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Mark Madonna @awesomark.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

1953

“Mrs. Homer Ferguson breathlessly arrived on the threshold after an hour’s drive from Ann Arbor. Gowned in black lace over taffeta with velvet stole, she cheerfully reported that she had been lost twice on the way. ‘Ann Arbor has changed so much,’ she explained.”

Mark Madonna @awesomark.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

1940

“Roses are red,
Violets are blue
Ann Arbor has changed
And we guess you have too.”

Mark Madonna @awesomark.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

1927

“‘Ankles now are knee high,’ the octogenarian observed. ‘The past and the present don’t near meet. How Ann Arbor has changed. The moving views offered on the campus, streets and in class rooms with the rainbow dresses, short skirts and bobbed hair certainly conspire to make a young man or even an old one, to quote Oliver Wendell Holmes, ‘love to look on a scene like this’.’”