 02:12 PM

My town, Lake Oswego, OR, is a speed trap.

.... you better see the cops before they see you.

Here's a list of others

Griff · 11-28-2011, 08:53 AM

Every town I ever got a ticket in is listed.

Lamplighter · 11-28-2011, 09:10 AM

Now there's a list of places you should not visit.

10-06-2011, 07:46 PM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	My Town: As Seen by Others This was a nice travel report to read. I was getting kind fed up by the place being dissed for snobbery, hippiedom and too much damn money. http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/10/09...&smid=fb-share __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-06-2011, 10:36 PM	#3
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	According to google scholar, Ann Arbor is the author of 1,360 academic articles across a wide range of fields. How could you diss a town with a research publication record like that? __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

10-31-2011, 02:40 PM	#4
Stormieweather Wearing her bitch boots Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Floriduh Posts: 1,181	My favorite thing about Ann Arbor is the fairy doors. Urban Fairies Yeah, not very intellectual or whatever. __________________ "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

11-07-2011, 01:36 PM	#5
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	There's at my pottery studio. I don't think it's listed on the website, though. There are so many of them now -the originator of the site is a local teacher. Our kids have done fairy door field trips and my daughter had a fairy door party one year. I found some cabinet door samples at The Scrap Box -they were perfect. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-19-2011, 01:06 PM	#6
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Sloan museum This looks to be an interesting museum. It's not quite my home town -it's in Flint, about 60 miles north, but I think we have some hockey games coming up up there, so might have to make a detour. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-19-2011, 02:12 PM	#7
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	My town, Lake Oswego, OR, is a speed trap. .... you better see the cops before they see you. Here's a list of others

11-28-2011, 08:53 AM	#8
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Every town I ever got a ticket in is listed. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

11-28-2011, 09:10 AM	#9
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Now there's a list of places you should not visit.

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