Meg's posts with tag: detroit
|  | My aunt and cousin took the kids up to Traverse City Sunday, but Rob and I stayed behind to visit Vera and for Rob to do a conference call with the board members of his company on Monday. (We couldn't do it from TC because it's possible we might have missed it and ended up being in the middle of Michigan without access to a land line.)
Since I was available in the morning, my gram decided to have me meet them at the monastery (same one as pictured yesterday) for the "official" tour of the Solanus Center. (It was ecumenical to the point of being pretty "anything goes as long as you're good." The artwork is pretty neat, though. And the space itself is beautifully done.)
After the tour Gram and Gramp and I went over to the cemetery across the street and saw the sites there. It's a beautiful cemetery, designed by the same guy (Olmstead) who designed Central Park in NYC. I thought the crypts (isn't that what they're called) built into the side of the hill were especially cool.
I buzzed over to King Used Books after the cemetary and picked up 2 scifi books and a Bible History book written by Isaac Asimov. Then I headed back to Canton where Rob was just beginning his conference call. As soon as it was over we set off (with a minor set back as I frantically searched the house for my aunt and cousin's retainers *sigh*) for Traverse City.
Meanwhile, the kids were picking cherries, watching "Cars" and hanging out in the lake. (Thanks to Mary for the great pics.) |
| | I lived in Detroit from '91 - '95. I taught math at Martin Luther King Jr. Senior High School and lived on the southwest side of the city, about two miles from downtown. |
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