It will not be an easy task. Old bigotries linger and new obstacles emerge. But if there’s one thing I learned during my summer wandering the streets of Detroit, it’s that Detroiters are a spirited, determined bunch.
Detroit: Some people call it Motown. Other people call it Hockeytown. Now, I call it my town.
Catherine E. Shoichet ’04, a Crimson editor, is a History and Literature Concentrator in Winthrop House. In addition to wandering the streets of Detroit, she spends her spare summer moments haunting the streets of Ann Arbor, trying to catch a glimpse of Lee C. “Harrison Ford” Bollinger.
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