high school so miserable for everyone who has to endure it. Yet to those who do get in, they are offered a utopian high school experience that almost totally lacks the traditional jock/cheerleader hierarchical social system that makes the typical U.S. Pioneer and Huron have 2,800 and 2,100 students, respectively, whereas CHS has just 400.ĬHS is not for uniquely qualified students, nor is it for uniquely unqualified students instead, students get in for reasons totally unrelated to academic achievement. The Mustang stands alone in the Community High School parking lot.Ĭommunity High is unique because it is a public school, entirely free, but students have to choose to go there instead of one of the two big area schools (Pioneer and Huron) and there is a very limited number of spots available. It’s hard to spend too much time in Ann Arbor without the sense that utopia was once in reach, possibly in the 60’s, and that, even generations later, the better, fairer world that could have been ours after the revolution was lost not in an inexorable historical process with its roots in the deepest origins of the capitalist system–but rather in a petty cheat, a technicality, like the Italian victory in the 2006 World Cup or the Florida recount. This a mix of people, to be sure: Some are committed idealists, many are simply lost in a cloud of weed smoke so thick it takes a lifetime to inhale, and the majority are a little bit of both. If you look outside of the main downtown area, you will find that the some of Ann Arbor’s old-school lefty 60’s traditions are still carried on. Then, we scattered, and we all got out of there as fast as we could.
When I was there, the whole crowd draped a single, giant canvas tarp over ourselves so that the cops gathered around wouldn't arrest us. The University of Michigan Diag during the Hash Bash. Independent though Ann Arbor may be, it is either the end of Metro Detroit or the beginning, the way that The Lord of the Rings both begins and ends in the Shire. The fact is that if you drive East from Ann Arbor on I-94, you immediately see factories and signs that say “FORD,”GM,” and the like (Chrysler has fallen on even harder times, even though the University of Michigan Wolverines play basketball in Chrysler Arena). I once spoke with a Detroiter who compared the relationship between Ann Arbor and Detroit to that of Hartford, CT and New York City, but I think that she was just in the mood to piss me off at the time. Rather than a Detroit suburb, Ann Arbor is either an “outlying focus city,” about 43 miles from urban Detroit, that has its own downtown and, in the massive University of Michigan, its own source of jobs that has kept Ann Arbor economically stable despite the vicissitudes of the auto industry or Ann Arbor is not part of Metro Detroit at all. It’s not a Detroit suburb, and it didn’t grow along with them the post-World War II period when a combination of decreasing job opportunities and virulent racial hatred prompted the flight of Detroit’s white population into the ring of leafy suburbs on the city’s periphery. The relationship between Ann Arbor and Detroit is tough to define. Go Climb Planet Rock.Caroline in a publicly sanctioned graffiti alley between Liberty St. It IS an investment, one you will never regret. I encourage anyone, especially with kids, but also Srs, middle agers, or just anyone really, to consider learning to climb and giving yourself or family members a gift that develops confidence, balance, strength and community, The skills that I attained and developed continue to enhance my life, my fitness, my health. Living in a non climbing area again, after a couple of decades with rock a quick drive to any kind of rock one might hope to scale, These gyms become beyond priceless. In my 60s now, I can look back and see the gift it was working at Planet Rock, for Nick and how it helped me to evolve into the well established and experienced climber that I am Today. His Gyms just get better and better, the routes are quality, and the communities he is able to generate are ones that enhance life in ways you cannot imagine, anticipate, or value completely until in hindsight. I didn't know his entire story like i do now, and I have become a great admirer at what he has accomplished. I worked for Nick back in the day when i didn't know what i didn't know but was just getting started in climbing, and Nick has his first Gym.
For 30+ yrs now I have climbed in and was assistant manager, route setter, instructor, competition judge and kids camp counselor at other gyms nationwide.
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