He conceived and worked for 20 years with about 1,000 volunteers on the Empire State Carousel, featuring more than 20 handmade wooden riding animals native to New York.
Robert Ainsley, a champion of new American opera, takes the reins from Francesca Zambello. He said the festival would continue to showcase work that tells “everyone’s story.”
Home team fans always want to see a victory. On days like Thursday afternoon in Detroit, when the Tigers hosted the New York Yankees in the final game of the three-game series, some in attendance were there for another reason as well, history. Sometimes history has to wait as a result of the opposing team's strategy to win the game and let's just say, that made the Comerica Park faithful less than happy.
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The first time that my family visited Fly Creek, my son wasn t quite a year old yet but I can still hear his squeals of pure joy and the sound of his baby hands clapping as he watched the ducks and geese in the Mill Pond.
Needing to get away for a long weekend, my family rented a cabin on Goodyear lake and set out to explore which is how we stumbled on Fly Creek in all of its gloriousness. Although a massive draw for tourists, there was something charming about the place that made us feel like we d stepped back in time where things were a bit slower and people were a bit more friendly.