Michigan Moments

Well, Susan and I are home from Michigan. We had a grand time, visited our old house on Custer, my alma mater in Ypsilanti,saw Connnie Litzenberg, even had dinner in Hartland (which wasn't so great) and toured Ann Arbor. Weather was typical, warm and humid. Very hot on the day we toured Greefield Village.

They say you can't go back but we did and most everything was there, except my dorm at school which had been torn down, and the inside of the student union where I had worked for four years. It had been gutted inside and completely rebuilt with modern, technological stuff and even included a Wendy's. What was so astounding to me was the number of new buildings. It was totally amazing. There was even a new environmental research building.

We found Custer and Kimball School where Greg, Sandra and Jim went to school, though it is now a high school and they were having a cancer walk when we were there and things were closed off but they let us in to take a couple of pictures.


We tried to find Buckingham where we lived when Jim was born but were not successful. We did not have the address since I hadn't anticipated going there. We were in the area and Susan was a very willing driver so we searched, but no luck, and the street near Buckingham where Arild and Dora lived at the same time was not even on the map. Don't know what happened to it.

At any rate, the following are the pics we took of Custer and Kimball: